# People

Comment:
Agent for French tobacco trade. Ex Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Father was a Glasgow merchant


Title History:
Adopted name Campbell to inherit lands of maternal grandfather (Ardkinglass), 1752.
Succeeded his father, 1771 as 3rd Bt Glentirran

Father's Name:
Sir James Livingstone, 2nd Bt of Glentirran

Wealth:
Inherited lands from father and maternal grandfather

Land in Scotland:
Ardkinglass (Argyll) & Glentirran (Stirling)

Comment:
Married,  1752, Catherine, da. and coh, of Walter Campbell, receiver-gen, of Scottish customs, and cousin of Daniel Campbell of Shawfield.Gov. Stirling castle 1763-d (apptd by Grenville).James Livingstone succeeded his brother Alexander as his grandfather's heir in December 1745, and, under the terms of the entail, took the name of Campbell. But did not inherit the title, which became extinct.


Comment:
Campbell placeman. SS pension of £400 pa transferrred from huis uncle, whom he replaced, to him. Discontinued 1761.  Reader  of scientific publications


Political Career:
In Parliament from 1754-1770; MP and SRP

Comment:
John Dalrymple to Charles Townshend, 1759:General Campbell . , . has, I believe, no political views at all; he is a man of pleasure and his frequent topic is his astonishment at people's throwing away their lives in managing men and conducting measures . . . You used to think that he would be afraid of you taking a great part in this country and the measures concerning it out of his hands some future day. 1 believe he neither thinks of the country or its interests with these great views; he would rather see both the country and its measures at the devil than be so plagued with them. (N&B)


Political Career:
MP for Pembrokeshire,1737-1747
Nairnshire,1747-1754, Inverness Bs,1754-1761,
Corfe Castle, 1762-1768

Land in Scotland:
land in Nairnshire, Inverness and Argyll.

Comment:
Campbell was related through his maternal grandmother to the Pelhams, and on his father's side to the Duke of Argyll. Campbell was for many years a close friend of Henry Fox, and Newcastle, on joining Fox in October 1755, had him in mind for chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord of Admiralty 1736-42, of Treasury, 1746-54; Views. Friend of Fox. Married  1726, Mary, da. and coh. of Lewis Pryse, M.P., of Gogerddan, Card., suc. mother in her Pembrokeshire estates 1714; and gd.-fa. Sir Hugh Campbell,  in his estates in Nairnshire, Inverness-shire and Argyll 11 Mar. 1716.


Title History:
Mqs of Lorne,1761, Baron Sundridge (GB) 1766, 5th duke of Argyll, 1770

Comment:
bro. of Lords Frederick and William Campbell. Disqualified from Scottish seat,  1761, as eldest son of a Scottish peer.


Political Career:
career politician;  independent-minded, but died 1768

Wealth:
large estates in Nairn-shire and Inverness-shire were transferred to him by his father bought for him by his father

Land in Scotland:
estates in Nairnshire and Invernessshire

Land in England:
Stackpole Ct ( Pembroke), and Llanvread (Card.)


Link to Peerage:
Heir to (attainted) Southesk lands. Buying back completed by his son, but denied the title (Earl of Southesk)

Land in Scotland:
Pittarrow; Family seat at Kinnaird, Angus

Comment:
1754 bought back the attainted Southesk lands at auction


Title History:
Viscount MacDuff 1759-63; succeeded father as 2nd earl of Fife[I], 1763; cr Baron Duff of Fife [GB] 1790

Father's Name:
William Duff, 1st Baron Braco [I], 1st Earl of Fife[I]

Comment:
family wealth from trade and money-lending.
Grandfather inherited £30,000 + rentroll of £6,500 pa from his brother (see file on addit biog info)


Wealth:
Inherited  Coombe Bank, 1770. Ardencaple purchased for him


Political Career:
attached himself to Newcastle; office and pension-seeker

Wealth:
plantation and other property in American colonies

Comment:
Attorney General, and agent for S. Carolina, also Virginia. Acquired plantation and other property. By 1761 concern was raising royal revenues from Virginia. Unce of Burnet and Ralph. He was the brother of George, the Advocate. See Abercromby (addit biog file)


Title History:
cr K.B. 1795. Widow cr. Baroness Abercromby

Father's Occupation:
advocate (Professor of Law at Edinburgh University?)

Political Career:
entered Parlt with support of Sir Lawrence Dundas, but later broke with him. Sympathy for Americans

Comment:
Disliked Parliament. Died at Aboukir Bay.


Political Career:
active politician; MP 1774-1794 and 1806-1812

Wealth:
Inherited from Father, and father-in-law

Land in Scotland:
Woodstone (Kincardine) and Blair-Adam ( Kinross)

Comment:
forceful speaker, independent views; sacrificed preferment to his political principles (N&B)


Political Career:
Administration supporter, but was in America 1775 …1780

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich ( large fortune made in India from dockyard scheme)

Comment:
married Allan Ramsay's daughter, 1779. Governor of Jamaica, then Madras. Lavish spending on Burghs seat


Political Career:
returned initially Jan 1760, then re-elected at 1761 election

Wealth:
succeeded his paternal grandfather, 1753

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather (12 Earl of Glencairn)

Comment:
Grandson of famous DC of Shawfield, wealthy through tobacco, slave trade in North America; MP in 1707 and after. (see file in addit biog info)


Wealth:
succeeded father, 1760, and bro. Archibald in Inverneil estate, 1791

Comment:
Large family. Lived 'in obscurity' till brought in to his brother's electoral interests. Succeeded him In Stirling Burghs which he represented till 1789


Political Career:
assiduous attender of Parliament. Connected with friends of Bute and Argyll

Wealth:
Inherited (ruined )castle on father's death. Made money from his profession

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich, then debts, paid off via lottery sale

Comment:
Adam's father, having made a fortune in private practice and by Ordnance contracts, purchased a 4000 acre estate in Kinross and an interest in the Robe coalfield. Robert embarked on an over-extravagant building project in London, but retained friendship of patrons


Political Career:
Brief. Entered Parliament in Jan. 1764 Vacated  seat on appointment as Colonial Governor.

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich (married a planter's daughter in S. Carolina)

Comment:
later colonial governor of Nova Scotia, 1766-73, then S. Carolina, 1773-6, then fought against Colonists


Political Career:
Replaced Wm Campbell in 1766. Left, 1771,  on getting share in Receiver-General of Customs. Exercised influence thereafter in Perth and Argyll

Wealth:
succeeded father, c.1741,owned at least 2 more estates

Land in Scotland:
Finab and Monzie( Perthshire), Inverawe (Argyll), Drummore (Edinburgh)


Title History:
Grandson of James, 5th earl of Wemyss, bro of Jacobite Lord Elcho. 1787 assumed (wrongly) title of Viscount Elcho

Father's Name:
Hon. Francis Wemyss Charteris of Amisfield and Hornby

Political Career:
initially voted Administration; later more independent

Wealth:
Inherited father's estates of Amisfield (Haddington) and Hornby (Lancs)

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich. Father owned vast estates and inherited a fortune but outlived his son

Link to Peerage:
Paternal Grandfather (5th Earl of Wemyss)
maternal grandfather (2nd duke of Gordon)
wife's grandfather (4th duke of Hamilton)

Comment:
See Wemyss Charteris biog info for comflicting evidence re titles.


Wealth:
Largely self-made; bought back some of the Cockburn estates

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
became rich, then financial difficulties, declared bankrupt, 1781

Comment:
Entered Parliament in 1772. Commissary General for the army in Germany, 1762-3; EIC Director 1767-9; plantation purchases in Dominica


Title History:
succeeded to the estates of his uncle Robert, 3rd Lord Colvill (sic) in 1728; assumed name Colvile

Political Career:
attached to Newcastle by a Secret Service pension


Father's Occupation:
merchant and banker; Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1742-4

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich: 1768 known to be worth £100,000.(Bute placed the royal account at Coutts Bank)

Land in England:
Hampton (Middlesex), Whitsome Hill (Berwickshire)

Comment:
Entered Parlt in 1762. Disliked political intrigue. No match for Lawrence Dundas.  Later became insane


Career:
banking and commerce (then looking after estates)

Wealth:
Rich. Inherited father's lands (purchased) and wealth, and  a fortune from his first wife

Link to Peerage:
Marriage (2nd wife was da of Hew, 12th Lord Sempill[S])

Land in Scotland:
Auchenames (ruined castle,Renfrew), Crosbie and Drumsoy (Ayr)


Political Career:
Returned for Old Sarum,  1768-74; friend of Fox; never voted against Administration. He held a place, eventually for life, but erratic attender

Land in Scotland:
Errol (Perth), Auchenames (Renfrew), Drumsoy (Ayr)

Comment:
Travelled abroad; intelligent, mercurial; electoral intrigues


Political Career:
Active in Parliament, not always a government supporter

Wealth:
Inherited his father's estates 1767; gained a lucrative govt place

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather (9th Earl of Eglintoun)

Comment:
'A wealthy young man of fashion'; 'champion of Scottish interests'


Title History:
Succeeded his grandfather (?) as 2nd Bt, 1737

Father's Name:
Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton (E. Lothian)

Career:
career politician (? 26 years in parliament)

Political Career:
looking for preferment for himself and family; conflicting interests. MP from 1741.

Wealth:
no mention of succeeding his father, but got grandfather's North Berwick estates. Office of  King's Remembrancer in Sc. Exchequer, 1768

Comment:
Disagreement re inheritance and lands. Grandfather, 1st Bt, was Pres. Of the Court of Session, and a Scottish MP pre 1707, 3rd son of 1st Viscount Stair


Title History:
Succeeded father, 1790, as 3rd Bt; 1796 succeeded his uncle John Hamilton (Bargany) and took name Hamilton Dalrymple

Father's Name:
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Bt of North Berwick

Political Career:
Associated with Henry Dundas; supporter of North Administration, then Shelburne, then Pitt


Title History:
Succeeded father as 3rd Baronet Dashwood, of Northbrook, (Oxf.) 1779

Political Career:
Entered Parliament 1775 (petition). Voted with North.

Wealth:
extravagant, had to sell large part of family estates

Link to Peerage:
Brothers-in-law (7th earl of Galloway, duke of Manchester)

Comment:
Married a daughter of John Graham of Kinross. Represented an English constituency, 1784-1820


Political Career:
Independent Whig; strong supporter of Scottish interests

Wealth:
Inherited 6,000acres in Forfarshire, worth £769 pa, + £1000 pa from Sir Robt Fletcher

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Poor. Had to sell all estates except Dunnichen to finance his parliamentary activity

Comment:
Active in EIC affairs. Known as 'Honest George'


Political Career:
Returned for Peeblesshire on the interest of the Earl of March. Supporter of Administration  - Newcastle, Bute, Grenville - but not invariably. Died 1767

Wealth:
succeeded to his father's estate, 1762 - that of a laird

Comment:
Looking for a place to allow him to leave Parliament - aspired too high by requesting 'General of the Scottish Mint', in succession to Lord Belhaven.


Political Career:
late election choice, probably on Hamilton interest. Supported Administration. Died  1771

Wealth:
self-made: in West Indies during Seven Yers War

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Paid £16,000 sterling for Broughton barony. Purchased the other estates and made agricultural improvements.

Land in Scotland:
[Purchased]Broughton (Peebles) and Ednam and Sydenham (Roxburgh)


Father's Name:
William Douglas of Fingland (Kirkcudbright)

Career:
armed forces (abroad, then British army)

Political Career:
Returned 1754 for Dumfries Burghs, and 1761 (Dumfriesshire) on Queensberry interest. Supporter of Bute, then Grenville. Assiduous atttender when military duties permitted

Wealth:
Lt.-Gen. 1761. No evidence of inheritance

Comment:
Father a former Jacobite, had to sell family estate in 1721


Title History:
Formerly Steuart. Succeeded uncle, Archibald, 1st duke of Douglas, 1761, took name Douglas (but not the title) Succeeded duke of Queensberry in Amesbury Estate 1778; cr Baron Douglas 1790

Father's Name:
Sir John Steuart 3rd Bt of Grandtully (Perth)

Political Career:
used his electoral interest at various elections, but failed to gain a seat till 1782 by-election. Probably follower of Henry Dundas

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich, after his succession; affected somewhat by the Ayr Bank collapse 1772, but 'lived in great magnificence in London and Scotland

Link to Peerage:
links by marriage to duke of Montrose, Marquis of Graham, Earl of Dalkeith, duke of Buccleuch

Comment:
Surviving twin in famous court case. From 1757, under the care of the Duke of Queensberry. 1759 - his father succeeded to the Grandtully Baronetcy. Recognition of his right to succeed to the Douglas estates challenged by the young Duke of Hamilton (the previously named heir). Douglas won on appeal to the House of Lords


Title History:
succeeded his father as 4th baronet, 1778.

