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38anff
OGILVY, LORD BANFF
IB WALTER OGILVY
of Auchlevyn and Desk- ford, Sheriff of Banff, third son of Sir Walter Ogilvy ol Lintrathen (see vol. i., p. 112), had, by his wife Margaret Sinclair, heiress of Deskford and Findlater, with other issue : —
1. Sir James of Desk-
ford, ancestor of the Earls of Find- later. (See that title.)
2. SIB WALTER, an-
cestor of the Lords Banff.
SIR WALTER OGILVY of Auchlevyn and Boyne, the second son. On 27 July 1472 Walter of Auchlevyn is described by George, Earl of Huntly, as his * kinsman and squire.' To a letter of that date by the Earl, appointing Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk his bailie over the lands of Fogo in Berwickshire, he appends his kinsman Walter's seal.1 In Walter's accounts for the burgh of Banff from 20 June 1472 onwards, an annual payment of £4 is made to him out of the customs of the burgh, as bailie for 'Jonete, Lady Edmondistoune,' otherwise described as 4 Jonet of Edmonstoun of Tulyalone,' 2 and in the accounts for 1485-86 he is designed as ' Jonet's ' spouse.3 The lady's
1 Twelfth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., App. viii. 138. 324, 475, 557, 635 ; ix. 160. 3 Ibid., 458.
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2 OGILVY, LORD BANFF
real name was Margaret, and she was one of the two heiresses of Sir James Bdmondstone of that Ilk. On 23 February 1485-86, by an agreement between Elizabeth Edmondstoun the other heiress of Sir James, and her husband Patrick Blacatir, on the one part, and Margaret and Walter on the other, the latter received the lands of Boyne in Banffshire, and the above annual of £4 in exchange for their share of the lands of Tuliallan in the stewartry of Strathearn,1 and from that date Walter is designed indifferently as of Auchlevyn, or of Boyne.
In 1486 King James in. appointed him his body squire,2 and after the battle of Sauchieburn (11 June 1488) he filled a similar post in the household of King James iv., and became one of that monarch's most trusty friends and advisers.3 On 3 February 1489 he was elected one of the lords auditors,4 and on 5 May 1491, one of the five lords of causes on behalf of the barons of Scotland.5
In 1486 he acquired the lands of Baldavy from the Crown ; in 1492,6 Auchannochquhy from Huntly;7 in 1494, Regale from the Abbey of Arbroath,8 and in 1497 Inchdrewir and Kilbirny from the Grown,9 all these lands being situated in the county of Banff.
In October 1494 he was appointed Sheriff of Inverness,10 in 1499 Chamberlain of Petty, Brauchly, and Stratherne,11 in 1500 Chamberlain of Moray,12 from 1502 onwards he was keeper of the Castle of Inverness,13 and in 1505 he was Sheriff of Banff.1*
He was knighted between 4 July 1503 and 8 July 1504,15 and was still alive on 20 April 1507, when his liferent in Baldavy is reserved.16 He died prior to 7 August 1508."
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. , 3 March 1485-86. 2 Ibid. , 21 April 1486. 3 Ibid. , 3 Decem- ber 1495. 4 Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 220 ; Ada Dom. Cone., 137. 6 Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 224, 229. 6 Beg. Mag. Sig., 21 April 1486. 7 Ibid., confirmed
3 December 1495. 8 Reg. Nig. de Aberbrothoc, 287. 9 Reg. Mag. Sig., 25 May 1497. 10 Exch. Rolls, xi. 315*. n Ibid., 352. Petty is on the southern shore of the Moray Firth, about six miles from Inverness ; Brauchly is in the parish of Cawdor ; Stratherne is the valley of the Findhorn. 12 Ibid., 348. 13 Ibid., 315*. ™ Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff , Hi. 580. ™ Exch. Rolls, xii. 127, 217; Twelfth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., App.viii. 136 ; Records of King's College, Aberdeen, 49. The editors of the Spalding Club Miscellany appear to assign too early a date to the charter they cite (iii. 472) and to which Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne, knight, is a witness. 16 Reg. Mag. Sig. , 20 April 1507. 17 Ibid. , 28 November 1508.
OGILVY, LORD BANFF 3
By his wife Margaret Edmondstone lie had at least seven children : —
1. GEORGE, ancestor of Boyne.
2. Sir William of Stratherne, Lord High Treasurer of
Scotland. On 20 January 1506, King James iv., who designs William *familiaris suns,' granted him the lands of Gowny.1 On 20 April 1507 he had a Grown confirmation of Baldavy and Kilbirnie reserving his father's lifer ent.2 On 19 June 1507 he and his wife Alison Boull received a grant of the barony of Stratherne in the sheriffdom of Inverness,3 the reason assigned by tradition for the gift being that Alison was the first to make known to the King the birth of a son by his wife Margaret Tudor.4 On 10 Sep- tember following he had a Grown grant of Kynstaris in the sheriffdom of Nairn,5 which he afterwards sold; on 3 January 1507-8 the barony of Baldavy;6 and on 16 November thereafter a renewed grant of Baldavy was made to himself and his wife, who is designed in the charter ' servitrix regine.' 7 In 1510 he acquired Bogmochil, in the sheriffdom of Banff, from the Grown,8 at which date he is first designed miles ; and in 1512 from William, Earl Marischal, who speaks of him as his kinsman, Burn, Auchmullie, and Runtreiche in the sheriffdom of Banff.9 In 1503 the lands of Geddes, held ward from the Grown, were in possession of George, William's elder brother, and ancestor of Boyne, who disponed them to William.10 The latter also was Grown tenant of Oonniche, in the lordship of Petty 1502-8.11 On 7 March 1512-13 the King, for services freely rendered to him, not only within the kingdom, but also on repeated journeys on special services and business in the kingdoms of France and England, regranted him the barony of Stratherne, and various other lands and rights in the sheriffdom
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. , 20 January 1505-6. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. , 19 June 1507. 4 Macf ar- lane's Gen. Coll., i. 204. See also Treasurer's Accounts, iii., Preface, xxxi. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 10 September 1507. 6 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid., 22 October 1510. 9 Ibid., 6 March 1511-12. 10 Ibid., 17 March 1610 ; Cawdor Charters quoted in Laing's Supplemental Catalogue, No. 795. See also Family of Rose, 177, where George is designed ' of Geddes.' The Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan (New Edition), 110-11. " Exch. Rolls, xii. 166.
4 OGILVY, LORD BANFF
of Inverness, including the tower of Hawhill, erected by Sir William.1 On 8 July 1504 he rendered his father's accounts for Petty and Brauchly for the year preceding. In 1507 he was chamberlain of Montblairy and other lands in ward of the King in the sheriff doms of Banff and Aberdeen by the decease of the Earl of Buchan. In 1509 chamberlain of Petty and Brauchly, in 1510 customer of Banff, and in 1512 chamberlain of Moray.2
He was one of the parties to the agreement with the Queen-mother, Margaret Tudor, dated 26 August 1514, under which John, Duke of Albany, was invited to Scotland as governor of the kingdom,3 and on 18 September following was one of the Lords of Council who decreed that the Queen, in virtue of her marriage with the Earl of Angus, had tynt the office of tutrix to the young King.4 In 1512 he was tutor to Walter Ogilvy, heir of Boyne, son of his elder brother George.5 On 3 January 1515-16 he was appointed Lord High Treasurer by John, Duke of Albany, governor of the kingdom,6 and held the appointment until his death, which must have occurred prior to 17 January 1516-17, on which date he is described as deceased, and his accounts are given up in his name by Mr. James Ourrour.7 His wife Alison Boull, who is first men- tioned in the Lord High Treasurer's Accounts under date January 1505-6 as the recipient of a golden neck- lace from the King,8 predeceased him.9 They had an only child —
(1) John, designed variously of Stratherne, of Durne, of Car- nowseis, and of Sanquhar. In 1517 he, with his uncle and tutor, the Abbot of Dryburgh, obtained a decreet of spuilzie against the Mackintoshes for the destruction of Halhill and wasting of Petty, which had taken place during his father's lifetime.10 In 1531 he excambed Petty, Brauchly, and
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Exch. Rolls, xii. 217, 433 ; xiii. 332, 520; xiv. 98. 3 Ada Dom. Cone., xxvi. 109. * Ibid., 114, 117. 5 Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff, iv. 95; see Exch. Rolls, xiv., where "Walter's name incessantly and incorrectly appears as 'Alexander.' He is correctly named 'Walter' in xv. 13 onwards. 6 Lord High Treasurer's Accounts, v. 58. He is so designed, 6 February 1516, in Reg. Mag. &ig. 7 Ibid., v. 89. 8 Lord High Treasurer's Accounts, ii. 177. 9 Reg. Mag. Sig., 15 Sept. 1516. 10 Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 77.
OGILVY, LORD BANFF 5
Stratherne with his uncle Walter for Carnowseis, and in 1532 he excambed Mekill Geddes and Rait with Sir John Campbell of Calder, for Moy.1 He sold Carnowseis in 1536 to his uncle Walter,2 and his barony of Baldavy in 1545 to Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne.3 He was killed at the battle of Pinkiecleugh, 10 September 1547. 4 By his wife Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of Sir James Dunbar of Cumnock,6 who survived him,6 he left four children :—
i. Alexander, who on 18 February 1555, with consent of his curator Thomas Menzies of Pitfoddells, Provost of Aberdeen, disponed his superiority of Geddes and Rait to Mr. John Campbell, prior of Ardchattane.7 He died a. p. 1555.8
ii. Margaret. On 24 December 1558, as elder heir-female of her brother-german Alexander, she had a precept of dare constat from William, Bishop of Aberdeen, of the Kirkton of Fordyce and other lands.9 Before 23 June 1563 she was married to Mr. Thomas Menzies of Durne, otherwise of Kirkhill and Pitfoddells, Provost of Aberdeen, immediate younger brother of Gilbert of Pitfoddells, Provost of Aberdeen,10 and had issue :— (i) Thomas, retoured his mother's heir 1 June 1586. u He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Ogilvy of Dunlugus. See infra. (ii) Sir Paul of Kinmundy.12 (iii) Marjorie™ and (iv) Mariota.1*
iii. Marjorie, married to Alexander Keith in Redhych ; contract of marriage dated 20 October 1564.15 Alexander Keith died 29 March 1575. 16 They had issue :— (i) Alexander.17
(ii) Gideon, portioner of Durne.18 (iii) Christian.19 (iv) Margaret.20
iv. Elspet, married Patrick Dunbar of Sanchar.21 They had an only son Walter, burgess of Banff,22 who on 15 May 1606 was served heir-portioner of Sir William Ogilvy of Stratherne, Knight, his great-grandfather, in one- third of the mill of Baldavy.23
3. Mr. James, Oommendator of Dryburgh. This active and distinguished ecclesiastic graduated at Aberdeen.
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 28 April, 1 May 1531 ; Thanes of Cawdor, 154, 155. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig. , 3 June 1536. 3 Ibid. , 24 April 1545. 4 Thanes of Cawdor, 174. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 23 June 1553; Shaw's Province of Moray, ii. 318, where the marriage is given on the authority of the Westfield Papers. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 23 June 1553. 7 Thanes of Cawdor, 174. 8 Cal. of Deeds, H. M. Gen. Reg. Ho. 1768. 9 Original in Reg. Ho. No. 1768. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig., 12 May 1587. 1J General Retours, No. 8363 ; cf. Banff Retours, No. 21. 12 Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff, i. 33. 13 Reg. Mag. Sig., 29 April 1592. 14 Ibid., 12 May 1587. 15 Reg. of Deeds, viii. 272. 16 Edin. Com., 2 January 1577. 17 Ibid. 18 Reg. Mag. Sig., 20 September 1594. 19 Edin. Test., 2 January 1577-78. » Ibid. 21 Reg. of Deeds, xi. 479. 22 Part. Reg. of Sasines, Banff shire, 16 July 1604. 23 Banff Retours, No. 22.
6 OGILVY, LORD BANFF
Along with Monsieur de la Bastie, he was appointed, on 26 November 1513, Ambassador to Louis xn. of France, to confirm the ancient league with that kingdom, and to invite the Duke of Albany to Scot- land as governor.1 In the beginning of April 1514 he was acting as Master of Bequests to the young King.2 On 6 July in that year he is designed Rector of Kyn- kell,3 and from the frequent appearance of his name as witness to Grown charters, it is evident he was a close attendant at Court for a considerable period. On the death of Bishop Elphinstone of Aberdeen, 25 October 1514, Mr. James, then in France, was nomi- nated to the vacant see by John, Duke of Albany,4 but the benefice was conferred on Alexander Gordon, third son of James Gordon of Methlic and Haddo. (See title Aberdeen.) The earliest reference observed to him as Abbot of Dryburgh is on 24 September 1515.5 In a mortification dated 15 July 1516, by Sir William Ogilvy of Stratherne, he is designed Abbot of Dryburgh, and brother of Sir William.6 He succeeded his elder brother Sir William as tutor to their nephew Walter, the young heir of Boyne,7 and later filled the same office to Sir William's son and heir, John.8
He died at Paris 30 May 1518, and was interred in the church of St. Landrus in that city.9
4. SIR WALTER.
5. John, rendered the accounts of his father Sir Walter
for the Ohamberlainship of Petty and Brauchly at Edinburgh, 12 August 1503.10 In 1505 he became Grown tenant of Oloanemore and Oallouchquhy, in the lordship of Petty.11 These lands, on 19 June 1507, were granted to Mr. William Ogilvy of Geddes and Alison Roull, his wife, and incorporated in the barony of Stratherne.12 As Chamberlain he rendered
1 Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 281, 282. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig., 2 April 1514. 3 Ibid., 6 July 1514. 4 Keith's Catalogue. 6 Treas. Ace., v. 40. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 15 September 1516. 7 Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff, iv. 95 ; Exch. Rolls, xiv. 341. In the Antiquities cited, Walter of Boyne is designed ' nobilis puer nepos et hseres ' of Sir Walter of Auchlevyn. In the Frasers of Philorth, ii. 142, ' nepos ' is incautiously translated ' nephew ' instead of 'grandson.' 8 Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 77-80. 9 Reg. Epis. Aber., ii. 207 ; Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff, i. 572. 10 Exch. Rolls, xii. 58. 11 Ibid., 667-8. 12 Reg. Mag. Sig. , 19 June 1507.
OGILVY, LORD BANFF 7
the account of Petty and Brauchly up to July 1509,1 in which year he was succeeded by his elder brother William in that office.2 He is not called in any of the settlements made by his brothers or cousins.
6. Jonet, married to William Gordon of Schivas, third
son of George, second Earl of Huntly.3 They had a son, George Gordon of Gight, ancestor of Lord Byron. Jonet had a lease from the Abbey of Arbroath of certain teinds in the parishes of Tarves and Fyvie, 7 October 1526.4
7. Elizabeth, married to William Leslie of Balquhain.5
They had a charter of Syd, with the mill, 7 April 1514.6 She died in September 1518, leaving, with other issue, a son John, who succeeded to Balquhain.7
SIR WALTER OGILVY of Dunlugus. In 1517 Walter suc- ceeded his brother James, Abbot of Dryburgh, as tutor to their nephew John, son and heir of Sir William, the Lord High Treasurer, when he is designed 'of Baddy nspink. ' 8 In 1524, as ' magister stabuli domini regis et principalis dapifer,' he received an annual fee of 20 merks.9 From 1518 to 1525 he was tutor to Walter Ogilvy of Boyne, heir of his eldest brother George.10 He rendered the accounts of the bailies of Banff from 1518 onwards, and in the account of 1525-26 he is designed ' of Monycabock.' u His acquisi- tions of land were extremely numerous, and may be traced up to 1556 in the Register of the Great Seal. In 1538 his acquisitions to that date were incorporated in a barony called the barony of Dunlugus.12 He added other lands later.
The date of his knighthood may be inferred from the entries in the Exchequer Rolls. Under date 26 July 1533, he renders his accounts as customar of Banff, as 'Walter Ogilvy of Stratherne,' 13 on 19 August 1534, as 'Sir Walter Ogilvy of Dunlugus, knight/ 14 His last account as custo- mar of Banff was rendered at Edinburgh 9 February 1557. 15
1 Exch. Rolls, xiii. 210. 2 Ibid., 332. 3 The Records of Aboyne, 54, 412. * Reg. Nig. de Aberbrothoc, 457. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 20 January 1505-6; Hist. Rec. of the Family of Leslie, iii. 25. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig. 7 Hist. Rec. of the Family of Leslie, iii. 25. 8 Exch. Rolls, xv. 30. 9 Ibid., 94. 10 Ibid., 73, 192, 371. n Ibid., 73, 191, 274, 362, 444, 513. 12 Reg. Mag. Sig., 13 December 1538. 13 Exch. Rolls, xvi. 235. 14 Ibid., 357. 16 Ibid., xix. 6.
8 OGILVY, LORD BANFF
He was succeeded in that office by his son George.1 Called as a substitute in the Findlater entails.2 He maintained his post at the Court for many years.3 In 1543, when repre- senting the town of Banff in Parliament, he was elected one of the Lords of the Articles.4 In that year he signed Cardinal Beaton's bond against the English party,5 and was nominated one of the ambassadors to Henry vin.6 In 1546 he was a member of the Privy Council.7 He was provost of the burgh of Banff at least as early as 1541,8 and with the exception of the year 1549, when it was held by his relative Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne, appears to have held that office until his death on 29 November 1558.9
His wife was Alison Home, the second of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Cuthbert Home of Fast- castle, and his wife Elizabeth Mairtene,10 Cuthbert being the son of Sir Patrick Home of Fastcastle, second son of Alexander, first Lord Home.11 Alison's name first appears in her husband's charters in 1534,12 when her eldest son George is mentioned. She died 25 July 1557. 13 Their children were : —
1. SIR GEORGE.
2. Walter, who received in 1549 a grant of Carnowseis
on his father and mother's resignation,14 and in 1556 from the same source Blacklaw and Crannochie.15 He sold Carnowseis to his elder brother George in 1582.16 He married (contract dated 22 September 1578) Helen, daughter of James Stewart, Lord Inner- meath,17 and died before 31 July 1583. He was sur- vived by two daughters, Margaret and Helen.18
1 Exch. Rolls, xix. 195. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig., 28 September 1545 ; 8 June 1546. 3 Ibid., 18 June 1539. 4 Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 427. 6 The Hamilton Papers, i. 631. 6 Ibidfy ii. 249, 415. ? P, C. Reg., i. 57. 8 Annals of Banff , ii. 267.
9 Inscription on Tomb in Banff quoted in old Statistical Account. The statement in the Annals of Banff (ii. 248), that in 1551, 'George' of Dun- lugus was Provost of Banff, seems to be an error for ' Walter.' See Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff, i. 29 ; ii. 5, 111, 381. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig., 16 August 1582 ; Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, i. 179*. n Acta Dom. Cone, et Sess. , ii. 85. In Fraser's Memorials of the Montgomeries (i. 34), Alison is asserted to be the daughter of Sir Patrick Home of Fastcastle, and again in the Mel- villes, Earls of Melville, where the author does not hesitate to marry Elizabeth Martin to her father-in-law. Twelfth Report Hist. MSS. Com., App. viii. 97. 12 Reg. Mag. Sig., 15 February 1534-35. 13 Inscription on Tomb at Banff above quoted. 14 Reg. Mag. Sig., 28 October 1549. 15 Ibid., 24 February 1556-57. 16 Ibid., 11 July 1583. 17 Reg. of Deeds, xxxiii. 282. 18 Ibid., xxi. 397.
OGILVY, LORD BANFF 9
3. JoTw, who with his brother Thomas wrote to their
brother George from Louvain, 10 August 1571, that they were not willing to return home for sundry causes; that Lord Seton invited them to return with him, and offered them other kindnesses for which they desired he might be thanked.1 On 28 March 1574 James Adamsoun, burgess of Edinburgh, is cautioner for Mr. John Ogilvy, parson of Oruden, now remaining in Louvain, to compeir within the realm before the Regent and Privy Council ' to underly sic ordour and directioun as salbe gevin to him concerning his pro- fession of religioun.'2 In 1589 he is still designed parson of Cruden,3 and he was alive on 17 March 1606/
4. Thomas. (See note under John.)
5. James, married Agnes Gordon, and died before 1589.
Agnes Gordon's other husband was John Gordon of Buckie.5
6. Magdalen, married, circa 1559, to Alexander Fraser of
Philorth, and had, with other issue, Alexander Fraser, ninth of Philorth.6 (See title Saltoun.)
7. Marie, married to William Abernethie of Birnes,
brother-german to Alexander, Lord Saltoun (marriage- contract dated 11 January 1564).7 They had an only daughter, Elizabeth or Elspeth, who was married to her cousin-german, James Ogilvy.8 (See p. 13.)
8. A daughter, married to Alexander Gordon of Oluny,
who was succeeded by his brother John in 1569. They had a daughter, Janet, married to James Gordon of Birkenburn.9 Sir Walter had six natural children : —
1. George, to whom the fee of Alweth and Innerichney
was destined in 1539.10 He appears to have had a son Mr. Thomas, who is mentioned 8 February 1588,11 after which date we find Innerichney in possession of a legitimate branch of the family.12
2. Alexander. Along with his brother George and John
1 Cat. of Scottish Papers, iii. 641. 2 P. C. Reg.,ii. 351. 3 Reg. of Deeds, xxxiii. 282. * P. C. Reg., vii.631. 6 A cts and Decreets, cxix. 33. 6 Frasers of Philorth, i. 152, 161, 166. 7 Reg. Mag. Sig., 7 July 1612. 8 Ibid. 9 The Records of A boyne, 230. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig,, 5 February 1539-40 ; Reg. of Cupar Abbey, ii. 4. n Reg. Mag. Sig., 8 February 1587-88. 12 See post page 14.
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Ogilvy of Durne, son of Mr. William, the Treasurer, he had a lease for nineteen years, from 1530, of the Teinds of Gamrie. l They had also leases of Teinds from the Monastery of Arbroath.2
3. Walter.
4. James.3
5. Elizabeth.
6. Elizabeth (secunda). Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 6 received letters
of legitimation on 18 June 1542.4
SIR GEORGE OGILVY of Dunlugus and Banff is designed fiar of Hutoun, Bonyntoun, Hornedean, Nisbetscheillis and Rauthburne in the county of Berwick, in the Grown grant of these lands to his father and mother, 5 January 1542-43,5 and from 1576 onwards he grants charters of these lands. 6 In 1550 he received from his parents Sandelaw.7 In 1557 he and his wife Beatrix Setoun received from his father and mother one-half of Dunlugus and Meirdene with the fishings, the Haughs of Newton and the Oastleton of Kynedward.8 In 1567 he was called in the succession to the Findlater entails.9
His additions to the family estates were the superiorities of Baughlaw and Karnelpies with the fishings in Dovern, acquired from John Gordon alias Ogilvy of Findlater, in 1554,10 Tarliar in the lordship of Glendowachy bought, in 1571, from the Earl and Countess of Buchan,11 who also conveyed to him other subjects in the sheriffdom of Banff in 1574 ;12 in 1580 one-half of the lands of Orde in Banff, from Eliza- beth Orde, portioner of that Ilk ; 13 in 1582 the barony of Oarnowseis from his brother-german Walter, in the Grown confirmation whereof, dated 11 July 1583, he is designed
4 Sir George Ogilvy of Dunlugus, Knight ; ' M in 1592, from Mr. William Meldrum of Montcoffer, he had one-half of Montcoffer with the fishings in the Dovern in the sheriff- dom of Aberdeen.15 He sat as one of the lesser barons in the Parliament held at Edinburgh 1 August 1560, when the
1 Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff, iii. 539. 2 Reg. Nig. de Aberbr., 487, 520. 3 Acts and Decreets, x. 190. 4 Reg. Mag. Sig., 18 June 1542. 6 Ibid.,
5 January 1541-42. 6 Laing Charters, Nos. 1030, 1253, 1902; Acta Parl. Scot., x. 291. 7 Reg. Mag. Sig., 8 August 1550. 8 Ibid., 21 May 1557. 9 Ibid., 8 May 1567. 10 Ibid., 20 December 1555. n Ibid., 10 May 1581. 12 Ibid. 13 Ibid., 22 April 1581. 14 Ibid., 11 July 1583 ; cf. Exch. Rolls, xxi. 241. 15 Reg. Mag. Sig., 21 August 1595.
