John Fector

John Minet Fector (28 March 1812 – 24 February 1868) was an English banker and politician. From 1848 he was called John Minet Laurie.

Life

He was born on 28 March 1812, the eldest son of John Minet Fector (died 1821), and his wife Anne Wortley Montagu Laurie, daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1820. In 1835 he was elected Member of Parliament for Dover, as a Tory with moderate reforming ambitions. He lost his seat in 1837, to the Whig Edward Royd Rice. He was elected again, for Maidstone, in 1838. In 1841 he did not contest the seat. In 1842 he sold Fector & Co. to the National Provincial Bank. In 1848 his uncle Sir Robert Laurie, 6th Baronet died unmarried, and Fector took the surname Laurie. There also descended to him the Laurie seat in Scotland, Maxwelton House in Glencairn.

He died Middlesex in February 1868 at the age of 55.

Family Fector married in 1841 Isabella Murray, daughter of General Augustus William Murray. There were no children of the marriage. His sister Charlotte married Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet and was mother of Emilius Bayley.