Political Career:
under wing of Queensberry who brought him into Parliament. Administration supporter

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Poor. Father imprisoned for debt, 1778. Had to go through courts to get the bequest from Queensberry (£16000) - died shortly after afterwards

Land in Scotland:
Breconwhat estate, and Kelhead (Dumfries)

Comment:
Father imprisoned for 'rebellious practices' (Jacobite). He also mismanaged Quensberry's parliamentary interests in Dumfries. Family educated by James Hogg,


Career:
legal profession (then army, then merchant , on   contracts)

Political Career:
First returned for Bolton on interest of his brother-in-law the Duke of Bolton. Vacated St. Ives, 1778, retd for Aberdeen Burghs 1779

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
wealthy enough to purchase representation in a borough

Land in Scotland:
Lennoch (Crieff) and Megginch  (Errol, Perth)

Comment:
1775 James Coutts took Drummond into his banking business, despite losses in Ayr Bank. Drummond sat for Lymington, St. Ives and Shaftesbury as well as Aberdeen Burghs. Spent 25 years in Parliament. Some NAS records (see biog file)


Title History:
Younger son of earl, unmarried; no further titles

Father's Name:
William Duff, 1st Baron Braco [I], 1st E/Fife[I]

Political Career:
Retd on his brother (James's) interest. Assiduous attender; initially followed his brother, thereafter went his own way, supporting North.

Wealth:
succeeded his father in the Orton (Elgin) estate 1763. Apptd Comptroller of Excise in Scotland, 1779

Comment:
See NAS records on local electoral politics. Replaced by his brother in 1780 election


Title History:
cr Baron Amesbury 1832. Title became extinct on his death later that year

Political Career:
Brought into Parliament by uncle, Lawrence Dundas, whose line he followed. Returned on petition in 1781 for Orkney and Shetland

Wealth:
Largely  dependent on his uncle; little money of his own before 1782 - marriage to Whitley heiress

Land in England:
Barton Court (Berks), consisting of the estates of Kintbury-Amesbury

Comment:
'A cipher in politics' (N&B). He sat also for Richmond, 1775-80, 1784-86,  and Berkshire,1794-1832)


Political Career:
Returned on his brother's interest. Administration supporter. Vacated seat on receiving an appointment, 1770

Wealth:
succeeded his father, 1762; purchased Carronhall, 1749; deputy Lord Lyon 1744

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Poor. Financial difficulties 1773, Estate of Letham sold, debts remained

Link to Peerage:
marriage (to da. of 6th Earl of Lauderdale)

Comment:
He gave up his own business and became his brother (Lawrence's) agent


Political Career:
Replaced his father in Orkney and Shetland  in 1771; served also 1784-90

Wealth:
succeeded his father 1786; commissioner for loyalist caims 1783-90

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Father's estate encumbered with debts. Marriage dowry unknown

Comment:
not greatly interested in parliamentary career. Primarily a soldier


Career:
banking and commerce (army commissary, also politician)

Political Career:
politically ambitious, used his wealth to challenge established interests in Linlithgow, Stirlingshire and Edinburgh. Bought borough of Richmond; eventually controlled c. 8 MPs

Wealth:
self-made; estimated from contracts c. £600,000 - 800,000.

Land in Scotland:
Kerse(purchased to augment existing land)

Land in England:
purchased the estates of Upleatham, and Aske (1763) Family seat: Aske Hall

Comment:
Referred to by Shelburne as 'the rich Scottish commissary' and the 'Nabob of the North' (Shelburne, N&B). Got his baronetcy in return for a loan to shelburne. Spent lavishly on eatates, bribes, London property; bought Orkney and Shetland from E/Morton in 1766. Disappointed of a peerage, but appointed P.C. in 1771. Governor of RBS 1764-77. Returned, on petition,  March 1781, for Edinburgh. See biog file for NAS records


Title History:
established right, as the 24th of his line to be the  senior male representative vs claim of Thomas Dundas of Fingask

Political Career:
contested father's seat of Linlithgowshire against John Hope.  Seated on petition. Lost to Hopes in 1774. Not a consistent Admin supporter

Wealth:
succeeded his father in 1762; Father-in-law ruined in S.Sea Bubble


Title History:
succeeded his father  as 2nd Bt in 1781; cr Baron Dundas of Aske, 1794

Father's Occupation:
banking and commerce (army commissary, also politician)

Political Career:
Returned for Richmond (seat purchased from Lord Ancram), 1768. Followed his father in politics

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Rich.On his father's death, in September 1781: property yielding £16,000 per annum, securities valued at £300,000, and numerous art treasures, was the principal beneficiary of Sir Lawrence's will (see also comment).

Link to Peerage:
marriage (to da. Of an earl); self (cr.Baron Aske, 1794)

Link to England:
marriage (to da. of 1st (ODNB - 3rd) Earl Fitzwilliam, niece of Rockingham); Richmond estates; residence (Upleatham)

Title_in_Parliament:
Sir Thomas (from 1781); Baron Dundas of Aske from 1794

Comment:
Thomas and brother Charles were involved in the corrupt politics of Stirling Burgh which led to its disfranchisement (1776?) Later, more liberal views, supporter of electoral reform. Peerage was a reward for going over to support Pitt in 1794. CHECK: what happened to the Kerse estates? From Timp his holdings c 1771 were (6 in number, in Airth and Larbert) worth over £1300 pa [ pp 322, 330)


Title History:
Lord Arniston (from 1760), SCJ (courtesy title)

Political Career:
Not an Argyll nominee. As Lord Advocate, was govt spokesman in the House of Commons. Served only one term. Main aim was LP of the Court of Session (apptd 1760)

Wealth:
married (1738) an heiress, worth £2000 pa. His own bar practice'lucrative' by 1747. LP salary £1100 pa

Link to Peerage:
First wife linked via Carmichaels to Hyndford and Findlater

Comment:
Main interest was the Scottish bar. Was Solicitor-General 1742-6, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1746-54, Lord Advocate 1754-60, Lord President, 1760- d. Most able and energetic [LP] of the century. Known for his candour. Wealth: for his first five years his fees only averaged £280 per annum (ODNB) 1755 - Wife's death lost him control of her wealth, the paternal estate was 'encumbered with debt' But (Timp) Midlothian Valuation Rolls for 1771 show land valuations of over £4,500 pa for Mr Dundas, Lord President  (pp227, 231, 233)


Political Career:
Supported by Duke of Buccleuch in 1774 election; effective debater, apptd Lord Advocate (1775-83); string of [Br] govt posts. Supporter of North, and Pitt. Manager of Scotland and govt patronage there

Link to Peerage:
marriage: 2nd wife was da. Of 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

Comment:
ODNB gives him as 4th son (NB father married twice)Represented  Newtown,I.o.W. Sep-Dec 1782 (on apptmt to office);Keeper of the Signet[S], jt: 17797-79, sole:1779-1800. See biog file also. Limited info about source of wealth available


Title History:
cr. Bt. Edmonstone of Duntreath, 1774 (GB)

Career:
legal profession (prob. Also in business with father-in-law). MP for 35 years

Political Career:
Protégé of 4th Duke, then Bute. Conscientious, active member. Administration supporter

Wealth:
Inherited his father's land, 1768 worth c. £1500 pa. Wife brought £10,000. Govt 'place'. . (see comment)

Link to Peerage:
uncle (mother's brother) was 4th duke of Argyll

Comment:
Ancient Presbyterian family with land in Antrim. Father was an MP in Ireland. Where he mostly lived. Share in Receiver General, Customs, Post, 1771 (post worth £1500 pa). By 1783 had sold Irish property, and bought, for £41,000. Kilsyth (Stirlingshire) estates. Also had interests in EIC. Timp. Lists lands  belonging to Edmonstone; in Killearn (,Branshogle, value £345.3.7d, p329) Strathblane (Cuilt, value 724.19.3d) and in Old Kilpatrick (Dalmuir, Balquhanaran, value £647.10s)


Title History:
P.C. 1762; succeeded his father as 3rd Bt, 1766

Political Career:
ambitious MP. Protégé of Argyll (3rd Duke) but no party man; retained some independence in parliament; string of posts, given on ability

Wealth:
independent income from marriage (to heir of Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound); inherited Minto estates, Govt posts

Comment:
personal comments on being an MP. Wealth - Minto estates (Timp) valued just under £5000 pa (p. 312), land in Ashkirk at £1420.18.4d (p.318)and in Kirkhope at £581.8.4d (p.319)


Title History:
succeeded father as 4th Bt, 1777; added names Murray Kynynmound, 1778; cr Baron Minto, 1797; earl of Minto, 1813.

Political Career:
MP from 1776-1795; retd for Roxburghshire, 1777; unenthusiastic Admin. Supporter; opposed American War, supported Fox vs Pitt.Later career as diplomat and administrator

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
inherited extensive estates (see father), but also 'acute financial difficulties' 1785 due to Treasury demands re father's debts

Link to England:
marriage, education, sat for English constituencies

Land in Scotland:
Minto Estates, mother's Fife (Lochgelly and Kynynmound) and Forfar (Melgund) estates


Title History:
K.B. 1794, cr Baron Keith of Stonehaven Marischal, [I]1797 and [GB] 1801; Baron Keith of Banheath, 1803; Visct. Keith, 1814.

Political Career:
Failed to win Dunbartonshire 1774 against the Argyll interest, but succeeded, on petition in 1781. Opposed Shelburne; a favourite of PoW, and Duke of Clarence.In Parlt till 1801.

Wealth:
Parents owned vast estates, but carried debts. George did not inherit. See comment

Link to Peerage:
Father, maternal grandfather(Earl of Wigtown), great-uncle ( George Keith, 9th Earl Marischal)

Comment:
Comment on providing for younger son. Married twice, both untitled, but listed as 'coheir'. Any financial benefit unclear. He made 'profitable trading ventures' in India and china. No land purchases listed, but presumed ownership of some estate. Appmts as Keepeer of the Signet [S] 1783, and Comptroller of the Duke of Clarence's household, 1789.


Title History:
succeeded brother as 5th Bt, of Alva, 1747

Career:
Legal training (English Bar), then armed forces

Political Career:
MP for Ayr Burghs, 1749-54; backed by his uncle and Argyll in Anstruther constituency, 1754, but not a consistent Government supporter; confidant of Bute

Wealth:
stayed in the army both for military honour and financial security.

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather (10th Lord Sinclair)

Comment:
Father was a Jacobite leader in the '15; squandered his fortune, had to sell estate.Henry depended financially on his uncle (Sinclair) early in his career. Inheritance probably not large. Timp lists James Erskine of Alva (c1770) as having two holdings (in Alloa and Alva) valued at just under £2500 pa.(p.95)


Father's Name:
Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Bt, Lord Kilkerran (SCJ)

Political Career:
an MP for 22 years. Generally, but not invariably a govt supporter. An active parliamentarian (committees); 1776 referred to as part of'the Scotch ministry'

Wealth:
inherited father's estate; successful legal practice

Link to Peerage:
mother (da. Of Visct. Maitland, amd gd-da. Of 5th Earl of Lauderdale)

Comment:
Withstood, for long, pressure to stand down as candidate for Ayr Burghs in 1761 election. No further attempt till 1774. Contd legal practice. Stood in 1774 with backing of Robt and Henry Dundas vs aristocratic interest (Loudoun, Eglintoun and Cassillis). Also rep Edinburgh 1784-90 and Ayrshire 1790-96. Timp. lists land in Dailly (Ayrshire) valued at £1048 pa (p.50), in Maybole, £919.8.8d, (p,60) in Kirkcudbrightshire, £388.13.4 (p192) and £84.00 (p.195). See biog file for NAS records (esp Rosebank)  Will available


Father's Name:
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, SCJ (Lord Milton)

Political Career:
Secy to the  3rd Duke of Argyll. Directed by his father. Poor attendance after 1765

Wealth:
from Saltoun estates, and Govt places (Auditor-Gen of the Scottish Exchequer - £1200 pa

Comment:
Retired latterly (from 1768) to his Saltoun estate, making agricultural improvements. Timp: land in East Lothian (Saltoun worth £3668.6.4d, and in Humbie, worth £214.15s pp123 and 125) Will 1779, 3 pages, CC8/8/124


Political Career:
only 2 years as MP (took his seat in 1782 on the death ofhis brother), but 10 recorded speeches, mainly on economic and Scottish affairs

Wealth:
inherited the (restored) Lovat estates, 1782. Initially granted £55 pa for maintenance

Link to Peerage:
Father; Mother's brother became 4th duke of Argyll

Comment:
Father was executed after the '45, and the estates forfeited. Mother raised him as a good Hanoverian.


