Patrick Warrender Explained

Sir Patrick Warrender of Lochend, 3rd Baronet (7 March 1731 – 14 June 1799)^[1] was a Scottish soldier and politician.

He was a younger, but oldest surviving, son of Sir John Warrender, 2nd Baronet and his wife Henrietta Johnston, daughter of Sir Patrick Johnston MP, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.^[2] In 1772, he succeeded his father as baronet.^[3] Warrender served with the Royal Horse Guards and fought in the Battle of Minden in 1759. Eventually he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 11th Regiment of Dragoons.

Warrender was Member of Parliament (MP) for Haddington Burghs from 1768 until 1774.^[4] Between 1771 and 1791, he was King's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer.^[3]

In 1780, Warrender married Helen Blair.^[5] They had a daughter and two sons, George and John, who succeeded to the baronetcy successively.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: WARRENDER, Patrick (1731–99), of Lochend, Haddington.. History of Parliament Online . 20 March 2018.
2. Book: Kimber, Edward . Edward Kimber

   . Edward Kimber . Thomas Wotton . Richard Johnson . The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets . III . 1771 . London . 50 .

3. Book: Burke, John . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire . Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley . London . II . 4th . 1832 . 589 .
4. Web site: Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons. Haddington Burghs . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231401/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons1.htm . 10 August 2009 . usurped . 15 April 2009 .
5. Book: Debrett, John . G. Woodfall . 5th . Debrett's Baronetage of England . I . 1824 . London . 416 .