John Houstoun

Sir John Houston, 3rd Baronet (or Houstoun; died 1722), 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. In 1717, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy.

Private life Houston married in 1713, Margaret Schaw, the daughter of Sir John Schaw, 2nd Bt., of Greenock, Renfrew. They had a son and two daughters. On 27 January 1722, Houston died and was succeeded by his son.