Title History:
Attainted by act of Parliament, he did not inherit the Lovat title

Career:
legal profession (Scottish and English Bar), then army

Political Career:
Pardoned in 1750, refused permission to stand in 1754, was elected in 1761 but spent much time abroad. Represented Inverness-shire for over 20 years. Friend of Grenville and North

Wealth:
Lovat estates; could consider purchase of parliamentary boroughs for £2000

Comment:
For the son of a Jacobite, he was on excellent terms with leading political figures. despite their nervousness about his standing for Inverness-shire. Most of his time was spent on army service.(also a sensitive issue but he commanded and raised a regiment). Also involved in East India affairs with his brother-in-law (Bristow, a merchant. Timp. Lists 6 Lovat landholdings under the Forfeited Estates Commission, total value over £6000


Political Career:
strong support from Aberdeenshire freeholders. Politically independent

Wealth:
inherited an ample fortune and great estates in Banff and Aberdeen (from father, 1740), bought up forfeited estates > income of £000-£4000 pa

Land in Scotland:
Troup, Banff, + (Timp) estates valued at c. £3500 in Aberedeenshire. (see comment)

Comment:
Interest in agricultural and social improvement. English Chronicle described him as having 'a very large fortune' (1781)…. the only Scotch member who never asked a favour'. Timp ascribes the Banffshire (Troup?) estates in Gamrie (£1400 pa) and a smaller one in Kincardineshire to Francis Garden, his brother.


Title History:
succeeded his father as 3rd Bt., in 1750. Baronetcy became extinct in 1792, on Gilmour's death

Father's Name:
Sir Charles Gilmour, 2nd Bt., of Craigmillar

Political Career:
active MP; Newcastle's Scottish adviser; upset the King by voting with the opposition

Wealth:
Timperley lists estate of Sir Charles Gilmour at Craigmiller (sic) in Liberton, valued at  £2932.15s pa

Comment:
Andrew Mitchell was his guardian. Financial difficulties probably made him desperate for army promotion or a govt place: apptd Clerk Comptroller, Board of Green Cloth, 1765-75. Had to fell abroad to escape creditors when he lost his seat and failed to find another.


Political Career:
Entered Parlt with support from Argyll. Abroad with army 1764-5. Failed to get a seat in 1768. Admin. Supporter in 1774 Parlt when present

Wealth:
succeeded mother to Preston Hall estate, Edinburgh, 1760. (Timp, value £950.8s pa, p227, listed as belonging to the Duchess of Gordon). He also had Cuttieshillock (Aberdeen) and the Burn (Kincardine)

Link to Peerage:
Father, maternal grandfather (3rd Earl of Peterborough)

Land in Scotland:
Preston Hall, Cuttieshillock, the Burn (Edzell) built by Gordon in 1791.

Comment:
Obtained land ( by grants in Florida and NY back country) in America. Said marriage prevented him developing it as intended, but he concentrated on his British estates - c. 750 acres expected to bring in £1000 pa. 1789, apptd c.-in-c., Scotland, close connection with Henry Dundas.


Political Career:
stood on interest of (old) John Campbell of Calder. Supporter of North. 1777 vacated his seat on appointment

Comment:
His father amassed a fortune as tacksman of the Spey salmon fishings - used to buy Cluny. 1763 the Kinsteary estate was sold to Cosmo for £4,200 by its bankrupt owners. 1777 apptd  Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer. He was also, later, rector of Marischal College.


Father's Name:
Sir William Gordon, 1st Bt, of Invergordon

Political Career:
Took over his father's seat, 1742. Spent much money contesting later seats

Wealth:
Father's considerable land holdings presumably reduced during his financial difficulties, but still worth c. £1400 pa

Comment:
Timp. Lists two holdings in Invergordon, valued at £1180, and £193.3.6d (p303). Oct 1757, he recorded income of between £800 and £900 pa,  + his salary (Secretary and chamberlain to the rincipality of Scotland)and debts of c. £7000. Closely connected to the  Prince of Wales. After losing his seat, remained active in affairs of Ross and Cromarty


Title History:
Succeeded bro. 1772. On reversal of attainder, assumed title 7th Visct. Kenmure, 1824.

Political Career:
stood, 1780, backed by Queensberry. Lost, election voided, elected 1781, unseated on petition

Wealth:
succeeded his brother, but desperate financial position

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather (5th Earl of Seaforth, attainted 1716), paternal grandfather, 6th Vict. Kenmure (attainted 1716)

Comment:
May have entered Parliament to escape creditors. Some properties were sold, 1781.


Political Career:
1779, succeeded Arthur Duff in Elginshire. Represented Inverness-shire 1784-90 and Horsham, 1792-96

Wealth:
Depended on his brother, Duke of Gordon who got him a place. Married an heiress in 1781

Land in England:
Bro of Lord George Gordon (Gordon Riots). Left London after eloping with wife of Sir Chas Bunbury. Retd 1774.

Comment:
(Step-father = Staats Long  Morris). A heavy gambler, deeply in debt, precarious finances till marriage. Seen ( in the English Chronicle) as a typical Scotch placeman, subservient, with little ability. Vice-Admiral (Scotland) 1782-95, given as part of a deal to kep his brother out of Inverness-shire.


Political Career:
1764 stood for Perthshire (when John Murray becameDuke of Atholl), backed by Bute, vs the Atholl candidate. After a period of influence and activity in Parliament, North secured his removal as MP in 1774. He retired into obscurity

Wealth:
succeeded his father in Braco estate,1736, and his cousin, Mungo Graeme in Gorthy estate, 1754

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
latterly encumbered with debts, resulting from his extravgant lifestyle

Comment:
Family had Jacobite connections. In London 1758, ingratiated himself with Bute, and was sent to ask for the hand of Princess Charlotte, then apptd her secretary. Influential in London, through his position in the royal household, he promoted Scottish causes, and people. Disliked by North; he opposed Dempster. View was that he overestimated his importance and became arrogantand presumptuous. Timp. Gorthy estate (General David Graham (sic) valued at £10.11.8d (p.260). Bfaco estaenot listed (probably in Ardoch (where ownership was impossibleto work out0


Political Career:
Supptd North, thereafter allegiance uncertain

Wealth:
made enough to live off from his trading; bought Kinross estate, 1777

Comment:
Was a planter in Jamaica (unsuccessful), then contractor in Bengal, then settled in London, still in trade. Kinross estate brought him the controlling interest in Kinross.


Title History:
Father inherited title in 1752 as nearest male heir, via cousin James, 1st Bt. Alex. succeeded his father in 1755

Political Career:
Failed to win Inverness Burghs, 1754, then attached hmself to Bute and won in 1761. Lost control of Fortrose in 1766 , defeated 1768.

Wealth:
inherited father's estate 1755. Alex. Himself was a wealthy merchant who made his fortune in Jamaica. Purchased estates inScotland

Link to England:
residence? Described himself as a merchant in London. Property in Surrey

Comment:
See biog file + extensive ODNB article. Jacobite father; his uncle was Mackintosh of Borlum. Family impoverished as a result of their jacobite activities. Alex. Was a leading West India merchant by the 1740s, and purchased extensive estates in Elgin and Nairn. Held army contracts (via Lord Loudoun, Lord Home and John Calcraft) and built up business in Mediterranean, Africa, America and India. Paid 'thousands' in taxes annually. Timp ascribes Dalvey (£700.15.10d) to 'Sir Archibald Grant', also Ballintomb (£195.12.4) pp236-7. Holdings in Croy (Inv) To Sir Alex. Value £145.6s, and Nairnshire £1077.5.4d


Father's Name:
Sir James Grant, 6th Bt, of Castle Grant

Political Career:
Won Elginshire at 1768 election, against bro of Lord Fife (another nephew). Consistent support of Administration. Defeted by the Duffs in 1774

Comment:
Brother of sir Ludovick and nephew of Simon, Lord Lovat. Reported to have £25,000 in prize money after the taking of Havana, in 1762, but serious financial difficulties by 1767. See N&B comment about the financial constaints of leaving the army and supporting a wife and family. Complaints also about voting irregularities and bogus land qualifications. Apptd (by the king) Col of the 63rd Foot (Irish) in 1768. Timp. lists Dunphail under Sir James Grant of Grant (p 236)


Political Career:
1773 Retd unopposed for Tain Burghs on the Sutherland interest, but not interested in a parliamentary career. Retd to America 1775 as brigadier.Back in 1779, lost his seat in 1780

Wealth:
succeeded his nephew as laird of Ballindalloch in 1770

Comment:
Cousin of Sir Ludovick and Francis Grant. Initially studied law but preferred a military career. 1745 apptd, with Sir Harry Erskine, aide de camp to James St. Clair. Carried out various assignments for St. Clair then ordered to rejoin his regiment I 1755. Served in America till 1763, then apptd Governor of East Florida. Retd 1771 to complaints about his autocratic style of govt. Friend of Henry Dundas but this did not get him a seat in 1784 (tried for Elgin Burghs). 1787 Returned for Sutherlandshire. In Parliament till age 82. At home, spent 'immense sums' on agricultural improvements, communications and hospitality.


Political Career:
Returned for Elginshire on the family interest Generally but not invariably supptd Administration. Absent for most of 1765, and later. Stood down 1768. Rep. Banffshire, 1790-95.

Wealth:
Father made over the family estates to him in 1763. Costly agricultural and social schemes: family debts in 1773 estimated at £130,000.. Forced to sell large parts of the estates.

Land in Scotland:
Castle Grant estates (Timp. Valued at between £7000 and £8000 across Moray, Banff and Inverness)

Comment:
Views expressed on Parliament and role of an MP. A diligent (? See above) but inconspicuous MP, he carried out his constituency instructions on Scottish and local affairs. Main interest was his estates and he left Parlilament in 1768. Tried again in 1784 when in financial difficulties, but refused to make use of fictitious vote and was defeated.


Political Career:
Represented Elginshire, 1741-61. Little influence in Parliament

Link to Peerage:
marriage: 2nd wife was da. Of James, 5th Earl of Findlater

Land in Scotland:
Castle Grant estates (see entry for James, 8th Bt)

Comment:
Unpleasant character. No friend of Argyll, tried to ingratiate himself with Newcastle, seeking preferment. Little influence in Parliament, distrusted by Scots. His son was more highly thought of.


Political Career:
opposed Argyll in 3 constituencies, 1754. Represented Stirling burghs 1747-58.  Supporter of Admin (Newcastle), seeking preferment. Vacated seat in favour of his uncle Robert, 1758

Wealth:
Reckless spending forced his father to sell Gleneagles to Robert in 1760

Link to Peerage:
Maternal grandfather was William, 4th Lord Forrester of Corstorphine(Lord of Parliament)

Land in Scotland:
Bearcrofts (Stirling) and Gleneagles (Perth)

Comment:
Finally obtained the governorship of Jamaica, worth £2500 pa. In 1758


Political Career:
Defeated 1754 in Stirlingshire. Succeeded George in 1758 in Stirling burghs. Obscure MP

Wealth:
self-made. Retd home with a vast fortune

Land in Scotland:
Plean and Airthrey + land in Dunbartonshire

Comment:
Uncle of George, friend of Sir Lawrence Dundas. Main concern was re-election to Parliament, using wealth and connections (Sir Henry Erskine was his cousin), but failed to find a seat in 1761.


