Francis Kinloch, American Continental congressman, army officer member staffs of gens; member South Carolina. Ho; member Continental Congress from South Carolina., 1780-1781; member South Carolina. Legislative Council, 1789, South Carolina. Constitutional
Background
His father, Francis, was a member of the royal council for South Carolina from 1717 till 1757, and at one time its president, and his grandfather, James, came from Scotland about 1700. Francis, the son, was first educated in Charleston, but was sent to London in 1768, after his father"s death, and placed at Eton.
Education
Graduate Eton College, England, 1774. Studied law Lincoln’s Inn, London, England. Admitted to the bar, London.
Studied in Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland, 1774-1777.
Career
He served as a delegate for South Carolina to the Continental Congress in 1780. In 1774, after travelling through France, Italy, and Switzerland, he remained in Geneva with his friend Johannes von Müller, a Swiss historian. Though at first he had sympathized with the Tories, at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War he returned to Charleston, and received a captain"s commission in the South Carolina militia.
He was on General
Isaac Huger"s staff at the attack on Savannah in 1779, and received a bullet wound. He then served on General William Moultrie"s staff until 1780, when he was sent to the Continental congress in Philadelphia for one year.
While trying to escape from his house during “Simcoe"s raid,” he was captured, but released on parole and returned home.
Foreign many years he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, and was a justice of the peace and of the quorum. He was a delegate to the convention of 1787, and voted there in favor of ratifying the constitution of the United States.
In 1803 he went with his family to the south of France and Geneva, but about 1806 he returned to Charleston. He was the author of Letters from Geneva (2 vols, Boston), and a Eulogy on George Washington, Esq.
(Georgetown, 1800; reprinted privately, New York, 1847).
Membership
Member staffs of gens. Member South Carolina. Ho; member Continental Congress from South Carolina., 1780-1781.
Member South Carolina.
Legislative Council, 1789, South Carolina.