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Confession of Faith was confirmed by Parliament ; l and in 1574 he was a commissioner for holding wapenschaws in Banff.2 In 1567 he was Provost of Banff,3 and held the office continuously for many years, at least until 1600,4 and on 26 July 1621, not long before he died, he conveyed to the burgh various lands and tenements within the town.5 On 30 April 1589 he signed a bond not to interfere with the King's authority, estate, or religion,6 and in 1594, when he is designed ' of Banff/ he is cited with other northern mag- nates to appear before the King in Council to answer for good rule and loyalty within his territories.7;
Sir George died 11 August 1621, having lived, according to Arthur Johnston, twenty-one olympiads or eighty -four years,8 and having had thrice as many children of his body as there are years in an olympiad. His wife was Beatrix, fourth daughter of George, then Lord Seton,9 the contract of marriage being dated 24 February 1556-57.10 The six children who have been traced are : —
1. WALTER.
2. George, designed in 1590 of Oarnowseis,11 had on 5
September 1595 a charter to himself and Margaret Ogilvy, his first wife, of Oarnowseis, Orannock, and Blacklaw, on his father's resignation.12 He married, secondly, contract dated 6 January 1607, Barbara, daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth. Her tocher was 6000 merks.13 Between 1608 and 1622 he acquired various properties in Aberdeenshire.14 In 1605 Parliament, considering 'the grite and extra- ordinary derth and pryces raisit vpoun the buitis and shone throughout all pairtis of this country to the grite hurt and prejudice of all estaitis of personis,' appointed a commission ' to take tryall zeirlie of the pryces of all rough hydis and of the difference of the price betwixt the rough hydis and the baskit hydis, and to sett down reasonable pryces vpoun the buittis
1 Ada Parl. Scot., ii. 526. 2 Ibid., iii. 191. 3 Annals of Banff, ii. 267, 411. 4 Exch. Rolls, xxi. 241 ; P. C. Reg., vi. 658. 5 Annals of Banff, ii. 406. 6 P. C. Reg., iv. 379. 7 Ibid., v. 146. 8 Antiq. of Aberd. and Banff, i. 645. * This first Lord Banff lived one hundred and five years, and continued fresh and ruddy to the last.' 9 Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 578. 10 Reg. of Deeds, ii.113. "-P.C.Reg.,\.v.m. 12 Reg. Mag. Sig., 5 September 1595. 13 Ibid., 14 July 1609. »« Ibid. ; Part. Reg. Sas., Banff ; and Reg. Sec. Concilii, xiii.3.
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and shone with penalties vpoun the cordinairis who sail contra veyne raise or heicht the said price.' The commissioners not having succeeded in putting down the boot trust, an addition in 1608 was made to their numbers, including George of Oarnowseis, and they were directed to meet twice a year to fix the price of * buittis and shoone.' l In 1609 he was nominated one of the commissioners to enforce the practice of archery in Banffshire;2 in 1621 he represented the county in Parliament ; 3 in 1624 he was Provost of Banff,4 and held the office at his death, on 1 February 1625.5
By Margaret Ogilvy, who died 11 December 1599,6 he had three sons and two daughters, and by Barbara Fraser one son : —
(1) SIR GEORGE. On 10 May 1625 served heir to his father in the
barony of Carnowseis, Crannoch, and Blacklaw ; 7 and in other lands on 13 May 1625 8 and 11 January 1628.9 He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia 24 April 1626. 10 Received a remission for the slaughter of James Ogilvie of Auchireis and Paddoklaw, 2 February 1629.11 In 1628 he was Provost of Banff.12 A devoted adherent of Charles i., 'he suffered much for his loyalty, as all his fortunes were extinguished, his lands ruined and laid waste, and himself and his lady forced to fly the country, and he will never be able to recover.'13 He acquired the renunciation of Ordley in 1657. 14 He married, contract dated 25 November 1618, Jean, daughter of Sir Thomas Gordon of Cluny, Knight. She was infeft in Crannoch, 16 October 1619. 16
(2) John, designed in 1621 * of Birnes.' 16 Servitor to Alexander,
Earl of Dunfermline.17 He married Jean, daughter of Sir William Seton.18
(3) Thomas.19
(4) Helen, married to William Gray. She had a wadset over
Persent, part of Haltoun of Auchterles.20
(5) Elizabeth, married to George Meldrum of Haltoun of Ach-
terles, contract dated 9 and 10 August 1610. 21
(6) Alexander, son of second marriage, who had a Crown charter
1 Acta Parl. Scot., iv. 4046. 2 Ibid. 3 Parliamentary Return of Members ofParl., 553. 4 Annals of Banff, i. 53 ; ii. 52, 267. 6 Ibid. 6 Edin. Test., 9 August 1600. 7 Banff Retours, 47. 8 Aberdeen Eetours, 187. 9 Aberdeen and Banff Retours. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig., 24 April 1626. » Ibid., 2 February 1629. 12 Annals of Banff, i. 59. 13 Britaine's Distemper, 23. 14 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff. 15 Ibid. 16 P. C. Reg., xii. 570. 17 Reg. Mag. Sig., 13 February 1621. 18 Aberdeen Sasines, iv. 40. 19 Edin. Test., 9 August 1600. » Reg. Mag. Sig., 19 December 1628 ; Edin. Test., 9 August 1600. 21 Gen. Reg. of Inhibitions, iii. 250.
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25 February 1632 of Knok in Sfcrathisla.1 In 1629 he was admitted a burgess of Banff.2 He married Marie, daughter of James Ogilvy of Boyne and Isobelle Ogilvy, daughter of Walter Ogilvy of Dunlugus and Banff.3 He had a son — James, who married, contract dated 28 June 1656, Christian, daughter of Walter Stewart of Byland, and received a grant of Crannoch in that year from his uncle Sir George of Carnowseis.4 He was served heir to his father in Knock 25 November 1658.5
3. James, married his cousin Elspeth Abernethie, only
daughter of Marie Ogilvie (see p. 9) and William Aber- nethie of Birnes. Birnes was disponed to Elspeth by her father William in 1595 6 and in 1599 the spouses had a Grown charter of these lands on their own resignation.7 James was inf eft in Easter and Wester Knok 20 May 1608,8 and acquired on 12 June 1616 a number of other lands in the barony of Auchterles Dempter.9 He died s. p. 29 January 1617, and was suc- ceeded in his heritage by his younger brother Robert, and in his conquest lands by his eldest brother George of Carnowseis.10 The latter erected a monument to James's memory in Seton Chapel, East Lothian.11
4. Robert, burgess of Banff. On 17 July 1608 James of
Birnes sold to him Pyperscroft and other subjects in the burgh of Banff.12 He married Janet Baird.13
5. Janet, married to William Forbes, ninth Laird of
Tolquhoun, who died in 1602, and had with other issue, Walter, heir of Tolquhoun.14
6. Elizabeth, married, first, to Henry Urquhart of Crom-
arty, who died prior to 23 May 1587, leaving issue ; 15 secondly, to William, third son of William Leslie of Wardis, to whom his father gave, in 1596, his lands in Garioch ; 16 and thirdly, to Mr. Thomas Menzies of Durne, Provost of Aberdeen, with issue.17
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 25 February 1632. 2 Annals of Banff, ii. 417. 3 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff, 30 June 1632, MS. Hist, of Irvines of Drum, Lyon Office. 4 Banff Sas., viii. 31. 5 Banff Retours, 106. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 1 July 1612. 7 Ibid., 1593-1608, 9 April 1599. 8 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff. 9 Reg. Mag. Sig., 31 March 1617. 10 Ibid., 25 February 1632. » House of Seton, ii. 779. 12 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff. 13 Ibid., 20 December 1624. 14 Antiq. of Aberdeen and Banff; Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., i. 226, 476. In the first reference Macfarlane calls Janet daughter of the Laird of Banff; in the second, daughter of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Banff. 16 Register of Deeds, xlii. 1. 16 Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 26; Family of Leslie, iii. 283. 17 Banff Retours, 21 ; Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff, iii. 288.
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WALTER OGILVY of Dunlugus and Banff is styled apparent of Dunlugus in a charter dated 5 March 1582 by Patrick Ohene of Essilmonth to Alexander Fraser of Philorth, of lands in Aberdeenshire.1 On 31 October 1598 he received a Crown confirmation of Alveth and Innerichnie on his father's resignation,2 and from the same source in 1610 the liferent of Montcoffer, Govenye, Sandelaw, Bauchlaw, and Karnelpies, the fee being destined to his eldest son George.3 From this period he is generally designed ' of Banff.' 4 In 1619 he was elected Provost of Banff, but as by Act of Parliament it was ordained 'that none should be chosen provost of a burgh but burgesses actually dwelling therein and having trade and handling within the same,' Walter was summoned before the Privy Council to answer for breaking the law, with the result that he renounced the office.5 In 1620, however, we find him provost of the burgh, in 1624 a member of the town council, and provost from 1625 until his death.6 He was served heir to his father on*7 October 1625,7 and died between 14 February 1627 and
10 May 1628.8 By his wife Helen, daughter of Walter Urquhart, younger of Oromarty,8 he had : —
1. SIB GEORGE.
2. Walter of Innerichnie. In 1614 he had a charter of
the superiority of Auchorsk.10 His wife was Isobel, daughter of Thomas Urquhart of Burrisyards. Her father and husband were at feud with the Tullochs of Tannachies, and as the result of a scuffle between the parties at the kirk of Forres in 1623 ' schoe tooke bed immediatlie and never eat nor drank till schoe deit.' u In 1624 Walter was a bailie of Banff.12 On 1 August 1625 he received a licence to go abroad for three years.13 He died before 14 March 1629, on which date his brother George was served heir to him in the superiority of Auchorsk.14
3. Beatrice, married to Alexander Seton of Pitmedden,
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 22 April 1583. 2 Ibid., 31 October 1598. 3 Ibid., 8 August 1610. 4 Ibid., 14 February 1627. 6 P. C. Reg., xii. 120, 151. 6 Annals of Banff, i. 57 ; ii. 52, 267. 7 Banff Retours, 49. 8 Reg. Mag. Sig., 14 February 1627; P. C. Reg., 2nd series, ii. 592. 9 Thanage of Fermartyne, 692. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig., 5 July 1614; Ibid., 29 July 1625.
11 P. C. Reg., xiii. 159, 173. 12 Annals of Banff, ii. 52. 13 P. C. Reg., 2nd series, i. 113. 14 Banff Retours, 58.
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who was served heir to his father James in 1628. 1 They had issue a son John, who succeeded to that estate.2
4. Isobelle, married to James Ogilvy of Boyne after 28 July
1601, 3 and had a son Walter, who succeeded to that estate,4 and a daughter, Marie, who married Alex- ander Ogilvy of Knok, fourth son of George of Oar- nowseis. (See ante, p. 13.)
5. Mary, married, contract dated 16 February 1614,
Ninian Dunbar of Grangehill.5 Walter had also an illegitimate son, JoTw, admitted in 1626 a burgess of Banff.6
I. SIR GEORGE OGILVY OF BANFF had, on 9 March 1610, with his wife Margaret Irving of Drum, a charter of the barony of Dunlugus on the resignation of his grandfather Sir George.7 On 3 July 1^17 he had a Grown confirmation of Ord.8 On 24 May 1621 he was infeft by Sir George, his grandfather, in Tilbertie, Torfaulds, and Oatlaw.9 In 1624, with consent of his father Walter, he resigned the barony of Dunlugus in favour of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Oromarty, who was infeft therein 18 July 1624.10 From this period the family designation of ' Dunlugus ' is dropped, and that * of Banff ' substituted, though the latter designation was applied to the family so early as 1594.11 In 1625 George is designed ' of Moncoffer, Laird of Banff, junior,1 12 and in 1627 when he received a Grown confirmation of Sandelaw, Oatlaw, and others, 'junior of Banff, formerly titular fiar of Dunlugus.'13 In 1626 he was infeft in Dalhauche and Smiddiehillis,14 and in the same year in the barony of Inchdrewer.15 Monteoffer resigned in 1628 in favour of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty.16 In 1632 he sold Oatlaw in the parish of Alvah to James Stewart of Ryland.17 In 1636 he acquired Blair- shinnoch and Meikle Raittre,18 and Forglen in 1637.19
1 Aberdeen Retours, 207. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig., 15 March 1634 ; House of Seton, i. 472 ; Probative Quartering in Nisbet Plates, 132. 3 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff, i. 64. 4 Ibid., 26 December 1620. 6 Reg. of Deeds, ccxli. 3 August 1615, cclxxxii. 29 March 1619. 6 Annals of Banff, ii. 417. 7 Reg. Mag. Sig., 9 March 1610. 8 Ibid., 1646, 3 July 1617 ; Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff. 9 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff. ™ Ibid. " P. C. Reg., v. 659. 12 Reg. Mag. Sig., 19 July 1625. 13 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff. u Ibid. 15 Ibid. 16 Reg. Mag. Sig., 29 January 1628. 17 Ibid., 14 July 1632. 18 Ibid., 23 January 1636. 19 Ibid., 4 April 1637.
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He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia 20 July 1627,1 and in the same year he succeeded his father Walter as Provost of Banff.2 On 2 February 1629 he and his cousin Sir George of Oarnowseis received letters of remission for the slaughter of James Ogilvie of Auchiries and Paddoklaw, committed under provocation within the burgh of Banff
3 October 1628.3 With the feud which culminated in the ' Burning of Frendraught,' on 8 October 1630, Sir George was closely connected, being an ally of the Orichtons, and early in that year he and Frendraught petitioned to be exonerated from the slaughter of William Gordon of Bothie- may, on the ground that the latter was slain while the petitioners were endeavouring to arrest him on the warrant of the Privy Council.4 The only person executed for the
4 Burning of Frendraught ' was a certain John Meldrum, who, on the night before the house was burned, in reply to Banff, who had urged him to be reconciled to Orichton, replied that he could not be reconciled unless it were instantly done, because Frendraught would be burned before next morning.5
In 1629 Sir George was elected an elder of the Church of Scotland along with his agent, Mr. William Sharpe, Sheriff Clerk of Banff, formerly schoolmaster of Cullen and father of Archbishop Sharpe.6 Throughout the Civil War he was a uniform adherent of the King, and the aspersion that he was indifferent or lukewarm in the cause is not borne out by the record.7 In Principal Baillie's estimation he 4 was a rash and profane man.'8 He was Huntly's guiding spirit in his opposition to the Covenanters, and he and Gordon of Haddo were the leaders at the Trot of Turriff, 14 May 1639.9 He was conspicuous on the King's side at the action of the Bridge of Dee, 19 June 1639, where
1 Charter under the Great Seal of the barony and regality of Banff- Ogilvyin Nova Scotia, in favour of Sir George Ogilvy of Banff, Bart., dated 20 July 1627 ; Inv. penes Sir William Fraser's Trustees. 2 Annals of Banff, i. 57 ; ii. 267. 3 Reg. Mag. Sig., 2 February 1629. * P. C. Reg., 2nd series, iii. 485, etc. 6 Ibid., iv. 609 ; Family of Leslie, iii. 390. 6 Annals of Banff.
7 Gordon's Hist, of Scots Affairs, i. 61. At p. 211 the historian speaks of Banff as one who ' prof est ' to do much for the King, and at p. 263 he avers that Banff, after his interview with Sir Kobert Innes in 1639, ' never was cordial in the King's service.' The losses and sufferings of the Banff family in the Royal cause form a sufficient reply to this innuendo.
8 Baillie's Letters, i. 205. 9 Gordon's Hist of Scots Affairs, i. 211, 528.
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Montrose commanded the Covenanters.1 For these mis- demeanours he was marked down for punishment. Munro, at the head of the Covenanting army, marched to Banff, de- stroyed the beautiful gardens and hewed down the trees. The mansion-house fared no better. The iron, glass, timber, and hewn work they cut out and destroyed, ' leaving nothing to be seen but defaced walls, which yet speacke its beautye as it now standes lycke ane old rouinouse abbey.' This outrage, uncommemorated in peasant balladry, was mourned by a King. Charles i., when it was reported to him, said that for the house it mattered not, it could be replaced, ' but that it was a crwell thing to fall upon the garden, the losse wherof could not in many yeares be repaired, and so much the worse because it had neither done evill nor could hurt them ; besyde that it was ane ornament to the toune and countrey.' 2 Inchdrewer, the other residence of the family, was also laid waste ; Forglen was preserved by the courage of its defenders.3
On 31 August 1642, for his faithful services, King Charles I. created him a Peer of Scotland by the title of LORD BANFF, with a limitation to his heirs-male, bearing the name and arms of Ogilvy.4 The King also gave him 10,000 merks to repair his losses.5 While the Cove- nanters remained in power Lord Banff was a constant object of suspicion to the authorities. A warrant for his appre- hension was issued, and he was ordered to appear before the committee of Parliament.6 He entered heartily into the Engagement for the restoration of the King, attended the Parliament held in 1648, and was placed on the Com- mittee of War for Banff,7 for all which he was compelled to make public repentance before the presbytery of For- dyce.8 In 1654 he was fined by the usurper £1000 sterling, which exorbitant sum was afterwards reduced by two- thirds.9 He was present in Parliament 18 June 1663,10 and died 11 August in that year.11
He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Alexander Irvine of Drum,12 and had a daughter —
1 Spalding's Trubles, i. 209. 2 Gordon's Hist., iii. 253. 3 Ibid. 4 Reg. Mag. Sig. 6 Gordon's Hist., iii. 253. 6 Ada Parl. Scot., vi. pt. i. 14a, 23a, 98a, 133. 7 Ibid., 816a; ibid., vi. pt. ii. 4a. 8 Annals of Banff, ii. 32. 9 Acta Parl. Scot., vi. pt. ii. 820a, 8466. w Ibid., vii. 4466. 11 Banff Retours. 12 Ms. Hist, of Irvines of Drum, 129.
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1. Helen, who was married, contract dated 20 and 25
March 1629,1 to James, Master of Ogilvie, afterwards second Earl of Airlie, and had issue. (See title Airlie.)
He married, secondly, Janet, daughter of William Suther- land of Duffus. On 30 July 1629 she complained to the Privy Council of her husband's cruelty to herself and her children, and on that day Sir George was bound under caution of 3000 merks to keep the peace towards Lady Banff and her children, and towards James Sutherland, tutor of Duffus, brother of Lady Banff.2 By his second wife he had four children.3
2. GEORGE, second Lord Banff.
3. Margaret, married to John Lyon of Muiresk, repre-
sentative of Oulmalegy,4 cadet of Glamis.
4. Jean, married to Gordon of Badinscoth.5
5. Mary, married, first, contract dated 9 and 20 November
1649,6 to Walter Innes of Auchluncart; secondly, contract dated December 1701, to Alexander Suther- land of Kinminity.7
II. GEORGE, second Lord Banff, was on 29 October 1663, served heir to his father in the baronies of Inchdrewer and Montbray,8 and on 24 September 1664 in lands in the parish of Gamrie.9 He represented Nairnshire in the Parliament held at Edinburgh 4 June 1644.10 Like his father he was an adherent of King Charles i., and was under caution for £42,000 that he should appear before the Committee of Parliament when called on, to answer for his behaviour in public affairs.11 He was colonel of the Foot levied in Banff in the year of the Engagement,12 and on the Committee of War for the county.13 In 1650 he was again colonel of the Foot regiment raised in Banff in support of Charles n.,u for whom he fought at Worcester, and escaped from that con- flict. In 1661 he was engaged in a dispute with Mr. John Gordon of Barrallmad regarding a piece of land in the
1 Carnegie Book, ii. 129. 2 P. C. Reg., 2nd series, iii. 260, 264. 3 Part. Reg. of Sas., Banff, 2 June 1628. 4 Banff Sas., i. 454. 6 Wood's Douglas. 6 Banff Sas., vi. 42. 7 Ibid., v. 151. 8 Banff Retours, 115. 9 Ibid., 118. 10 Acta Part. Scot. n Ibid., vi. i. 754. 12 Ibid., ii. 55. 13 Ibid., 36. 14 Ibid., 623, 625 ; Correspondence of Earls of Ancrum and Lothian, 331.
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vicinity of Banff. The parties met on the ground, and Mr. John advancing 'with a stroak of intention to have killed the Master of Banff, George Buchan, one of the com- panie, holding out a rapier in his oune defence and in defence of the Master of Banff's life, the said Mr. Johne advanceing with the said stroak, as said is, did thrust his bellie vpon the poynt of the rapier, which occasioned the said Mr. Johne Gordoun's death.' * Banff craved a precogni- tion instead of a trial, on the ground that Gordon's death was accidental, and after one prorogation of the diet no more is heard of this singular suicide.2 On 29 October 1663 he was admitted a burgess of Banff.3 Lord Banff was present in the Parliament of 1667, when £72,000 a month was voted as a supply to the King for the maintenance of a standing army, and he was one of the first Commissioners of Supply for the county.4 He died in March 1668,5 having married Agnes, only daughter of Alexander, first Lord Falconer of Halkerton,6 and had issue : —
1. GEORGE, third Lord Banff.
2. Sir Alexander of Forglen, of whom afterwards.
3. Jeane, baptized 5 January 1651. 7
4. A gnes, baptized 29 December 1651, 8 married to Francis
Gordon of Craig of Auchindoir.9
5. Margaret, baptized 8 October 1654,10 died unmarried.11
6. Helen, married, 25 April 1694, to Sir Robert Lauder of
Bielmouth, Clerk of Exchequer, who died June 1709.12 She died 9 January 1714, leaving two sons, Robert and George.13
7. Mart/, married, contract dated 1 June 1680,14 to John
Forbes of Balflugg, cadet of Leslie, cadet of Mony- musk.15
8. Isabel.
9. Marjory.
10. Janet, a posthumous child, born at Inchdrewer 1668,
1 Acta Parl. Scot., vii. 22. 2 Ibid., 234. 3 Annals of Banff. 4 Acta Part. Scot., vii. 5436. 6 Wood's Douglas. 6 Ibid. 7 Fordyce Reg. of Baptisms. 8 Ibid. 9 Wood's Douglas. 10 Fordyce Reg. of Baptisms. 11 Agnes, Margaret, Helen, Mary, Isobel, Marjory, and Janet (posthumous), all named in Gen. Reg. of Homings, 16 March 1687, where their mother is named ' Agnes ' Falconer. She is also designed Agnes, Lady Banff, in the Banff Reg. of Baptisms, 19 May 1670, but in her Funeral entry in the Lyon Office she is called Grisel. 12 Edin. Test., 9 February 1710. 13 Ibid., 20 July 1714. 14 Aberdeen Sasines, x. 458. 15 Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., i. 285.
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married, contract dated 16 June 1694, to John Leith of Leithhall, and had issue.1 She died in July 1743.2
III. GEORGE, third Lord Banff, was baptized 9 September 1649,3 and on 10 September 1668 was served heir to his father in the baronies of Inchdrewer and Montbray / In the same year he was admitted a burgess of Banff.5 From 1670 onwards his name appears in the list of barons present in Parliament,6 but his attendance ceased at the Revolu- tion, and in 1693 he was fined £1200 for absence from their Majesties service in Parliament.7 Lord Banff's family had changed its faith at the alteration of religion within the kingdom in Queen Mary's reign.8 Lord Banff, it appears, returned to the ancient faith and resided for some time in Ireland.9 He reverted to Protestantism, and the first intimation of his reconversion is thus referred to in a letter from Mr. William Hunter, minister at Banff, to Mr. Secre- tary Oarstairs, of 11 July 1705: 'My Lord Banff upon declaring himself a Protestant has a mind to go south to take his place in Parliament, and withal because his cir- cumstances require it, his lordship requires your kind influence for his encouragement that he may undertake his journey.' 10 On 3 October 1706 it was moved in Parliament that he, 'sometime Papist, being now Protestant, and willing to sign the formula subjoined to the Act of Parliament in November 1700, may be admitted.' Accordingly he signed the formula against popery, took the oath of allegiance, and voted steadily with the ministry for the Union with England.11 In 1708 he was indicted for shooting a pistol at a bailie of Banff.12 He was killed in a fire which destroyed his house of Inchdrewer in November 1713, his death being regarded by some of his Protestant neighbours as a judg- ment for his change of faith, and attributed by others, also Protestants, to foul play.13
He married, contract dated 22 and 23 September 1669,14
1 Aberdeen Sasines, xiv. 500 ; The Thanage of Fermartyn, 37. 2 Scots. Mag. 3 Fordyce Reg. of Baptisms. 4 Banff Retours, 125. 5 Annals of Banff. 6 Ada Parl. Scot.,v\i\. 231, 238, 468, App. 1, 10, 20. 7 Ibid., ix. 251. 8 See the curious petition of Sir George Ogilvy of Banff in 1631 for delivery of Popish vestments ; P. C. Reg., 2nd series, iv. 247. 9 New Statistical Account. 10 State Papers and Letters, 736. u Acta Parl. Scot., xi. 305, 314, 319, 321, 422. 12 Annals of Banff. 13 New Statistical Account. l* Gen. Reg. of Sas., xxiii. 331.