Political Career:
Political intriguer. Allegiance uncertain. Represented Wigtownshire briefly, 1761-2, with Bute's backing, then, on a deal, retd to the Wigtown Burghs, 1762-8. No recorded speeches in Parliament.

Wealth:
succeded to the  wealthy Bargany estates through his mother.

Comment:
brother of Sir Hew Dalrymple. Changed his name to Hamilton on death of James, 4th Lord Bargany, 1736; he was well-connected (PoW, Grenville, Loudoun and Eglintoun families,Patrick Craufurd). Apptd master of works (1765) in name of James Duff, which he lost to Jmes Pringle in 1768.


Political Career:
Retd in 1767 on interest of Lord March, as a stop-gap. Replaced in 1768. Re-elected 1775. possibly to escape creditors.

Wealth:
Overspent buying Soonhope. Serious financial difficulties by 1775

Comment:
Property sold to pay his debts on his death


Father's Name:
Sir Robert Henderson, 4th Bt, of Fordell

Political Career:
Unsuccessful in Fife in 1776; seated on petition in 1779 . Retd for Dysart Burghs at general election.Supporter of North in 1780 Parlt. 1784, defeated in both Dysart Burghs and Fife. Repd a Treasury borough, 1785-6,  Stirling Burghs, 1806-7

Comment:
Ancient Fife family. Timp. Lists Sir Robert's Fife estates as valued at over £3000


Political Career:
Retd for Kincardineshire, 1768: a constant though silent Govt supporter. Not re-elected 1774

Wealth:
succeeded to Keith (father) and Rickarton (mother) estates

Land in Scotland:
Keith, Rickarton + Congalton (previous family estate which he purchased)

Comment:
Father involved in both Jacobite rebellions. Robert was retd for Kincardineshire with support of his brother-in-law David Graeme + Lord Findlater and the Bute connection. Affected by North's dislike of Graeme - seat went to Adam Gordon in 1774. Retired to his estates - unable to afford London life. (personal comment)


Political Career:
Numerous contacts (incl Pulteney) got him the Dumfries Burghs seat. Consistently voted with North

Wealth:
derived from his trading interests; succeeded his father in Halldykes, 1777.

Comment:
Family rescued from financial ruin by Robert's uncle, a Rotterdam merchant, who took Robert under his wing. Developed widespread trading interests, then became partner in Coutts banking co. Got the French tobacco contract froom Wm Alexander in 1771. Experience of the City and beyond made him useful to North (hence Knighthood). Houses in Barcelone and Ostend. Lived for some time in Paris, retired to Cheltenham.


Political Career:
Violent campaign against Robt Haldane for Stirling Burghs; use of intimidation and bribery (Inverkeithing). Haldane won his appeal, but Holburne won, April 1761, against Haldane's successor. Supporter of Bute. 1768, stood for Plymouth

Wealth:
Married a rich widow. Described by Boscawen as rich.

Comment:
Advancement due to Lord Morton (family friend) and 3rd Duke of Argyll. Active service in the navy; admiral by 1768.


Link to Peerage:
paternal grandfather was 1st Earl of Hopetoun

Comment:
7 years in Amsterdam (with relatives in business). 1759 set up in business in London. Father's influence got him a govt place. 1768 stood for his father's seat; father got his 'place'. Entered Pariament with a knowledge of trade and industry and 'an inconvenient  political conscience'. Vieews givne on Parliament. BUT he depended on Grafton to throw out Dundas's petition against his election. Parted company with Hopetoun; Dundas won the petition and Hope lost his seat. And his annuity from Hopetoun V. good account of political dilemma facing him. Later turned to journalism to express his quite radical views. Little time for Scotland


Title History:
added name Weir on 1st marriage to da. Of William Weir, 2nd Bt of Blackwood

Political Career:
Sat for Linlithgowshire, 1743-68.Newcastle supporter, even over militia. Supptd Bute and subsequent ministries

Wealth:
succeeded uncle (2nd Mq. of Annandale) in Craigiehall, and acquired Blackwood, on marriage.

Link to Peerage:
father, uncle, 2nd wife was da. Of 1st Earl of Darlington

Comment:
Shaken by opposition roused by his vote against the militia. Thereafter, played safe. Hope Weir disliked London, regarded Pariament as a tedious duty.


Political Career:
Represented Berwickshire 1734-60. Opponent of Argyll, active in Parliament

Wealth:
Marchmont family were the pre-eminent landowners in Berwickshire

Comment:
Twin brother of Hugh, 3rd Earl. Concerned to advance his family's interests, and his own. (Got Lord Clerk Register).  Hardwicke found him lacking in both principles and courage. Birghamsheil not listed in Timp (NB:  HC died in 1760)


Title History:
added name Blair, 1777, on wife's succession to her brother's estates of Dunskey

Political Career:
Elected for Edinburgh on death of Sir Lawrence Dundas, with support of Henry Dundas, on understanding that he acted for the interest of the Duke of Buccleuch

Wealth:
Dunskey lands valued in Timp at £946.13.4d

Link to Peerage:
marriage, to niece of 10th Earl of Cassillis

Comment:
Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1784-6; jt King's printer and stationer, 1785. Began as apprentice, then partner in Coutts bank; involved with tobacco merchants. As Lord Provost, he promoted rebuilding of the university and the construction of South Bridge over the Cowgate.Presumably also had a house in Edinburh. Accepted constraints on his political action with reservations.


Political Career:
Elected 1780 on the Murray-Galloway interest.Politics directed by Keith Stewart and Henry Dundas; supported North.

Comment:
Protégé of James Murray of Broughton. Initial election declared void, he was defeated at the by-election but seated on petition. Local political interests dictated that he retire at the end of the 1786 session


Father's Name:
Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Bt, of Westerhall

Political Career:
unsuccessful in Haslemere in 1768, ouste James T. Oswald froom Dysart Burghs in 1774. Voted with Opposition. Lost his seat in 1780 to  govt supporter.

Wealth:
returned home with c. £300,000, facing prosecution (later withdrawn) for ill-gotten gains

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather was 4th Lord Elibank. Family connections also with Mq. Of Annandale

Land in Scotland:
purchased estates Denovan and Alva (Stirlingshire)

Comment:
Brother of George, Sir James (4th Bt, 1772) and William (Johnstone) Pulteney. Both George and Sir James became MPs, George on interest of Sir James Lowther, repd English constituencies; Sir James sat for Dumfries Burghs, 1784-90, a fiercely independent and active member. John had a varied career in India, a shrewd and unscrupulous businessman, finally resigned from EIC in 1765. Friend of Dempster


Title History:
succeeded brother Thomas as 10th earl Cassillis, 1775. (8th earl had died without heirs)

Political Career:
returned for Ayrshire on interest of his brother and of Earl of Loudoun. Directed by Loudoun and James Stuart Mackenzie, supported Administration. SRP from 1776

Land in Scotland:
Newark (Ayr) Timp lists this as one of 4 properties in Maybole (worth £1889.5s)  belonging to the Earl of Cassillis (p60)

Comment:
Boswell on Kennedy: 'a good, honest, merry fellow ……but totally incapable of the business of legislation and so devoid of the talents which distinguish a man in pubic life.'
Referred to in N&B as Boswell's old circuit companion. 1774 election, Kennedy was the candidate of the infamous peers' coalition (Cassillis, Loudoun and Eglintoun) and was defeated. The 10th Earl, David Kennedy, an advocate, commissioned the architect Robert Adam to extend the original tower house at Culzean into what is now considered by many as Adam’s finest work. That work was carried out between 1777 and 1792. (from clan kennedy site!) Presumably he inherited the Cassillis lands in 1775 along with the title.(Timp lists the 9th Earl as having land in Ayrshire worth c. £8,500, and in Wigtownshire, £3000)


Political Career:
Retd on interest of Duke of  Queensberry in 1774 as a govt supporter (silent and ineffective, frequently absent)

Link to Peerage:
marriage (1st, to da. of 5th Lord Ruthven and niece of Bute

Comment:
Succeeded his father as surveyor-general of the window tax [S]


Political Career:
Rep Dysart Burghs 1734-41, Perth Burghs from 1743.Opponent of Argyll, supporter of the Pelhams; needed money to keep his seat in opposition to George Haldane

Wealth:
permanent financial difficulties; a younger brother with no estate and no fund except an employment[barrackmaster] without any view of advancement

Link to Peerage:
father and elder brother; maternal grandfather was da. Of 2nd Mq. Tweeddale

Comment:
Received periodic payments from Newcastle to keep him in his seat


Father's Name:
Sir James Livingston, 2nd Bt of Glentirran and Bantaskine

Political Career:
Protégé of 5th Duke of Argyll, brought in in 1772, an obcure and silent govt supporter. Stood down 1780 for someone else.


Father's Name:
Alexander Lockhart, Lord Covington (SCJ)

Father's Occupation:
Legal profession (Dean of Faculty of Advocates)

Political Career:
Retd for Elgin, 1771, with Admin support. Infrequent speaker, but other contributions. Defeated 1774. Ill health

Comment:
Timp. lists land of Alexander Lockhart as Craighouse, in Edinburgh, value £252.2.10d. No mention of Thomas having inherited this in N&B, but refeed to as 'of Craighouse'.


Title History:
succeeded brother,Sir George Lockhart, 5th Bt, as 6th Bt in 1778.

Father's Name:
Sir James Lockhart, 2nd Bt, of Carstairs

Political Career:
Retd for Linlithgow Burghs, 1761 (Hyndford's suggestion), and for that seat and Lanarkshire in 1768. Chose the latter. No great impact in Parliament

Wealth:
inherited Balnagown estate from brother, Sir James Ross Lockhart, 4th Bt., and took name of Ross, 1760

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather was 12th Lord Ross. (Lord of Parliament).(Balnagown came from her family)

Comment:
married Elizabeth Baillie, da. of Robert Dundas.In Parlt supported Bute and Grenville Admins. Retd for Linlithgow Burghs secured with support of Lord March and James Stuart Mackezie ( a friend, in Ross). Electoral influence in Lanarkshire due to his wife's estates. He won, with last-minute support of Daniel Campbell (sitting member) against Andrew Stuart, the Hamilton candidate. Withdrew in 1774 on another compromise


Father's Name:
Thomas, 8th earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (Cracroft), 6th Earl ( N&B)

Political Career:
An obscure member who voted consistently with Administratio. Vacated his seat 1778

Wealth:
Timp. Valued Hallgreen at £623.13.4d, estate in Glamis at c. £400 pa

Land in Scotland:
Hallgreen  (Kincardine) and Pitpointy (Forfar), Inverbervie Castle (purchased)

Comment:
Contest between the Panmures and Strathmores for control of Forfarshire and Aberdeen Burghs. Panmures won the county nomination. NB Brother John, 7th Earl,(Cracroft, 9th Earl) married a Bowes heiress (hence Bowes Lyon). Thomas was heavily involved in preserving the claims of his brother's children to their share of the Bowes fortune


Father's Name:
Col. William McDowall of St. Kitts and Castle Semple

Political Career:
After much bargaining with Craufurds and William Mure, McDowall was returned for Renfrewshire for one Parliament only, against John Shaw Stewar. Regular attender, consistent silent govt supporter. Not rated by John Craufurd. Did not stand againt

Wealth:
Inherited a vast commercial empire + extensive property.

Land in Scotland:
Castle Semple (Renfrew), Garthland (Wigtown) + lands in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire.

Comment:
Father purchased plantations in St. Kitts, then returned to Glasgow, as a West India merchant, and bought neighbouring estates. Son b ought family ancestal lands in Garthland  + land in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire > electoral interest in 4 counties


Career:
legal profession (and , mainly,landowner)

Political Career:
Entered Parliament, 1783, on a (sharing) deal with John Shaw Stewart. Represented Ayrshire, Glasgo Burghs and Renfrewshire, till 1810.

Wealth:
inherited from his father, 1784, estates in Renfrew, Wigtown and the West Indies

Comment:
By 1779s his family firm was trading under the name of Alexander Houstoun and Co (Houstouns of Jordanhill and Johnstone). Considerable electoral influence due to his estates: friend of Adam Fergusson, business connections on Glasgow Town Council, friendship of Duke of Hamilton and Argyll. Well thought of by William Adam, 1790.


