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Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd Baronet (1676–1755) was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer.
He was Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh,[1] the pre-eminent learned society of the Scottish Enlightenment.
He was the father of George Clerk-Maxwell and John Clerk of Eldin, both of them friends of James Hutton.