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Jean, third daughter of William, seventh Earl Marischal, who raised an action of adherence and aliment against her husband, and on 17 February 1685 was awarded 2000 merks per annum.1 Their children were : —
1. GEORGE, fourth Lord Banff.
2. Anne.2
3. Isobel, in whose favour her brother George, Master of
Banff, executed a bond of provision for £3000 on 26 September 1696.3 She was married 16, contract dated 8, January 1722, to George Barclay, merchant in Banff.4
4. Mary, born 3 March 1679,5 and married, first, in 1714,
to John Joass, younger of Oolleonard, who died before 7 November 1718,6 with issue;7 secondly, in 1723, as his second wife, to the Reverend William Hunter, formerly minister of Banff.8 She died at Banff, 20 April 1756, aged seventy-eight.9
IV. GEORGE, fourth Lord Banff, was baptized at Banff 4 August 1670.10 In 1690, George, third Lord, disponed his lands to his son and heir George, Master of Banff, and a charter under the Great Seal followed 26 February 1697.11 Succeeded his father in 1713, married, 11 January 1712, Helen, daughter of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Lord of Session. The spouses had a charter under the Great Seal of Inchdrewer, 26 July 1712.12 He died before 12 January 1718,13 and had by Helen Lauder (who was married, secondly, on 27 June 1721, to Alexander Gordon of Glengerrack,14 and, thirdly, to James Hay, merchant in Banff, second son of James Hay of Rannes, with issue ; she died 22 October 1742 :15—
1. George, baptized 20 February 1714,16 died in infancy.
2. George, baptized 28 November 1715," died in infancy.
3. JOHN GEORGE, fifth Lord Banff.
4. ALEXANDER, sixth Lord Banff.
V. JOHN GEORGE, fifth Lord Banff was born 18 February
1 P. C. Decreta; Fountainhall's Hist. Notices. 2 Anne, Isobel, Mary mentioned in this order in Banff Inhibitions, 26 February 1706. 3 Inv. of Writs, penes Sir William Fraser's Trustees. 4 Banff Reg. of Marriages. 6 Banff Reg. of Baptisms. 6 Ibid., 7 November 1718. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid., 11 May 1723. 9 Scots. Mag. 10 Reg. of Baptisms. n Inv. penes Sir William Fraser's Trustees. 12 Ibid. 13 Reg. of Baptisms, Banff. u Reg. of Mar- riages, Banff. 15 Admon. Act Book, 1750, Somerset House. 16 Reg. of Baptisms, u Ibid.
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1717, and succeeded his father 1718. Married, at the Fleet, London, 18 August 1735, Mary, daughter of Captain James Ogilvie.1 He was drowned, 29 July 1738, when bathing with Lord Deskford, afterwards sixth Earl of Findlater, at the Black Rocks near Oullen,2 and was buried at Banff, 1 August 1738.3 His widow married, secondly, the Rev. Thomas Kemp, D.D., Rector of St. Michael's, Crooked Lane, London. Lord Banif dying without issue was succeeded by his brother.
VI. ALEXANDER, sixth Lord Banff, who was a posthumous child, baptized at Banff 12 July 1718, his godfathers being Sir Alexander Ogilvy of Forglen, and his son Captain Alex- ander Ogilvy.4 He entered the Navy, and attained the rank of captain 13 February 1741, when he was appointed to the command of the Hastings man-of-war.5 During his short naval career he distinguished himself by the capture of several valuable prize ships, including a rich outward- bound Spanish register ship Nostra Signora del Assumption, a Spanish privateer of 24 guns, which he sunk ; a French pole- acre, the St. Jean, from Vera Cruz for Cadiz, with 130,000 pieces of eight ; the Nostra Senora del Rosaria, St. Antonio y las Animas, and two heavily-armed Spanish privateers.6 As a result the freedom of the City of Glasgow was, in 1743, given him in a silver box ' as a testimony of regard for the great services done his country by protecting the trade thereof.'7 He was appointed to the command of the Tilbury of 60 guns in August 1745,8 and was in com- mand of her when his death occurred at Lisbon 7 December 1746.9 On 22 April 1747 his aunt, Mrs. Mary Ogilvie, widow of John Joass of Colleonard, was declared his executrix-dative as nearest of kin.10 On 5 July 1750 letters of administration were granted to Charles Hay, their uncle and curator, on behalf of Charles, James, and William Hay, brothers by the half blood and only next of kin of Alex- ander.11 He was succeeded in his title and heritage by Alexander Ogilvy of Forglen, descended from —
1 Brim's History of the Fleet Marriages, 1834, 116. 2 Statistical Account. 3 Reg. of Deaths, Banff. 4 Reg. of Baptisms, Banff. 5 Scots Mag., 1741. 6 Ibid., 1742, 141 ; 1743, 342, 428, 526. 7 Edinburgh Evening C our ant, 24 October 1743. 8 Scots Mag. 9 Reg. of Deeds, clxix. He was buried j 10 May 1747, at St.-Martins-in-the-Fields. 10 Edin Com. Reg. n Reg. of Admon., Somerset House.
OGILVY, LORD BANFF 23
Sir Alexander Ogilvy of Forglen, second son of George, second Lord Banff. From 1678 he was a Commissioner of Supply for the county of Banff.1 In 1699 he was appointed principal warden of the Mint and Ounziehouse, with a salary of £1200 Scots, increased in 1700 to £1800 Scots,2 and was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia 24 June 1701. In that year he was elected member of Parliament for the town of Banff on condition ' that sheriff courts continue to be kept there in all time coming as the head burgh of the shire.' 3 In 1702 he and Sir James Elphinstone of Logie were appointed Receivers General.4 He took an active part in the work of Parliament, being elected a member of the committee on public security and trade.5 He voted steadily for the Union with England.6 Although not a lawyer, he was appointed a Lord of Session 25 March 1706, and held the post until his death.7 He had a charter under the Great Seal, 21 December 1702, of the lands of Todlaw, in the parish of Forglen.8 He had an amusing litigation with Sir Alexander Forbes of Tolquhoun, regarding a gilded mazer cup, alleged by Tolquhoun to have been stolen from him by Forglen. It was at length discovered that Tol- quhoun himself had some years previously given the cup to a goldsmith in Aberdeen to be repaired, and having forgotten the circumstance, 'it was lying there unrelieved for not paying a half-crown for it.' Forglen brought an action for defamation, and Tolquhoun was fined 20,000 merks, one half to go to the Grown, the other half to Forglen. The Grown remitted its share of the fine, but Forglen appears not to have been so complaisant.9 He was a member of the com- mittee to inspect the University of Aberdeen in 1716.10 He died 30 March 1727.11 He married, first, Mary, born 18 August 1663, marriage-contract dated 17 November 1681, 12 eldest daughter of Sir John Allardice of that Ilk in Kincar- dineshire, and had issue : —
1. George, appointed Queen's Limner for Scotland 3 Nov-
1 Ada Parl. Scot., viii. 227; ix. 145. 2 Privy Seal Reg., v. 309, 374. 3 Annals of Banff, i. 171 ; Parliamentary Return, 592. 4 Privy Seal Reg. , vi. 60, 145, 228. 6 Acta Parl. Scot., xi. App. 4, 14, 222, 294. « Ibid., Text, 314, 321, 422. 7 Brunton and Haig. 8 Inventory of Writs, penes Sir William Fraser's Trustees ; Acta Parl. Scot., xi. 270. 9 Brunton and Haig, 483-4. 10 Fasti Aberdonensis, 387. n Edin. Test., 26 July 1727. In the Greyfriars Reg. of Interments his death is said to have taken place on 31 March. 12 Banff shire Sasines, iii. 350.
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ember 1703, at a salary of £100 sterling per annum.1 In the grant he is said to have had a good education, but he laboured ' under the infirmitie of the inteire loss of his hearing,' and the grant also notes his ' natural inclination and great proficiency in the airt of limning, drawing, and painting.' He married, on 19 February 1710, Jean, daughter to Patrick Meldrum of Leathers, relict of Sir Alexander Innes of Oox- toun.2 He died June 1723, his sister-german, Mary, being decerned his executrix-dative as nearest of kin.3
2. Alexander Ogilvy, younger of Forglen, was with his
father a witness to the baptism of Alexander, sixth Lord Banff, the posthumous child of George, fourth Lord Banff, on 12 July 1718.4 He predeceased his father, having married, 7 August 1714, Jane, daughter of Benjamin Frend of Ballyrehy, King's County, Ireland.5 By her, who afterwards married Archibald Campbell of Stonefield, he had issue : —
(1) ALEXANDER, seventh Lord Banff.
(2) Bridget.6
3. Mart/, died unmarried 1738, her sister-german, Agnes,
being her executor.7
4. Agnes, married, 28 January 1705, to Sir Alexander
Reid, second Baronet of Barra (who acted as execu- tor of his father-in-law Sir Alexander in 1727), 8 with issue.
5. Ann, married to Andrew Hay of Mountblairy, Banff-
shire, W.S., with issue.9 She died May 1719, aged twenty-five.10
6. Helen, married 13 March 1712, to James Smollett, son
and heir to James Smollett of Bonhill.
7. Margaret, born 12 March 1700.
Sir Alexander, married, secondly, 18 January 1702, Mary Lesly, second daughter of David, first Lord Newark, widow of Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton.11 She died s. p. at Edinburgh, 24 March 1748.12
lReg. Sec. Sig., vi. 189. 2 Wood's Douglas. 3 Aberdeen Test, 1724. 4 Reg. of Baptisms, Banff. 5 Ms. Pedigree, Office of Arms, Dublin. 6 Ibid. 1 Aberdeen Test., 1738. 8 Edin. Test., 1727. 9W.S.List. 10 Grey- friars Interments, May 1719. n Edin. Reg. of Marriages. 12 Her Funeral Escutcheon in Lyon Office.
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VII. ALEXANDER, seventh Lord Banff, succeeded his grandfather in the estate and baronetcy in 1727.1 In 1747 he had a pension of £200 stg.2 per annum. Served heir- male general and heir-male special in the barony of Inch- drewer, to his cousin George, fourth Lord Banff, 19 February 1750.3 He married at Edinburgh, on 2 April 1749, Jean, daughter of William Nisbet of Dirleton, and died, 1 Decem- ber 1771 ,4 at Forglen, where his widow also died, 29 August 1790.5 They had issue : —
1. Alexander, Master of Banff, who died 1763.
2. WILLIAM, eighth Lord Banff.
3. Archibald, died 1763.
4. David, admitted a burgess of Banff 1779.6 Cornet in
the Fourth Dragoons 1779, lieutenant 1785, captain 1793 ; 7 died at Clifton 10 August 1796.
5. Jean, married to Sir George Abercromby of Birken-
bog.
6. Sophia.
7. Janet, married, 9 October 1797, to the Reverend John
Willison, minister of Forgandenny. She died at Kin- no ull, 24 October 1835, aged eighty-two.8
8. Mary, married, 23 August 1780, to Alexander Murray
of Aytoun. She died December 1789.
9. Grace, married to Mr. Douglas.
VIII. WILLIAM, eighth Lord Banff. On 16 March 1774 served heir-male of line and provision special in the barony of Forglen and Whitefield, in the barony of Inchdrewer, to his father Alexander, seventh Lord Banff.9 Cornet in the Sixth or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons 1773, lieutenant 1778, captain 1780,10 and quitted the army in 1794, after having served on the Continent under the Duke of York as senior captain in his regiment.11 He died at Forglen, 4 June 1803,12 when his estates went to his sister Lady Abercromby, and the Peerage became extinct or dormant. In 1812, and
1 Services of Heirs. 2 King's Warrant Book, Pub. Kec. Office, xxxvii. 128. 3 Services of Heirs, 1750-59. 4 Edinburgh Evening Courant, Wed- nesday, 4 December 1771. 5 Ibid., Thursday, 2 September 1790. 6 Annals of Banff, ii. 427. r Army Lists. 8 Fasti Eccl. Scot. Scott calls Janet the third daughter. 9 Services of Heirs, 1770-79. 10 Army Lists. » Old Statistical Account of the Parish of Forglen. 12 Edinburgh Evening Courant, Saturday, 11 June 1803.
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again in 1819, Sir William Ogilvy of Boyne, as the descend- ant and heir-male of George Ogilvy of Boyne, elder brother of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Dunlugus, the great-grandfather of the first Lord Banff,1 petitioned the King for the dignity of Banff, but no proceedings seem to have been taken on the claim.
CREATION.— 31 August 1642, Lord Banff.
ARMS. — Not recorded in Lyon Office, but given by Nisbet as — Quarterly, 1st and 4th argent, a lion passant guardant gules crowned or, for Ogilvie ; 2nd and 3rd argent, three papingoes vert, beaked and membered gules, for Home.2
CREST. — A lion's head erased gules.
SUPPORTERS. — Dexter, a man in armour with a target, proper ; sinister, a lion rampant gules.
MOTTO. — Fideliter.
[A. R.]
1 House of Lords Journals, v. 48, p. 920 ; v. 52, p. 790. 2 These are the Pepdee quarterings of the Home arms.
HAMILTON, LORD BARGANY
IR JOHN HAMILTON
of Lettrick, natural son of John, first Marquess of Hamilton (see that title), obtained a legitimation under the Great Seal, 22 December 1600, and ac- quired considerable estates. He had a charter of confirmation to himself, and Jean Campbell his wife, of the castle of Kin- clevin, in Perthshire, 25 May 1608.1 He had a charter 15 June 1624,2 of the lands of Bargany, from whence he took his
ultimate designation, Oarlock, and other lands in Ayrshire.
He died soon after 1637. By his wife, Jean, daughter of
Alexander Campbell, Bishop of Brechin, of the Ardkinglass
family, he had issue : —
1. SIR JOHN.
2. William.3
3. Thomas.'
4. Catherine, married to Sir John Drummond of Machany,
second son of James, first Lord Maderty.
5. Helen, married to Sir James Somervile of Gambus-
nethan.
6. - — , married to Sir William Vere of Stonebyres.
7. Mary, married to Alexander Oleland of Cleland.
1 Eeg. Mag. Sig. 2 Ibid. 3 Retours General, 3131. 4 Ibid.
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I. SIE JOHN HAMILTON, the eldest son, had the designa- tion of Oarriden in the lifetime of his father,1 to whom he was served heir 23 April 1642.2 He had previously been created a Peer of Scotland under the title of LORD BAR- GANY, 16 November 1641,3 with limitation to the heirs- male of his body. Lord Bargany was a supporter of the royal cause, and having raised a regiment of Foot he accompanied the first Duke of Hamilton in his unfortunate expedition into England in 1648, where, the Duke being defeated, he and Lord Bargany were taken prisoners. He was carried to Ashby and other places in England, where he was detained a prisoner for a year. Later Lord Bar- gany went over to the Netherlands to attend his Majesty, and from there he was sent to Scotland to assist in raising forces for the King's restoration. When Charles marched with his army into England in 1651 he sent Lord Bargany to the north of Scotland to procure maintenance for his army and to raise a second levy. After the defeat of Charles and his forces Lord Bargany was taken prisoner at Elliott in Perthshire 28 August 1651, 4 carried to London and imprisoned in the Tower for about a year.5 Cromwell excepted him out of his Act of Grace and Pardon 12 April 1654. He died April 1658.6 Lord Bargany married, 1632,7 Jean Douglas, second daughter of William, first Marquess of Douglas. She died 1669.8 They had issue :—
1. JOHN, second Lord Bargany.
2. Major William, married,9 3 April 1662, Mary, daughter
of Sir Patrick Hay of Pitfour, relict of George Butter of Clashbenny.
3. Margaret, married, first, to John Kennedy of Culzean,
who died 1665 ; secondly, in 1667,10 to Sir David Ogilvy of Olova, and had issue by both.
4. Anna, married to Sir Patrick Houston, in the county
of Renfrew, Bart., and died April 1669.11
5. Grizel.
6. Marjory, married, 7 October 1671, to William Baillie of
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 21 December 1637. 2 Retours General, 2673. 3 Diploma of John, Lord Bargany (at Bargany), Bargany MSS. 4 Scotland and the Commonwealth, Scot. Hist. Soc., 9. * Bargany MSS. 6 Record of Retours, MS. Ayrshire, xxvi. 332. 7 Bargany MSS. 8 Edin. Tests., 29 December 1669. 9 Lament's Diary, 145. 10 Cortachy MSS. n Glasgow Tests., 5 July 1669.
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Lamington,1 and had a son William, who died in his seventeenth year.
7. Hon. Katharine Hamilton, married (marriage-contract December 1676) to William Ouningham of Enterkine, in Ayrshire, and had issue. She died 11 January 1741.2
II. JOHN, second Lord Bargany, was served heir to his father 17 October 1662.3 Being obnoxious to the ministers of King Charles n., he was imprisoned in Blackness Oastle in November 1679, and from there removed to Edinburgh, where, on 24 February 1680, he was served with an indictment for high treason, bearing that in 1674 or 1675 he, with great oaths and execrations, did curse some of the chief nobility of the kingdom, because they would not make themselves the hea4 of the fanatics, and swore that they would never signify anything because they had lost that opportunity ; and because the Duke of Lauderdale had, by his extraordinary care, prudence, and loyalty, defeated the designs which he and the said fanatics were managing for disturbing the government of the church and state, he did, in 1677 or 1678, publicly regret that the English or fanatics did not kill or assassinate his Grace, and did hound out others to assassinate him ; that in 1675 or 1676 he did endeavour to persuade George Martin, no tar in Dailly, that the fanatics would never get their business done while the Duke of Lauderdale was alive, and that a hundred men would do more by assaulting him in his own house at Leth- ington than all they could do beside : Likeas, Mr. John Welsh, a factious trumpet of sedition and treason, having made a trade of convocating the subjects in field-meetings, he did correspond with him, and having directed a letter to him, while he and his accomplices were contriving another rebellion, he did send the same to Sauchill, by his own servant, in May or June last, which being read at the said convocation did encourage that rebellion: that he corresponded with Cunningham of Bedlan, desiring him to repair to the westland army, and persuaded all gentlemen and others to join them, since he and persons of far greater
1 Lives of the Baillies, 4A. 2 Caledonian Mercury. 3 Retours, Ayrshire,
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quality would do the same : that he gave no notice of his tenants who had been in that rebellion, but did entertain notour rebels in his house: that he did publicly maintain the principles of Naphtali, Jus Populi, Lex Rex, declaring that Scotland would never be well till it wanted episcopacy, and the present government of the Church were destroyed, as unfit for the nation ; and in October or November last did openly declaim against the sacred order and function of episcopacy, swearing he would never be in peace till the curates were rooted out, and that they were all but knaves and rogues.1
This indictment was not brought to trial for want of evidence. The King, on the llth of May 1680, issued a letter to his Privy Council in Scotland, bearing that he had received a petition from Lord Bargany representing his father's loyalty and sufferings, asserting his innocence of the crimes he was indicted for, and attesting God there- upon; and his Majesty, being unwilling he or any of his subjects should receive prejudice by long imprisonment, till there appears evident proof of their guilt, required him to be liberated under proper caution to appear in order to trial, if hereafter sufficient proofs of his guilt should be found. The Council, 3 June, issued an act in terms of that letter, but on the fourteenth of that month the advocate offered an additional libel, that in May or June last year Lord Bargany, hearing of the murder of Arch- bishop Sharp, said it was happy, for he was a great enemy to the cause of God and his people, and the Church of Christ. Lord Bargany was, notwithstanding, released from confinement in the Castle of Edinburgh, on finding security in 50,000 merks to stand trial.
After he was at liberty he discovered by diligent investi- gation that Cunningham of Montgrenan and his servant, two of the prisoners taken at Bothwell, were suborned by Sir Charles Maitland of Hatton and Sir John Dalrymple, to give false evidence against him.2 Their depositions, which also affected the Duke of Hamilton, were prepared before- hand, and they were promised a share of the confiscated estates, but as the trial approached, their conscience
1 Wodrow's Church of Scotland, iii. ; Howell's State Trials, ii. 2 Bar- gany MSS.
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revolted against the crime. Bargany's evidence was ready to be produced before Parliament, 28 July 1681, but the Duke of York interposed to prevent inquiry. Lord Bargany entered heartily into the Revolution, and raised a regiment of six hundred Foot for the public service. He died, 15 May 1693, at ten at night,1 and was buried at Ballantrae, Ayrshire.2
Lord Bargany married, first, in 1662, Margaret Cunning- ham, second daughter of "William, ninth Earl of Glencairn, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, by whom he had : — 1. John, Master of Bargany, who died, before his father, 1690, and was buried, 27 March, at St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh ; 3 he married, 19 June 1688,4 Jean, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Longformacus, Bart. ; she died 12 December, and was buried, 16 December 1700, in New Church (St. Giles').5 They had one daughter : —
(1) Johanna, born 1690,6 heiress of Bargany. She married, 20 March 1707, Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton, Knight, eldest son and heir-apparent of the Hon. Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart., of North Berwick, Lord President of the Court of Session (died 1734), and had issue : 7 —
i. Hew, born 12 March 1712, succeeded as second Baronet of North Berwick, died 23 November 1690. He married, contract 15 July 1743, Margaret, daughter
of Sainthill, Garlickhill,8 and by her, who died
31 December 1747, had issue. (See title Stair.) He married, secondly, 17 August 1756, Martha Edwin of Savile Row.9
ii. John, born 4 February 1715, took the name and arms of Hamilton of Bargany, on the estates being adjudged to him by a decision of the House of Lords, died 12 February 1796. 10 He married, first, Anne, third daughter of James, fourth Earl of Wemyss, marriage- contract 25 April 1746, n by whom he had no issue ; secondly, marriage-contract 4 July 1769, Margaret Montgomery, sister of Hugh, twelfth Earl of Eg- linton,12 also without issue. She died 25 October 1798.13
iii. Robert, born 30 July 1716, married, 22 July 1745, Jean
Record of Retours, MS. xliii. 355. a Bargany MSS. 3 Funeral entry, Lyon Office. 4 Edinburgh Register. 5 Funeral entry, Lyon Office. 6 Canongate Register. 7 The date of Johanna Hamilton's marriage to Sir Robert Dalrymple, and the dates of births of their children are from entries in Bible at Bargany. Johanna died 1719 (Bargany MSS.). 8 Scots Mag. 9 Ibid. 10 Dailly Par. Register. " Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss, by Sir W. Fraser. 12 Eraser's Memorials of the Montgomeries, i. 148. 13 Caledonian Mercury.
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Barclay, heiress of Towie,1 daughter of Sir Alexander Innes or Barclay, Bart. She died May 1746. 2 iv. James, born December 1717, died soon thereafter. v. Marion, born 6 March 1708, died December 1740,
married, 1732, to Donald, fourth Lord Reay. vi. Jean, born 1709, died three years thereafter, vii. Elizabeth, born 3 May 1713, died 24 April 1781, married to William Duff of Crombie, Sheriff-Depute of Ayr- shire, who died 8 January 1781.3
2. WILLIAM, third Lord Bargany.
3. Nicolas, married, April 1690, to Sir Alexander Hope
of Kerse, Bart., and had a son, Sir Alexander Hope of Kerse.
Lord Bargany married, secondly, in 1676, Alice Moore, eldest daughter of Henry, first Earl of Drogheda, dowager of Henry, second Earl of Clanbrassil. She died at Ros- common House, Dublin, 25 December 1677,4 without issue.
III. WILLIAM, third Lord Bargany, succeeded his father 1693, was appointed a captain in his father's regiment 1689.5 He took the oaths and his seat in Parliament 9 May 1695, exerted himself in opposition to the Treaty of Union, and died July 1711.6
Lord Bargany, married, first, Mary, born 20 June 1677, eldest daughter of Sir William Primrose of Oarrington, sister of the first Viscount Primrose, by whom he had issue : —
1. John, born 22 March 1696,7 died young.
2. Grizel, married, 15 February 1713,8 as his second wife,
to Thomas Buchan of Cairnbulg, advocate, and had issue : —
(1) Mary.
(2) Anne,
(3) Nicolas, married to Thomas Buchan of Auchmacoy, and had
issue.
Lord Bargany married, secondly, contract dated 6 August 1708,9 Margaret, eldest daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston, a Lord of Session, sister of the first President Dundas. She died 30 March 1717, and had issue : —
3. JAMES, fourth Lord Bargany.
1 Scots Magazine. 2 Edinburgh Tests. 3 Inscript. on tombstone at Ayr. 4 Bargany MSS. 5 Ibid. 6 Glasgow Tests., 16 March 1750. 7 Dailly Register. 8 Edinburgh Register. 9 Arniston MSS.
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IV. JAMES, fourth Lord Bargany, was born 29 November 1710, succeeded his father 1711. He travelled abroad for a time, as appears from Hamilton of Bangour's epitaph on the companion of his travels —
« With kind Bargeny, faithful to his word, Whom heaven made good and social, though a lord, The cities view'd of many languaged men.'
He died, unmarried, at Edinburgh, on 28 March 1736, in the twenty-sixth year of his age, and was buried, 5 April, in the Abbey Church of Holyrood House,1 when the title became extinct.