Political Career:
Retd for Sutherland by agreement with  Earl of Sutherland in 1761. Key concern was the growing conflict with America. Spoke in debate 1770; resigned his seat 1773

Wealth:
no inheritance mentioned (but wife was coheir of William Carr of Etal (Northumb.)

Comment:
bro. of Hon. George Mackay. Well-thought of in the army, rose to Major-General. Explains his views. Rejected as C-in-C of EIC forces becsuse of his nationality. Instead received a lucrative Governorship, then C-in-C Scotland. 1782, as guardian of his nephew's estates, he protected smaller tenants against high rents and excessive services, Responsible for local improvements -postal service (proposed?), kelp industry, fishing industry, new pier.


Political Career:
Represented Sutherland 1747-61. Backed by Pelhams, he was a govt supporter. Vacated his seat, 1761, in favour of his brother.

Comment:
Held a SS pension of £300pa till apptd master of the Scottish mint, 1756. Electoral considerations caused him to vote against the Irish cattle bill.


Political Career:
Retd in 1780 with support of Henry Dundas. Defeated 1784

Wealth:
Succeeded his father 1766 (SB, in what?), his uncle Sir John Gordon in Invergordon estates (sold 1786); recovered the Cromartie estates 1784 on payment of £19000 to clear debts

Link to Peerage:
father, marriage (to da. Of 17th Lord Forbes)

Comment:
Generally, but incorrectly, known as Lord Macleod. Fought for rebels, but pardoned. Fought on the continent, given leave to return 1758, but failing permission to raise a regiment, returned to Sweden. In face of criticism but efforts of many friends (incl. cousin Henry Dundas) got a colonel's commission in 1777. Service in India till 1782-3. See N&B for comments on Dundas's handling of Ross-shire afairs


Title History:
Father attainted, 1716; estates forfeited

Political Career:
Rep Inverness Burghs 1741-47, Ross-shire 1747-61. Faithful to Newcastle in Parliament, but peerage not restored. 1760, he retired in favour of James Stuart Mackenzie.

Wealth:
Family estates bought back from the Crown, 1741

Link to Peerage:
Father, marriage (via wife to 6th Earl of Galloway and 9th Earl Marischal)

Comment:
Seaforths were Catholic  chiefs of a mainly Protestant, but Jacobite clan. Father pardoned 1726, Kenneth Mackenzie became Protestant, family rehabilitatd politically.GD46 Papers of the Mackenzie Family, Earls of Seaforth (Seaforth Papers) 1467-1949 
GD46/18 Additional Seaforth papers (deposited by John C Brodie and Sons, WS) 1527-1909


Title History:
cr. Visc. Fortrose[I] 1766; earl of Seaforth [I], 1771. This peerage became extinct when he died in August 1781.

Political Career:
Brought into Parliament as a govt supporter, by arrangement with Sinclair interest

Wealth:
succeeded father in Seaforth estates, 1761

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
vast debts; estates sold to cousin (and  male heir), 1779

Comment:
Belonged to a (London) circle notorious for profligacy and extravagance; little concern for Scottish affairs; Mackenzies accepted James Stuart Mackenzie as their leader at this time


Title History:
assumed name of Ross before Mackye, 1755

Political Career:
Linlithgow Burghs, 1742-7, Kirkcudbright, 1747-68. Opposed y James Murray of Broughton, 1768, he refused to create fictitious votes, and did not contest the seat.

Comment:
Personal friend of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Bute, and  in opposition to the Pelhams. Advised Bute on candidates in several counties fter Argyll's death


Political Career:
Retd against Alexander Gilmour in 1774. Obscure MP, Admin supporter certainly.

Wealth:
no inheritance mentioned. Govt place (see comment)

Link to Peerage:
father, mother (da. Of 4th Earl of Findlater)

Comment:
Clerk of the Pipe (Scottish Exchequer) 1769
From 1777, on active service in America (highly praised) Died of fever.


Political Career:
Dundas brought him in for Stirling Burghs, a silent Administration supporter. Defeated 1774 by Archibald Campbell

Comment:
As aide de camp to Cumberland during the '45, recommended Lawrence Dundas for army contracts and helped secure his return for Edinburgh. Lawrence got him his govt place in 1769


Political Career:
Represented Forfarshire, 1735-82, but probably absent for long spells Generally a Govt supporter.

Wealth:
1764, paid nearly £50,000 to buy back the family lands

Link to Peerage:
self, marriage (to da. of 5th Earl of Wigtown)

Land in Scotland:
Kellie (Forfar). Timp values the total  Panmure lands (Brechin) as £24,470.18.10d pa

Comment:
Father was an Episcopalian and Jacobite, out in the '15. ODNB  Portrait
A popular, benevolent, and charitable man, as a landlord Panmure showed considerable interest in his tenants' well-being and in the improvement of his estates. His efforts provide a good example of the rehabilitation of former Jacobite families back into the Scottish landed establishment during the second half of the eighteenth century. Died unmarried, estate entailed to sister's husband.


Title History:
Lord Barskimming(SCJ), 1766-1779; Lord Glenlee,  after 1780; cr Bt, 1788

Political Career:
Brought in to Parliament by Queensberry. Generally well-tought of, some absences, conscientious.

Wealth:
succeeded father to Barskimming estate, 1753, and brother to Glenlee

Land in Scotland:
Glenlee (Kirkcudbright) and Barskimming (Ayr)

Comment:
Town Clerk, Glasgow 1748-66.Various legal posts, incl LA, 1760-66, and LP of the Court of Session 1787-9. Applied for post of LA without a patron to intercede for him with Newcastle. Known for independent judgment and integrity. Connected with Loudoun in Arshire politics. Voted against the Stamp, yete was shortly afterwards apptd Lord Justice Clerk (Queensberry influence?)


Father's Occupation:
minister of St. Giles and King's chaplain

Political Career:
Attached to the Pelhams rather than Argyll; spent most time  abroad as envoy etc; struggled to hold his seat; retd 1755 fr Elgin Burghs, recalled from Prussia, 1758, re-elected 1761, and 1768 in absentia.

Wealth:
inherited Thainston, 1741 (from wife's family)

Comment:
Was under-sec for Scotland, 1742-6; Rep. Aberedeenshire 1747-54. Friend of Frederick the Great.  After 1760,failed in applications for honour or  place, reluctant to return to Berlin, but did so in 1765 on award of KB and pension of £500. Various proposals to dispose of his seat, but ministers would not do so whle he was on govt business abroad.


Father's Occupation:
advocate (sheriff-depute of Peebles, legal advisor to Lord March)

Political Career:
Entered Parlt, as LA, 1766. Transferred to Peebles-shire, 1768.Served 11 years in Pariament. A regular and active Govt supporter. Retd unopposed in 1774, succeeded Ord as Chief Baron(1775- 1801), and left Parliament.

Wealth:
Spent £40,000 on purchase of additional estates in Peebles-shire.

Comment:
Connected with March, Chief Baron Ord, Robert Dundas; apptd joint, then sole Sol.-Gen. By 1764. 1766 Succeeded LA Thomas Miller.


Political Career:
Brought into Pparliament with Cosmo's support. Remained an Admin. Supporter (cf brothers). Loat his seat to William Adam, 1784

Link to Peerage:
marriage (to Dowager Duchess of Gordon, widow of Cosmo George, and mother of Lords William and George)

Comment:
Belonged to a wealthy colonial family.Related to revolutionary leaders. English visit in 1755 led to his marriage. Raised a Highland Regiment, 1759,which was sent to India. Renewed interest in america from mid '60s, applied for land grants. Visit to America, 1769.


Father's Name:
Col. Sir Robert Munro, 6th Bt, of Foulis

Political Career:
Rep. Ross-shire 1746-7, Tain Burghs 1747-61. From 1755, directed by Newcastle. Negotiations led to him giving his interest to Col. John Scott(Mansfield's nephew) in 1761 in return for keeping his place and salary for life.

Wealth:
succeeded his father, 1746. Timp. Rates Foulis estates at £1025.2s pa (p301)

Comment:
Presbyterian and Hanoverian, at feud with the Jacobite Mackenzies. Munro's father was killed at Falkirk. Son rewarded for his own loyalty with chamberlain of Crown lands in Ross, augmented 1755 by £500 pa. In 1754, supptd James Stuart Mackenzie against Lord Fortrose.


Political Career:
Used wealth to secure Inverness Burghs seat in 1768, re-elected in 1774, and in 1780, while absent in India.

Wealth:
acquired Novar estate from cousin. Left India with a vast fortune. Rebuilt Novar House at cost of £120,000.

Comment:
Army promotions due to friendship of Dowager Duchess of Gordon. Did well in India. Used his wealth to buy for £1400 the Muirtown estate, Elgin. Losses in Ayr Bank fiasco possibly led him to seek further employment - became c.-in-c. Madras 1777. Reputation damaged in subsequent campaigns


Political Career:
Retd for Renfrewshire, 1742-61. Entered Parliament as an opposition whig, but by 1754, was a govt supporter (possibly with reservations). Good negotiator in business and constituency affairs.

Land in Scotland:
Caldwell (Renfew) (Timp, £1666), and lands mainly in Ayrshire worth c. £850 pa

Comment:
From 1757 took over the management of Bute's Scottish estates. Involved in Argyll-Bute rift, concerned to retain his own seat; got place - Baron of the Scottish Exchequer, 1761. Mure acted asa Scottish adviser for Bute and James Stuart Mackenzie. Given, in return, the reversion of the  receivership general of Jamaica 'Much trusted and advised with' (Alexander Caryle)


Title History:
Took name Mure on succeeding to mother's estates, 1729; succeeded father 1745, and cousin as 5th earl of Loudoun, 1782

Political Career:
Little interest in politics; put fwd by Earl of Loudoun, with support of Argyll and Pelham. Excluded from next  parliament as electoral interests changed

Wealth:
succeeded to estates encumbered with debts. Sold part of Perthshire estates (but not Lawers)Rowallan estate valued in Timp. at over £3000 pa

Comment:
Father was 3rd son of James, 2nd Earl of Loudoun.


Political Career:
Returned for Peeblesshire on the Queensberry interest, while still sol.gen. Variable performance and attendance. Promoted to the bench 1783 as Lord Henderland

Wealth:
succeeded father, 1773 in Murrayfield estates (Timp. £557 pa; no mention of Henderland)

Link to Peerage:
cousin of John 4th marquis of Tweeddale; married niece of Lord Mansfield

Comment:
Sheriff-Depute (Peebles, 1761-75), solicitor-gen.[S], 1775-83. Connected through his father's family with the Duke of Queensberry. Succeeded his father as S-D in Peebles. Not particularly ambitious. Received reversion of the office of clerk of the pipe, available 1786.)


Political Career:
Returned for Perthshire, 1773 by-election, after contest; supporter of North and subsequent administrations

Link to Peerage:
grandfather was 1st duke of Atholl; bro became 3rd duke of Atholl

Comment:
Father attainted for his part in the '45. Living abroad, he obtained a commission for his son in the Saxon army. Captured, released via Andrew Mitchell, retd home 1757, joined Lord John Murray's regiment. Apptd governor of Fort William 1780. Promoted to mjor-gen.1782, lt.gen. 1793. Note Wraxall refers to him in 1780 as 'General Murray'.


