INNES, SIR JOHN (1840-1912) came to Canterbury in the early sixties and bought run 167. This became part of the Mt Brown station, of which he was later sole owner (1877). He took his younger brother James into partnership and in 1890 they bought the freehold of the whole of Double Corner and Mt Brown from the Midland Railway Co. He was a justice of the peace.

In 1878 Innes succeeded to the baronetcy of Balveny. He returned to Scotland in the nineties and died unmarried on 2 May 1912. He was succeeded as thirteenth baronet by his brother James (born 1846) who also returned to Scotland and was a justice of the peace for the county of Banff, where he died unmarried on 7 Jan 1919.

Acland; Burke, Peerage, 1935; Woodhouse.

Reference: Volume 1, page 230

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