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In a general history of this kind, our
treatment of the "upper ten thousand" of the county must
necessarily be of Spartan brevity.
Lord Abercromby, George Campbell
Abercromby of Tullibody, is the eldest son of the third lord, by Louisa
Penuel, daughter of the late Hon. John Hay Forbes; who, as Lord Medwyn,
was a Scotch judge of session. His lordship was born in 1838; succeeded
to the title in 1852; and married, in 1858, Lady Julia Janet Georgiana,
daughter of Adam, second Earl of Camperdown.
Sir James Edward Alexander, C.B., of
Westerton, who was created a knight in 1838, is the eldest son of the
late Edward Alexander, Esquire, of Powis, by his second wife Catherine,
daughter of John Glas, Esquire, provost of Stirling. He was born in
1807; and, in 1837, married Eveline Marie, third daughter of Lieut.-Col.
Charles Cornwallis Michell, K.H.; and has, with other issue, Edward
Mayne, born 1846. Sir James, who is a major-general in the army, was
educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and at the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst.
John Blackburn, Esquire, of Killearn, is
son of the late Peter Blackburn, Esquire, by Jean Wedderburn, second
daughter of James Wedderburn, Esquire, formerly solicitor-general of
Scotland. His father for some time represented the county in Parliament;
but, at a general election, was defeated by Admiral Erskine of Cardross
(Liberal), who headed the poll with a majority of 34. The Tory was
highly esteemed on all hands for his shrewd, energetic, and practical
parts. His impolite antecedents, however, with reference to the
commercial treaty, the county franchise, and game laws, sealed his doom
with the Stirlingshire electors. Mr. Blackburn, senr., was also chairman
of the old E. & G. railway, when the late Mr. Richard Hodgson
cleverly, though by no means creditably, clutched it as one solvent
spoke at least for the wheels of North British. But Mr. Hodgson,
notwithstanding all his alarming intrepidity and "go" as a
railway chief, simply lived a few years before his time. It, perhaps,
cannot be said that he had the Tay Bridge in view, but he certainly had
the Forth Bridge; and all that the North British company have done and
are doing, since his retirement and death, was only what he aimed at
achieving. John Blackburn, Esquire, was born in 1843; and succeeded to
the estate, with its elegant mansion, on the banks of the Blane, in
1870. The property was purchased in 1814 by his paternal grandfather,
who had made a fortune in Jamaica.
J.C. Bolton, Esquire, of Carbrook, sits
at present in parliament for the county. He might almost have been
ranked as one of the eminent men. His career, which has been
exceptionally prosperous, shows what business ability, keen insight,
sound judgment, and force of character, can do for success in life.
Having had his way to make the world, he started on fortune’s track as
a sailor boy; but, in his fifteenth year, entered the British office of
an East Indian house, in which he rose from junior clerk to the position
of senior partner, and is now the only representative of the well-known
Glasgow firm of Messrs. Ker, Bolton & Co. For some years, he was
chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and is still a director of the
Caledonian Railway, and chairman of the Callendar & Oban line. Mr.
Bolton married a Miss Higginbotham, daughter of the late Samuel
Higginbotham, Esquire, Glasgow, but that lady died about a quarter of a
century ago.
Sir William Cunningham Bruce, Baronet, of
Stenhouse, is the eldest son of the late William Cunningham Bruce,
Esquire, of the Bombay Civil Service, by Jane, daughter of William
Clarke, Esquire, of London. He was born in 1825; and succeeded his
uncle, Sir Michael, as eighth baronet, in 1862. In 1850, he married
Charlotte Isabella, daughter of the Hon. Walter O’Grady, Q.C., and
grand-daughter of Standish, first Guillamore. She died in 1873. Sir
William was formerly captain of the 74th Foot. The heir, his
son Michael, was born in 1853.
The Right Hon. Sir Andrew Buchanan, G.C.B.,
of Craigend, is the only son of the late James Buchanan, Esquire, by the
Lady Janet Sinclair, eldest daughter of James, twelfth Earl of Caithness.
He was born in 1807; and married, first, in 1839, Frances Catherine,
only daughter of the late Very Rev. Edward Mellish, of Rushall Hall,
Staffordshire, formerly dean of Hereford. She died in 1854. In 1857, Sir
Andrew married, second, the Hon. Georgina third daughter of Robert
Walter eleventh Lord Blantyre, and has by the former wife, with other
issue, James, commander in the Royal Navy, who was born in 1840; and
married, in 1873, Arabella Catherine, youngest daughter of G.C.
Colquitt-Craven, Esquire, of Brockhampton, Gloucestershire. Sir Andrew,
who entered the diplomatic service in 1825, was sworn a member of the
Privy Council in 1863; appointed ambassador at Berlin in 1862, at St.
Petersburg in 1864, and at Vienna in 1871.