Political Career:
Stood for Wigtownshire, 1761 on the Galloway interest, but lost to Hamilton of Bargany. Retd 1762, on a compromise. Replaced, 1768 by Keith Stewart, he switched to Kirkcudbright., little prospect of success,1774, retired to estates

Wealth:
succeeded father, 1750; inherited considerable estates in Wigtown, Kirkcudbright and Ireland

Link to Peerage:
mother was da. Of James, 5th Earl of Galloway; married da. of 6th Earl

Land in Scotland:
Broughton (Wigtown) and Cally (Kirkcudbright)

Comment:
Friend of Rockingham whom he followed into Opposition, and who got him the salary of R-Gen of land tax (not the post, so he stayed in parlt). Took Wigtownshire against John Ross Mackye, but lost his place in 1773, also lost in the Ayr bank collapse. Accepted Keith Stewart's post of R-Gen (land tax), 1783-4. Gave it up to stand again (but did not) for Parlt. Personal scandal - ran off with mistress; retd 1789 to good works and local politics


Title History:
succeeded uncle as 3rd duke of Atholl, 1764; K.T. 1767

Political Career:
Stood against his half-uncle (Lord John, of Pitnacree);supporter of Bute/Administration. Inherited dukedom, 1764

Wealth:
in 1765 sold regalities (on Isle of Man, to English Crown) for £70,000 but kept many other rights. Wife inherited, as Baroness Strange. He got the Atholl estates (£11,000+ Timp)

Link to Peerage:
Self; grandfather was John, 1st duke of Atholl); married da. and heir of James, 2nd duke of Atholl

Land in Scotland:
Strowan (Perth: Timp. C. £800 pa), lands in the Isle of Man, Atholl Estates. Family seat: Blair Castle(?)

Comment:
Distressed by his father's support for the '45. Raised by his Hanoverian uncle, Duke James. Got him commission in Loudoun's Regiment. Considered 2nd Duke's heir, rehabilitated,  presented at court. Involved in county politics. SRP 1766-1774; LR 1764-74 (ODNB)


Political Career:
Represented Perthshire 1734-61, supporting Walpole, then the Pelhams. Failed to win support in 1768, or 1769, or 1773 (by-elections)

Comment:
His 3 half-brothers were Jacobites in the '45. Advancement due to Argyll's friendship with his half-brother, James, who became 2nd Duke. Col. In 42nd (later Black Watch) he did not go to America with them in 1756. Failed to uphold interests of freeholders re s
distilling bill, 1759. Resented exclusion from succession to Dukedom. After 1774, sold most of scottish estates, retired to Bannercross. Timp. Lists Pitnacree (Logierait) as belonging to the Earl of Moray, in 1780, value just under £500 pa.


Political Career:
Mortified at losing Selkirkshire; attached to Newcastle (thro' Hyndford); little known of his conduct in Parlt. Tried again vs Elliot, but his cousin Pringle got the seat when Elliot tranferred to Roxb

Wealth:
succeeded father, 1753, but acute financial distress by late 1760's

Link to Peerage:
via mother, to dukes of Hamilton and Douglas and Earls Selkirk, Dundonald and March

Comment:
Famous Border family with great estates in Ettrick and Yarrow. Murray hoped to take over his father's Parlty seat in 1754, but was opposed by Argyll's support of Gilbert Elliot (1753 by-election after his father died).  Stood instead, 1754 for Linlithgow Burghs with support from various grandees (after Pryse Campbell declined to stand) vs Lawrence Dundas. Main interest was his family's prestige in Selkirkshire. Popular, generous, recklessly extravagant (friend of March). Land speculation in America also failed. Had to sell considerable part of estates (to John Johnstone of Alva). Eventually settled in Jamaica


Title History:
succeeded great-uncle Robert Murray in Murrayshall estates, 1743, assumed additional name, Murray; KB 1772; PC 1789

Political Career:
Patron was Suffolk, but candidature needed Lord March's agreement (given after death of serving MP, 1775). Abroad from 1776, did not stand again

Wealth:
succeeded father 1774, (Kincardine estate) and great-uncle (Murrayshall, Peebles)

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Deeply in debt by 1778 (funding ambassador's lifestyle?)

Comment:
Cornet's commission (Br Army), resigned for captaincy in Scots Dutch Brigade (1747-52). Travelling companion of Lord Fred Campbell to Germany, re-entered Br army 1757, service in Germany; apptd Henry Seymour Conway (his friend)'s secy .. 1759 apptd by Pitt to command the Highland Volunteers (> 87th Foot), disbanded 1763,> unemployed, settled in London (member of 'the Gang') Conway got him apptd envoy to Saxony (good linguist), then Denmakr and Austria. When a parlty seat was suggested, he was anxious not to pester his various patrons  for their support, and made clear he did not have funds to 'buy' a seat. V. honest comments about elections and MP service see N&B


Title History:
1797 Took name Hamilton before Nisbet, on succeeding his mother in her estates

Political Career:
As result of a deal, he was elected in 1777 when Suttie vacated the seat.  Supporter of North. Defeated 1780, but sat for English seats 1790-1800

Wealth:
inherited from his father, 1783,;  from Lord Belhaven via his mother 1797; English estates from wife

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
one of the wealthiest lairds in Scotland

Land in Scotland:
Dirleton, Biel and Presmennan, (possibly also Pencaitland and Dechmont from mother)


Career:
legal profession , also career politician

Political Career:
Represented Dysart Burghs, 1741-7, Fife, 1747-54, then Dysart Burghs.Attached to Newcastle mainly for his govt posts, but retained a degree of independence. Assoc. of Gilbert Elliot. Stood down 1768 for his son.

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
an impaired fortune by 1768, loss of sinecure, but son's place provided (Sc. Auditor-Gen.)

Comment:
Father established an interest in Dysart Burghs, purchased Dunnikier, 1703. Govt apptmts: Commissioner of the Navy 1745-7,
Lord of Trade 1751-9, Lord of Treasury 1759-63, PC April 1763
Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland 1763-7. (sinecure) . Friends/associates: Adam Smith,  David Hume, Henry Home, Lord Kames, and John Home ('Douglas').  In Scottish affairs his parlty interest was sought for a wide variety of projects affecting trade, banking, manufactures, communications and the church. Dependent latterly on his place (and his brother) for income
ODNB entry + long N&B entry


Political Career:
Called in (while under age0 to take over his father's seat, 1768; supporter of Grafton and North; defeated 1774; won, narrowly, in Fife in 1775; vacated seat 1779 on receiving his place

Wealth:
succeeded his father, 1769. Held, successively, 2 govt places

Comment:
An unremarkable parliamentary career; stood against Dundas's nominee in 1775, but contd to support Administration. 1779, succeeded to the auditorship of the Exchequer, the reversion of which his father had secured for him.


Career:
legal profession ( admitted to the Scottish bar as an advocate but later entered the army where he attained the rank of captain. ODNB 'politician and writer'.

Political Career:
SRP 1768-1774 (Chosen as a representative peer in 1771 )

Comment:
see ODNB. 1747 Dalrymple inherited the family's estates following the death of his uncle, John Dalrymple, second earl of Stair. However, in the following year the House of Lords denied his right to the title which passed to his cousin James. Though John retained the family's estates he did not assume the earldom until the death of the fourth earl, William, younger brother of James, third earl, on 27 July 1768. Stair voted with the whigs and was critical of Lord North's treatment of the American colonies which led to revolution. In 1774 he presented a petition to the government on behalf of Massachusetts for which he received the thanks of the colony. His prescience in American affairs earned the title of the ‘Cassandra of the state’ from Horace Walpole who later described him as ‘an honest Scot, enthusiastic in the cause of America’ .Having failed to be returned as a representative peer in 1774, Stair dedicated himself to writing on political and fiscal matters. His The State of the National Debt, Income and Expenditure was published two years later and was followed by, among others, Considerations preliminary to the fixing of supplies … for 1781: an attempt to balance the income and expenditure of the state, State of Public Debts (both 1783), and On the Proper Limits of Government's Interference with the Affairs of the East India Company (1784).


Title History:
Thomas Kennedy, 4th bt of Culzean (1744), and  9th earl of Cassilis (1762)

Father's Name:
Sir John Kennedy of Culzean, 2nd baronet (d. 1742)

Career:
landowner and smuggler; military career in the British army. Improver

Comment:
ODNB. Bro of David Kennedy, MP and 10th earl.His father was a Jacobite, who had turned to smuggling. Thomas He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his brother John in April 1744. Kennedy left the army , appointed Archibald Kennedy, an Ayrshire wine merchant, to factor his estate and to manage the family's smuggling enterprise, and set off on an extended grand tour.He remained in France from 1748 to 1750, writing constantly to his factor about improvements to the estate and to the castle; on return to Scotland in 1755 Kennedy began  to improve his vast estate of over 250,000 acres. In 1758 John Kennedy, eighth earl of Cassillis, Sir Thomas Kennedy's fifth cousin and head of the wider Kennedy family, died childless, having previously entailed the Cassillis estate on Sir Thomas Kennedy and his heirs male, failing which, on his next brother David Kennedy; challenged, but House of Lords,  ruledin Kennedy's favour  in 1762. The new earl took possession of Cassillis House, inland from Culzean, along with the estate that adjoined Culzean and a London town house. He began to improve the Cassillis estate as well as Culzean. Went abroad again, did not return home until 1765; involved in slave trade,acquired land in Florida,speculated with success in East India stock between 1769 and 1771; tho' not himself involved, finances were badly damaged by the collapse of the bank in 1772.not engaged much with either society or politics in Britain, he was elected, to his surprise, a representative peer for Scotland in 1774, but died 1775.


Title History:
succeeded bro,Chas, 7th earl of Dalhousie,( d. unmarried), in 1764, as 8th  earl of Dalhousie

Father's Name:
George, Lord Ramsay ( d. May 1739), eldest son of William, 6th Earl ofDalhousie ( d. Dec 1739)

Career:
legal profession (member of faculty of advocates, 1757)

Land in Scotland:
Dalhousie estates, Panmure lands (life-rent)

Comment:
Apptd, 1775 one of the Lords of Police, post held till suppressed 1782;Lord HC of Gen Ass of C/S 1777-1782. On the death of his uncle, William, Earl of Panmure, in 1782, he got the large estates of that family, in liferent, with remainder to his second son. Died at Abbeville in France 1787


Title History:
succeeded father, 1773, as 7th earl of Galloway; created,6 Jun 1796, Baron Stewart of Garlies, of Garlies in the County of Wigton.

Father's Name:
Alexander [Stewart], 6th earl of Galloway

Political Career:
Member of Parliament  for Morpeth 1761-68 and for Ludgershall 1768-73; SRP 1774-1790

Comment:
bro of Keith Stewart, MP. Father (Alexander):a Lord of Police [S] c. 1743-68; suc. his third cousin once removed 24 Aug 1756 as 4th Baronet "of Burray"; Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1757-59; Lt General and President of the Council of the Royal Archers 1765-68. Died 1773. John:  a Lord of Police [S] 1768-82;  Knight of the Thistle 1775; a Lord of the Bedchamber 1784-1806; Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire 1794-1806


Title History:
succeeded father, 1775,  as 14th earl of Glencairn

Father's Name:
William Cunningham, 13th earl of Glencairn

Father's Occupation:
entered the Army 1729: Major, 52nd Foot 1741, Lt Col, 9th Foot 1747, Maj Gen 1770

Comment:
Elder brother died in 1768. James was in the Fencibles , 1778; he alienated the ancient family estate of Kilmaurs, 1786.succeeded by his bro, 15th Earl, who died without issue: earldom claimed by Sir Adam Fergusson, Bt  – not sustained: estate went to Robt Graham of Gartmore


Title History:
4th Lord Carmichael and 3rd earl of Hyndford. Succeeded his father 1737

Father's Name:
James, 3rd Lord Carmichael and 2nd earl of Hyndford

Comment:
L.R. does not list Carmichael among the 1754 Peers; info comes from wiki (as 1738-1761). apptd one of the Lords of Police 1738; Sheriff-Principal and Ld Lt Lanarkshire 1739; Lord HC to Gen ass 1739, 1740; envoy to King of Prussia, 1741; > K.T, 1742, then envoy to Russia; retd to Britain 1750. P.C. 1750, appt one of lords of Bedchamber; ambassador to vienna, 1752-64; apptd Vice-Adm of Scotland, 1764, gave up seat on Board of Police
Excellent landlord, spent large sums on his estates of carmichael and Westraw; died 1767Lord Hyndford died without male issue; title passed to grandson of 1st E/Hyndford


Title History:
succeeded father, as 4th duke of Atholl; created Earl Strange and Baron Murray of Stanley in 1786

Land in Scotland:
Atholl estates. Family seat: Blair Castle

Comment:
Cathcart; Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1778-80;  Captain General and Governor of the Isle of Man 1793; Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire 1794-1830; Privy Councillor 1797; Knight of the Thistle 1800; suc. his mother 13 Oct 1805 as 9th Baron Strange;


Title History:
suc. Bro. Henry in the courtesy title of Earl of Drumlanrig 19 Oct. 1754.

