:Come on. Are you now pursing the  line or just attempting to display your evenhandedness?  

 :What is really going on here. You know as well as I do that there are thousands of pages/articles on Wikipedia where there is not a single source for pop singers and absolute nobodies. Yet there is this everlasting concerted attack on baronets etc. Please don't sit back on the laurels of the vagaries of 'notability'. There has to be a proper intelligent answer to these assaults. 

 :Here we have someone who was clearly notable. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for a major shire in Scotland, not a Crown Commission handed to every Tom Dick and Harry. He was also a sitting Magistrate, a position of obvious importance. Sir John served for two years in the Portuguese liberating army, something rather exceptional, to say the least, and he was in the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Army, for twelve years and was in 1845 a lieutenant and adjutant in their Bundelkund (cavalry) Legion. This must by anyone's standard be exceptional service. He wasn;t just on garrison duty at Edinburgh Castle! I mean, how many others do you know who had careers like this? He was later a Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a very select band, and the oldest of the most prestigeous Military Orders still extant. 

 :The thing is, we are not going to contribute to Wikipedia projects if we are going to be treated so shabbily. There are, as I've said, thousands of absolutely lousy and crappy WP articles without a scrap of merit. It seems to me this is a question of priorities.