Sir John Clerk, 2nd Bt, known as John Clerk of Penicuik, 1676 - 1755, was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge, composer and architect. The son of a Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, Clerk went on to serve in that capacity himself, for the Whig Party. A leading supporter of the Act of Union 1707 with the Kingdom of England, Clerk wrote in his memoirs of English novelist, journalist and secret agent Daniel Defoe: :"He was a spy among us, … Wikipedia
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