Henry Ritchie Cooper, Esquire, of
Ballindalloch, is the second son of the late Samuel Cooper, Esquire, of
Failford and Ballindalloch, by Janet, daughter of Henry Ritchie,
Esquire. He was born in 1816; succeeded in 1842; and, in 1846, married
Mary Jane, only surviving child of Gerald Butler, Esquire, of
Wexfordshire. With other issue, he has Henry, born in 1852.
Thomas George Dundas, Esquire, of
Carronhall and Fingask, is the eldest son of the late Joseph Dundas,
Esquire, (who died at Carronhall in 1872), by Margaret Isabella,
youngest daughter of George Moir, Esquire, of Denmore, Aberdeenshire. He
was born in 1853, and is lieutenant in the 52nd Foot. The
surname of Dundas is very ancient and justly celebrated. It may be
traced to Cospatrick, first Earl of March. Sir John Dundas of Fingask,
in Perthshire, who flourished about the middle of the sixteenth century,
was descended of Alexander, eldest son, by a second marriage, of James
Dundas, Esquire, of Dundas, eleventh from Earl Cospatrick, with
Christian Stewart, daughter of John Dominus de Innermeath et Lorn.
This lady was aunt to the Black Knight of Lorn, who married Jane, Queen
of Scotland, daughter of John, Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III.,
and relict of James I.
The noble house of Murray, Earl of
Dunmore, is descended of Sir John de Moravia, high sheriff of Perthshire
under the Lion and Alexander II. His son, Malcolm de Moravia, also high
sheriff of Perthshire, is witness to a charter by Malise Earl of
Strathern, to his sister Annabella, on her marriage with Sir David de
Graham, of the lands of Kincardine in Strathearn. By this lady, daughter
and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Gask, he acquired the lands of Gask in
Strathearn. His second son, Sir William, who succeeded to the
representative of the family, married Adda, daughter of Malise, steward
of Strathearn, in right of Muriel his wife, daughter and heiress of
Congal de Mar de Tullibardine, son of Duncan Earl of Mar. By Adda, Sir
William de Moravia acquired Tullibardine, and, from her brother Henry,
steward of Strathearn, obtained a charter of confirmation in 1284. The
writ is dated apud Duffaly, a place now called Duchally, near the
entrance of Gleneglis. He was one of the great barons of Scotland who
submitted to Edward I.’s determination in favour of Baliol. His son,
Sir Andrew Murray, second of Tullibardine, favouring the Baliol party,
paid the forfeit with his life at Perth in 1332. His great grandson, Sir
Walter, fifth of Tullibardine, was surety for Sir John de Drummond, in
the well-known treaty with the Menteths of Rusky on the banks of the
Forth near Stirling 17th May, 1360, and appended his seal,
with those of Sir John and Sir Maurice de Drummond, on the one part. His
son and heir, Sir David, first styled of Gask, and afterwards of
Tullibardine, founded, and largely endowed, the collegiate church of
Tullibardine, for a provost and four prebendaries, in 1446. His daughter
Christian married Sir Murdoch Menteth of Rusky, and was mother of the
two co-heiresses of the Rusky estate and fourth part of the Levenax, who
married, the one Sir John Haldane of Gleneglis, and the other Sir John
Napier of Merchiston. His eldest son, Sir William, seventh of
Tullibardine, was sheriff of Perth and Banff shires, and married
Margaret, daughter of Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, lord high chamberlain
of Scotland. He had by her seventeen sons, of whom many of the Murrays
are descended. His eldest son, Sir William, obtained from James III., in
1782, a charter of the stewartry of Strathearn and lordship of
Balquhidder. It was ratified by parliament under the following reign.
The ninth of Tullibardine, William, whose mother was a daughter of Lord
Gray, married Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of John Earl of Athole.
