Politician and reformer. Born in Dundee, Kinloch's father died when he was an infant and he inherited estates in Perthshire. He spent his teenage years in France during the Revolution there, and this shaped his political views. He inherited a slave plantation in Jamaica from his uncle, which he sold, allowing him to buy a further estate near Carnoustie that he developed to provide employment. He was involved in the improvement of Dundee Harbour, but following his support for Parliamentary reform he was accused of sedition and forced into exile in France in 1819. He was able to return three years later after the intervention of King George IV. Following the reforms that he sought, he was elected to Parliament in 1832 and spoke against slavery. He died soon after in Kinloch House near Meigle, which he had built in 1798. Kinloch is remembered by statue by Sir John Steell (1804-91) in Albert Square in Dundee, which appropriately looks down Reform Street.
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