John Dewar
- Category : 1856-births
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 5/2 - Heretical / Hermit
- Definition : Split - Small (10,33,34,50)
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Separation 1
Biography
Chairman of the distilling firm John Dewar and Sons, and a UK Member of Parliament.
Dewar was also a director of Buchanan-Dewar Ltd and of Distillers Company Ltd. He also represented Inverness-shire in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1917 and was twice Lord Provost of Perth. He was created a Baronet in 1907 and in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Forteviot, of Dupplin in the County of Perth.
He died in 1929