Comment:
In 1754 w his brother accidentally shot himself. Lord Charles thereby became the eldest son of a Scottish peer, but the question of his disqualification as a Scottish M.P. seems to have been held in abeyance until it was certain that no posthumous heir would be born to Drumlanrig’s widow, and a new writ was not issued until 8 Nov. 1755.


Title History:
succeeded uncle as 7th Lord Elibank, 1785

Land in Scotland:
suc. To Blackbarony estates, Peebles, c.1773

Comment:
Ensign 3 Ft. Gds 1763, lt. and capt. 1769; ret. 1776. Ld. lt. Peeblesshire 1794- d. No impact in Parlt. Stop-gap after Murray of Murrayfield became a judge.


Father's Name:
Sir Alexander Lindsay, 3rd Bt of Evelick

Political Career:
MP, Aberdeen Burghs, 1767-8 . Lord of Admiralty April-Dec 1783

Comment:
stop-gap appmt as MP. Mother was a sister of 2nd Lord Mansfield. Navy career, : Lt 1756 > Rear Admiral 1787. Made no impact as MP (N&B)


Title History:
Kntd 1764, KB 1772, Baron Macartney (I) 1776, Visc (I) 1792, Earl (I) 1794, Baron (GB) 1796

Political Career:
Diplomat and  colonial governor. MP Cockermouth 1768-9, Ayr B. 1774-6, Bere Alston 1780-1

COCKERMOUTH

1768 - Mar. 1769



AYR BURGHS

1774 - Jan. 1776



Bere Alston 1780-1

1780 - Feb. 1781

Wealth:
Received an Irish pension of £1500 in 1772

Comment:
Irish. Came in on Bute's interest. Bute was his father-in-law. Also Lowther and Fox connections.  Offered Holland £2000 for a seat in Parlt, 1766. Place-seeker. Envoy to St Petersburg, 1764-7,PC (I) 1769, Gov of Grenada 1775-9, of Madras, 1781-5, PC 1792, ; embassy to China 1792-4, Gov of C/Gd/ Hope 1796-8


Political Career:
Retf unopposed 1761 on Marchmont (and anti-Marchmont) interest. A silent and undistinguished MP. 1779 Vacated seat in favour of Lord Marchmont's son-in-law.

Land in Scotland:
Stichell estates, from 1779 (Timp. Worth c. £4,500 pa)

Comment:
Belonged to an ancient Scottish famaily with considerable property in Roxburgh and Berwick. On retiral, devoted his time to management of his estates, played little part in politics. Apptd master of the king's works in Scotland, 1774


Father's Name:
John Pringle of Haining (Lord Haining, SCJ)

Political Career:
replaced Gilbert Elliot in 1765. Corr. Shows a shrew, independent observer, loosely attached to Bute party (details of parlty activity)

Wealth:
bought Haining from elder bro, 1754; succeeded to remaiining property in 1776; inherited Clifton estates from his cousin, Robert.

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
a great fortune, and estates in Britain and Madeira

Land in Scotland:
Haining estates (Selkirk), Clifton (Roxburgh)

Comment:
As a youth made a fortune in the Madeira wine trade, then divided his time between his Scottish property and his business interests in London. Possessed an old family interest in the county and burgh of Selkirk. A kindly and generous man, beloved by is kinsmen and constituents, he advised them in their affairs and represented them unopposed for over 20 years (check his will)


Title History:
took name Pulteney, 1767 on wife (Frances Pulteney)succeeding to estates of Lord Bath; succeeded bro as 5th Bt, 1794

Political Career:
Ambition to enter Parlt; 1768 retd for both Perth Burghs and Cromartyshire (which he chose); an independent in parlt; spoke frequently; 1775 retd for Shrewsbury (till 1805)

Wealth:
inherited extensive estates via his wife

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
obtained a large fortune through wife's inheritance

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather was 4th Lord Elibank

Link to England:
marriage, electoral interest in Shrewsbury

Comment:
Brother of George, Sir James and John Johnstone. Literary friends, secy of Poker Club. Careful with money from penniless youth. Sinclair said of him: accustomed to live on £200 pa, he thought it a great extravagance to spend £2000, when he could have spent £20,000.


Title History:
Took name Irvine on marriage. Succeeded uncle as 6th Bt, 1754

Political Career:
Retd  in 1765 on death of Sir James Carnegie. An obscure and silent MP.  Not returned in 1768

Wealth:
inherited estates from his uncle and his wife

Land in Scotland:
Balmain estates (Kincardine) + lands in Aberdeenshire from his marriage

Comment:
Father was son of Sir Charles Ramsay, 3rd Bt of Balmain. He set up as a merchant in London, but retd 1743 to live with his uncle, Sir Alexander Ramsay, as his heir-presumptive. 1744, married 10-yr-old da. Of Irvine of Saphock, along with the Irvine property.( She died, 1750) Ramsay's claim on the Irvine estates was upheld by the H/L. Described as 'rich, old, and very independent man'


Political Career:
stood for Elgin Burghs, 1771 (withdrew). Retd for Tain Burghs with support of his bro and Stuart Mackenzie. Essentially an independent and a man with a grievance

Wealth:
no inheritance or place listed other than army posts

Comment:
Chequered career in army; unemployed for 9 years (on Continent, in Scotland, and London); half-pay maj.-gen. 1781; lt-gen 1793. Several recorded speeches, but long and dreary; issue of 'secret influence' by the Crown raised by Ross, 1784. Stood down n favour of Fox, 1784.


Political Career:
Electoral intervention from 1760s, acquired the major electoral interest in Cromartyshire. Retd unopposed. Admin supporter

Wealth:
self-made, army contracts; purchased estate of Cromarty

Comment:
For  many years confidential secy to Duncan Forbes of Culloden, then  becamea protégé of Argyll. 1754 apptd London agent for CRB, and was their chief negotiator with the ministry for 20 years; influential connections in the city, army and politics, built up an extensive army agency business during 7 Yrs War and American War. Used his great wealth to purchase superiorities in Ross-shire and northern burghs. ODNB gives his birth as 1708/9.


Political Career:
Reptd Dysart Burghs and Sutherland between 1722 and 1754. Nominal adherence to Newcastle in 1754 parlt. Electted u nopposed in 1761, died 1762.

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
great wealth, mainly from his collieries

Land in Scotland:
Sinclair estates (Fife), Balblair (Sutherland)

Comment:
Succeeded father, 1723 (elder bro. attainted), surrendered to bro on pardon 1726, re-acquired, 1750, as titular 11th Lord Sinclair [ODNB but for the attainder of 1715, he would have been the 12th Lord Sinclair].  James was a staunch whig, had a distinguished army career (Gen, 1761; considered for C-in-C, rejected as Scot). Uncle of Sir Henry Erskine, who became his heir


Political Career:
Sat for Fifeshire 1741-7; first sat for Aberdeen burghs 1751 with support of Lord Panmure and Administration. Newcastle supporter

Wealth:
succeeded his father in Scotstarvet estates, 1718

Comment:
Uncle of Lord Mansfield who intervened on his behalf to secure his return; Bute obtained the support of the Panmure interest again for him


Link to Peerage:
marriage, to da. of 3rd Earl of Marchmont

Comment:
An opponent of Argyll in 1754, but changed after marriage. Politics usually directed by Marchmont and Hume Campbell. Attached himself to Bute, 1761. Connected with John Pringle of Haining and Sir Gilbert Elliot. 1765, secured post of cashier of the excise, on which he vacated his seat. Relations with Marchmont deteriorated - 1780 he encouraged his son, Hugh, to stand against Marchmont's son-in-law: led to his children being disinherited by Marchmont.


Title History:
succeeded his cousin James Hepburne, 1793 (became Hepburne Scott); established claim as 6th Baron Polwarth, 1835

Political Career:
Election voided after petition, but returned  unopposed, 1781. Supported North; defended friends against acusations of bribery. Did not stand 1784

Wealth:
succeeded his father in his estates, 1793 (possibly Hepburne lands?)

Land in Scotland:
Harden (Roxburgh) and Mertoun (Berwickshire) from 1793

Comment:
Caused family dispute by standing against his grandfather's candidate. Cost him the Marchmont estates. Retired to the life of a country gentleman aged 26.


Political Career:
Stood for Caithness on mother's family interests.1761 elected for Tain Burghs (see comment); left Newcastle for Bute. 1768 stood for Fifeshire vs friend Wemyss; a constant Admin supporter

Wealth:
gained a ?£500,000 fortune from gambling. On father's death purchased Balcomie outright  Balcomie

Comment:
Married (I) da of James, 15th earl of Erroll, (2) da of Robert Dundas of Arniston. Celebrated gambler ('Pawkey') Connected with William, 18th earl of Sutherland (great nephew of James St Clair, his commanding officer).Mansfield (his cousin) spoke for him after attempt to buy Dingwall's vote led to the Court of Session voiding the election. But he won Newcastle's support for his candidature + Earl of Morton's interest in Kirkwall. Connection with Shelburne secured command of 26th Foot, 1763. Visited America after 1768 election - missed part of parlt. Major-General, 1770


Title History:
succeeded great-uncle in Greenock estates, 1752, took additional name of Shaw. Succeeded father as 4th Bt, 1796

Father's Name:
Sir Michael Stewart, 3rd Bt, of Blackhall

Political Career:
Defeated in 1768 and 1774. Retd 1780 on pact with McDowell to share the parlt. Vacated seat, 1783; retd again 1786-96. Made little impression on the House

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
inherited great wealth and property through his mother

Comment:
Aimed to wrest control of Renfrewshire from William Mure. Standing against Mure, Craufurd, McDowell interests . Strong independent views on religion and politics, opposed govt's American policy. Close friend of Lord Eglintoun. Noted more for his roistering social life than his parliamentary ability


Political Career:
Defeated in Tain Burghs, 1774. Retd, unopposed, for Caithness, 1780. Independent

Link to Peerage:
mother was sister of William, 17th Earl of Sutherland

Comment:
1774 candidate was his cousin, Sir Adam Fergusson. Part of his inheritance was a controlling interest in Wick. Good opinion of himself. Active in parlt, if inconsistent. 1784, lostin Northern (Tain) burghs to Fox. Govt provided hm with a seat in Lostwithiel, for £3000. Subsequently sat for Caithness and Petersfield, 1790-1811.Latterly a critic of Pitt's economic policy.  On his own, in Opposition, started the Statistical Account


Father's Name:
David Skene of Pitlour (subsequently Hallyards)

Political Career:
Retd for Fifeshire, 1779, unseated 1780 on petition. Retd at general election; supporter of North

Comment:
cousin of Adam Smith. Stood for Fife, 1776, backed by 5th Duke of Argyll, but gave his interest to James Townsend Oswald. Unseated on petition as holder of a govt place (inspector of roads, which he resigned to his brother, before 1784 general election).
Timp. Doesn't list either Robert Skene or his father, David, but Hallyards (Fife) is listed as belonging to the Earl of Moray, value c. £2500


Political Career:
Reptd Wigtown Shire or Burghs, 1734-1761. Unambitious in parlt, attended when not on army duties. An obscure MP

Link to Peerage:
father, maternal grandfather (9th Earl Eglintoun)

Comment:
Described in 1759, as 'infirm and indolent'.
Sailed in Byng's squadron, 1756, concurred in decision to abandon Minorca, but found not guilty of neglect of duty


Political Career:
sat briefly, 1762, for  Wigtown Burghs, then brought in by father, 1768 for the county, till 1784

Wealth:
Glasserton estate made over to him by father, 1763( Timp: £ c. 1700 pa)

Comment:
Early naval career, then parlt, 1768;  secured a naval command, 1777; on active service till 1780s; rear-admiral, 1790, vice-admiral, 1794; 1773 obtained salary for  Receiver-Gen of the land tax (S), but not the post (incompatible with seat in parlt); 1783, lost his place to bro-in-law, James Murray, in 1783. At general election,  gained the post for which he had held the salary; agreement with opponent, MacDouall, that seat should revert to him (Stewart) if he lost his place. Exercised his office by deputy,concerned mainly with his estates, and coal and iron mines. [See entry on his bro, Visc. Garlies, Later 7th Earl of Galloway, SRP, for electoral manipulation]