The tenth of Tullibardine, William, married Catherine, daughter of Sir
John Campbell of Glenurchy. The eleventh, Sir William, notwithstanding
he had taken an active part in the Reformation, was a favourite of Queen
Mary, and had the honour of repeated visits from her Majesty at
Tullibardine. He was made one of her privy council and comptroller of
the kingdom in 1565. His eldest sister, Annabella, was countess of the
Regent Mar, and, when a widow, entrusted with the infant person of James
VI., "his hieness continuing under her noriture, as towards his
mouthe and ordering of his person." Sir William Murray of
Tullibardine, had, with his nephew, the Earl of Mar, afterwards lord
high treasurer, the keeping &c. of Stirling castle, and of the
infant king, whose residence it was. By Lady Agnes Graham, daughter of
William second Earl of Montrose, he had his eldest son, Sir John,
twelfth of Tullibardine, who, with his cousin Mar, had been the intimate
friend of James VI., was, in 1592, appointed master of the king’s
household; on the 15th of April, 1604, created Lord Murray of
Tullibardine; and on the 10th of July, 1606, Earl of
Tullibardine. John first Earl of Tullibardine had, by Dame Catherine
Drummond, daughter of David second Lord Drummond, William second Earl of
Tullibardine; John Patrick, afterwards third earl; Mungo, afterwards
Viscount Stormont; Lady Anne, married to the Earl of Kinghorn; Lady
Lillias, to Sir John Grant of Grant; Lady Margaret, to Haldane of
Gleneglis; Lady Catherine, to Ross of Balnagowan; and a fifth daughter
to John M’Gregor. William second Earl of Tullibardine married Lady
Dorothea Stewart, eldest daughter and heiress of John fifth Earl of
Athole; had by her John sixth Earl of Athole, father, by Lady Jean,
daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenurchie, of the first Marquis of
Athole, and, through him, by Lady Emilia Stanley, daughter of James Earl
of Derby, grandfather of Charles, the second son of this marriage,
created by James VII. Earl of Dunmore, Viscount Fincastle, Baron Murray
of Blair, 16th August, 1686. By Catherine, daughter of Robert
Watts, Esquire, of the county of Hereford, the Earl of Dunmore had five
sons, three of whom, James, John, and William, became successively his
representatives in the peerage; and three daughters married, to Lord
Kinnaird, the Earl of Dundonald, and John Lord Nairn. William had by
Catherine, daughter of William Lord Nairn, three sons, and four
daughters. Lady Catherine married John Drummond, Esquire, of Logie-Almond.
His eldest son, John, became fifth Earl of Dunmore. By Lady Charlotte
Stewart, daughter of Alexander Earl of Galloway, he had the sixth earl,
who succeeded him in 1809, and, by Lady Susan Hamilton, daughter of
Archibald Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, had male issue. The first Earl
of Dunmore’s elder brother, John second Marquis of Athole, was, on the
30th of June, 1703, created Duke of Athole, to the heirs male
of his body; whom failing to the heirs male of his father’s body. The
Earl of Dunmore and male descendants are thus capable of contingently
succeeding to the dukedom of Athole. By Lady Catherine Hamilton, eldest
daughter of William Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Athole had six sons
and one daughter. John Marquis of Tullibardine was killed at the battle
of Mons in 1709. His next brother, William, having embarked in the
insurrection of 1715, was attainted of high treason. Escaping to France,
he returned in company with Charles Edward Stuart, in 1745; was made
prisoner in 1746; and died in the Tower of London in 1747. The duke
procured the settlement of his estates and honours on his third son
James; who, on the death of his father in 1724, became second Duke of
Athole. On the death of the Earl of Derby, in 1735, without issue, while
the estates and honours of Derby went to his male heir Sir Edward
Stanley, the title of Lord Strange, and the lordship of Mann and the
Isles came to the Duke of Athole, as heir of line and at law. By Jean,
daughter of Sir John Frederick of Westminster, Bart., his grace had one
son, who died young, and two daughters, Lady Jean, Countess of Crawford,
who died without issue, and Lady Charlotte, married to her cousin, Mr.
John Murray, oldest son of Lord George Murray, younger brother of her
father. Mr. Murray succeeded his uncle and his father-in-law in the
dukedom of Athole, and Lady Charlotte preserved in the family the
honours and estates which had otherwise gone out of it. They were the
parents of a late duke; who, in 1786, was created Earl Strange. The
sovereignty of Mann was, in 1765, purchased by the parliament, and
annexed to the crown of Great Britain. The lords of Mann, though they
waved the title of king, had the powers. Mann was a royal fief of the
English crown, and the only one; so that the Dukes of Athole had
latterly united the characters of subject and sovereign, and the Earls
of Dunmore might, contingently, have been in the same situation. Charles
Adolphus Murray, the present earl, is the only son of Alexander Edward
sixth earl, by Lady Katherine, daughter of George Augustus eleventh Earl
of Pembroke. He was born in 1841; succeeded in 1845; and, in 1866,
married Lady Gertrude, daughter of Thomas second Earl of Leicester. The
heir, his son Alexander Edward, Viscount Fincastle, was born in 1871.
Lady Susan Catherine Murray, the earl’s eldest sister, became, in
1860, the second wife of James Carnegie, K.T., Earl of Southesk, who
married, first, Lady Catherine Hamilton, daughter of Charles first Earl
of Gainsborough. His lordship, who was educated at Eton, is a skilled
musician both in theory and practice. Of late years he has devoted his
attention and means chiefly to the breeding and rearing of prize cattle.
He is lord-lieutenant of the county, and a lord in waiting to the Queen.
