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George Heriot (died 1610)
George Heriot (1539/40 – 1610) was a Scottish goldsmith and member of the Parliament of Scotland. He is perhaps best known as the father of the philanthropist George Heriot, his eldest son.
==Career==
He was the son of the goldsmith George Heriot, who had moved to Edinburgh around the start of the sixteenth century, and Christian Kyle, an Edinburgh native.〔Bourne, p. 262〕 Heriot was a member of an established Haddingtonshire family; his grandfather, John Heriot, had been given four hundred acres of land at Trabourn〔Alternately Traburn or Trabroun; a hamlet in the parish of Gladsmuir.〕 by the Earl of Douglas in return for military service.〔Bourne, p. 262. It is unclear from the source if the Earl is Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas (d. 1424) or Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas (d. 1439); the gift was confirmed in 1425, making it potentially either.〕
He had become a freeman of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh by 26 June 1561 and was elected to be a quarter-master of the Incorporation on that date (Goldsmiths' Minutes vol.I, A22, f.8r.'' ). He became a burgess of the City of Edinburgh on 4 August 1562. He was elected Deacon of the Incorporation for the years 1565–67, 1575–76, 1579, 1583–85, 1586–87, 1589–91, 1594–96, 1603–04 and 1607–08 (various refs.'' ). He was also elected deacon-convener of the Incorporated Trades of the city on five separate occasions.〔Steven, p. 2, and Constable, pp. 6–7. The dates were 1590, 1593, 1594, 1606, and 1607.〕 Heriot represented the City of Edinburgh in the Parliament of Scotland on a number of occasions between 1585 and 1607.〔(Records of the Parliament of Scotland ); a list of dates is given in Constable, pp. 3–5. He was a Commissioner to the Convention of Estates seven times, in 1585, 1594, 1596, 1597, and 1598 (thrice); and a Commissioner to Parliament eight times, in 1592, 1594, 1595, 1600, 1604, 1605, and 1607 (twice).〕 In 1596 he was one of the representatives from Edinburgh sent to meet with King James VI to placate him after a major riot that December which had caused the king to flee the city.〔Constable, p. 4-7, includes a description of the events〕 In 1597 he was appointed to a commission to set the value of foreign gold and silver money brought into the country, and in 1599 to one which studied how to reissue the circulating coinage.〔Constable, p. 4〕 His last parliamentary act was in 1607, when he was appointed to a commission to assess a tax for the purpose of printing ''Regiam Majestatem'', an edition of the old laws of Scotland.〔Constable, p. 5〕
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