A GEORGE I SILVER BOWL

SIR GEORGE WARRENDER 1ST BT.
George's father, also George, died when he was a child. He became an eminent merchant in foreign goods in Edinburgh and was Lord Provost in the reigns of King William III, Queen Anne and King George I. He married twice, first in 1680, Margaret Lawrie, the daughter of a fellow merchant, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Six months after his wife's death in 1699 he married as his second wife Grizzel Blair, the daughter of Hugh Blair, also a merchant, with whom he had eight further children. He was created a baronet in 1715 and was M.P. for Edinburgh from 1715 until his death.