Records of Peter Sturrock on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Sturrock and the Sturrock Family History

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Some Famous People called Peter Sturrock

Peter Sturrock (MP)

Peter Sturrock (1820 – 7 March 1904) was a Scottish civil engineer, colliery owner and provost of Kilmarnock and a Conservative politician.

Sturrock was the son of David Sturrock, of Struthers, near Kilmarnock and his wife Helen Woodbum. He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy and at Glasgow. Sturrock married Helen Hutchinson Guthrie in 1850. He was a civil engineer, a colliery owner, and a director of North British Canadian Investment Co., and Scottish Ontario Land Co. He was provost of Kilmarnock and a Justice of the Peace for Ayrshire He was one of the founders and president of the Kilmarnock Burns Club.

He was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock Burghs, with a majority of only 132 votes, but was defeated at 1886 general election.

Sturrock purchased Baltesan Castle with the intention of restoring it, but the plans never came to fruition.

Sturrock died at the age of 83.

Source: Peter Sturrock (MP), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Sturrock

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