See also
| Husband: | John LAUDER (c. 1646-1722) | |
| Wife: | Janet RAMSAY (c. 1652- ) | |
| Children: | John LAUDER (c. 1669-1728) | |
| Janet LAUDER (1671-1751) | ||
| Margaret LAUDER (c. 1678- ) | ||
| Alexander LAUDER (c. 1679- ) | ||
| Andrew LAUDER (c. 1681- ) | ||
| George LAUDER (c. 1683- ) | ||
| William LAUDER (c. 1685- ) | ||
| Marriage | 21 Jan 1669 | Tron Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | John LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Name Prefix: | Sir | |
| Father: | John LAUDER (c. 1595-1692) | |
| Mother: | Isabel ELLIS (c. 1628-1669) | |
| Birth | c. 1646 | Lasswade, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 2 Aug 1646 (age 0) | Lasswade, Midlothian |
| Occupation | 2nd Baronet, Lord Fountainhall | |
| Death | 20 Sep 1722 (age 75-76) | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | Janet RAMSAY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1652 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | John LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Margaret SETON ( - ) | |
| Birth | c. 1669 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 5 Dec 1669 (age 0) | Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh |
| Occupation | 3rd Baronet, Lord Fountainhall | |
| Death | Feb 1728 (age 58-59) | Fountainhall, East Lothian |
| Name: | Janet LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Charles CONGALTON ( - ) | |
| Birth | 8 Apr 1671 | Fountainhall, East Lothian |
| Death | 4 Apr 1751 (age 79) | Congalton, East Lothian, Scotland |
| Name: | Margaret LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | John FAIRHOLM ( - ) | |
| Birth | c. 1678 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 4 Jun 1678 (age 0) | Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | Alexander LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | c. 1679 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 14 Jun 1679 (age 0) | Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | Andrew LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | c. 1681 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 7 Oct 1681 (age 0) | Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | George LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | c. 1683 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 27 Feb 1683 (age 0) | Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Name: | William LAUDER | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | c. 1685 | Edinburgh, Midlothian |
| Baptism | 14 May 1685 (age 0) | Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian |
2nd Bt., Lord Fountainhall.
His father was John Lauder, merchant and bailie of Edinburgh, of the family of Lauder of
that Ilk.[17] He graduated as Master of Arts in the University of Edinburgh
in 1664. He went to France to study in 1665, and returned from abroad in
1667. He was 'admitted' as an advocate in 1668. He was married in 1669 to
Janet, daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall,[18] Provost of
Edinburgh, afterwards a Lord of Session. In 1674, along with the leaders of
the bar and the majority of the profession, he was 'debarred' or suspended
from practising by the king's proclamation for asserting the right of
appeal from the decisions of the Court of Session, and was restored in
1676. He was knighted in 1681. In the same year his father, who was then
eighty-six years old, purchased the lands of Woodhead and others in East
Lothian. The conveyance is to John Lauder of Newington in liferent, and Sir
John Lauder, his son, in fee. The lands were erected into a barony, called
Fountainhall. In 1685, he was returned as member of Parliament for the
county of Haddington, which he represented till the Union in 1707. In 1686
his wife, by whom he had a large family, died. In 1687 he married Marion
Anderson, daughter of Anderson of Balram. He was appointed a Lord of
Session in 1689, and a Lord of Justiciary in 1690. He resigned the latter
office in 1709, and died in 1722. His father had been made a baronet in
1681 by James VII. The succession under the patent was to his son by his
third marriage; but in 1690, after the Revolution, a new patent was granted
by William and Mary to Sir John Lauder, senior, and his eldest son and his
heirs. The first patent was reduced in 1692, and in the same year
Fountainhall succeeded on his father's death.
Judge and author of a noted journal. Born in Edinburgh, the son of John Lauder of Newington, a merchant and Baillie in the city, who had been elevated to hereditary baronetcy and bought an estate called Woodhead in East Lothian, which he later renamed Fountainhall. Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh, his father sent the young Lauder to study law in France and he recorded the details of his continental journeys in his journals. Returning in 1667, he wrote candidly about public affairs and political events in the times leading up to the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and these journals are regarded invaluable by historians. He continued to record his observations on public events, legal decisions and his own thoughts for the remainder of his life, leaving extensive manuscripts which were published in the 19th century.
Lauder's journals tell us that, in 1681, he was one of the lawyers defending Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (1629-85), over the matter of the Test Act, along with Sir George Lockhart (1630-89) and Sir John Dalrymple (1648 - 1707). He was also one of the prosecutors of Robert Baillie of Jerviswood in 1684 and recorded the death of John Maitland, the 1st Duke of Lauderdale, in 1682 and the demise of Argyll in 1685. In 1689, Lauder was appointed a judge in the Court of Session, serving as Lord Fountainhall and a Lord of Justiciary in 1690. He refused the post of Lord Advocate in 1692, because of the political fall-out after the Massacre of Glencoe. He was also Member of Parliament from 1685 - 1707 and opposed the Union with England. He resigned from the Bench in 1709.
Parents are Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Janet Craw.