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Thomas Dick Lauder
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainhall, 7th Baronet, FRSE FSA(Scot) (13 August 1784 – 29 May 1848) was a Scottish author. He served as Secretary to the Board of Manufactures (1839–), on the Herring Fisheries Board, at the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, and as Deputy Lieutenant of both counties of Moray and Haddington.
He was the only son of Sir Andrew Dick-Lauder, 6th Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1820.
==Early life==
Born in Edinburgh, Midlothian but baptised 8 days later at Pencaitland, East Lothian, in early life he entered the army – 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, and although possessing Fountainhall (near Pencaitland), he afterwards took up his residence at his wife's home, 'Relugas' in Morayshire, where he remained till 1832 (selling it in 1836), when he removed to the Grange House,〔http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83400855&mode=transcription〕 in the Grange, Edinburgh until his death. On 8 February 1808 he married, on the banks of the Findhorn at Edinkillie, Morayshire, Charles Anne (1785–1864), the only child and heiress of George Cumin of Relugas. By her he had two sons and eight daughters.
In 1839 Sir Thomas was appointed Secretary to the Board of Manufactures and Fisheries in Scotland,〔Stewart-Smith, J., ''The Grange of St. Giles'', Edinburgh, 1898: 357〕 and also, immediately afterwards, Secretary to the Board of British White Herring Fishery.The duties of these Secretaryships he continued sedulously to discharge till interrupted by his last illness. He was for some time Secretary to the Royal Institution for the Encouragment of the Fine Arts, an office which he relinquished about two years before his death. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, where he presented his paper on ''Parallel Roads of Glen Roy'' on 2 March 1818.
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