The surname of Edmonston is certainly as
old as Alexander II. Sir John de Edmonston Miles was a person of
note under David Bruce on the 17th of March, 1499, who
bestowed upon him the barony of Boyne, in Banffshire. Sir John had
Edmonston in Mid-Lothian; and was, by the same monarch, appointed
hereditary coroner of that county, with a power of assignment. He was
proprietor also of Culloden in Inverness-shire. He married the Princess
Isabel Stewart, relict of James Earl of Douglas, slain at the battle of
Otterburn 1388, and daughter of Robert II., king of Scotland. During the
reign of his brother-in-law, Robert III., Sir John de Edmonston was
employed as plenipotentiary in different treaties with England, and had
the same dignified function in three successive treaties with the same
nation under the regency of his other brother-in-law, Robert Duke of
Albany. By Lady Isabel he had two sons, Sir David de Edmonston, who died
without male issue, and Sir William Edmonston of Culloden. The latter
was the direct and immediate ancestor of the Edmonstons of Duntreath. He
married the Princess Mary Stewart, eldest daughter of Robert III. and
Queen Annabella Drummond; and, from his lady’s nephew, James II.,
obtained the lands of Duntreath. By the princess, Sir William Edmonston
had a son, Sir William, and a daughter, Matilda, married to Sir Adam
Cunninghame of Caprington. Sir William Edmonston of Culloden and
Duntreath, who, by the death of his uncle without male issue, succeeded
to the representation of the family of Edmonston, fixed his residence at
Duntreath, and dropped the addition of Culloden. By Lady Matilda
Stewart, daughter of Lord James, son of Murdoch, Duke of Albany and
Regent, by Lady Isabel, Countess of Levenax in her own right, he had two
sons, Sir Archibald, his heir, and William, who, by royal grant,
obtained the lands of Buchynhadrick in the stewartry of Monteith. Sir
William had, by the same lady, a daughter, Mary, married to Sir William
Cunninghame, of Glengarnock. He was, under James III., in 1472, one of
the senators of the College of Justice. Sir Archibald Edmonston of
Duntreath was, by James IV., made captain of the Doune castle, and
steward of Monteith and Strathgartney. By Janet, daughter of Sir James
Haw of Sauchie, comptroller of Scotland, and governor of Stirling castle
under James III., he had three sons, Sir William, his heir, James,
ancestor of the Edmonstons of Broich in Stirlingshire, Jacob, of the
Edmonstons of Balinton in Perthshire; and five daughters, Janet, married
to William first Earl of Montrose, Catherine, to John second Earl of
Eglinton, Christian, to John second Lord Ross, Margaret, to George
Buchanan of Buchanan, Beatrix, to James Muschet of Burnbank in
Perthshire. Sir William Edmonston of Duntreath, after his father’s
death in 1502, was, by James IV., appointed captain of Doune castle and
steward of Monteith. He sold Culloden to Strachan of Scotstown. He fell
on Flodden field 9th September, 1513. By Sybilla, daughter of
Sir William Baillie of Lamington, he left, Sir William, his heir,
Archibald, ancestor of the Edmonstons of Spittal, James, ancestor of the
Edmonstons of Newton and of Cambuswallace, and several daughters, the
eldest of whom, Marion, was married to John Campbell of Glenurchy,
paternal ancestor of the Earls of Breadalbane. Sir William Edmonston of
Duntreath, and his brother Archibald Edmonston of Spittal, were, in
1516, made, by royal charter, joint captains of Doune castle and
stewards of Menteith and Strathgartney. He was a privy councillor in
1565. By Margaret, daughter of Sir James Campbell of Lawers, and
ancestor of the Earls of Loudon, he had, besides five daughters, all
respectably married, Sir James, who married Helen, daughter of Sir James
Stirling of Keir, and had, by her, William, his heir, and three
daughters. William Edmonston of Duntreath married Isabel, daughter of
Sir John Haldane of Gleneglis; and had, by her, Archibald, his heir,
James, and John. The last married the sole heiress of Edmonston of
Broich. The eldest was a member of the parliament met at Edinburgh in
1633, when Charles I. presided in person. By Jean, daughter and heiress
of Hamilton of Halcraig, brother of Viscount Clandeboy, he had two sons,
William, who, being dumb, did not succeed his father, and Archibald, his
father’s successor. By Anna Helena, daughter of Scot of Harlwood-burn,
he had, besides two daughters, both respectably married, Archibald, who
married Miss Campbell, daughter, by the Honourable Miss Elphinston, of
John Campbell of Mamore, son of Archibald ninth Earl of Argyll, and
father of the late duke; and, by her, had Sir Charles Edmonston, created
a baronet of Great Britain in 1774, and father, by Miss Harron, of the
late Sir Charles Edmonston, Bart. of Duntreath. Sir William, ex-M.P. for
the county, is the present representative of this noble family. We have
referred to the Duntreath estate in an earlier chapter.