CREATION. — Lord Bargany, 16 November 1641.
ARMS. — Stated by Nisbet to have been : — Quarterly, 1st and 4th gules, three cinquefoils ermine, for Hamilton ; 2nd and 3rd argent, a ship sails furled sable, for Arran ; all within a bordure compony argent and azure, the first charged with hearts gules, and the second with mullets of the first.
CREST. — A crescent gules.
SUPPORTERS. — Dexter, an antelope argent, collared gules, charged with three cinquefoils ermine ; sinister, a savage proper with a shoulder-belt gules charged with cinquefoils ermine and wreathed about the head and middle with laurel vert, holding in his left hand a garb or.
MOTTO. — J'espere.
[H. H. D.]
Register of Burials, Chapel Royal, Holyrood House.
VOL. II.
BARRET, LORD BARRET OF NEWBURGH
IR EDWARD BARRET,
of Belhouse, or Belhus, in the parish of Aveley, co. Essex, son and heir of Charles Barret (who was son of Edward Barret of Belhus, and died v. p. 1584), by Christian, daughter of Sir Walter Mildmay, of Apethorpe, co. Northampton, Knt.,1 was born about 1580, suc- ceeded his grandfather Edward Barret in the estate of Belhus 1586. Knighted at Newmarket, 17 April 1608.2 Ambas- sador to France 1625. Was created by Charles I. a Peer of Scotland, by the title of LORD BARRET OF NEW- BURGH, co. Fife,3 by patent, dated at Whitehall 17 October 1627, to himself and the legitimate heirs-male of his body, bearing the name and arms of Barret.4 He was a year afterwards created a Baronet of Nova Scotia.5 Was Chancellor of the Exchequer 1628, and was also
1 By Charles Barret she had, besides Sir Edward Barret, Lord Barret of Newburgh, a son Walter Barret, who died s. p., and two daughters, Dorothy, wife of Charles, second Lord Stanhope of Harrington, and Anne, wife of Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Bath. She married, secondly, Sir John Leveson, Knight, of Hailing, co. Kent, by whom she had issue. 2 Metcalfe's Book of Knights. 3 He was frequently styled 'Lord Newburgh,' and his will is signed 'E. Newburgh.' 4 Reg. Mag. Sig., 20 June 1628. 5 Complete Baronetage, by G. E. C.
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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He died without surviving issue, and was buried at Aveley, 2 January 1644-45, when the Peerage became extinct. By his will, dated 17 March 1643-44, and proved 7 February 1645-46,1 he devised the manor of Belhus, and all his lands in Essex, upon trust for his distant kinsman Richard Lennard,2 of Horsford, Norfolk, son of Richard, Lord Dacre, by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of Dudley, Lord North, on condition that he should assume the name of Barret. Lord Barret of Newburgh married, first, 17 October 1627, Jane, •daughter of Sir Edward Gary, of Aldenham, co. Herts, and sister of Henry, first Viscount Falkland (by whom he had a daughter Catherine, who died an infant). She died, aged thirty-eight, and was buried at Aveley, 2 January 1632-33. He married, secondly, Catherine, widow of Hugh Perry, Alderman of London, and daughter of Hugh Fenn of Wotton-under-Edge, co. Gloucester, but by her he had no issue. She married, thirdly, 29 September 1623, William Morgan, her steward, and was living as his wife 19 October 1664.
CREATION. — Lord Barret of Newburgh, 17 October 1627.
ARMS. — Party per pale argent and gules, barry of four pieces counterchanged.
CREST. — A hydra, proper.
SUPPORTERS. — Two lions or, collared per pale argent and gules.
[H. w. F. H.]
1 P. C. C., 15 Twisse. 2 Richard Lennard was descended from the second marriage of Lord Barret' s great - grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dinely, wife, first, of George Barret, and secondly, of Sir John Baker, of Sissinghurst, co. Kent, Knight. He was Sheriff of Essex 1679, and died at Belhus 1696. His great-grandson, Thomas Barrett-Lennard, seventeenth Lord Dacre, left the estate of Belhus to his illegitimate son, afterwards Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, first Baronet.
DOUGLAS, VISCOUNT BELHAVEN
OBERT DOUGLAS, of
Spott, in the county of Haddington, third son of Malcolm Douglas of Mains, was Page-of-hon- our to Henry, Prince of Wales, and afterwards Master of the Horse. He was knighted at White- hall 7 February 1608-9. Upon the death of Prince Henry in 1612, he was appointed by King James to be one of the Gentle- men of the Bedchamber, and was sworn a Privy Councillor on 5 August 1622.1 He was continued in his office by King Charles I., by whom he was re - appointed to the Privy Council 9 June 1631. 2 He had charters under the Great Seal of an annualrent out of the lordships of Torthorwald and Carlyle 14 July 1612 and 3 June 1613,3 of the lordship of Torthorwald 11 September 1617,4 of the lands of Spott, and office of chamberlain and bailie of the lordship of Dunbar, united into a free barony of Spott 24 April 1624,5 and of certain lands of the lordship of Dunbar 29 June 1631. 6 On 24 June 1633, he was created a Peer of Scot- land, by the title of VISCOUNT OF BELHAVEN, in the county of Haddington, with destination to himself and the heirs-male of his body. In 1634 he acquired from Sir George Elphinston of Blythswood, the barony of Gorbals.
1 P. C. Reg., xiii. 42. 2 Ibid., second series, iv. 263. 3 Reg. Mag. Sig. 4 Ibid. 6 Ibid. 6 Ibid.
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He died at Edinburgh 14 January 1639, aged sixty-six, and was buried in the vestry of the Abbey of Holyroodhouse, where a fine monument was erected to his memory by his nephews, Sir Archibald and Sir Robert Douglas.
He married, May 1611, Nicolas, eldest daughter of Robert Moray of Abercairny, who died, November 1612, after giving birth to a child who did not survive, and was buried in the Savoy Chapel, where there is a monument to her memory surmounted with a recumbent figure of her husband.
By a Miss Whalley of the county of Nottingham,1 he had two natural children, John and Susanna, who had letters of legitimation under the Great Seal 30 July 1631. 2 Susanna, then aged eighteen, had a licence from the Bishop of London to marry at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 2 February 1635-36, a widower, aged thirty-four, Robert Douglas, afterwards Sir Robert Douglas of Blackerston, to whom and his spouse, Lord Belhaven, in 1636, made over the barony of Gorbals, reserving his own liferent. By them it was sold in 1650 to the Corporation of Glasgow. They had issue a large family.
CREATION.— Viscount of Belhaven, 24 June 1633.
ARMS. — According to Sir James Balfour, Argent, within a double tressure flory counterflory, a heart gules crowned or under a fess of the second charged with two mullets of the field, a martlet for difference.
CREST. — An ermine proper.
SUPPORTERS. — Two cocks of game, proper. But a stone on the Gorbals Court House has the mullets on a chief, and for supporters, dexter, a savage holding in his exterior hand a club, and, sinister, a lion imperially crowned.
MOTTO. — Sans tache.
[F. J. G.]
1 Birthbriefs, Lyon Office, S. 10, i. 90. 2 Beg. Mag. Sig.
HAMILTON, LORD BELHAVEN
OHN HAMILTON, of
Broomhill, natural son of James, first Lord Hamilton, and illegiti- mate brother of James, first Earl of Arran, had a letter of legitimation under the Great Seal of Scotland 20 January 1512-13,1 and died about 1550. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Patrick Hamil- ton of Udston, and widow of John Hamil- ton of Nielsland, Lanark- shire. By her he had
issue. He is said to have married, secondly, Margaret, daughter
of Dalzell of Dalzell, in the same county. By her he had
issue : —
1. JOHN, his heir.
2. Robert of Alanshaw.
He had also a daughter, Margaret; it does not appear by which wife. She had a charter from Gavin, Oommen- dator of Kilwinning, to herself in liferent, and her son, Gavin Hamiltoun, in fee, of a tenement in Irvine 26 June 1559, charter of confirmation under the Great Seal 18 January 1576-77.2
JOHN HAMILTON of Broomhill, the eldest son, had a charter from Thomas Neilsoun, perpetual vicar of the 1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Ibid.
THROUGH
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parish of Stanehous, of the ecclesiastical lands of Stane- hous, in Lanarkshire, 29 March 1560, charter of confirma- tion under the Great Seal 1 February 1565-66.1 He married Anne, daughter of Hamilton of Kilbrachmont in Fife, and had issue : —
SIR JAMES HAMILTON of Broomhill, Sheriff of Lanark. He married Margaret, eldest daughter of William Hamilton of Udston, and had issue : —
I. SIR JOHN HAMILTON of Broomhill, afterwards of Biel. For his loyalty to Charles i. he was created LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTOUN, to himself and the heirs- male of his body, whom failing his heirs-male whomsoever, by patent dated 15 December 1647.2 He accompanied Hamilton's expedition into England to attempt the rescue of the King in 1648, and was present at the battle of Preston. In 1675, being without male issue, he resigned his title into the hands of Charles n., who re-granted it by patent, dated 10 February 1675, conferring the Peerage on him for life, with remainder after his decease to the husband of one of his grand-daughters, John Hamilton, eldest son of Robert Hamilton, one of the clerks of Council and Session, and the heirs-male of his body, whom failing, to his nearest heirs-male whomsoever.3 The first Lord Bel- haven died 17 June 1679. Of him the following remarkable story is told by a contemporary : ' My Lord Belhaven with- out any example I ever heard of in Scotland, with his Ladie a very cuthie woman's advyce, did faine death, and for seven years was taken by all for dead, yet now (1661) appears again safe and sound in his own house. He was much engadged for Duke Hamilton: fearing the creditors might fall on his person and estate, and knowing, if he were reputed dead, his wife by conjunct fee and otherwise would
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Recited in the re-grant aftermentioned. 3 Beg. Mag. Sig., Ixv. 88, MS. Printed in the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee for Privileges, to whom were referred the Petitions of James Hamilton and Lieut. -Col. R. W. Hamilton, both claiming the title of Lord Belhaven and Stenton (House of Lords Sessional Papers, Minutes ordered to be printed 7 July 1874). The genealogical statements contained in the present article are based chiefly on the documents produced in evidence in this case.
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keep his estate : he went with his brother and two servants, towards England. These returned affirming that on Solway Sands my Lord was carried down by the river and they could no rescue him. His horse and his hatt they got, but when all search was made his bodie could not be found. His ladie and friends made great dool for him and none controverts his death. In the meantime he goes beyond London and farms a piece of ground and lives verie privatlie there. He had but one boy, a verie hopeful youth and prettie scholar. God strikes him with a fever as his mother said, but as others saith a fall from a horse, whereof in a few dayes he dies. In this reall death by God's hand who will no be mocked, the hope of that house perished. So that as the Duke's death was satisfied by selling his own lands, the secret journies of my Lord to his own house were espied and so much talked of that he now at last appears in public for his great disrepute, and though he disposes of his estate to his good son Silverton after his death yet many think that both their estates will go.'1 Nicol2 says Lord Belhaven was absent for six years and came back in 1659, having hired himself to be a gardener in England.
He married Margaret,3 natural daughter of James, second Marquess of Hamilton, and had issue : —
1. a son, who died about 1661 as above stated.
2. Margaret, married in 1650 to Sir Samuel Baillie,
younger of Lamington, with issue. He died 8 March 1668 ; she died 18 March 1674.4
3. Anne, married to Sir Robert Hamilton of Silvertonhill,
Baronet, and had issue : —
(1) Sir Robert Hamilton, Baronet.
(2) Thomas.
(3) Margaret, married to John Hamilton, second Lord Belhaven.
(4) Anne, married to Sir William Craigie of Gairnie, without
issue.
(5) Elizabeth, married John Livingstone.
(6) Mary.
The second Lord Belhaven was descended from John Hamilton of Nielsland, in Lanarkshire, fourth son of James Hamilton of Raploch, in the same county. John Hamilton married Elizabeth, only child of Patrick Hamilton of
1 Baillie, iii. 436. 2 Diary, 233. 3 A remarkable adinon. of the goods of Lord Belhaven was granted 11 November 1656, Lady Margaret the relict renouncing ; v. Complete Peerage, i. 306 (note c). 4 Lives of the Baillies, 41.
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Udston (she was married, secondly, to John Hamilton of Broomhill, v. supra, p. 38), and by her had issue : —
JOHN HAMILTON of Udston, killed at the battle of Lang- side, on the side of Queen Mary, 13 May 1568. He is said to have married a daughter of Sir Robert Dalzell of Dalzell, and had issue : —
William of Udston, called 'Willie Wisehead.' He had a son,
John of Udston, who had a charter ' Joanni Hamilton de Udston, fllio et haeredi Willielmi,' of a tenement and garden in Hamilton, 20 April 1593. He married Margaret, daughter of James Muirhead of Lachop, in Lanarkshire, by Janet, sister of James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, who killed the Regent Murray. By her he had issue : —
1. John Hamilton of Ooltness, married Helen Whiteford,
daughter of Milton, and had issue : —
(1) John Hamilton of Udston, a Commissioner of Supply for
Lanarkshire, 1645, 1648, 1649, married a daughter of Sir Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk, and had issue, John, his heir, Robert, a writer in Edinburgh, and six daughters, married respectively to Cunningham of Gilbertland, William Hamilton of Wishaw, Gladstanes of Gladstanes, Hamilton of Grange, Learmont of Newholm, and James Hamilton, minister of Eaglesham. John, the eldest son, Sheriff of Clydesdale, married Margaret, daughter of Cleland of Cleland, and had a daughter married to Hamilton of Barr, and a son, John Hamilton of Udston, collector of customs at Prestonpans, who married Elizabeth, third daughter of Robert Brown of Coalstoun, by whom he had two sons, Alexander and William, and a daughter Margaret. Alex- ander Hamilton married Elizabeth, daughter of William Gumming of Drummine, and had two sons, William and John. William assumed the title of LORD BELHAVEN, and voted as such at the election of representative peers in 1790 (see p. 47). He was a captain in the Twenty-second Foot, with the rank of major in the army, and died 19 January 1796.
(2) William.
(3) Margaret, married to Hamilton of Airdrie.
2. JAMES HAMILTON of Barncleuch, of whom presently.
3. WILLIAM HAMILTON of Wishaw, ancestor of the present
Peer. His descendants will be dealt with later. (See p. 48.)
4. Margaret, married to Sir James Hamilton of Broom-
hill, mother of the first Lord Belhaven.
5. Barbara, married to Ralston of Ralston.
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6. Jean, married to John Hamilton of Gilkerscleugh.
7. Catherine, married to Baillie of Park.1
JAMES HAMILTON, first of Barncleuch, acquired that estate by his marriage with Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert Hamilton of Barncleuch. By her he had six sons : —
1. Quintin Hamilton of Barncleuch, who was infeft in
Barncleuch, as heir of his father, 21 May 1635. He had one son John, who died without issue before 21 February 1705.
2. James Hamilton, minister of Eaglesham, died 1684, aged
about sixty-six. He married, 30 March 1652, Helen, youngest daughter of John Hamilton of Udston (see p. 41), and had four sons and two daughters.2
3. ROBERT HAMILTON, of Presmennan, of whom afterwards.
4. Archibald Hamilton of Rosehall, merchant in Edin-
burgh, created a Baronet 10 April 1703, died before 17 March 1710, when his son was served heir to him.3 He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Jardine of Applegarth, by whom he had issue : —
(1) John, baptized 4 February 1672, probably died young.
(2) Margaret, married, 7 July 1693, to James Hamilton of Dalzell,
who died 1727; she died 22 March 1704, cet. thirty-three, leaving issue.4
(3) Elizabeth, married to William Cunningham of Brownhill, died
1 March 1760.
Sir Archibald Hamilton married, secondly, Bethia,5 daughter of Murray of Deuchar, and by her had : —
(4) Archibald, baptized 28 October 1681, died s. p.
(5) Sir James Hamilton of Rosehall, Baronet, baptized 24 Novem-
ber 1682, served heir to his father 17 March 1710; M.P. for Lanarkshire 1735, re-elected 1741 and 1747 ; married, 2 March 1707, Hon. Frances Stuart, second daughter of Alexander, fifth Lord Blantyre, and died, without issue, at London, 1 March 1750.
(6) William, baptized 18 January 1684, died s. p.
(7) Alexander, baptized 8 May 1685, died s. p.
(8) Robert, baptized 13 January 1688, died s. p.
(9) Sir Hugh Hamilton of Rosehall, Baronet, served heir to his
brother 27 November 1750, died at Rosehall 1 September 1755. Married, 23 June 1750, Margaret, daughter of James Stirling of Keir, and had issue : —
i. Marion Hamilton, died 28 July 1757.
1 Douglas's Baronage. * Scott's Fasti, ii. 64, and authorities there cited. 3 Douglas's Baronage. 4 Statistical Account, xxi. 237. 6 Edin- burgh Reg. of Baptisms.
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Sir Hugh dying without male issue, the title of Baronet became extinct, and the estate of Rosehall devolved on his nephew of the half-blood, Archibald Hamilton of Dalzell, who was served heir to him 5 October 1757.
(10) Eupham, baptized 10 August 1680.
(11) Anna, baptized 3 October 1686. l
5. John Hamilton, and
6. William Hamilton, both of whom died without male
issue.
ROBERT HAMILTON of Presmennan, third son of James Hamilton of Barncleuch, admitted Writer to the Signet 24 March 1648 ; advocate 13 January 1677 ; one of the principal clerks of Session 1661-76 ; a Senator of the College of Justice, under the title of Lord Presmennan, 1 November 1689. He was knighted after the Revolution, and died at Edinburgh, 10 November 1695. Married Marion, eldest daughter of John Denholm of Muirhouse, and had issue : —
1. JOHN, second Lord Belhaven.
2. James of Pencaitland, baptized 28 August 1659;
admitted Writer to the Signet 19 February 1683 ; appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, by the title of Lord Pencaitland, 8 November 1712, also a a Commissioner of Justiciary. Demitted office as Commissioner of Justiciary, 4 July 1726, by reason of the gout and other bodily infirmities.2 Died 1729. Married Catherine, daughter of James Denholm of Westshiels,3 and had issue :—
(1) John, who succeeded to Pencaitland, and died without sur-
viving issue, 14 February 1724.4 He married Margaret, heiress of Alexander Menzies of Saltcoats in Haddington- shire (she afterwards married the Hon. William Carmichael of Skirling, second son of the first Earl of Hyndf ord), and had issue :—
i. James, born 25 January 1710, died young.
(2) Alexander of Dechmont, Linlithgowshire, W.S. He suc-
ceeded his brother John in Pencaitland, and made an entail of Pencaitland, Dechmont, Saltcoats, etc. , to Mary Hamilton, his only child, dated 31 January 1747. This entail was made in view of her marriage.5 He died at Pencaitland 21 March
1 All these children except Hugh recorded in Edinburgh Register. 2 Original Demission in Charter-chest of Fletcher of Salton ; MS. Notes in Sir William Eraser's copy of Douglas. 3 Coltness Collections, 6. 4 Special Retour of his brother Alexander, as heir to him in Pencaitland, 7 April 1724 ; Eraser's MS. Notes. 6 Eraser's MS. Notes.
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1758. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton, Baronet (she died 24 February 1772), and had issue : —
i. Mary, heiress of Pencaitland, Saltcoats, Dechmont, and Barncleuch. On the death of the fifth Lord Belhaven in 1777, she succeeded, in default of heirs- male, to his estates of Biel and Presmennan. She married, at Edinburgh, 2 February 1747, William Nisbet of Dirleton, who died at Edinburgh, 1 March 1783. i She died 13 March 1797, having had issue.
(3) Robert , baptized 16 July 1686.
(4) Marion, baptized 17 February 1685.
(5) Anna, baptized 8 August 1687.2
3. Archibald, baptized 4 May 1662.
4. Robert, baptized 23 October 1664.
5. William, baptized 24 December 1665 ; admitted W.S.
9 October 1697 ; died s. p.
6. Daniel, baptized 1 September 1669; writer in Edin-
burgh; married, 30 December 1700, Mary, daughter of Robert Hamilton of Monkland.
7. Robert, baptized 17 December 1670, captain in the
First or Royal Regiment of Foot.
8. Quentin, baptized 28 April 1672.
9. Harry, baptized 7 September 1673 ; a surgeon-apothecary
in Edinburgh ; married Catherine Ross ; died s. p. m.
10. Thomas of Presmennan, baptized 9 May 1675 ; advocate
1701 ; for forty years Master of the King's Ward- robe in Scotland ; died s. p. 7 May 1749.
11. Catherine, baptized 27 August 1654.
12. Anne, baptized 1 August 1658 ; married to Alexander,
fifth Lord Blantyre, with issue.
13. Marion, baptized 3 March 1661.
14. Margaret, baptized 25 September 1663.
15. Rachel, baptized 19 May 1667.
16. Cecil, born 6 July 1676.3 Married to Sir Robert Stewart
of Tillicoultry, Baronet, a Lord of Session, second son of Sir James Stewart of Bute, and had issue. Died at Edinburgh 21 November 1762.4
II. JOHN HAMILTON of Biel, eldest son of Lord Presmennan, was born at Edinburgh 5 July 1656, and married, 1674, Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Hamilton of Silver-
1 Fraser's MS. Notes. 2 The last three children are recorded in the Edinburgh Register. 3 Edinburgh Register of Births. 4 All these chil- dren recorded in the Edinburgh Register.
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tonhill, Baronet, by his wife, Anne, daughter of John, first Lord Belhaven. She survived him, and died 4 January 1717. On the death of that Lord, in 1679, this John Hamilton suc- ceeded as second Lord Belhaven, in terms of the limitations of the patent of 10 February 1675. (See p. 39.)
In the Scots Parliament of 1681 he opposed the measures of the Government, and during the debate on the Test Act he spoke of it as failing 'to secure our religion from a popish or fanatical successor to the Crown,' a remark obviously aimed at the Duke of York. For this he was committed prisoner to Edinburgh Castle, and the King's advocate declared that there was matter for an> accusation of treason against him ; but having ' on his knees at the bar craved pardon,' he was restored to his place in Parlia- ment. He was one of the Scots nobles who in January 1689 invited Williana of Orange to assume the government, and to call a Convention of the Estates, and at the meeting of the Convention he took part in the settlement of the crown on William and Mary. In June 1689 he was ap- pointed a Commissioner for executing the office of Clerk of Register, and in July a member of the Scots Privy Council. He commanded the Haddingtonshire troop of horse at the Battle of Killiecrankie, 27 July 1689. He was one of the farmers of the poll-tax, which was leased at £30,000 ster- ling in 1693 ; and of the excise in Scotland from September 1695 to March 1697, at the rate of £80,800 sterling for those eighteen months, from which the Parliament of Scotland, 18 September 1705, allowed £17,181 to be de- ducted. He was a warm supporter of the Darien Scheme, being one of the few subscribers of £1000 to the South African Company.
On the accession of Queen Anne he was continued a Privy Councillor. In the Scots Parliament of 1703 he actively supported the Act of Security. He was accused of having taken part in the so-called t Scotch plot ' of that year for a Stuart restoration. He was appointed a Com- missioner of the Scots Treasury in August 1704, but was removed next year.
He was a strenuous and eloquent opponent of the Union. His speech against it on 2 November 1706 remains the best- known example of the oratory of the old Scots Parliament.
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In 1708 he was arrested and sent in custody to London on suspicion of favouring the attempted French invasion of that year. He was examined by the English Privy Council and admitted to bail. He died a few days afterwards, on 21 June 1708, of inflammation of the brain.
Lord Belhaven published An Advice to the Farmers in East Lothian to Labour and Improve their Grounds. One writer states that 4 he was of a good stature, well set, of a healthy constitution, black complexion, and graceful, manly presence, had a quick conception, with a ready and masculine expression, and was steady in his principles, both in politics and religion.'1 By another critic he is described as a 'rough, fat, black, noisy man, more like a butcher than a lord.'2 There is a portrait of him in Pinkerton's Scottish Gallery, 1799.3
He had two sons : —
1. JOHN, third Lord Belhaven.
2. James, advocate, 1703; assistant solicitor to the
Boards of Customs and Excise in Scotland, 1717; married Anne, daughter of John Walkinshaw of Walkinshaw ; died, without issue, 28 June 1732. III. JOHN, third Lord Belhaven, the eldest son, succeeded his father in 1708. He was chosen one of the sixteen Repre- sentative Peers for Scotland in 1715, was appointed one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales, and commanded the East Lothian troop of Horse at Sheriffmuir 13 November 1715. He was appointed Governor of Barbadoes, and was lost on his passage out to that colony on board the Royal Anne Galley, off the Lizard, 17 November 1721. He married Anne, daughter of Andrew Bruce, merchant in Edinburgh, a cadet of the family of Earlshall in Fife, and had issue : —
1. JOHN, fourth Lord Belhaven.
2. Andrew, an officer in the army, died, unmarried, in 1736.
3. JAMES, fifth Lord Belhaven.
4. Robert, a major in the army ; served in the Expedition
to Carthagena under Lord Cathcart in 1741 ; died unmarried in 1743.
1 Beyer's Queen Anne, Appendix, p. 44. 2 Macky's Memoirs, 236. 3 Diet, of Nat. Biog. ; FountainhaU's Historical Notices of Scottish Affairs, ii. 307: Acta Parl. Scot.,viu. 247a, ix. 27b; Defoe's History of the Union (ed. 1786), 317.
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5. Margaret, married to Alexander Baird, son of Sir William Baird of Newbyth.
IV. JOHN, fourth Lord Belliaven, succeeded his father 1721. He was General of the Mint, and a member of the Board of Manufactures. He died, unmarried, at Newcastle, 28 August 1764, and was succeeded by his next surviving brother,
V. JAMES, fifth Lord Belhaven, who entered the Faculty of Advocates 1728, was appointed assistant solicitor to the Boards of Customs and Excise 1733, and Sheriff-depute of the county of Haddington, on the abolition of heritable jurisdic- tions, 1747. He died, unmarried, at Biel, 25 January 1777.
By virtue of an entail executed by John, second Lord Belhaven, 17 October 1701, settling his estates on the heirs- male of the body of his father, Lord Presmennan, whom failing, on the heirs-female ; which entail was confirmed by James, fifth Lord Belhaven, by another entail of 14 May 1765, wherein he excluded the jus mariti of the husbands of the heirs-female succeeding to the property ; the whole male descendants of Lord Presmennan having failed, the family estates devolved on Mrs. Mary Hamilton Nisbet of Pencaitland, Saltcoats, and Dechmont, wife of William Nisbet of Dirleton. She was accordingly served heir of tailzie and provision to James, fifth Lord Belhaven, 3 December 1783.1
The whole male descendants of James Hamilton of Barncleuch having also failed, the title of Lord Belhaven, in terms of the patent of 1675, devolved on Robert Hamil- ton sixth of Wishaw, the direct heir-male of William Hamilton, third of Wishaw, third son of John Hamilton of Udston, as the heir-male whomsoever, according to the law of Scotland, of the second Lord. The title was, however, assumed by Captain William Hamilton (see p. 41) as lineal descendant and heir-male of John Hamilton of Ooltness, the eldest son of John Hamilton of Udston. He appeared by his proxy, the Earl of Balcarres, at the General Election
1 Entails and retour of service printed in Minutes of Evidence, Belhaven Case, 9.
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of Representative Peers, held on 24 July 1790, and voted as Lord Belhaven. This vote was protested against by Mr. Hamilton of Wishaw and the Earl of Lauderdale, and the matter having been brought before the House of Lords by several Peers, that House on 25 February 1793, resolved the question ' that the votes given by the person who voted at the said election under the title of Lord Belhaven, were good ' in the negative.1
In 1795 William Hamilton of Wishaw, eldest son and heir of Robert, presented a petition to King George in. claiming the Peerage under the remainder in the patent of 1675, as heir-male whomsoever of the second Lord, and this claim was determined in his favour on 19 April 1799.
His descent was as follows : —
WILLIAM HAMILTON, first of Wishaw, the third son of John Hamilton of Udston, and Margaret Muirhead (see p. 41), died about 1642. He married, in August 1621, Beatrix, daughter of James Douglas of Morton, and had issue : —
1. JAMES HAMILTON, second of Wishaw, who died s. p. m.
before 1654.
2. John Hamilton, who died s. p. at Gartness in 1666.
3. WILLIAM HAMILTON, of whom hereafter.
4. Quintin Hamilton, who died s. p.
5. Margaret, married to George Oleland of Gartness.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, sometime writer in Edinburgh, acquired the rights of his immediate elder brother to the property and was styled third of Wishaw. He was dis- tinguished as an antiquary and genealogist, and is referred to by George Crawford, the historian of Renfrewshire, ' as that fam'd antiquary, William Hamilton of Wishaw,' while Nisbet acknowledges his obligations to him in the produc- tion of his Heraldry. He left a manuscript 4 Account of the Shyres of Renfrew and Lanark,' which is preserved in the Advocates' Library. It was used by both Crawford and Nisbet, was edited by William Motherwell, and printed by the Maitland Club in 1832.2 He died about 1726. He
1 Belhaven Case ; Case for the claimant, James Hamilton, In. 2 Diet. Nat. Biog.
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married, first, in 1660, his cousin Anne, daughter of John Hamilton of Udston, and had issue who survived : —
1. William, born at Auldstoun, 4 May 1661, and died
unmarried before his father.
2. ROBERT, younger of Wishaw, born at Wishaw 6 July
1664, of whom afterwards.
3. James, born at Edinburgh 10 January 1666, died with-
out issue.
4. Archibald, born at Edinburgh 22 January 1667, married
Miss Hamilton, heiress of Dalserf , and had issue.
5. John, born at Edinburgh 30 November 1667, died s. p.
6. Thomas, born at Wishaw 9 October 1669, died young.
7. Margaret, married to Oleland of Oleland.
William of Wishaw married, secondly, at Edinburgh, 31 August 1676, Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, Baronet, fifth son of John, seventh Earl of Mar, and had 'issue by her: —
8. Charles Hamilton of Weatherley, born 17 December
1678, married, 1699, Euphemia, youngest daughter of Sir Archibald Hamilton of Rosehall, Baronet, by whom he had : —
(1) William, born 28 December 1700, died young.
(2) Bethia, born 31 January 1702, married to her cousin William
Hamilton of Wishaw (p. 52).
(3) Archibald, born 7 January 1703, died young.
(4) Charlotte, died unmarried.
9. John Hamilton of Newton, born 30 November 1680;
admitted a W.S. 3 March 1707. He is mentioned in Lockhart's Memoirs as the person sent by the Jacob- ites in Scotland in 1708 to the Duke of Hamilton, then at Ashton in Lancashire, with intelligence of the projected French invasion. Died at Edinburgh 25 January 1757. He married Jean, daughter of Garthshore of Garthshore, and had issue : —
(1) Helen, married in 1741, to Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre,
Baronet, and had issue ; died at Gartly 11 July 1773.
(2) Jacobina, married to Sir George Dunbar of Mochrum, Baronet,
and had issue ; died at Edinburgh 28 January 1792.
10. William, born 6 August 1685, bred to the law of Scot- land, went to London soon after the Union, was called to the English Bar, and became a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. Horace Walpole wrote of him that
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he was 4 the first Scot who ever pleaded at the English Bar, and, as it was said of him, should have been the last.' He died 15 January 1754. He married Helen, daughter of David Hay of Wood- cockdale, in the county of Linlithgow, sister of David Bruce of Kinnaird, and had issue :—
(1) Robert Hamilton, born 1724, died 1737.
(2) The Right Hon. William Gerard Hamilton, born in Lincoln's
Inn Fields, 28 January 1729 ; elected M.P. for Petersfield on a vacancy 1754, and re-elected at the general election in the same year; for Pontefract 1762, for Old Sarum 1768, for Wareham 1774, for Wilton 1780 and 1784, and for Hasle- mere 1790; was in eight successive Parliaments, and sat forty-two years in the House of Commons. He also sat in the Irish Parliament for the borough of Killebegs 1761-68. Appointed one of the Commissioners of Trade and Planta- tions 1756 ; Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1761; Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland 1763-84; Privy Councillor in Ireland, and had a pension of £2000 a year on the Irish establishment. His famous maiden speech in the debate on the Address, 13 November 1755, earned him the name of ' Single-speech Hamilton.' It was to him that Dr. Johnson paid the ponderous compliment : * I am very unwilling to be left alone, sir, and therefore I go with my company down the first pair of stairs, in some hopes that they may, perhaps, return again. I go with you, sir, as far as the street door.' He died unmarried in London, 16 July 1796.1
11. Thomas, born 13 August 1687, an officer in the army,
died unmarried before 1758.
12. Alexander, born 21 May 1693. Solicitor, London.
Died in 1781. Married, first, Frances Dalzell, by whom he had no issue, secondly, Barbara Lilley, by whom he had : —
(1) William Hamilton of Lincoln's Inn, died 27 April 1811,
married Sarah Allan, without male issue.
(2) John Robert Hamilton, died young.
(3) ANTHONY HAMILTON, born 5 May 1739. Vicar of St. Martin's-
in-the-Fields, rector of Hadham, Hertfordshire, archdeacon of Colchester, D.D. Married, 12 February 1767, Anne, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London. Died 4 October 1812. He was the ancestor of the present (tenth) Lord Belhaven. His descendants will be dealt with later (p. 56).
(4) Alexander Hamilton, died in infancy.
(5) Alexander Lilley Hamilton, died young.
1 Diet. Nat.Biog. ; Walpole's Letters (ed. Cunningham), ii. 484; Boswell's Johnson (ed. Hill), i. 490.
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13. Helen, married, 31 March 1694, to Andrew Baillie of
Parbroath, and had issue : —
(1) Robert Baillie of Parbroath, whose son, Colonel Alexander
Baillie, married Euphemia Hamilton, sister of Robert, de jure sixth Lord Belhaven, and died without issue in 1814.
(2) Helen, born 20 August 1708, married to James Hamilton of
Stevenston (see p. 55).
14. Catherine, born 13 May 1682, married to the Rev. David
Pitcairn, minister of Dysart, with issue. He died 18 April 1757, aged eighty-three ; she died 3 March 1758.1
15. Mary, married to Dr. David Balfour, son of Sir
Michael Balfour of Denmiln, without issue.
16. Janet, married to Alexander Garthshore of Garthshore,
without issue.
17. Christian, who died young.
18. Anne, born 11 February 1692, married to James Bogle,
Receiver-General of the Customs in Scotland, and had issue.
ROBERT HAMILTON, younger of Wishaw (p. 49), died before his father William Hamilton, third of Wishaw, having married, in 1686, Jean, eldest daughter and heiress of Robert Hamilton of Brownmuir, by whom he had issue : —
1. William, who apparently died young, as his immediate
younger brother bore the same name, and succeeded their father in the estate of Wishaw.
2. WILLIAM HAMILTON, fourth of Wishaw.
3. Robert Hamilton, born at Glenhoove 3 March 1691.
Minister of Hamilton. Died 13 July 1765. Married, 9 March 1721, Cecil, daughter of the Rev. Francis Borland, minister of Glassford.2 By her, who pre- deceased him, he had issue : —
(1) James, born 19, baptized at Hamilton 24 December 1721.
Minister of the Abbey Parish of Paisley. Married, 3 Aug. 1761, Elizabeth, daughter of the deceased Rev. Robert Millar. Died, without issue, 14 March 1782. His wife died 25 September 1798.3
(2) Robert, born 20 August, baptized at Hamilton 1 September,
1723. Predeceased his father without issue.
(3) Francis, born 8, baptized at Hamilton 16, April 1727 ; died
unmarried.
(4) Anne.
(5) Rachel.
1 Scott's Fasti, ii. 535. 2 Ibid., 259. 3 Ibid., 199.
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4. John, born at Glenhoove 27 September 1692. His
issue male, if he had any, were extinct before 1795.
5. JAMES, first of Stevenston (ancestor of the ninth Lord
Belhaven), as to whom see p. 55.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, fourth of Wishaw, was born at Glen- hoove 2 February 1690, and was killed by a fall from his horse between Hamilton and Wishaw, 16 April 1756. He married, on 16 December 1726, his cousin, Bethia, eldest daughter of Charles Hamilton of Weatherley, eldest son of William Hamilton, third of Wishaw, by his second marriage, and by her, who was born 31 January 1702, and died at Luthrie, 2 October 1785, had issue :—
1. CHARLES, born at Wishaw 19 September 1727; suc-
ceeded his father as fifth of Wishaw ; died unmarried 15 May 1763.
2. William, born at Wishaw 25 October 1728 ; an officer
in the army ; died, without male issue, before his brother Charles.
3. ROBERT, sixth of Wishaw.
4. James, born at Wishaw 8 June 1734; married Anne,
daughter of James Bowie of Holehouse ; died at Falkirk 14 August 1787.
5. John, born at Wishaw 5 November 1737. Married,
first, at Edinburgh, 15 June 1762, Isabella, daughter of Sir Henry Stirling of Ardoch, Baronet, and had issue : —
(1) William, who went to Jamaica, and died there s. p. m.
(2) Henry, who also went to Jamaica, and died there s. p. m. He
held an ensign's commission on half -pay in the Seventy-First Regiment, from which he was gazetted to an ensign's full- pay commission in the Eighty- Third Regiment in 1799, which was cancelled. His name continued in the Army List on the half -pay of the Seventy-First until 1808, when it was struck out * in consequence of his not having received his half -pay for the last seven years.'
John Hamilton married, secondly, Miss Graham, by whom he had a son,
(3) Alexander.
6. Archibald, born at Wishaw 10 October 1739; died unmarried.
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VI. ROBERT HAMILTON, born at Wishaw 3 May 1731 ; became sixth of Wishaw on the death of his brother Charles, on 15 May 1763 ; was served heir-male and of line, and also heir of provision of his father, William Hamilton, fourth of Wishaw, on 24 January 1770. He became de jure sixth Lord Belhaven on the death of James, the fifth Lord, and the last of the Biel line, in 1777, but never assumed the title, and died at Wishaw 27 March 1784. He married, at Edinburgh, 11 February 1764, Susan, second daughter of Sir Michael Balfour of Denmiln, Baronet, and by her, who died at Edinburgh 9 January 1789, had issue : —
1. WILLIAM, who succeeded as seventh Lord Belhaven.
2. Robert, born 17 and baptized 21 April 1767 ; a colonel
in the army ; died, at Edinburgh, 27 November 1835, unmarried.
3. Charles, born 16 December 1769 ; baptized 1 January
1770 ; died before 18 May 1778.1
4. Michael, born 8, baptized 15, July 1772; died before
18 May 1778.
5. Peter Douglas or Patrick Douglas, sometime lieutenant
Twelfth Light Dragoons; buried, at Newcastle, 19 August 1827, unmarried.
6. Mary, born 14, baptized 19, December 1765 ; died, un-
married, at Edinburgh, 4 June 1793.
7. Jean, born 26 January, baptized 2 February, 1769 ;
married, 24 February 1791, to George Ramsay of Barnton, who died in February 1810, and had issue. She died 9 October 1841.
8. Betty, born 24 December 1770, baptized 1 January
1771 ; married, 9 December 1791, to William Ramsay, banker in Edinburgh; died, in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 30 August 1809, leaving issue.
9. Susannah, born 1, baptized 10, September 1773 ; died
in December 1828. 10. Euphame, born 17 February 1775 ; died unmarried.
VII. WILLIAM, seventh Lord Belhaven, born 13 January 1765, succeeded his father 21 March 1784, but did not assume
1 Date of a bond of provision to the younger children in which Robert and Patrick are the only sons mentioned. Charles and Michael are not mentioned in Douglas.
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the title till the decision of the House of Lords in his favour as above-mentioned, on 19 April 1799. He served in the Third King's Own Regiment of Dragoons, and was afterwards colonel of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Fencible Cavalry, and lieut.-colonel of the Lanarkshire Militia. He died at Wishaw, 29 October 1814. He married, at Edin- burgh, 2 March 1789, Penelope, youngest daughter of Ranald Macdonald of Clanranald, and by her, who died at Edinburgh, 5 May 1816, had issue :—
1. ROBERT MONTGOMERIE, eighth Lord Belhaven.
2. William, born 1797; captain in the Bengal Native
Infantry; married, at Calcutta, 25 September 1834, Marcellina Antonia Mendes (who died 22 October 1858), widow of P. Mendes; died, without male issue, at Serampore, 3 July 1838.
3. Penelope.
4. Susan Mary, married, 17 November 1820, to Peter
Ramsay, banker, Edinburgh, who died 31 August 1855. She died 30 December 1856, leaving issue.
5. Flora, died 1810.
6. Jean, married, 15 February 1819, to Rear-Admiral
Charles Sotheby, R.N., eldest son of William Sotheby, F.R.S., of Fairmead Lodge, Essex; died 12 September 1820. He died 20 January 1854.
7. Bethia.
VIII. ROBERT MONTGOMERIE, eighth Lord Belhaven, K.T., was born in 1793, and succeeded his father in 1814. He was for some time a Representative Peer of Scotland ; was on 19 September 1831 created a Baron of the United Kingdom by the title of BARON HAMILTON OF WISHAW, in the county of Lanark, with remainder to the heirs-male of his body, and took his seat in the House of Lords 28 June 1833. He married, at Pencaitland, 16 December 1815, Hamilton, daughter of Walter Frederick Campbell of Shawfield and Islay, and by her, who survived him, and died on 8 Septem- ber 1873, had no issue. Lord Belhaven died 22 December 1868, when the Barony of Hamilton of Wishaw became extinct. In him ended the whole male issue of Robert Hamilton, sixth of Wishaw, de jure sixth Lord Belhaven.
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Thereupon the Peerage was claimed by (1) James Hamilton, clerk to Messrs. Oockburn & Co., wine merchants, Leith, and (2) Robert William Hamilton, sometime captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards, each claim- ing to be heir-male whomsoever of John Hamilton, created Lord Belhaven by the patent of 1675.
Mr. James Hamilton claimed in virtue of the following descent : —
JAMBS HAMILTON, fifth and youngest son of Robert Hamilton, younger of Wishaw (see p. 51), was born at Faskine on 25 September 1700. He became a merchant in Edinburgh, acquired the estate of Stevenston, in the parish of Bothwell and county of Lanark, and was buried at Bothwell 28 November 1769. He married, first, 10 November 1736, Helen or Nellie, daughter of Andrew Baillie of Parbroath (see p. 51), and by her, who was buried at Bothwell 22 April 1758, had of issue male inter olios five sons : —
1. John, born 9, and baptized at Bothwell 12, November
1738. He died without male issue before 16 October 1772, the date of the service of his younger brother James, as heir to their father.
2. Robert, born 14, and baptized at Bothwell 17, February
1740, who also must have died without male issue before 16 October 1772.
3. Andrew, born 30 November 1743, died 20 May 1744.
4. JAMES, second of Stevenston.
5. William, born June 1748, who became a merchant in
Jamaica. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Archi- bald Nisbet of Oarfin, and died at Edinburgh 15 December 1802, leaving issue.
James Hamilton, first of Stevenston, married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of "William Cunningham of Brownhill.
JAMBS HAMILTON, second of Stevenston, was born 10 June 1745, and served heir in general to his father 16 October 1772, was infeft in the estate of Stevenston 19 July 1773. He sold that estate in 1783. He married Mary, daughter of the said Archibald Nisbet of Oarfin, and by her, who sur- vived him, and died on 30 March 1812 and is buried in
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St. Outhbert's, Edinburgh, had of issue male inter olios three sons :—
1. James, who became a captain in the army, and pre-
deceased his mother, without issue.
2. ARCHIBALD, the father of the claimant.
3. Francis, who became a captain in the army, and died
at London, 10 December 1869, having been twice married, and leaving issue.
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, the eldest surviving son of James Hamilton, second of Stevenston, was born in the parish of Bothwell, 19 September 1774. He became a surgeon in the Ninety-second Regiment of Foot, and died at Edin- burgh 23 February 1823. He married May Clarke, and by her, who survived him, had issue two sons, twins, born at Edinburgh on 29 August 182.2.
1. JAMES, who became ninth Lord Belhaven.
2. Archibald, who died on board the ship George Fyfe on
the voyage to Sydney, 30 September 1839.
3. Mary Nisbet, married, 1840, Frederick Chapman (who
died 13 September 1852) ; died 28 February 1883.
4. Jessie.
Colonel R. W. Hamilton claimed in virtue of the follow- ing descent : —
ARCHDEACON ANTHONY HAMILTON, grandson of William Hamilton, third of Wishaw (see p. 50) had issue by his wife Anne Terrick : —
1. Terrick, died in infancy.
2. WILLIAM RICHARD, of whom afterwards.
3. Anthony, born 12 July 1778, Rector of Loughton,
archdeacon of Taunton, died 10 September 1851. He married, 13 July 1807, Charity Graeme, third daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart., Physician to the Prince Regent ; she died 9 November 1869, and had issue : —
(1) Walter Kerr, born 16 November 1808 ; Bishop of Salisbury ;
married, 9 January 1845, Isabel, daughter of Francis Lear, Dean of Salisbury ; died 1 August 1869, leaving issue.
(2) Edward William Terrick of Charters, Berks, born 9 Novem-
ber 1809 ; married, 14 August 1844, Anne, daughter of John Thacker of Ascot, Berks, died 1898, leaving issue.
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WILLIAM RICHARD HAMILTON, the eldest surviving son, was born 9 January 1777. He was appointed Secretary to Lord Elgin when the latter went as Ambassador to Con- stantinople in 1799. He was distinguished as an archae- ologist. At the time of the evacuation of Egypt by the French in 1801, after the battle of Alexandria, he pre- vented them from carrying off the Rosetta Stone, which they attempted to do, contrary to treaty ; he superintended the removal to England of the Elgin Marbles ; and in 1815 he obtained the restoration by France of works of art taken from Italy. He was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1809-22; Minister at Naples 1822-25; a trustee of the British Museum 1838-58. Published Mgyptiaca (1809), con- taining first translations of the Rosetta Stone inscriptions. Died 11 July 1859.1 He married, 3 September 1804, Juliana Udny, and had issue :—
1. WILLIAM JOHN, of whom afterwards.
2. Alexander Edmund, born 29 October 1806, drowned
near Poonah 30 June 1827.
3. Henry George, born 3 October 1809 ; captain R.N.,
married, 7 June 1845, Fanny Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Charles Tower ; died 25 March 1879, leaving issue.
4. Charles Anthony, born 3 October 1809, Deputy Clerk
of the Council, died 1860.
5. Arthur Richard, born 4 January 1814, married, first,
1839, Charlotte Cox ; secondly, 1872, Annie Steele ; died 1882, leaving issue.
6. Frederick William, born 8 July 1815 ; lieutenant-
general ; K.C.B. ; married, 25 June 1860, Louisa Anne Erskine, daughter of Sir Alexander Anstruther, Knight ; died October 1890.
7. Augustus Terrick, born 30 January 1818; captain
Seventy-first Regiment ; died unmarried 1880.
WILLIAM JOHN HAMILTON, the eldest son, was born 5 July 1805, was M.P. for Newport ; died in London 27 June 1867. He married, first, 26 April 1832, Martin, daughter of John Trotter of Dyrham Park, by whom he had issue : —
1. Robert William, the claimant, born 12 March 1833.
1 Diet. Nat. Biog.
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William John Hamilton, married, secondly, 26 July 1838, Margaret Frances Florence, daughter of the thirteenth Viscount Dillon (she died 19 April 1885), by whom he had : —
1. ALEXANDER CHARLES, tenth Lord Belhaven.
2. Constantino Henry, born 21 June 1843; lieutenant-
colonel B.A. ; died unmarried 1885.
3. Archibald William, born 4 April 1847 ; Royal Navy ;
died 1886 ; married 1869, Elizabeth, daughter of W. Billyard of Sydney, N.S.W., and had issue : —
(1) Robert Edward Archibald, captain Indian Staff Corps, born
8 April 1871 ; married, 15 November 1898, Kathleen Gonville, daughter of SirB. P. Bromhead, Bart., and has issue :— Julia, born 1901.
(2) Margaret Elizabeth.
4. Victoria Henrietta, married 31 May 1864, to Captain
James Graham Goodenough, O.B., O.M.G., R.N., who died 20 August 1875, leaving issue : —
(1) Florence Selina, married, 10 July 1877, to Sir Thomas Villiers Lister, K.C.M.G. He died 26 February 1902, leaving issue.
5. Sybil Jean.
6. Margaret Wilhelmina, married, 25 April 1881, to Louis
Eric Ames, late Second Life Guards, and has issue.
It was maintained by Colonel Hamilton that there was no sufficient evidence to identify James Hamilton, first of Stevenston, great - grandfather of James Hamilton the claimant, with James Hamilton, youngest son of Robert Hamilton, younger of Wishaw, and that the only connection which the Hamiltons of Stevenston had with the family of Wishaw arose from the marriage of James Hamilton, first of Stevenston, with Helen Baillie, daughter of Andrew Baillie of Parbroath, by Helen Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton of Wishaw.
On 2 August 1875 the House of Lords decided that James Hamilton had made out his claim, and he accordingly became
IX. JAMES, ninth Lord Belhaven. He died 6 September 1893. He married, 30 October 1877, Georgina, fourth daughter of Sir John Watson, Bart., of Earnock and Neils- land, and had issue : —
1. Leonore Agnes Watson Nisbet, born 27 August 1878 ; married, 24 March 1903, at St. Giles' Cathedral, Edin-
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burgh, to B. Borras Wliiteside, of Whitehall Court, London, S.W., and has issue : — (1) Noel, born 12 December 1903.
2. Mary Clarke Mary Nisbet, born 26 November 1879.
3. Clarice Jessie Evelyn, born 10 October 1881 ; married,
12 December 1899, to the Hon. Francis Edward Basil Napier, Master of Napier, and has issue : —
(1) William Francis Cyril James, born 9 September 1900.
(2) Augusta Caroline Harriet Georgina, born 28 November 1901.
4. Muriel Louise, born 1 February 1884.
5. Winifred Maude, born 13 December 1886.
6. Dorothy Henrietta, born 24 March 1888.
7. Georgina Violet, born 11 August 1889.
COLONEL B. W. HAMILTON, who unsuccessfully claimed the title on the death of the eighth Lord, died 3 October 1883. He married, 10 July 1856, Charlotte Maria, daughter of Colonel George Palmer of Nazing Park, and had issue three daughters —
1. Mary Geraldine, married, 21 May 1901, to Henry
Alfred Newton.
2. Edith Lilian, married, 1898, to Norman Alexander
Sinclair, brother and heir-presumptive of Sir J. B. G. Sinclair, Bart., of Dunbeath, and has issue : —
(1) Ronald Norman John Charles Udney, born 1899.
(2) Alexander Robert, born 26 September 1901.
3. Helen Violet.
On the death of the ninth Lord in 1893, Alexander Charles Hamilton, eldest son of a W. J. Hamilton, M.P., by his second marriage with the Hon. Margaret Dillon (see p. 58), and half-brother of Colonel B. W. Hamilton, succeeded as
X. ALEXANDER CHARLES, tenth Lord Belhaven.1 Born 3 July 1840, is colonel (retired) ; formerly lieutenant-colonel B.E., commanded Surrey Volunteer Infantry Brigade 1888- 1902; served in Zulu War 1879; D.L. for Lanarkshire.
1 Debrett (Peerage, 1904, p. 99) notes that the present Lord Belhaven ' has been served heir to his kinsman, has voted at the election of Scotch Representative Peers, and has matriculated arms at Lyon Office as tenth Baron, but has not proved his right to the title before the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords.'
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Married, 7 July 1880, Georgina Katharine, daughter of Legh Richmond, and has issue : — RALPH GERARD ALEXANDER, Master of Belhaven, born 22
February 1883, second lieutenant Grenadier Guards ;
married, 1 March 1904, Grizel Winifred Louise
Oochrane, eldest daughter of Douglas, eleventh Earl
of Dundonald.
ARMS, recorded in Lyon Register. — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules, a mullet arg. between three cinquefoils ermine, for Hamilton of Udston ; 2nd and 3rd gules, a man's heart proper, shadowed or, between three cinquefoils ermine, for Hamilton of Raploch, all within a bordure argent.
CREATIONS. — Lord Belhaven and Stenton, 15 December 1647; Lord Belhaven and Stenton, 10 February 1675, in the Peerage of Scotland; Baron Hamilton of Wishaw, 19 September 1831, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (extinct).
CREST. — A nag's head couped argent, bridled gules. SUPPORTERS. — Two horses argent, bridled gules. MOTTO. — Ride through.
[W. K. D.]
BELLENDEN, LORD BELLENDEN OF BROUGHTON
ELLENDEN is a name which is found in a variety of forms: Bel- lentyne, Ballantyne, Bal- lindean, and Bannatyne, are all variations of the same name. In 1361 John de Bennachtyne de Oor- rokis resigned the lands of Niddry in the county of Edinburgh:1 but the first known ancestor of the family with which we have now to deal is
JOHN BBLLENTYNE, probably a near relation of Robert Bellentyne, Abbot of Holyrood (1484-1500) ; died before 1486, leaving issue : —
1. PATRICK.
2. Walter, Canon of Holyrood Abbey. He died before 8
July 1490, when his brother Patrick had sasine as his heir.2
3. Margaret, married to Gilbert Forrester of Drylaw.3
4. Christian, married to Matthew Forrester of Barnton.4
PATRICK, appointed parish clerk of Holyrood, and formally accepted as such by the parishioners 2 April 1486 5 ; on his
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Protocol Book of James Young, Edinburgh City Chambers. 3 Ibid., 19 July 1491 and 13 July 1494. 4 Ibid., 21 January 1494-95 and 18 July 1513. 5 Laing Charters, 196.
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death Robert Crichton, afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld, was chosen as his successor 8 February 1514-15.1 He was Steward of Queen Margaret, wife of King James rv., from 1509 to his death in July or August 1514.2 He and Marion Douglas his wife had sasine of the lands of Horshope in Berwickshire, granted them by Archibald, Earl of Angus, 4 March 1492-93, and of other lands.3 They had also a charter of the lands of Achnolnyshill or Auchnoule in the barony of Caldercleir and county of Edinburgh from the Earl of Morton 26 March 1499/ His wife survived him, and was alive 6 March 1541-42.5 He left issue : —
1. Mr. THOMAS.
2. Catherine. In 1527 Katrine Ballantyne got £300 ' to
help to pay her tocher for the gude and thankful service done be her moder Marion Douglas to the Kingis hienes.' 6 She married, first, before 19 March 1522-23,7 Adam Hopper, provost of Edinburgh:8 secondly, before 19 February 1529-30,9 Francis Both- well, Provost of Edinburgh and Lord of Session: thirdly, before 12 January 1537-38,10 Oliver Sinclair of Pitcairn. She is called relict of Francis Bothwell and spouse of Oliver Sinclair.11 Adam Hopper died after 12 August 1529.12 Francis Bothwell died before 14 January 1535-36.13 She had issue by all three husbands : by her second husband her eldest son was Adam, Bishop of Orkney, ancestor of the Lords Holyrood- house.14 She was dead before January 1568.15 It is not unlikely that John Bellenden, the translator of Livy and Boece, was a second son of Patrick. He first appears as Clerk of the King's Expenses from 1515 to 1522.16 If so, there was another daughter, Margaret, mentioned as
1 Protocol Book of James Young. 2 Exch. Rolls, xiii. 258 ; xiv. 9 ; see also Treasurer's Accounts, iv. 414, 496. 3 Protocol Book of James Young. 4 Confirmed 4 January 1538-39, Reg. Mag. Sig. 6 Ibid., at date. 6 Trea- surer's Accounts, v. 330. 7 Protocol Book of J. Fowler, Edinburgh City Chambers. 8 Reg. Mag. Sig., 15 February 1541-42. There is some con- fusion in this charter: the date of the deed confirmed is stated to be 10 July 1529, but the names of the witnesses point to its being some years earlier, apparently 1522. 9 Protocol Book of J. Fowler, Edinburgh City Chambers. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig. at date. n Acta Dom. Cone, et Sess., xxiv. 69, and Acts and Decreets, x. 151. 12 Exch. Rolls, xv. 513-14. 13 Reg. Sec. Sig., x. 94. 14 Fourteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., App. 3, p. 70. lb Reg. of Deeds, xi. 112. 16 Exch. Rolls, xiv. p. cix.
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John's sister 17 April 1543.1 She married John Kincaid of Warriston, had issue, and died August 1569.2
Mr. THOMAS BELLENDEN succeeded his father, and obtained a confirmation of the above-mentioned charter of 1499 on 4 January 1538-39. On 22 June 1535 he was admitted an ordinary Lord of Session,3 and on 10 September 1538 Director of Chancery.4 On 26 December 1539 he was raised to the office of Justice Clerk.5 On 10 September 1540 he had a charter from the Earl of Morton of the lands of Milkburn in the barony of Caldercleir.6 In January 1540-41 he and Henry Balnavis of Hallhill were sent as com- missioners for Scotland to meet Sir William Eure the English commissioner for the settlement of some disputes on the Border, and Bellenden is described in a letter from Eure to the Keeper of the Privy Seal in England as ' a man of good experience and eminent abilities.' 7 On 6 March 1541-42 he had an annualrent from the lands of Maloure, co. Perth.8 He died before 25 June 1547.9 He married Agnes Forrester,10 and by her had :—
1. JOHN.
2. Patrick, of Stanehouse in Orkney. On 19 April 1565
he had a charter to himself and his wife Catherine Kennedy from the Bishop of Orkney and Shetland of certain lands in Orkney in feu-farm.11 On 19 March 1565-66 he was among the number charged with com- plicity in the murder of Rizzio,12 and was denounced as a rebel on 8 June following. He was Sheriff of Orkney, and had a charter 1 August 1568 of certain other lands there in feu-farm to himself and his wife, who died between the last-mentioned date and that of the confirmation of the charter 9 November 1575.13 He is styled Sir Patrick Bellenden of Evie, knight, in a charter of 12 May 1587: 14 received the 'wand of peace' from the Privy Council 3 June 1572 : 15 was clerk of the Coquet in Edinburgh 1572,16 and called vicar of
1 Protocol Book of Alex. Makneill. 2 Edin. Tests. 3 Acta Dom. Cone, et Sess., vi. 140. 4 Reg. Sec. Sig., xii. 25. 5 Ibid., xiii. 39. 6 Confirmed 28 September 1540, Eeg. Mag. Sig. 7 Pinkerton, ii. 356. 8 Reg. Mag. Sig. 9 Reg. Sec. Sig., xxi. 22. 10 Original charter to them of the lands of Turn- house 28 April 1520 in H. M. Reg. Ho. n Confirmed 18 February 1565-66, Reg. Mag. Sig. 12 P. C. Reg., i. 437. 13 Reg. Mag. Sig. w Ibid. lfi P. C. Reg., ii. 139. 16 Ibid., 446.
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Sprouston in a charter of 14 February 1587-88. 1 He is mentioned as alive in a deed of 15 May 1600,2 and his testament was confirmed 21 July 1607.3 He had at least three sons : —
(1) Thomas, styled * appearand of Stanehous' 11 November
1592. 4 He died v. p.
(2) Adam, who succeeded to the estates.6
(3) Patrick, afterwards clerk of the Coquet of Edinburgh.6
3. Margaret, married, first, to James Denniston, burgess of
Linlithgow ; and second, to Robert Hamilton of Eccles- machan or Inchmachan, and had issue by both.7
4. Agnes, married, first, after 5 May 1542, when she had
a sasine as his affianced spouse,8 to William Adamson, and had issue ; secondly, to Alexander Somervell of Torbrex, a younger son of Oambusnethan.9
5. Alison, who had a sasine as the affianced spouse of
John Achesoun, son and heir of John Achesoun, burgess of Edinburgh, 13 August 1555. 10
Thomas had a natural son George,11 perhaps the Mr. George, 'brother of Sir John of Auchnoull,' who was presented to the Chantry of Glasgow 1 February 1563-64.12
JOHN BELLENDEN of Auchnoull. He was director of Chancery in 1544, and succeeded his father as Justice Clerk 25 June 1547.13 He was knighted before 1 April 1554.14 He had a charter to himself and his wife Barbara Kennedy of the lands of Walkmylns and others in the Barony of Broughton 1 May 1559,15 another of the office of usher of Exchequer on the resignation of John Vaus of Many, 31 May 1565,16 two charters of 13 July 1574 from Margaret Dunbar, sister and co-heir of Andrew Dunbar of Loch, to himself and his wife Janet Seton of the lands of Corol- lachill and others in the parish of Mochrum, co. Wigtown.17 He was commissioner for the treaty of peace with Anna of Oldenburgh signed at Aberdeen 19 October 1556, and
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Ibid. 3 Edin. Com. 4 Reg. Mag. Sig. 5 Gen. Reg. Inhibitions, xli. 53; and Reg. Mag. Sig. 6 Ibid., 24 December 1587. 7 Acts and Decreets, xliii. 151, 366. 8 Protocol Book of Andrew Brownhill, Edinburgh City Chambers. 9 Reg. of Deeds, xiv. 43 ; compared with the will of John her brother. 10 Protocol Book of John Makneill, Edinburgh City Chambers. n Reg. Sec. Sig., Hi. 153. 12 Ibid., xxxii. 15. 13 Ibid., xxi. 22. 14 Reg. Mag. Sig. 16 Confirmed 12 March 1559-60, Reg. Mag. Sig. 16 Ibid. 17 Confirmed 20 July 1574, Reg. Mag. Sig.
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confirmed by the Queen 26 September 1557.1 On 23 August 1565 he had a charter from Robert, Oommendator of Holy- rood, of the office of Bailiary and Justiciary of the regality of Broughton, and another of similar offices in Ker^ and Ogilface 24 April 1566.2 He was present at the corona- tion of James vi. in 1567, and 4 in name of the Estates and also John Knox minister and Robert Campbell of Kinzean- cleuch asked acts, instruments and documents ' for the recording of the proceedings.3 He died 1 October 1576.4 His testament is dated 19 September in the same year : after mentioning his son James he commits his 4 remanent bairnes ' to 4 my lord Regent's Grace and my Lord Angus ' : orders Lewis his son and heir to serve these noblemen as he and his forebears had done, commends his natural daughter Agnes to the care of Lewis, and leaves an annuity of £20 to his 4 cousin ' Thomas Craig, afterwards known as Sir Thomas Craig, tile great feudal lawyer.5
Sir John married three times : —
First, Margaret Scott, whose mother was Marion Scott, afterwards wife of George Henderson of Fordel.6
By her he had : —
1. Catherine.
2. Mary. These both died young.7
3. Marion, married, first, on Sunday, 22 October 1564,8
to John Ramsay of Dalhousie (contract dated 5 October 1564) ; 9 secondly, to Patrick Murray of Falahill.10 She had no issue, and died 19 January 1604.11
Sir John married, secondly, Barbara Kennedy, daughter of Sir Hugh Kennedy, of Girvanmains, and Dame Jane Stewart, Lady Methven. The marriage-contract was dated at Edin- burgh 30 September 1554, Mary of Lorraine being a consent- ing party, and signing the document.12 By her he had : —
4. SIR LEWIS.
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Confirmed 30 November 1571, Ibid. 3 Burton's Hist, of Scotland, iv. 285. 4 Memorials of George Bannatyne. 6 Riddell thinks that Craig's mother, Katherine Bellenden, may have been the daughter of Patrick, first of Auchnoull, but at the time of Craig's birth she was already married. 6 Reg. of Deeds, xv. 243. 7 Acts and Decreets, x. 233 ; Reg. of Deeds, xv. 243. 8 Cal. of Scot. Papers, ii. 88. 9 Reg. of Deeds, viii. 121. 10 Acts and Decreets, clxx. 257 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., 1 June 1598. n Edin. Com. 12 Duke of Roxburgh's Papers, Fourteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., App. iii. 42.
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5. John, alive in 1587.1
6. Zachary.2
7. Robert, mentioned in a contract of 1574, died young : 3
he may have been of the third family.
8. Jane, mentioned in her father's will.
Sir John married, thirdly, on Sunday, 14 January 1564-65,4 Janet Seton, daughter, apparently, of Walter Seton of Touch. Queen Mary was a party to the marriage-contract, and promised him 1000 merks of tocher, mentioned in his testament as still unpaid at his death. By her, who sur- vived him, and married, secondly, before 17 March 1579-80, as his second wife, John, Master of Forbes, afterwards eighth Lord Forbes,5 he had : —
9. James, the eldest,6 who succeeded to Kilconquhar,
which was provided to the children by Jane Seton. He chose curators 15 April 1580, his nearest kins- men being Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnoull, and Patrick Bellenden of Stenhouse on the father's side, and James Seton of Touch and Oristal his brother on the mother's side.7 He is mentioned in his father's will as being in the King's service. He died 11 February 1593-94, drowned while skating on the loch, as his tombstone in Kilconquhar church- yard bears. His wife's name was Grisel Spens, and he left a son James, who died young, and two daughters.8
10. Thomas, ' wardatar ' of Kilconquhar after his brother's
death.9 He was appointed a Lord of Session in 1591, 10 but apparently never took his seat on the bench. He married Marion Gilbert, widow of Thomas Ban- natyne of Newtyle,11 and died s. p. July 1597.12
11. Adam, graduated at Edinburgh 1 August 1590, ordained
minister of Falkirk 19 July 1593 ; resigned his charge July 1616, and was promoted to the Bishopric of Dunblane the same year, after having been violently
1 Fife Inhibitions, 9 June 1587. 2 Liber S. Catherine de Senis, 54, charter dated 15 February 1562-63. 3 Fife Inhibitions, ut sup. * Cal. of Scot. Papers, ii. 115. 6 Acts and Decreets, Ixxix. 198; Macfar- lane's Gen. Coll., Scot. Hist. Soc., ii. 478; Reg. Mag. Sig., 18 November 1581-82 and 16 August 1591. 6 Acts and Decreets, ut sup. 7 Warrants of Acts and Decreets. 8 Edin. Tests. 9 Reg. Mag. Sig., 8 September 1599. 10 Brunton and Haig. n Reg. Mag. Sig. ut sup. 12 Memorials of George Bannatyne,
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opposed to Episcopacy and one of the forty-two ministers who signed a protest to Parliament against its introduction, 1 July 1606. He succeeded to Kil- conquhar on the death of his nephew James,1 and in 1629 had a ratification in Parliament of these lands and Pitcorthie.2 He was Dean of the Chapel Royal, Stirling, in 1633 : 3 was promoted to the see of Aber- deen 2 August 1635.4 He was deposed and excom- municated by the General Assembly in 1638, left Aberdeen 27 March 1639, went to England and ob- tained a pension of £100 from the King under another name : became rector of Portlock, co. Somerset, 1642, and died 1647 aged about 78. He married, 17 February 1595, Jean Abercrombie, probably daughter of Henry Abercrombie of Kersie in the parish of St. Ninians, and had by her : —
(i
James. (2) Robert.
William. (4) Alexander.
Adam.5
David, minister of Kincardine O'Neil 1636-38.6
John, who accompanied his father to England.7 Testa-
ment confirmed 8 January 1650.8 (8) Elizabeth. (9) Jean.
(10) Margaret.
The five eldest sons were all dead in 1635,9 and Margaret was the only surviving daughter in 1631. 10
12. Walter, styled of St. John's Chapel, having married Jean Hamilton, one of the heirs-portioners of that estate.11 He graduated at Edinburgh University 1593 ; and is mentioned along with his brother Adam as cautioner for his sister Elizabeth, 27 November 1609.12
13. William is said to have been another son: he was presented to the Vicarage of Kilconquhar in 1573,13 married Anabel Pearson, and had by her a son, Thomas, who married, in 1625, Euphemia, daughter of Stephen Dudingston of Sandford.14
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 29 July 1615. 2 Acta Parl. Scot., iv, 651. 3 Laing Charters, No. 2124. 4 Reg. Mag. Sig. 6 Laing Charters, No. 2124. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 23 June 1638. 7 Ibid. 8 Edin. Com. 9 Gen. Reg. Sas., xlviii. 371. 10 Reg. of Deeds, ccccxxxviii. ; all the other particulars relating to Adam's family are from Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot, and authorities there quoted. u Reg. of Deeds, ccxvi., 10 December 1613; P. C. Reg., x. 558. 12 Reg. Mag. Sig. 13 Reg. Sec. Sig., xli. 111. " Wood's East Neuk of Fife, 2nd ed., 165.
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14. Elizabeth. She is mentioned in her father's will. She married first, James Lawson of Humbie, and is de- scribed as his widow in certain charters of 1605, pro- ceeding on the marriage-contract between James Fawside, younger of that ilk, and her daughter Janet, who afterwards married Sir John Edmon- stone of that ilk, with issue to both husbands.1 By that time she had married as her second husband Sir John Oockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice-Clerk. On 15 March 1614 she had a charter to herself as Lady Ormiston, of the lands of Kirktonhill and others, co. Berwick,2 and one on 26 July 1615 of the lands of Hart- head, in the constabulary of Haddington.3 Her husband died in 1623, at which time she was still alive.
15. Annabel, also mentioned in her father's will. She married, as his second wife, before 6 June 1599, Alex- ander Lander of Halton,4 who died before 18 May 1625,5 but after 1622.6
Sir John had a natural daughter, Agnes, also mentioned in his will. She married, contract dated 19 February 1590- 91, James Bellenden, fiar of Pittendreich.7 In the Register of the Privy Seal there is a Royal confirmation, dated 30 June 1585, of a feu-charter of a quarter of the lands of Saughtonhall granted (no doubt many years before) by Robert, Oommendator of Holyrood, to Patrick Bellenden, brother of Sir John of Auchnoull, with remainder succes- sively to George Bellenden, natural brother of Patrick, and to John Bellenden of Pittendreich, which appears to show that the Pittendreich family were also of the same stock.
SIR LEWIS BELLENDEN succeeded his father as Justice- Clerk 15 March 1576-77,8 being then under twenty-five years of age, but he appears in his official capacity as witness to a royal charter on 31 August 1577.9 He was knighted shortly thereafter. His name appears in a long series of charters; he had a charter of the lands of Castlelaw, Woodhouselee, and others, co. Edinburgh; Spotts and others, co. Kirkcudbright, and an annualrent from the
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., 27 November 1609 and 5 March 1642 ; Laing Charters, No. 2301. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig. 3 Confirmed 29 July 1615, Ibid. 4 Reg. of Deeds, Ixvii. 6 The Grange of St. Giles, 242. 6 Ibid., 243. 7 Reg. of Deeds, xxxvii. 307. 8 Reg. Sec. Sig., xliv. 36. 9 Reg. Mag. Sig.
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lands of Leswalt, co. Wigtown, on 14, confirmed 25, April 1581 ; l of the lands of Longcroft and others, co. Linlithgow, in April, confirmed 9 May, 1586 ; 2 of the barony of Ochiltre, co. Ayr, 9 August 1586 ; 3 of the lands and barony of Broughton in Edinburgh, Fawside in Haddington, Slipper- field, etc., in Peebles, Abbots Kerse, etc., in Linlithgow and Stirling, Whitekirk, etc., in Haddington, all incor- porated into the barony of Broughton, 28 July 1587.4 On 15 August in the same year he had a charter in feu-farm to himself and Sir John Maitland the Chancellor, of the county of Orkney and Lordship of Zetland, for the adminis- tration of justice there, an office which they resigned
I April 1589.5 He was made Keeper of the Oastle of Linlithgow on the resignation of Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairny, 22 November 1587 ; 6 along with Patrick Bel- lenden, son of Patrick of Evie, he had a grant of the office of Clerk of the Coquet of Edinburgh, 24 December 1587.7
Sir Lewis was one of the ' Ruthven raiders ' in the en- deavour to overturn the ascendancy of the Duke of Lennox and the Earl of Arran in 1582.8 In February 1584-85 he was sent on a mission to England for the purpose of denouncing the banished lords and to press Elizabeth for their surrender or expulsion. When he arrived in London, however, he was secretly ordered to agree to the plans of the Master of Gray for the ruin of Arran, and he returned home along with Wotton, the English Ambassador, who had private instructions for the undermining of Arran and the bringing back the banished lords.9 He was already mixed up with the plots of the period, though outwardly he did not break with Arran, and was in Stirling Oastle with him and the King when the banished lords succeeded in their project of his overthrow and dismissal in November 1585.10 In the arrangements which took place on the momentous change of government Sir Lewis, in addition to his former offices, was made Keeper of Blackness Castle.11 In 1589 he was appointed one of the ambassadors to the King's affianced bride in Norway,12 and he sailed with the King for that country 22 October of that year. The
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. * Ibid. 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 8 P. C. Reg., iii. 506 note. 9 Ibid., iv. 745 note, 748 note', Cal. of Border Papers, Nos. 285-287. 10 Border Papers, i. No. 387; P. C. Reg., iv. 27 note.
II Ibid., iv. 36 note ; Border Papers, i. No. 388. 12 P. C. Reg., iv. 121.
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last occurrence of his name is as a witness to a charter 20 August 1591, and he died on Friday the 27th of the same month,1 his death being occasioned, if we are to believe Scotstarvit, by fright, through a too successful attempt to raise the devil, in conjunction with a sorcerer of note, Richard Graham, who was burnt at the Cross of Edinburgh shortly afterwards.2
Sir Lewis married, first, Geilis, daughter of Sir James Forrester of Oorstorphine, contract dated 10 February 1579-80.3 She must have died soon after without issue.
He married, secondly, in 1581, contract dated 4 July,4 Margaret, daughter of William, sixth Lord Livingston ; she survived him, and afterwards married Patrick, Earl of Orkney, who dissipated her estates and left her to die in poverty.5 By her Sir Lewis had : —
1. JAMES.
2. William, one of the adventurers for Ulster.6
3. John, also an adventurer for Ulster ; ' he was cautioner
for his mother in 1619.8
4. Margaret.
5. Anna, probably posthumous, as she is not mentioned in
her father's will. She, along with her brother John and her sister Margaret, was cautioner for her mother in 1619.9
There was a Mariota Bellenden who had a charter of the lands of Fulton in Ayrshire to herself and her spouse, John Chalmer in Troquhane, 26 February 1590-91, with consent of Sir Lewis for his interest.10
SIR JAMES BELLENDEN of Broughton had a charter of the lands of Magdalens, near Linlithgow, 1 June 1591, " wherein he is designed as eldest son and heir-apparent of Sir Lewis. He was under age on 24 January 1595-96, as Dame Margaret Livingston is there mentioned as his tutrix.12 He had a somewhat stormy career, being fre- quently summoned before the Privy Council to answer for alleged wrongdoing. He died 3 November 1606.13 He
1 Memorials of George Bannatyne ; Edin. Tests. 2 Staggering State, 131; P. C. Reg., iv. 729 n. 3 Reg. of Deeds, xxxvii. 368. 4 Ibid., xx. part ii. 7. 5 Staggering State, 131. 6 P. C. Reg., vii. Ixxxviii. 317. 7 Ibid., 330. 8 Ibid., xi. 560. « Ibid. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig. » Ibid. 12 P. C. Reg., v. 671. 13 Edin. Tests., 20 November.
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married 20 April 1601, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Ker of Oesford, sister of Robert, first Earl of Roxburghe. Willoughby writing to Cecil, says : 4 The King is looked to be this day at Dalkeith with the Queen, and my lord of Roxburgh hopes for them both to be with him in Tyvidale this weke at the banquett of the marriage of Roxburgh's sister to Sir James Bellenden, who were married on Tuesday last ; the banquett continuing still in hope of their presence to honour it with.' l Lady Bellenden sur- vived her husband many years.2 By her he had : —
1. WILLIAM.
2. Margaret. She had a charter as future wife of Henry
Erskine, 14 December 1625.3 Her husband was the third son of John, Earl of Mar, by whom he was assigned the peerage of Oardross. He died 1628.4 She was alive January 1640.5
I. SIR WILLIAM BELLENDEN was served heir to his father 16 April 1607.6 He was under age 6 October 1607, when with consent of his mother, as tutrix, he resigned the office of Bailie of the barony of Ogilface, which lands his father had sold to the Earl of Linlithgow.7 He must have come of age between 28 July 1625, when, with consent of his mother and the Earl of Roxburghe, he resigned the lands of Saughton to Sir George Forrester of Oorstorphine, and 16 March 1626, when, without consents, he resigned Saughtonhall in favour of Alexander Watson.8 The family circumstances must indeed have been at this time at a low ebb, as he had to relinquish many of his estates, and also divested himself of the Keepership of Linlithgow Palace in favour of the Earl of Linlithgow.9 He was a devoted royalist, and his name frequently appears in the political correspondence of the time.10 He was rewarded for his services by being on 3 April 1661 appointed Treasurer- Depute,11 and on 10 June following he was created a peer under the title of LORD BELLENDEN OF BROUGHTON, with remainder to the heirs-male of his body. He became a
1 Border Papers, i. 1357. 2 Edin. Tests., 23 January 1656. 3 Gen. Reg. Sasines, xviii. 351. 4 Herald and Genealogist, in. 522. 6 Laing Charters, 2272. 6 Retours, Edin., No. 218. * Reg. Mag. Sig. 8 Ibid. 9 Ibid., 1 August 1627. 10 Scotland and the Commonwealth, 130, etc. ; ' Lauderdale Correspondence,' Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. vol. i. n Acta Parl. Scot., vii. 98.
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Privy Councillor the same year. In 1602 he had a gift from the Royal maintenance of £200.' On 1 June 1663 he was appointed Heritable Usher of the Exchequer,2 and in 1668 one of the Commissioners of the Treasury. On 14 April 1671 he disinherited his sister Margaret, resigned his title and estates into the hands of the Crown, and had a re-grant in favour of his first cousin twice removed, John Ker, fourth son of William, second Earl of Roxburghe, and his heirs of entail, confirmed 12 December 1673.3 He did not survive long after this, and, dying unmarried, was buried 6 September 1671 at St. Martin's in the Fields, London.4
II. JOHN, second Lord Bellenden, was the son of William Drummond, second Earl of Roxburghe (who was the fourth son of John, second Earl of Perth), by his wife Jean, granddaughter of Robert, first Earl of Roxburghe, the brother of the first Lord Bellenden's mother, and daughter of Henry Ker, Lord Ker.5 He was served heir of entail and provision to his predecessor in the title, 23 December 1671 ; as his father was only married in 1655, he cannot have been more than a boy at the date of the service ; but he had a charter 12 December 1673 confirming him in the office of Usher of Exchequer.6 As a young man he seems to have been somewhat hot-headed, if we are to believe a story of his having one July night in 1689 shot a soldier of Mackay's regiment dead because he had declared he was for King William and Queen Mary.7 This outrage involved him in considerable trouble ; he was confined in Edinburgh Castle for some time, and the in- cident was the subject of several communications which are to be found in the Leven and Melville correspondence.8 He ultimately appears to have acquiesced in the change of dynasty, probably because he found that it did not pay to be in opposition. His finances were not in a very flourish- ing state, as the Duke of Queensberry writes to Oarstares on 31 July 1700 as follows : ' I must entreat of you to speak to the King in favour of my Lord Bellenden ; he has con-
1 Acta Parl. Scot., vii. 419. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig. , lib. Ixiv. 41. 3 Reg. Mag. Sig. 4 Complete Peerage. 5 Add. Case for Sir James Innes Ker, Rox- burghe Peerage Case, 5. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig. 7 Oldmixon's Memoirs, 74. 8 Bannatyne Club.
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tinued very firm to his Majesty's interest though there has been great pains taken to make him otherwise. He has a numerous family and not much to support it, and because I knew he was a little straightened I have given him £100, for which I desire a warrant payable to me.' Lord Bellenden married, 10 April 1683, Mary Moore, widow of William, third Earl of Dalhousie (who died in 1682), and second daughter of Henry, first Earl of Drogheda.1 She died 17 March 1725-26.2 Lord Bellenden died March 1707; by his wife he had issue : —
1. JOHN, third Lord Bellenden.
2. Robert, born 5 March 1689,3 died s. p.
3. William, born about 1702, went into the army and
rose to be lieutenant-colonel in the Third Regiment of Horse 3 April 1733, which regiment was altered to Dragoon Guards in 1745. Of it he appears as colonel in 1747, and was senior lieutenant-colonel in the army in 1754. He died in 1759, having married in 1726, Jacomina Farmer of Normington, co. Lincoln. The licence is dated at Evesham, 16 April 1726, and describes the bridegroom as of Warwick, aged about 24, the bride a maiden about 21 ; to be married at Folkingham, co. Lincoln.4 By her he had : —
1. WILLIAM, seventh Lord Bellenden, who succeeded as fourth
Duke of Roxburghe. (See that title.)
2. Jacomina, married, 4 April 1749, to Thomas Orby Hunter of
Waverley Abbey, co. Surrey, M.P., with issue.
4. James, nothing is known of him except that he was a
brother of Lord Bellenden, and that he had the following children : 5 —
(1) James, of Bigods in Essex, captain 21st Foot. Died before 28
January 1763 s. p.6
(2) Elizabeth, married to Edward Kelly, Dublin.
(3) Jemima, styled spinster in 1762.
(4) Mary, married Sir Richard Murray, Bart.
5. Sir Henry, known to his contemporaries as Harry
Bellenden, 4a good-looking scapegrace.' He was appointed Governor of Hurst Castle 30 July 1745; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, September 1747 ; and was knighted 22 June 1749. He died s.p. 7 April
1 Fifteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., Drumlanrig Papers, part vii. 187. 2 Genealogist, N. S., vii. 43. 3 Edin. Reg. * Add. Case for Sir James Iiines Ker, Roxburghe Peerage, 10, 11. * n^a., 10. • Ibid., 12.
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1761. x Horace Walpole writes to General Con way 10 April : ' Poor Sir Henry Bellenden is dead ; he made a great dinner at Almack's for the House of Drum- mond, drank very hard, caught a violent fever, and died in a few days.'
6. Margaret. She was, along with her better-known
sister, a correspondent of Lady Suffolk, and is, with her, commemorated by Gay,
' Madge Bellenden, the tallest of the land, And smiling Mary, soft and fair as down.'
7. Mary, appointed a Maid-of-honour to Caroline, Princess
of Wales, in or perhaps before 1716. She was one of the most celebrated of the beauties of the court, and also one of the most lively, though her conduct never seems to have afforded the slightest room for scandal. Walpole describes her in the following terms : ' Her face and person were charming : lively she was almost to etourderie, and so agreeable she was that I never heard her mentioned afterwards by one of her contemporaries who did not prefer her as the most perfect creature they ever knew.' She is thus eulogised in a ballad of the period,
' But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who, as down the stair she jumps, Sings " O'er the hills and far away," Despising doleful dumps.'
She married, in 1720, Colonel John Campbell, one of the Grooms of the Prince's Bedchamber, who after- wards became fourth Duke of Argyll. She died 18 December 1736, and her remains were borne, it is stated, with unusual honours from Somerset House (of which she had the appointment of Keeper) to the Church of St. Anne, Westminster, where they were interred.2 She was mother of the fifth Duke of Argyll (see that title), and other children.
III. JOHN, third Lord Bellenden, born 1685, succeeded his father 1707, and served heir to him 16 July 1709.3 He died 16 March 1740-41, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and was buried at Westmill, co. Herts,4 having married, at Radwell,
1 Min. of Evid. Sir James Innes Ker's Case, 10. 2 Notes and Queries, 4th ser., xi. 116, 182 ; 7th ser., x. 221. 3 Addit. Case for Sir Jas. Innes Ker, 7. 4 Cussan's Hist, of Hertfordshire ; Roxburghe Peerage, Min. of Evid., 161 ; admon. 11 April 1741, P.P.C,
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co. Herts, 3 September 1722, Mary, daughter of John Parnell of Baldock, in the same county, and had by her (who was baptized at Baldock 26 June 1702,1 and died 23 November 1792, in her ninety-first year, being buried at "Westmill 2) the following children : —
1. KER, fourth Lord Bellenden.
2. ROBERT, sixth Lord Bellenden.
3. Jane, married, 8 January 1741, to Ephraim Miller of
Hertingfordbury, and died 27 May 1763.3
4. Caroline, married, 18 March 1760, to John Gawler of
Rambridge Cottage, Weyhill, Hampshire, and of the Inner Temple, who died at Bath 24 December 1803, aged seventy-seven. She died 1 April 1802, leaving issue : —
(1) John Bellenden Gawler of Bishopsgate, co. Surrey, captain
2nd Life Guards, 20 January 1790 ; retired 1793 ; assumed by royal licence* dated 5 November 1804, the surnames of Ker and Bellenden in lieu of Gawler. He was a distin- guished botanist, and died June 1842, aged about seventy- seven, at Rambridge.4
(2) Henry Gawler of Lincoln's Inn and Rambridge Cottage
aforesaid.
5. Mary, married John Eatt of Cambridge, whom she
survived, dying at Egham 15 May 1805, aged eighty.
6. Diana, married John Bulteel of Membland, co. Devon,
and had issue.
7. Alice, died unmarried at Westmill, 19 October 1796.
8. Henrietta, died unmarried.5
IV. KER, fourth Lord Bellenden, born 22 October, and baptized at Walkerne, co. Herts, 11 December 1725.6 He succeeded his father 1740, was an officer in the Royal Navy, and died at Woolwich, near London, 2 March 1753,7 aged twenty-eight, and was buried at Westmill. He married at Erith, 13 March 1749,8 Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Brett, clerk of the cheque in Deptford Dockyard, and by her, who died 21 January 1798, aged seventy-one, and whose will, dated at Wickham, Hampshire, was proved 16 February 1798 at London, had issue an only son —
1 Complete Peerage. 2 Cussan, ut sup. 3 Ibid. * Complete Peerage.
5 All these children mentioned in Sir James Innes Ker's Case, ut sup.
6 Par. Reg. 7 His tombstone in Westmill Churchyard gives the date as 13 March 1754, but the date in the text is taken from his testament, which must be right, as it was confirmed in August 1753. 8 Erith Par. Reg.
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V. JOHN KER, fifth Lord Bellenden, born at Woolwich, co. Kent, 22 August 1751, l succeeded his father 1754, and had a grant from the King, 23 April 1755, of a salary of £250 per annum as Usher of the Exchequer, which grant was confirmed by George in. 4 April 1761. He was ensign in the 25tl} Regiment of Foot in 1775, but soon after that date retired from the army. He died s.p. and insolvent at Edinburgh 20 October 1796, and his office of Usher of Exchequer was sequestrated by his creditors. He married, 26 June 1789,2 Sarah Gumming of Montego Bay, Jamaica, widow, a mulatto,3 but by her, who died in Golden Square, London, 21, and was buried 29, November 1794, at St. Maryle- bone,4 had no issue. He was succeeded by his uncle,
VI. ROBERT, sixth Lord Bellenden, born 7 April and baptized 23 April 1734,5 at Westmill. He was captain in the lllth Regiment of Foot in 1761, and 68th Regiment in 1767. He had a grant from the Crown of £250 salary as Usher of the Exchequer 8 February 1797.6 He died unmarried, and was buried at Westmill 23 October 1797.7 The title then devolved on
VII. WILLIAM, son of Colonel the Hon. William Bellenden, third son of John, second Lord Bellenden. He succeeded in 1804, when he was seventy-six years of age, as fourth Duke of Roxburghe. (See that title.)
CREATION.— 10 June 1661.
ARMS. — Gules, a hart's head couped between three cross- crosslets fitchee within a double tressure flory counter flory or.
CREST. — A hart's head couped with a cross crosslet fitchee between the attires.
SUPPORTERS. — Dexter, the figure of Justice, holding a sword in her right hand and a pair of scales in her left. Sinister, the figure of Peace holding in her hand a palm branch, all proper.
MOTTO. — Sic itur ad astra.
[j. B. P.]
1 Roxburghe Peerage Case, Min. of Evid., 161. 2 Kearsley's Peerage. 3 Complete Peerage. 4 Ibid. b Westmill Par. Reg. c Peerage Case, Min. of Evid., 165. 7 Westmill Par. Reg.
BSIantprt
STEWART, LORD BLANTYRE
HOMAS STEWART,
second son of Sir William Stewart of Dalswinton (see title Galloway), got a charter of the lands of Sealaws and Morebattle, and a third part of the barony of Minto, with the superiority of the whole barony, 2 November
1476 ;x on 10 August
1477 he had a charter of the lands of Househill, in Lanarkshire ; 2 and on 20 February 1489-90 another of the lands of Busby in the same
county.3 He married Isabella, daughter and co-heiress of Walter Stewart of Arthurle by Janet Cameron his wife.4 He died 1500, and was buried before the altar of Our Lady in the cathedral of Aberdeen,5 leaving issue : —
1. JOHN.
2. William, born about 1479, was parson of Lochmaben,
rector of Ayr, and a prebendary of Glasgow. In 1527 he was made Dean of Glasgow, was appointed Lord High Treasurer 2 October 1530, and held that office for seven years. At the same time he got the Provostry of Lincluden, and on 14 November 1532 was made Bishop of Aberdeen. In February 1533-34 he was sent with Sir Adam Otterburn, the King's
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Confirmed 25 June 1489, Ibid. 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid., 25 June 1459. 5 Ibid., 16 September 1550.
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Advocate, as an ambassador to England, to negotiate a treaty of peace. He administered the affairs of his diocese with much acceptance, and was a consider- able benefactor to the see.1 ' He was,' Spottiswood says, ' a man given to virtue, charitable to the poor, and ready to every good work.1 2 He died April 1545, and was buried in the cathedral of Aberdeen.
3. Malcolm.3
4. Nicol or Nicholas.
5. Robert, who on 15 February 1514 is styled brother-
german of the late John Stewart, knight, and for whom his brother William receives 105 merks as his 4 portion natural.' 4
6. Agnes, married John Stewart of Oardonald, son of
Alan Stewart of Oardonald, and had issue, a daughter, Agnes.5
7. Marion, married Adam Maxwell of Southbar, third
son of Herbert, first Lord Maxwell.
8. Margaret, married Charles Pollok of Pollok, with issue.6
SIR JOHN STEWART of Minto. He had a charter to himself and his wife of the barony of Minto and lands of Busby in Lanarkshire 23 February 1502-3.7 He was knighted between 27 May and 6 June 1508.8 He was Provost of Glasgow, as his father had been, and though generally said to have been killed at the battle of Flodden, died between July and October 1512, as his son Robert was infeft in some of his lands on or about 26 October of that year.9 His wife's name was Janet Fleming. They had issue : —
1. SIR ROBERT.
2. , a son, referred to in an instrument of 28 January
1512-13 as brother of Robert.10
3. Jonet, called elder daughter in same writ, when she
received a gift from her mother.11
SIR ROBERT STEWART of Minto was served heir to his father in the lands of Houshill in lordship of Darnley, the
1 Crawford's Lives, 374. 2 Hist., 106. 3 Glasgow Protocols, iii. 320. 4 Protocol Book of Gavin Ross, i. f. 296. 6 Reg. Mag. Sig., 1 February 1444-45. 6 Crawford's Renfrew, 209. 7 Reg. Mag. Sig. 8 Ibid. g Protocol Book of Gavin Ross, i. 4b. 10 Ibid., f. lOb. n Ibid.
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lands of Perme Corny n and Hagbank, near Ruglen, Wester Pertik, and part of Arthurle in Renfrew, and Antermony Wester, at different dates between 26 October and 12 November 1512.1 He was Provost of Glasgow in 1528 ;2 and had a charter to himself and his wife of the barony of Minto and lands of Morebattle and others 7 January 1529- 30.3 He was 4 principal Marshal ' to the King 1529/ He was dead before 7 November 1553.5 His wife's name was Janet Murray, and by her he had : —
1. SIR JOHN.
2. Walter.
3. Robert.
4. Malcolm.*
5. Mr. Adam.1
6. Elizabeth. She had an assignment to her on 11 Feb-
ruary 1536-37 of the marriage of Robert Maxwell of Calderwood, granted to her father by the King. In virtue of the powers conferred by the grant Max- well was summoned to marry Elizabeth, daughter of David Barclay of Oollairnie, so that a double avail of the marriage might be exigible if she was refused.8 Elizabeth Stewart ultimately married, as his second wife, Sir John Maxwell of OaJderwood, brother of the above-mentioned Robert.
SIR JOHN STEWART of Minto was served heir to his father 20 May 1555. When about seven years old he was contracted in marriage to Margaret, eldest daughter of George Maxwell of Cowglen, a girl of the same age. This marriage never appears to have been entered into, as on 8 November 1543, after the death of Margaret Maxwell, which occurred between 8 November 1542 and 20 January 1542-43, he raised a summons of reduction of certain dues which had been granted in security of the marriage on the ground that such obligation to marry (the parties being minors) was from the first contrary to canon law.9 He
1 Protocol Book of Gavin Ross, i. if. 4b, 6a-8a. 2 Glasgow Protocols. 3 Reg. Mag. Sig. 4 Exch. Rolls, xv. 545. 5 Ibid., xvii. 563. 6 Glasgow Protocols, iii. 920. 7 Ibid.,v. 1424. 8 There were four Robert Maxwells of Calderwood in succession at this period, of whom the above was the third; he is omitted by Eraser in The Maxwells of Pollok, i. 469. 9 Fraser's Maxwells of Pollok, i. 458 ; Chartulary of Pollok, 343.
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must have married very shortly afterwards, as he had a charter on 16 February 1543-44 to himself and his wife, Joanna Hepburne, of the lands of Wester Perthwik, in the county of Renfrew.1 He was Provost of Glasgow, and bailie of the barony, which latter office he had got from the Earl of Lennox when he became Regent. He was Keeper of the Castle of Glasgow from May 1568 2 till 9 November 1573, when James Boyd, the Archbishop, got possession of it. Robert, Lord Boyd, also usurped, in the same year, the office of bailie, till, in 1578 the King resumed it as Earl of Lennox,3 and the same nobleman was in 1574 nominated as Provost, but Sir John (who had been knighted previous to 10 March 1563-64) obtained possession of that office again before his death.4 He was also in 1566 Chamberlain of Galloway above Cree.5 He died in February 1582-83, and was buried in the cathedral of Glasgow. There is an inter- esting monument there, noteworthy as one of the few examples of old brasses in Scotland. It bears the following inscription : —
HEIR . AR . BVREIT . S . WALTER . SR THOMAS . SR IHON . AND ,SR ROBERT . SR IHON . AND SR MATHEW . BY . LINEAL . DESCENT . TO . VTHERIS . BARONS . AND . KNIGHTS . OF THE . HOVS . OF . MYNTO . WT . THAIR . WYFFIS . BAIRNS . AND . BRETHEREIN.
By the side of the inscription there is a representation of one of the barons, in armour, kneeling and looking towards the sun, surrounded with rays in the upper corner. The inscription is not more accurate than the ordinary sepul- chral memorial, as the name of Sir Thomas's father was William, not Walter, and Sir Thomas himself is said, in the charter above quoted, to have been buried at Aberdeen.
Sir John married, first, Johanna Hepburn, and had by her: —
1. Sir Matthew. On the appointment of Mr. Robert Montgomery, minister of Stirling, to be Archbishop of Glasgow, in 1581, he was opposed by the people, and Sir Matthew, who was then Provost of Glasgow, being desirous of obeying the King's commands, went to the church and pulled Mr. Howie, whom the
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 P. C. Reg., ii. 301-302. 3 Ibid., ii. 697. 4 Glasgow Protocols, v. 1490 ; viii. 2477. 5 Exch. Rolls, xviii. 321.
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parishioners had got to officiate at the time when the Archbishop should have been inducted, out of the pulpit, and injured him severely. On this Mr. Howie denounced the judgment of God on Sir Matthew and his family; and certainly the fortunes of the family began to decay, and the last Laird of Minto, Sir John Stewart, went about 1699 with the Scots expedition to Darien, where he died, having been reduced to such penury that he was supported by his relative Lord Blantyre.1
Sir Matthew married, first, Jonet, eldest daughter of Alexander Stewart, tutor of Castlemilk,2 and, second, Jean, eldest daughter of Sir John Oolquhoun of Luss, by Agnes Boyd his wife.3 He had issue : —
(1) Walter, who, on 25 January 1598-99, was contracted to
Christian, eldest daughter of James Crawfurd of Ferme, and Annabella Hamilton, his spouse.4
(2) Robert, eldest son by second wife, had an anrmalrent of 200
merks from his father.6
2. John* He married Elizabeth and had two
daughters, co-heiresses, Margaret and Jonet.7 Sir John married, secondly, Margaret, second daughter of James Stewart of Oardonald,8 and by her had : —
3. WALTER.
4. Robert, though perhaps he was by the first wife.9
5. Janet, married, 1570,10 Archibald Stewart of Oastle-
milk. He died 1612,11 and she died the following year and was buried at Oarmunnock.
6. Marion, married to William Oleland of that Ilk.
7. Agnes, married to John Wallace of Auchans and Dun-
donald.
8. , a daughter, said to have been married to Craw- ford of Ferme.
Sir John had also a natural son, John.12
I. WALTER STEWART, known for long under the designa- tion of the Prior of Blantyre, was the only son of his
1 Statistical Account, vi. 110 ; Fraser's Chiefs of Colquhoun, i. 138. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig., 4 August 1569. 3 Fraser's Chiefs of Colquhoun, ut sup. 4 Glasgow Protocols, xi. 3411-3415. 6 Ibid., 3603. 6 Ibid., 1564, iii. 787. 7 Ibid., 19 November 1585, ix. 2793-94. 8 Crawford's Renfrew, ed. 1782, 229. 9 Glasgow Protocols, 29 April 1564, iii. 787; 8 September 1571, vi. 1710. 10 Reg. Mag. Sig., 28 November 1570. " Glasgow Tests. 12 Glas- gow Protocols, 8 September 1571, vi. 1790.
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father's second marriage. He was brought up along with James vi., under George Buchanan, and had the Priory of Blantyre bestowed on him by that monarch, and is designed Oommendator of Blantyre 1580, when he was nominated one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber.1 He first appears as a Privy Councillor 15 November 1582.2 He also got the office of Privy Seal, formerly held by Buchanan, who died in September of the last-mentioned year. He was made assessor to the Treasurer 26 April 1583,3 and was tutor to the Duke of Lennox.4 In January 1595-96 he was appointed one of the Octavians,5 and seems for a time to have officiated as Chancellor in that year.6 On 6 March 1595-96 the office of Treasurer, including the abolished post of Treasurer-depute, was bestowed on him,7 and he introduced many new regulations into his department. He resigned his office as an Octavian 7 January 1596-97.8 Mr. Robert Bruce, one of the most popular of the Presbyterian clergy in Edinburgh, having fallen under the displeasure of the King, his Majesty had stopped a pension which he had received by royal gift from the revenue of the Abbey of Arbroath. Bruce took proceedings against the King before the Court of Session. Amongst other judges who began to hear the case was the Treasurer, but his leanings in favour of Bruce had been so marked that the other judges thought it more expedient that he should not hear the case to the end. The judgment, given in the most independent way by the Court, was against the King. The latter was of course furious, and his resentment lighted on his old friend the Prior, who had actually given no judgment in the case. He was committed to ward in Edinburgh Castle and com- pelled to resign the Treasurership, 17 April 1599.9 He was not long in ward, however, as he is mentioned as sitting in Council on the 19 May following. The goodwill of James, indeed, was not long withheld from him, and on 11 March 1600 there was an Act passed acknowledging in a very handsome way his long and faithful services to his Sovereign.10 The Prior signed, in December 1604, the abortive treaty
1 Crawford's Lives. 2 P. C. Reg., iii. 528. 3 Ibid., 565. 4 Ibid., iv. 177. 6 Ibid., v. 254. 6 Ceil, of State Papers, ii. 700. 7 P. C. Reg., v. 289 ; cf. Eraser's Melvilles, iii. 140. 8 P. C. Reg., v. 357. 9 Ibid., 549. 10 Ibid., vi. 92.
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of that Union which was not destined to be carried into effect for another century.1 He sat on the bench as an assessor in the trial of the six ministers for illegally holding a General Assembly at Aberdeen, 10 January 1606.2 A little incident, illustrating his good sense and judgment, occurs in the records at this time. The son of the Constable of Dundee [Scrymgeour] having been very rude to a citizen for not taking off his hat to him, the matter was brought before the Privy Council, and though the opinion of many of the noblemen present was that the burgess had only been treated as he deserved, the Prior and others thought the young Constable should be admonished not to repeat his conduct.3
On 10 July 1606 he was raised to the Peerage under the title of LORD BLANTYRE. 4 Walter Stewart, pray our of Blantyre ves maid knight of Cardonald and thairafter bar one, banaret and lord of our Sovereign Lord's Parliament and ordained in all tyme thereafter to be called Lord of Blantyre/4 In March 1607 he was a Commissioner to the Synod of Lothian in the subject of the 4 Constant Moderator- ships,' and on 10 March 1609 he acted as an assessor in the trial of Lord Balmerino on the charge of treasonable cor- respondence with France.5 In the beginning of 1610 he was appointed one of the members of the newly-constructed Council.6 He was one of the commissioners for considering the question of the government of the Highlands and Islands,7 and was a Justice of the Peace of the counties of Edinburgh, Lanark and Renfrew.8
' The good old prior of Blantyre ' 9 died full of years and honour, 8 March 1617.10 He married Nicolas, fourth daughter of John Somerville of Cambusnethan (contract 13 April 1582 "), by his wife Catherine, daughter of Patrick Murray of Philiphaugh,12 and had by her, who survived him, three sons and one daughter : —
1. Sir James Stewart, married Dorothy Hastings, born 15 January 1579, second daughter of George, fourth Earl of Huntingdon, but had no issue by her. She after-
1 P. C. Reg., vii. p. xxxiv. 2 Ibid., 164. 3 Ibid., 185. 4 Carmichael's Tracts, 28. 5 P. C. Reg., vii. 344; viii. 259, 260. 6 Ibid., viii. p. xiii. 7 Ibid., viii. p. lix. 8 Ibid., ix. 76, 77. 9 Cat. of State Papers, ii. 700. 10 Edin. Tests. n Reg. of Deeds, xl. 330. 12 Memorie of the SomerviUes, i. 425-496,
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wards married, about 1609, as his second wife, Robert Dillon, second Earl of Roscommon. Sir James having quarrelled with Sir George Wharton, the eldest son of Lord Wharton, was challenged by him to a duel, which was fought with sword and dagger at Islington 8 November 1609. Both combatants were killed on the spot, and were, by the King's command, interred in one grave in the churchyard there.1 There are two interesting letters from the Scottish Privy Council to the Secretary of State and the Treasurer, the Earl of Dunbar, regarding this affair, 17 November 1609. ' To the Secretary the Council say that they can do no less in this tyme of that heich displeasour of the agit fader, who is so far overcome with anguish, greiff, and sorrow, that he is altogidder insensable and cairles of his advis, then to recom- mend him to your good lordship, 'that measures might be taken to prevail on the King to allow Lord Blantyre to succeed to his son's effects : the letter to the Treasurer is of similar import.2
2. WILLIAM, second Lord Blantyre.
3. Walter, a doctor of medicine, who married and had
two daughters : —
(1) Frances Teresa, a cheery and vivacious beauty of the court
of Charles n., and with whom that monarch was much in love. She was ultimately married privately, in March 1666-67, to Charles, Duke of Richmond. ' La belle Stewart,' as she was called, was made a Lady of the Bedchamber, and took smallpox shortly after her marriage. She is said to have divided the latter years of her life between cards and cats. She died 15, and was buried 22, October 1702 in Westminster Abbey, having bequeathed the bulk of her property to her cousin's son William, afterwards fifth Lord Blantyre, for the purchase of certain estates to be called ' Lennox's love to Blantyre.' He purchased accordingly the estate of Leth- ington in Haddingtonshire, and changed its name to Len- noxlove. There is a portrait of her by Sir Peter Lely ; Bothier, the engraver to the Royal Mint executed a medal of her, and she served as model for the figure of Britannia on the copper coins.3
(2) Sophia, married the Hon. Henry Bulkeley, Master of the
Royal Household, fourth son of Thomas, first Viscount Bulkeley.
1 Gentleman's Mag., November 1800. 2 P. C. Reg., viii. 607. 3 Memoirs of Count de Grammont, edition 1889 ; i. 147 ; ii. 233-237.
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4. Mr. John.1
5. Anna, called ' senior filia,' married (marriage-contract
30 December 1608) to John, eighth Lord Abernethy ol Saltoun.2 He died in 1612, and his widow had sub- sequently, by James. Marquess of Hamilton, a natural daughter, Margaret, who was married to James Hamilton, first Lord Belhaven.3
6. Jean.4
II. WILLIAM, second Lord Blantyre, created a Knight of the Bath 2 June 1610.5 He was served heir to his grand- father 30 August 1614, and to his father 12 June 1621. He had a grant to himself and his future spouse, Helen Scot, on the resignation of his parents, of the barony of Blantyre and other lands 12 August 1615, and of the lands and mansion of Blantyre Craig 20 June 1616.6 He was a Justice of Peace for Edinbuf gh in 1620.7 He died 29 November 1638.
He married Helen, daughter of Sir William Scot of Ardros, and Jean Skene (of Ourriehill). By her he had : —
1. WALTER, third Lord Blantyre.
2. ALEXANDER, fourth Lord Blantyre.
3. William, baptized 10 August 1626 ; 8 probably died young.
4. James, baptized 28 October 1627,9 died in infancy.10
5. Helen, eldest daughter, married to Mr. Thomas Hamil-
ton of Parkley, son of Thomas, second Earl of Had- dington.11
6. Jean, baptized 16 January 1620.12 In 1638 she con-
tracted an irregular marriage with a son of Patrick Lindsay, Archbishop of Glasgow.13
7. Margaret, married to John Swinton of Swinton (mar-
riage-contract 28 December 1644 and 10 January 1645 H). She died in childbed in the Castle of Edin- burgh, where her husband was at the time im- prisoned, December 1662.15
8. Marie, who died, before April 1648, unmarried.16
1 Reg. of Deeds, cclxiii., 2 July 1617. 2 Reg. Mag. Sig., 14 February 1609. 3 Stodart MS. 4 Reg. of Deeds, cclxxxv. 23 June 1619. 6 Nicolas's Orders of Knighthood. « Reg. Mag. Sig. 7 P. C. Reg., xii. 769. 8 Torphichen Par. Reg. of Baptisms. 9 Edinburgh Reg. 10 Canongate Burials, Novem- ber 1627. n Gen. Reg. Sas., 2nd ser., xvi. 284 ; also Acts and Decreets, Dlxiii. 125; Decreets, Durie, 23 June 1677. 12 Edinburgh Reg. 13 Stodart MS. " Reg. Mag. Sig., 7 February 1650. 15 The Swintons of that Hk, 71. 16 Reg. of Deeds, Dlxi. 16 October 1649.
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III. WALTER, third Lord Blantyre, was served heir to his father 11 May 1639.1 He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Mure of Rowallan,2 sasine to her as his future wife 24 September 1641 ,3 and dying without issue, in October 1641,4 was succeeded by his brother,
IV. ALEXANDER, fourth Lord Blantyre. He married Mar- garet, daughter of John Shaw of Greenock, by Helen Houston his wife. On 7 September 1649 he granted a charter with consent of his curators, to her of certain lands in liferent.5 He was one of the ' Engagers ' who offered in 1647 to put the arms of Scotland at the disposal of Charles i. In the proceedings which were subsequently taken by Parliament against the Engagers, Lord Blantyre was fortunate enough to escape punishment, a special Act being passed, 30 June 1649, declaring that although he had acted as the route- master of a troop, yet seeing he was t drawin thairinto throw perswasioune of perverse counsall and out of ane vaine and chyldisch desyr to see the ordour and fashione of arms,' he was pardoned on condition of giving satisfaction to the General Assembly.6 At this time it is stated he was a minor, and out of the kingdom, so he must have returned to Scotland shortly after, and proceeded to marry Margaret Shaw. The date of his death is not known, but must have been previous to 1690. By his wife he had : —
1. ALEXANDER, fifth Lord Blantyre.
2. Helen, married (contract 6 June 1672 7) to James Muir-
head of Bredisholme, whom she survived, and died in Glasgow 1735.8
V. ALEXANDER, fifth Lord Blantyre. In 1689 he is found taking the oath of allegiance after the Revolution, and subscribing the oath declaring the legality of the meeting of Estates summoned by the Prince of Orange,9 and he signed a letter of congratulation to King William. He gave a still more practical proof of his adherence to the Hanoverian Government by raising a regiment of six hundred Foot, and got a commission as its colonel.10 He
1 Ret. Lanark, 198. 2 Hist, of the House of Rowallan, 88. 3 Gen. Eeg. Sas., 1. 153. 4 Test, confirmed 28 June 1643, Glasgow Com. 5 Laing Charters, No. 2397. 6 Acta Parl. Scot., vi. ii. 410. 7 Gen. Eeg. Sas., xxix. 455. 8 Test, confirmed 1 April 1735, Glasgow Com. 9 Acta Parl. Scot., ix. 9. 10 Ibid., 50, 57.
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wrote to Lord Melville, 1 July 1689 : ' I have levied one regiment for his Majesty's service, and I hope it shall be found inferior to none of the other regiments; and this week I have advanced near eight hundred lib. sterline for cloathing them, and shall have them readie at a call when ever the King shall command them ; and if his Majesty think fit to honour me with his commands ... I shall desire to possess life and fortune no longer than my wil- lingness continues to venture them for my religion and King.' * At the meeting of Convention, 9 June 1702, his Lord- ship was one of the seceding members who protested against its legality, and was by them sent up to London with an address to Queen Anne containing the reasons of their procedure ; this her Majesty refused to receive, but granted Lord Blantyre personally an audience. In the same year he got a great accession of fortune through the death of his relative the Duchess of Richmond and Lennox as mentioned above. In 1703 he had a serious quarrel with the Commissioner the Duke of Queensberry, and called him in presence of the Lord Advocate ' a base and impudent liar.' On a complaint by the Lord Advocate he was ordered into the custody of the High Constable, but speedily made his submission. He was, however, brought before the House, and the Lord Chancellor said that the Commissioner was pleased to dispense with his making his acknowledg- ment of fault on his knees, but besides being obliged to beg pardon of the Commissioner and the Estates, he was mulcted in a fine of £5000.2 Lord Blantyre died 20 June 1704. There is a graphic description of him given by Macky ; 3 ' a very busy man for the liberty and religion of his country, yet whatever party gets the better, he can never get into the administration . . . very zealous for the Revolution. . . . A little, active man, but thinks very seldom right, and can neither speak nor act, but by overdoing spoils all. He loves to be employed, and therefore is often made the finder of a party ; can start the hare, but hath no other part in the chase ; makes but a mean figure in his person, very short of stature, short-sighted, fair complexioned, towards fifty years old.'
1 Leven and Melville Papers, 146. 2 Ada Parl. Scot., xi. 74, 3 Characters.
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He married, first, Margaret, eldest daughter of John Henderson of Fordel, Bart., without issue; second, in or before 1683, Anne, sister of John, second Lord Belhaven (see that title), by whom, who died at Bath about 31 December 1722, he had :—
1. WALTER, sixth Lord Blantyre.
2. ROBERT, seventh Lord Blantyre.
3. John, admitted to the Faculty of Advocates 21 Feb-
ruary 1710, died 16 February 1740.1
4. James.
5. Hugh, died in Ireland 7 February 1769.2
6. Marion, married at Oardonald, 24 February 1704, to
James Stirling of Keir. Postnuptial contract dated 29 February 1704. She had by her husband no less than fourteen sons and eight daughters, and died at Cawdor 20 March 1770.3
7. Frances, married, 2 March 1707, to Sir James
Hamilton of Rosehall, Bart., without issue.
8. Helen, married, about 1715, to John, Lord Gray, with
issue.
9. Anne, married to Alexander Hay of Drummelzeir;
died in March 1743, leaving issue.
VI. WALTER, sixth Lord Blantyre, born 1 February 1683.4 He voted against the Union in Parliament, but was after- wards chosen one of the sixteen Representative Scottish Peers at the general election in 1710. He died at West- minster of a fever, 14 June 1713,5 unmarried, and was buried in the Richmond vault in Henry vn.'s Chapel, in West- minster Abbey. He was succeeded by his next younger brother,
VII. ROBERT, seventh Lord Blantyre. He was a captain of a regiment of Foot, and was serving in Minorca when the succession opened to him. He died at Lennoxlove 17 November 1743, and was buried at Blantyre.
He married, first, Helen, eldest daughter of John, fourth 3arl of Strathmore, by whom he had : — 1. Alexander, died young. He married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of the Hon.
1 Edinburgh Tests. 2 Edinburgh Mag. 3 Fraser's Stirlings of Keir, 73. 4 Edinburgh Reg. 5 Political State of Great Britain, 459.
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William Hay of Drummelzier, brother of the first Marquess of Tweeddale (see that title), and by her, who died at Lennoxlove 13 December 1782, aged eighty-five, had : —
2. WALTER, eighth Lord Blantyre.
3. WILLIAM, ninth Lord BJantyre.
4. ALEXANDER, tenth Lord Blantyre.
5. John, died unmarried.
6. James , a captain, Thirtieth Foot Guards, with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, killed at the battle of Guildford, North Carolina, 15 March 1781.
7. Charles, was in the civil service of the Honourable
East India Company, and a member of the Supreme Council of Bengal.
8. Margaret, died unmarried at Lennoxlove 4 June 1794.
9. Helen, married, 1 April 1755, to Oliver Colt of Auld-
hame, and had :—
(1) Robert, born 22 September 1756, admitted to the Faculty of
Advocates 1777, and died at Dover 29 December 1797. He married, 22 September 1778, Grizel, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston. She died 27 September 1798, leaving issue.
(2) Oliver.
(3) Margaret.
(4) Mary, married at London, 8 January 1796, to Charles Pye of
Wadley, Berks, major, Third Dragoons.
(5) Helen, married in June 1785 to Sir David Rae of Eskgrove,
second baronet, son of Lord Eskgrove, with issue four daughters.
(6) Elizabeth, married, 2 January 1802, to James Willis of the
India House, and died May 1803.
10. Marion, died unmarried at Lennoxlove 27 November
1780.
11. Elizabeth, married at Edinburgh, 15 April 1760, as his
first wife, Captain William Colquhoun of Garscadden,1 and died 27 April 1772, without issue.
VIII. WALTER, eighth Lord Blantyre, resided much abroad. Lady Jane Douglas, writing from Utrecht, 10 February 1747, says : 4 Among the rest of the British, young Lord Blantyre deserves the greatest praise. He has extreme good sense, the best scholar, the greatest application, a vast pleasure in reading, and the best taste in books, is free from all manner of vice, and has the sweetest temper in
1 'Register of old St. Paul's,' Scot. Antiq., v. 150.
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the world, and to all appearance will be a very great honour to his country.' l Allowed £200 on abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions, as compensation for his regality of Kirk- patrick.2 He died, unmarried, at Paris, 21 May 1751, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, and was buried, 9 July, at Blantyre. There are two poetical tributes to his memory in the Scots Magazine, 1751.
IX. WILLIAM, ninth Lord Blantyre, succeeded his brother ; was a colonel in the service of the States of Holland, and died, unmarried, at Erskine, 16 January 1776.3
X. ALEXANDER, tenth Lord Blantyre, succeeded his brother. He resided at Erskine, and took much interest in the management of his estates, and in agriculture generally. He is described as 4 an amiable and respected nobleman, and a most worthy and useful citizen. His conduct as a landlord was not only humane but highly judicious, as it equally tended to promote the real interest of the proprietor and tenant, and the general advantage of the country.' * He died, at Clifton, 5 November 1783. He married, 23 July 1773, Catherine, eldest daughter and heiress of Patrick Lindsay of Eaglescairnie, by his wife, Margaret Haliburton : she died 29 December 1822, leaving issue : —
1. Margaret, born 16 August 1774 ; married, 5 October
1809, Rev. Dr. Andrew Stewart, minister of Bolton, who had been presented to that parish by her brother, Robert, Lord Blantyre, in 1804, and was translated to Erskine in 1815. He had taken his degree as a Doctor of Medicine, and is said to have successfully treated his wife for consumption. He died, 26 December 1838, in his sixty-eighth year. She died, 20 October 1839, aged sixty-four, leaving a son, Robert, who succeeded his father in the parish, and married a daughter of Lord Cockburn.5
2. ROBERT WALTER, eleventh Lord Blantyre.
5. Sir Patrick, G.O.M.G., of Eaglescairnie, colonel Nine- teenth Foot, born 10 June 1777; died 7 February 1855; married, 20 July 1810, Catherine Henrietta,
1 Defender's Proof, Douglas Cause. 2 Heritable Jurisdiction Writs, Gen. Reg. Ho. 3 Glasgow Tests. 4 Old Statistical Account. 5 Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 247.
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eldest daughter of HOD. John Rodney, and issue.
6. William, lieutenant-general, was an officer in the
Eighteenth Foot Guards, and served in the expedition to Holland 1799; born 29 August 1778, died 15 February 1837.
7. Charles, barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's Inn and the
Inner Temple ; born 25 October 1780, died 2 Decem- ber 1858.
XI. ROBERT WALTER, eleventh Lord Blantyre, born 26 December 1775, educated at Eton. Ensign in the Third Foot Guards 1795, afterwards captain in Thirty-First Foot and Seventh Dragoons, and lieutenant-colonel Forty-Second Highlanders. He served in Holland in 1799, in Egypt in 1801, as A.D.O. to General Stuart, in the expedition to Pomerania and Zealand in 1807, and in the Peninsular War in 1809. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general, and was made a Companion of the Bath, 4 June 1815. He was elected one of the sixteen Scottish Representative Peers, 1806 ; and was for some time Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrew- shire. He was accidentally killed by a shot fired during the Revolution in Brussels while looking out of the window of his hotel there, 22 September 1830.
He married, in Edinburgh, 20 February 1813, Fanny Mary, second daughter of the Hon. John Rodney, son of the celebrated Admiral Lord Rodney, and had by her, who was born 17 April 1791, and died 19 November 1875 : —
1. Alexander, died v. p. February 1814.
2. CHARLES WALTER, twelfth Lord Blantyre.
3. WZZiam,K.C.M.G.,C.B., born 3 March 1824 ; Secretary
to Embassy at St. Petersburg ; married, 6 September 1866, Georgina, eldest daughter of Major-General George Borlase Tremenheere, and died s. p. 1 April 1896. She died 3 January 1901.
4. Walter Rodney, born 16 July 1826 ; died 13 September
1838.
5. James, lieutenant-colonel Rifle Brigade, born 28 July
1827 ; died, unmarried, 11 April 1870.
6. Henry, born 30 June 1830 ; died 13 April 1842.
7. Catherine, born 28 February 1815 ; married, 28 March
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1843, to William Rashleigh of Menabilly, Cornwall, who died 31 October 1871. She died 8 November 1872.
8. Fanny Mary, born 17 April 1816 ; married, as second
wife, 10 August 1847, to William Busfield Ferrand, M.P., of Harden Grange, Yorkshire, who died 31 March 1889. She died 18 December 1896.
9. Georgiana Eliza, born 17 June 1821; married, 27
May 1857, to the Right Hon. Sir Andrew Buchanan, Ambassador Extraordinary at St. Petersburg and Vienna, who died 13 November 1882. She died at Castle Grant 21 March 1904.
10. Caroline Henrietta, born 4 March, died 19 October
1825.
11. Caroline (twin with Henry), born 30 June 1830; married,
12 August 1850, to John Charles, Earl of Seafield.
XII. CHARLES WALTER, twelfth Lord Blantyre, born 21 December 1818; Representative Peer 1850-92; D.L. Lanark and Renfrew. He died 15 December 1900, when the Barony became extinct. He married, 4 October 1843, Evelyn Sutherland Leveson-Gower, second daughter of George Granville, second Duke of Sutherland, who died 24 November 1869, and had issue : —
1. WALTER, Master of Blantyre, born 17 July 1851,
captain 1st Sutherland Highlanders; died, unmarried, 15 March 1895.
2. Mary, born 15 September 1845.
3. Ellen, born 21 August 1846 ; married, 15 June 1864, Sir
David Baird, Bart., and has issue.
4. Evelyn, born 24 June 1848 ; married, 7th March 1871,
to Archibald, third Marquess of Ailsa; and died 26 July 1888, leaving issue.
5. Gertrude, born 11 October 1849 ; married, 30 Sep-
tember 1875, to William Henry Gladstone, who died 4 July 1891, and had issue.
6. Blanche, born 6 March 1867 ; died 7 September 1868.
CREATION. — Lord Blantyre, 10 July 1606.
ARMS.— Not recorded in Lyon Register, but given by
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Nisbet as — Or, a fess chequy azure and argent, surmounted of a bend engrailed, and in chief a rose gules.
CREST. — A dove with an olive leaf in its mouth proper.
SUPPORTERS. — Dexter, a savage wreathed about the head and middle with laurel, holding in his right hand a baton, all proper : sinister, a lion rampant gules.
MOTTO — Sola juvat virtus.
[J. B. P.]
BORTHWICK, LORD BORTHWICK
ETTING aside the sug- gestion of a continental origin,1 it seems probable that the family of Borth- wick derived its surname from the lands or ter- ritory so called, lying along the Borthwick Water,2 on the borders of Selkirk and Roxburgh; and it certainly gave the name to the parish of Borthwick, known more anciently as Loch- orwart, in the county of Edinburgh.
THOMAS DE BOBTHWICK obtained a charter from John of Gordon, Lord of that Ilk, of the half-lands of Ligertwood, near Lauder, in Berwickshire, which is not dated, but must have been granted between 1357 and 1367.3 His son and heir, William de Borthwick, was concerned in a cause with Thomas de Hay, regarding the lands of Middleton,
1 See, however, Hay's Estimate of the Scottish Nobility, 1577, ed. Rogers 1873, 21 ; Douglas, 1764, 76, citing Martin of Clermont's MSS. ii. ; and Martin again in Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 131. 2 The name of the lands occurs in the form ' Bordewich,' in charters by the Avenel family to the monks of Melros, in the reign of William the Lion, 1165-1214 ; and the town and territory of Bortwic appear in a grant between 1214 and 1249 (Lib. de Melros, 30, 34, 237). An evident belief in the high antiquity of the name prompted Scott to introduce * old Borthwick's roaring strand ' in the first canto of his Lay ; and Leyden, in his Scenes of Infancy, speaks of ' Bortha hoarse ' rolling her red tide to the Teviot. 3 Charter in Gen. Reg. House, No. 151. John Major has a story, which he places as early as 1361, of a ' lord ' Borthwick, who made his escape from captivity in England (History, Scot. Hist. Soc., 299).
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Midlothian, in 1368,1 and there is no reason to doubt that this son was
SIR WILLIAM BORTHWICK, who in 1378 was in possession of the lands of Catcune,2 Midlothian, and who appears to have been variously described as of Catcune, of Ligertwood, and of Borthwick. He was employed as an ambassador or com- missioner in the reigns of Robert in. and James i., and went to England on many diplomatic missions, from 1398 3 to