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John Clerk

Born: 8th February 1676, Penicuik, Scotland

Died: 4th October 1755, Penicuik House Cafe, Scotland

Nationality: Scottish

Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer.

He was Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the pre-eminent learned society of the Scottish Enlightenment.

He was the father of George Clerk Maxwell and John Clerk of Eldin, and the great-great-grandfather of the famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

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