The first of the family of Elphinston who
appears on record, John de Elphinston, flourished under Alexanders II.
and III., and possessed the barony of Elphinston, in Mid-Lothian. His
grandson and representative, Sir John de Elphinston, is forward with his
younger brothers, Aleyn and Duncan, among the involuntary subjects of
the English monarch, in 1296. By Margaret de Seton, niece of King Robert
Bruce, he had Alexander de Elphinston, who by marriage with Agnes de
Airth, acquired Airth-Beg, and several others lands in Stirlingshire;
and by exchange of part of Airth-Beg, Kirkunbar in this county.
Alexander’s great-grandson and representative, Sir Alexander
Elphinston, dominus de Elphinston, was succeeded in the barony of
Elphinston in Mid-Lothian, by his only child Agnes, who carried, by
marriage, that estate into the family of Johnston. Her uncle, Henry
Elphinston, Esquire, of Pittendreich, succeeded his brother in the
Stirlingshire property; which, also, with some lands in Perth and
Aberdeen shires, was subsequently called the barony of Elphinston. Henry’s
great-grandson and representative, Sir Alexander Elphinston of
Elphinston, a man of good parts, great honour, and unimpeachable
integrity, was, at the baptism of Prince Arthur, in 1509, raised by
James IV. to the peerage, by the title of Lord Elphinston. In 1510, Lord
Elphinston, as he was not diplomatically styled, obtained a charter
under the great seal of the lands of Gargunnock and Carnock. In 1512, he
obtained a royal charter of Quarrol and other lands in the county. He
accompanied his royal friend and patron to Flodden, in 1513, and, having
a great likeness of that elegant monarch, fell a victim to his
personating him in a battle fatal to James and many of his nobles. His
only son, Alexander, second Lord Elphinston, was slain in the battle of
Pinkey 1547. By the Hon. Catherine Elphinston, daughter of John, Lord
Erskine, or, more properly, Earl of Mar, he had five sons and three
daughters. The eldest son, Robert third Lord Elphinston, was, by
Margaret, daughter of Sir John Drummond of Inverpaffrey, ancestor,
through his third son, Sir James (a lord of the treasury, a secretary of
state, and president of the court of session, in Scotland), of the noble
house of Balmerinoch, forfeited, on account of its attachment to the
House of Stuart, in 1746. His eldest son, Alexander fourth Lord
Elphinston, was, in 1599, when Master of Elphinston, appointed one of
the senators of the College of Justice, and lord high treasurer of
Scotland. He was, in 1604, appointed, by the Scottish parliament, a
commissioner to treat with the English regarding a more complete union
of the sister kingdoms. He obtained many charters under the great seal
at different times, particularly of Bothkennar in 1608. He lived till
1648. By the Hon. Jean Livingston, daughter of Lord Livingston, he had
four sons and five daughters. His representative, Alexander fifth Lord
Elphinston, married Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick, Lord Drummond, and
sister of James first Earl of Perth, and had only one daughter. She
married her cousin, Alexander, eldest son of James, her father’s next
brother, and the male representative of the family; and was, by him, the
mother of Alexander, seventh Lord Elphinston, and of John the eighth
lord. The latter nobleman married Lady Isabella Maitland, daughter of
the Earl of Lauderdale, and had by her three sons and three daughters.
The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was by the Hon. John Campbell of Mamore,
mother of the Duke of Argyll. The eldest son, Charles ninth Lord
Elphinston, had, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Primrose, Bart.,
and sister of James first Viscount Primrose, four sons and two
daughters. The youngest of the daughters, Primrose, married Alexander
ninth Earl of Home, and brought him his son and heir. The third son,
Charles, succeeded as tenth Lord Elphinston. He married Lady Clementina
Fleming, only surviving child and heiress of John sixth Earl of Wigton,
by Lady Mary Keith, eldest daughter of William ninth Earl Mareschal. He
had by her four sons and four daughters. One of the sons was the Hon.
William Elphinston, chairman of the India-House. Another was George
Keith Elphinston, Lord Viscount Keith, a British peer, Lord Keith of
Stonehaven Mareschal, K.G.C.B., admiral of the Red, commander of the
Channel Fleet, and knight of the Turkish order of the Crescent. The
eldest brother was John eleventh Lord Elphinston. He married the Hon.
Miss Ruthven, daughter of James third Lord Ruthven, by Lady Anne
Stewart, daughter of James second Earl of Bute, by Lady Anne Campbell,
daughter of Archibald first Duke of Argyll. By her he had Lord
Elphinston, who was, till his decease, lord-lieutenant of Dumbartonshire;
and to whom his lady, Janet Elliot, daughter of Cornelius Elliot,
Esquire, and relict of Sir Thomas Carmichael of Skirling, Bart., had the
late lord. Another brother was the Hon. Charles Elphinston Fleming of
Cumbernauld, rear-admiral of the White, and some time M.P. for
Stirlingshire. A third brother, the Hon. Mountstewart Elphinston, in the
Indian service, produced a most interesting statistical work on the
kingdom of Cabul.
