Sir John Houston, 3rd Baronet
Sir John Houston, 3rd Baronet, of Houstoun, Renfrew, and Glasgow, Lanarkshire, was a Scottish Tory politician and Jacobite, who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1715.
Biography
Houston was the only son of Sir John Houston, 2nd Baronet, of Houston, Renfrewshire, and his wife Anne Drummond, a daughter of John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort. Houston received his education at Glasgow.Houston was elected as Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire at a by-election on 22 December 1708. He was returned again at the 1710 British general election. At the 1713 British general election he was defeated in the poll, but was seated on petition on 8 April 1714. He was a Commissary of Glasgow by 1714. In 1717, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy.