{{short description|English banker and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Minet Fector''' (28 March 1812 – 24 February 1868) was an English banker and politician. From 1848 he was called '''John Minet Laurie'''.<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=FCTR830JM|name=Fector, John Minet}}</ref>
==Life== [[File:Kearnsney abbey Dover.jpg|thumb|Kearsney Abbey, Temple Ewell, Kent]]
He was born on 28 March 1812, the eldest son of John Minet Fector (died 1821), and his wife Anne Wortley Montagu Laurie, daughter of [[Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Walford|first=E.|title=The County Families of the United Kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psgIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA369|access-date=24 October 2017|year=1882|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=9785871943618|page=369}}</ref><ref name="Minet">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/someaccountofhug00mine#page/202/mode/1up/|title=Some account of the Huguenot family of Minet, from their coming out of France at the revocation of the edict of Nantes MDCLXXXVI, founded on Isaac Minet's "{{sic|Rel|atin of our|hide=y}} {{sic|famil|ly|nolink=y}}" |last=Minet |first=William |year=1892 |via=the [[Internet Archive]]|publisher=Spottiswoode & Co.|page=202|access-date=24 October 2017|location=London}}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College]], and matriculated at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] in 1820.<ref name="acad"/>
In 1833 Fector took control of the family bank in [[Dover]], J. Minet Fector & Co.; some years later it traded as Fector & Co.<ref name="RBS">{{cite web|url=https://www.rbs.com/heritage/companies/fector-and-co.html|title=Fector & Co., RBS Heritage Hub|access-date=24 October 2017}}</ref> In 1835 he was elected Member of Parliament for Dover, as a Tory with moderate reforming ambitions. He lost his seat in 1837, to the Whig [[Edward Royd Rice]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Reg|title=Colony: Strange Origins of One of the Earliest Modern Democracies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vhlj8JQ4X_QC&pg=PA88|access-date=24 October 2017|year=2010|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn=9781862548930|pages=88}}</ref> He was elected again, for [[Maidstone (UK Parliament constituency)|Maidstone]], in 1838. In 1841 he did not contest the seat.<ref name="GM1868">{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AncYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA545|year=1868|publisher=R. Newton|page=545}}</ref> In 1842 he sold Fector & Co. to the [[National Provincial Bank]].<ref name="RBS"/>
Fector added to the house and grounds of Kearsney Abbey, built on the Kearsney Manor estate by his father. He later sold it, around 1845. The building was mostly demolished in 1959.<ref>[http://www.kentgardenstrust.org.uk/research-projects/Individual%20Commissions/Kearsney%20Abbey.pdf ''Kearsney Abbey, River Dover, Kent'', Kent Gardens Trust (PDF)], at pp. 6–8</ref> In 1848 his uncle [[Sir Robert Laurie, 6th Baronet]] died unmarried, and Fector took the surname Laurie.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cave|first1=Edward|last2=Nichols|first2=John|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuBri_IukDgC&pg=PA434|access-date=24 October 2017|year=1848|publisher=Edw. Cave, 1736–[1868]|page=434}}</ref> There also descended to him the Laurie seat in Scotland, Maxwelton House in [[Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway|Glencairn]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Montaith|first= John|title=The Parish of Glencairn|url=https://archive.org/details/parishglencairn00montgoog|access-date=24 October 2017|year=1876|publisher=J. Maclehose|page=[https://archive.org/details/parishglencairn00montgoog/page/n49 29]}}</ref>
He died Middlesex in February 1868 at the age of 55.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/84258595/person/40499588718/facts Ancestry: John Minet Fector (Laurie)]</ref>
==Family== Fector married in 1841 Isabella Murray, daughter of General Augustus William Murray. There were no children of the marriage. His sister Charlotte married [[Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet]] and was mother of [[Emilius Bayley]].<ref name="Minet"/> The Fector family survived in this line.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roake|first=Margaret|title=Essays in Kentish History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50yscIfOPkAC&pg=PA167|access-date=24 October 2017|year=1973|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780714629568|page=167}}</ref>
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