Archibald Orr-Ewing, Esquire, of
Ballikinrain, is the seventh son of the late William Ewing, Esquire, of
Ardvullin, Dunoon, by Susan, daughter of John Orr, Esquire, of
Underwood, Paisley. He was born in 1819; and, in 1847, married Elizabeth
Lindsay, daughter of James Reid, Esquire, of Berriedale and Caldercruix.
He has, with other issue, William, born in 1848; and educated at
Pembroke College, Cambridge. Mr. Orr-Ewing was elected M.P. for
Dumbartonshire in 1868.
William Forbes, Esquire, of Callendar, is
the eldest son of the late William Forbes, Esquire, by Lady Louisa,
daughter of Francis seventh Earl of Wemyss. He was born in 1833;
succeeded his father, who for some time represented the county in
parliament in 1855; and in 1868, married, second, Edith Marian, third
daughter of the Rev. Lord Charles Harvey. He has, with other issue by
his first wife, who died in 1866, William Francis, born in 1860.
The Hon. Charles Spencer Bateman, Hanbury-Kincaid-Lennox,
is the second son of William first, Lord Bateman, by Elizabeth, daughter
of the late Lord Spencer Stanley, Chichester. He was born in 1827; and
educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1847, he took the
degree of B.A.; and in the following year, that of M.A. In 1861, he
married Margaret, eldest daughter and heiress of the late John Lennox
Kincaid-Lennox, Esquire, of Lennox castle, and widow of George seventh
Viscount of Strangford, when he assumed the surnames and arms of
Kincaid-Lennox by royal license.
Thomas Fenton Livingstone, Esquire, of
Westquarter, is the only son of John Thomas Fenton, Esquire, and Selina,
younger daughter of the late Sir John Edensor Heathcote, Knt., of
Longston Hall, Staffordshire. He was born in 1829; succeeded his
grand-uncle, Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone, Bart., of that ilk, in
1853, when he took the additional name of Livingstone; and in 1855,
married Christian Margaret, only daughter and heiress of William
Waddell, Esquire, D.L., of Moffat House, Lanark. Mr. Livingstone has,
with other surviving issue, John Nigel Edensor, born in 1859.
John Mangles Lowis, Esquire, of Plean, is
a son of John Lowis, Esquire, who had been a member of the Supreme Court
of India, and died in 1870. His mother was Louisa, daughter of John
Fendall, Esquire. Born in 1827, he married in 1854, Ellen, daughter of
Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esquire, of Stoke, Surrey; and has, with other
issue, John, born in 1855. Mr. Lowis, who was educated at Hayleybury, is
in the Bengal Civil Service.
John Warden M’Farlane, Esquire, of
Ballencleroch House, Campsie, is the eldest son of John M’Falan,
Esquire, by Janet Buchanan, daughter of Robert Ewing, Esquire, of
Glasgow. He was born in 1824; succeeded his father in 1852; and in 1857,
married Elizabeth, daughter of Duncan Gibb, Esq., of Liverpool. Mr. M’Farlan,
who is a captain in the 5th Lancers, was educated at
Edinburgh.
Douglas Beresford, Malise Ronald Graham,
Duke of Montrose, is the eldest son of James fourth duke, by the Hon.
Caroline Agnes, daughter of John second Lord Decies. He was born in
1852; succeeded as fifth duke in 1874; and, in 1876, married Violet,
daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, Bart. His education was got at Eton.
In the House of Lords he sits as Earl Graham, G.B. He is also hereditary
sheriff of Dumbartonshire; lieut. of the 5th Lancers; hon.
colonel of the Highland Borderers Light Infantry Militia; and late of
the Coldstream Guards. The heir presumptive is the duke’s uncle, Lord
Montagu William of Worsted Park, Suffolk, who was born in 1807; and
married, in 1867, the Hon. Harriet Anne, daughter of William first Lord
Bateman. His lordship was formerly captain in the Coldstream Guards; was
M.P. for Grantham, 1852-57; and for Herefordshire, 1859-65. Buchanan
house is the seat of the Montrose family. At the death of the last
Buchanan of that ilk, in 1682, the estate was sold by his creditors, and
purchased by James the third marquis. The family of Graham, which
attained to rank under the titular distinction of Montrose, is said to
have been settled in Scotland in the reign of David I., about the middle
of the twelfth century. Brave and useful at a time when personal bravery
was of importance, the Grahams for various services had grants of land
from the crown, and gradually rose to eminence. The first notable member
of the family was Sir John Graeme of Dundaff, who, during the wars of
the succession, fell at the battle of Falkirk in 1298. Then early in the
fifteenth century Sir William Graham married, for his second wife, a
daughter of Robert III., and Robert, the eldest son of this branch, was
the ancestor of the Grahams of Claverhouse. We can only briefly refer
here to the attempt made by the great Marquis of Montrose, in May, 1650,
in favour of Charles II. His army, consisting of 500 foreigners, was
soon defeated, and their gallant leader taken. He was carried on the 18th
to Edinburgh, and there treated with extreme indignity. The magistrates,
with the city guard and executioner, met him at the Watergate. The
prisoners walked, bound two and two, except Montrose, who followed,
mounted on a new cart made on purpose, with a high seat, to which he was
bound with cords. The hangman rode before, in his livery coat and
bonnet, while Montrose sat uncovered. Thus was his fate, before his
trial, pantomimically announced. The Earl of Argyll was, in 1685,
similarly insulted after his trial, escape, and apprehension. Mr. Fox,
while he relates with appropriate indignation the hard fact of Argyll,
might, without quitting his subject, have adverted to the indignities
offered to Montrose under the auspices of Argyll’s father. Such facts,
properly grouped in the historic page, afford a useful lesson to
partisans. Tranquil as on a birthday, the marquis bore with equanimity
the reproaches with which the chancellor accompanied the sentence of
death, and maintained that superiority over his iniquitous judges, to
which the greatness of his mind, the fame of his exploits, and the
justice of his cause entitled him. On the scaffold, while the
executioner, having brought a book reciting his gallant exploits, was
tying it round his neck, he smiled, thanked him, and added that he wore
this testimony of his bravery and loyalty with more satisfaction than
the garter had ever given him. After life was extinct his body was
dismembered on the scaffold, his head stuck on a pike at the west end of
the prison or tollbooth of Edinburgh, and other parts of his person
placed over the gateways of different towns, while the trunk was buried
underneath the gallows.
Andrew de Moravia, in David II.’s time,
and by that monarch called "our dear blood-relation," is the
undoubted progenitor of the Murrays of Touchadam and Polmaise. Kepmad
was his first estate in the county, as appears from a royal charter of
10th May, 1365. About this time Laurence Killebrand had
obtained a royal charter of Touchmaler and Toulcheadame. On the 28th
of July, 1369, Andrew Murray received from David a grant of these lands.
His great-grandson and representative, William Murray of Touchadam, had
been scutifer to James II., and was appointed constable of
Stirling castle under James III. The seventh representative of the
founder of the family, William, about 1568, married Agnes, one of the
daughters and coheiresses of James Cunninghame of Polmaise, in
Stirlingshire. He and his descendants have since been promiscuously
known as Murrays of Touchadam and Polmaise. His son and heir, Sir John
Murray Miles, got a charter under the great seal of the lands and
barony of Polmaise, 8th April, 1588. A late representative of
the family, William Murray, Esquire, was designed of Touchadam and
Pitlochie. The latter property is in Fife. The present representative is
Lieut.-Colonel John Murray, late of the Grenadier Guards. His father was
John Murray, Esquire, of Polmaise, and his mother, Elizabeth Bryce of
Edinburgh. Born in 1831, he succeeded to the estates in 1862; and in
1859 married Lady Agnes Caroline Graham, daughter of James fourth Duke
of Montrose, who died in 1873. The heir presumptive is Mr. Murray’s
brother, James, born in 1834.
Alexander Henry Murray-Menzies, Esquire,
of Avondale, is the eldest son of the late Gilbert James Murray-Menzies,
Esquire, by his first wife, Anne Matilda, only child of the late
Alexander Murray, Esquire, of Pitlochie. He was born in 1854. His
father, who died in 1874, was formerly an officer in the Black Watch.
John Bell Sherriff, Esquire, of
Carronvale, is the youngest son of the late George Sherriff, Esquire, of
St. Petersburg, by Margaret, daughter of John Bell, Esquire, of Lyon
Thorn, Stirlingshire. He was born in 1821; and, in 1854, married Flora
Taylor of Islay, who died in 1876. With other issue, he has George, born
in 1856, and educated at Rugby and Glasgow University. Mr. Sherriff
purchased Carronvale from the Robertsons in 1857.
Alexander Graham Spiers, Esquire, of
Culcreugh, Fintry, is the eldest son of Peter Spiers, Esquire, by Martha
Harriet, second daughter of Robert Cunninghame-Graham, Esquire, of
Gartmore, Perthshire. He was born in 1793; succeeded to the estate in
1829; and, in 1828, married Mary, second daughter of William Murray,
Esquire, of Polmaise. Mr. Spiers, who was educated at the Royal Military
College, Marlow, was formerly an officer in the army. He was also M.P.
for Paisley 1835-6. The heir of entail is his niece Anne, born in 1833.
In 1858, she married Sir George Home, Bart.; and has, with other issue,
James, born in 1861.
David Stewart, Esquire, of Stewarthall,
is the only son of Robert Stewart, Esquire, by Helen, daughter of Walter
Buchanan, Esquire. He was born in 1830; and, in 1861, married Dorothy
Emily, only daughter of the Rev. John Cox, rector of Fairstead, Essex;
and has, with other issue, Robert John Archibald, born 1863. Mr. Stewart
was formerly a captain in the 34th Foot.
Sir Henry James Seton-Stewart, Bart., of
Touch House, is the eldest son of Sir Reginald Macdonald Seton-Stewart,
Bart., of Staffa, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry
Stewart, Bart, F.R.S., of Allanton. He was born in 1812; succeeded, as
third baronet, in 1838; and, in 1852, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Montgomery, Esquire. Sir Henry is hereditary armour-bearer and
squire of the royal body in Scotland. The heir presumptive is his
nephew, Alan Henry, elder son of the late Archibald Seton-Stewart,
Esquire, by Catherine, daughter of Robert Stein, Esquire. He was born in
1856.
Andrew Stirling, Esquire, of Muiravonside,
is the eldest son of Charles Stirling, Esquire, by Charlotte Dorothea,
only daughter of the late vice-admiral Charles Stirling of Woburn Farm,
Chertsey, Surrey. He was born in 1829; succeeded to the estate in 1867;
and, in 1864, married Georgina Louisa, second daughter of Sir Henry
Martin Blackwood.
Sir Charles Elphinstone Fleming Stirling
of Glorat House is the third and only surviving son of Captain George
Stirling, by his first wife, Anne, daughter of William Gray, Esquire, of
Oxgang, and grandson of the late Sir John Stirling, Bart., of Glorat. He
was born in 1832; succeeded his brother in 1861; and in 1867, married
Anne Georgina, eldest daughter of James Murray, Esquire. In 1550, George
Stirling of Glorat was captain and governor-in-chief of Dumbarton
castle. The arms and motto, "semper fidelis," was granted to
the family for their loyalty to their sovereigns Charles I. and II.; and
in 1666, they were further honoured with the dignity of knight and
baronet. Both Glorat family and the Stirlings of Craigbarnet are
descended from the Stirlings of Cadder, whose name appears in the Ragman’s
Roll, 1279.
Major Charles Campbell Graham-Stirling of
Craigbarnet is the only son of John Graham, Esquire, of Feddal, by
Isabella, daughter of Captain Campbell, late 88th Regiment.
He was born in 1827, succeeded his cousin in 1852, and, in 1856, married
Elizabeth Agnes, eldest daughter of Robert Dunmore Napier, Esquire, of
Ballikinrain.
James Stirling, Esquire of Garden, Kippen,
is the eldest son of James Stirling, Esquire, by Isabella, daughter of
William Monteith, Esquire. He was born in 1844; and, in 1875, married
Anna Selina Gartside, daughter of Gartside Gartside Tipping, Esquire, of
Ross-ferry, county Fermanagh. Mr. Stirling was educated at Rugby, and
Christ Church, Oxford.
John Stirling Stirling, Esquire of
Gargunnock, is the only son of Charles Stirling, Esquire, by Christian,
daughter of John Hamilton, Esquire, of Sundrum, Ayrshire. He was born in
1832, succeeded his father in 1889, and, in 1871, married Henrietta
Charlotte, youngest daughter of John Buchanan, Esquire, of Carbeth, by
whom he has Louisa Christian, born in 1872.
William Stirling, Esquire, of Tarduf, is
the third son of the late William Stirling, Esquire, by Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry Barrett, Esquire, of Cinnamon Hill, Jamaica, and
grandson of John Stirling, Esquire, of Kippendavie, to whose estates in
Jamaica he has succeeded. He was born in 1822; and, in 1855, married his
cousin, Mary Katherine, daughter of the late Sylvester Douglas Stirling,
Esquire, of Glenbervie, and has, with other issue, William George Hay,
born in 1861. Mr. Stirling is colonel of the 31st Lanark
Rifle Volunteers.
Nathaniel William John Strode, Esquire,
of Candie, is the only son of Nathaniel Nugent Strode, Esquire, an
officer in the 16th Regiment of Foot, who died in 1831. His
mother was Caroline, daughter of Captain Kirk, 47th Regiment.
He was born in 1816; and, in 1872, married Eleanor Margaret, third
daughter of the late W. C. Courtney, Esquire, and has had with other
issue Louis Edward Maitland, born in 1874.
Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Zetland, is
eldest son of the Hon. John Charles Dundas of Wood Hall, Wetherby,
Yorkshire, who died in 1866. His mother was Margaret Matilda, eldest
daughter of James Talbot, Esquire, of Maryville, Wexfordshire. He was
born in 1845; succeeded his uncle, Thomas, second earl, K.G., in 1873;
and, in 1871, married Lady Lilian Elizabeth Selina, daughter of Richard
ninth Earl of Scarborough. His lordship was educated at Harrow and
Trinity College, Cambridge; was M.P. for Richmond for two years, and
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