Political Career:
1770, brought in by Lord Galloway, politics directed by them. Admin supporter from 1774. Did not stand 1780 (financially embarrassed)

Wealth:
succeeded father in Castle Stewart estates 1769

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
large estates, burdened wth debts; had to sell Wigtownshire estates, 1783

Link to Peerage:
marriage, to grand.da of Alexander, 6th earl of Galloway

Comment:
Family owned extensive estates, but debt-burdened estates in Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbright. Stewart, through family connection with Argyll got his army commission, but not promotion to major. Left army 1769. Financial straits, hoped for a lucrative place, got only a minor Custom house place


Political Career:
Defeated, 1768, in Lanarkshire, on the Hamilton interest. Returned after contest, 1774. No impression in parlt; skill was in behind the scemes negotiation; close friend of Henry Dundas (Scotch Ministry)

Wealth:
succeeded bro, 1796, in Torrance estate, and Sir John Stuart, 5th Bt,  in Castlemilk estate, 1797

Land in Scotland:
Craigthorn (Lanark), later Torrance and Castlemilk (1790s)

Comment:
Belonged to an old Lanarkshire family connected with Duke of Hamilton; became their law agent. Well-connected, Hume, Dempster, Adam Fergusson, Pulteney, Wedderburn (member, Select Society); also Bedfords, Lord Gower, Conway… Colebrooke (EIC) Managed the Hamilton case in the Douglas affair; turned down as member of EIC Commission of enquiry (Scotsman).
Wrote 'Letters to Lord Mansfield' (re abuse suffered as result of Hamilton affair) Rejected by King for further EIC post. As a guardian of young Duke, supervised Hamilton electoral affairs; essentially an admnistrator, never a party man, politics directed by personal loyalties (interest in histo. Research). Held several places: jt remembrancer of Exchequer (1771-86, jt keeper of Signet (S), 1777-79; lord of Trade,, 1779-82…


Political Career:
Brought into Parlt, 1776, on the family interest with Ayr Burghs; got no seat in 1780. Reptd Buteshire, 1796-1802

Comment:
Bro of Charles, James Archibald, and John, Lord Mountstuart. (all MPs) Black sheep of the family, ran away to Paris, age 17; sent to Bengal on writership with EIC, 1769. Retd 1775, having been lent £4000 by Warren Hastings; no-one wanted to employ him in India; ; later years spent in poverty; little known about years 1783-96.


Title History:
succeeded mother, 1794, took added name Wortley, and uncle James Stuart Mackenzie, 1800, added name Mackenzie

Political Career:
elected in absentia, 1768, for Ayr Burghs, transferred to Buteshire, 1768 by father. Sat in Parlt till 1807

Land in England:
properties of the Wortley family (from 1794)

Comment:
An idle, undisciplined youth; ringleader in Edinburgh student riot, secret marriage; brought to heel by family, made settlement on him, got seat in parlt, reconciled with wife, but by 1775 heaving drinking and gambling. 1780, after brief army sojourn to WI, heavily in debt, needed seat to protect him from creditors (Bute paid for Admin. Seat in Plympton Erle). Settled down by mid 1780s. Bossiney seat (1790s) = Cornwall rotten borough


Title History:
Added name Mackenzie, 1723, on succeeding to Rosehaugh

Political Career:
Reptd Argyll, and Bute, 1742-54. Retd 1754 on Argyll-Bute interest (Ayr Burghs). Abroad (envoy) 1758-61, then took over Scottish affairs; forced out by Grenville. Under Chatham, regained Privy Seal, but not power; not known to ha ve spoken in H/C

Wealth:
inherited Rosehaugh, 1723, under entail from gt grand-father

Link to Peerage:
father, maternal grandfather, (1st duke of Argyll), father-in-law (2nd duke of Argyll)

Comment:
Long entry. (N&B)Secret Service pension (£2000pa), 1761, pending a lucrative place.  Employed William Mure as  main deputy; helped friends, but disliked jobbery (best qualified should be appointed). Got Lord Privy Seal[S] (£3000 pa) . when Bute resigned. suggested reform bill to prevent splitting of votes for electoral purposes. Conscience re jobbery. Retained influence after 1765; 1767 consulted by Grafton on Sc. Patronage. But from 1770 Butes's sons were looking after that interest, he was disenegaging, tho' suppted  North. Still contacted by place-hunters 1774-80.  Shrewd, industrious and etremely able.. Too honest and scrupulous to involve himself in party intrigue.


Father's Name:
Sir James Suttie, 2nd Bt of Balgone (Haddington)

Political Career:
Stood, with Robt Dundas's support in 1768 for Haddingtonshire. Spoke more than many Scots. Supporter of Grafton and North. 1774 agreed with Nisbet to share the Parlt; vacated seat 1777.

Wealth:
succeeded father in Balgone, 1736, but income 'halved' by his family during his absence

Comment:
linked by mother to Dalrymples; married da of Lord Prestongrange (SCJ); army advancement due to cos. John, Earl of Stair. See Alexander Carlyle's assessment of him - 'much overrated'. Thought to be a place-seeker (by Dalrymple, his opponent in 1768)


Title History:
raised to the Bench as Lord Elliock (SCJ), 1761

Comment:
Promoted to the Bench amid electoral considerations re Thomas Miller (new LA who needed a seat, but had no electoral qualification for the county) and Archibald Douglas, who stood fo the county, leaving the Burghs seat for Miller. Also served, later, as Commissioner  for forfeited estates, for fisheries and manufactures, and as dep. Gov. Royal Bank.


Political Career:
1754, elected for Lanarkshire as result of arrangement between Argyll, Duke of Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and Lord Hyndford. Made no mark in Parliament

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
extravagance cost him dearly - had to sell part of his estates. Got SS pension of £400 pa, 1756, till death

Comment:
His parents both belonged to convenanting families with 'Revolution priniples'


Political Career:
stood for Haddington Burghs with support of Hew Dalrymple. Election sustained by the H/C. consistent Admin supporter. No record of speech.  Retained seat at by-election caused by apptmt to a place

Wealth:
inherited  Lochend estates from father, 1772

Comment:
Apptd as King's remembrancer in Scotland. (jt, 1771-86, sole, 1786-91) 1774, resigned his claims to a seat in favour of his friend, Alexander Gilmour.


Father's Name:
Francis Wauchope of Caikmuir (Edinburghshire)

Political Career:
Returned, 1762 for Buteshire on a qualification provided by Mure of Caldwell. An obscure MP; followed Bute

Comment:
Employed in Virginia as factor by a Glasgow firm, A poor relation for whom Bute probbly felt obliged to provide: employed as Bute's confidential secy, and deputy as privy purse. On bute's resignation, Wauchope got a pension of £625 pa for life (ln the Irish establishment); was then employed as secy to James Stuart Mackenzie


Title History:
cr Baron Loughborough, 1780; earl of Rosslyn, 1801

Father's Name:
Peter Wedderburn of Chesterhall (Haddington), Lord Chesterhall (SCJ)

Political Career:
Retd 1761 on Bute's interest (Erskine's recommendation) for Ayr Burghs; supptd Bute and Grenville; frequent speaker; later seats were English (Richmond on Dundas interest), till 1780

Link to England:
marriage, parliamentary seats, English legal practice

Comment:
K.C., 1763; Sol-gen. 1771-78, hancellor to the Queen, 2772-80; Attorney-Gen, 1778-80; PC 1780' lcj common pleas 1780-93; lord chancellor, 1793-1801. He came from a distinguished Scottish legal family; left Edinburgh for England 1757. Sister married Hennry Erskine. He was a lawyer on the make, and saw parlt as a means of rising in his profession, but loyal to his friends. King refused his demand for a peerage n 1779


Political Career:
Retd unopposed, 1763, for Fife. Family matters  + ill  healthled to absence , 1763-5; 1768 had to give up Fife to Scott of Balcomie, stood for Sutherland; no place or pension granted despite requests; no known speech

Wealth:
succeeded father in Wemyss estates, 1756; wife brought a dowry of £4000; income, 1763 was £2000 pa, but burden of father's debts and mother's jointure (1/3 produce of Wemyss estates)

Link to Peerage:
father, father-in-law (Earl of Sutherland)

Comment:
Mother was da of Francis Charteris of Amisfield. Eldest bro (Lord Elcho) was attainted; Second bro (Francis) got Charteris estates; Wemyss estates (under entail) to go to James. Main political connections were with Lord Sutherland (his father-in-law) Duke of Queensberry and Lord March


Father's Name:
Sir John Anstruther, 1st Bt, of Anstruther and Elie

Political Career:
Stood, with Govt support, after Erskine's death; surprisingly re-elected, 1768; stood down 1774, in favour of son; retd 1780-82 and 1790-93irregular attendance

Wealth:
succeeded father in his estates, and cousin Gen. Philip Anstruther, 1760, in Airdrie estate

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
inherited a great fortune, 1760 (cousin)

Link to Peerage:
maternal grandfather, James 2nd Earl of Hyndford

Land in Scotland:
Anstruther and Elie (Fife),Purchased Erskines of Kellie estates in 1769; Airdrie estate, 1760-83

Comment:
Chief of an ancient Fife family, a nusmismatist, and agricultural improver; arrogant, extravagant building projects.Recommended to Newcastle by Alex. Gilmour, he stood against William Alexander's son; campaign notorious for bribery and chicanery. Re-elected despite unpopularity, with assistance of Col. John Scott and the Erskines of Kelly. 1774 on, devoted himself to estates, coalmines and saltpans.Airdrie estate sold 1783. Resigned seat in favouor of various sons, but reached agreement with support govt, with Henry Dundas in 1790s


Title History:
added name Paterson, c. 1782 after marriage. succeeded father as 3rd Bt, 1799

Father's Name:
Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Bt, of Anstruther and Elie

Political Career:
Brought into Parlt by his father; 1775, piloted (local) bill through the House; nothing else known; vacated seat 1777

Wealth:
succeeded his father in his Fife estates. ?Inheritance from marriage

Comment:
education simply recorded as 'St Andrews'. Retd from army, 1775. Married da and heir of Sir John Paterson, 3rd Bt of Eccles


Title History:
Ktd, 1797; cr Bt, 1798; succeeded bro Philip as 4th Bt, 1808

Political Career:
Entered Parlt, 1783, owing his place to North; uncertain views, but  became (North-Fox) coalition supporter; opposed to Pitt, 1784, aleading Opposition speaker in the ew Parlt

Link to England:
marriage, later parlty seat, legal career

Comment:
succesful career at the English bar, involced in EIC affairs; 1782 spoke against Commons resolution recalling Warren Hastings. (Later changed his views). Receiver-General of Bishops rents in Scotland, 1780; Sol-Gen to the PoW, 1793-5; Welsh judge, 1793-7; cj Bengal 1797-1806; PC 1806. His prlty career was largely after 1784. In parlt 1783-1797, and 1806-1811; stroong opponent of electoral reform. Lost Fife burgh,1790 but was found an English borough on the Lowther interest


Title History:
succeeded father  (1st earl, 1792)as 2nd earl of Dorchester, 1798

Political Career:
Reptd Cricklade, 1768 Parlt (expensive and corrupt borough); sat for Anstruther Easter, 1778-80; closely connected with Opposition

Wealth:
contracted debts (with bros) of £70,000 by 1776

Comment:
Involved in youthful episode in Rome resulting in a death; money extricated him.
Elder bro committed suicide. Uncle (Germain) probbl arranged George's rehabilitation, incl seat in parlt, and army commission. Chief Secy to Ld Lt [I] 1794-5


Political Career:
Retd, aged 21, for Nairnshire, 1777. Strong supporter of North. Moved to Wales, 1780-96

Wealth:
succeeded father, 1768, and grand-father, 1777

Link to Peerage:
cr a Baron (1796), married da of 5th Earl of Carlisle

Comment:
One recorded speech in the h/C; both he and his bro (rep Nairnshire) were classed as 'Opposition' by William Adam, in 1784.


Political Career:
sat on Earl of Morton's interest; absent on naval duty for long periods; politics directed by Morton; assoc with Newcastle rather than Argyll

Land in Scotland:
Springwood Park (Roxburgh), St Olla (Orkney)

Comment:
1756, apptd to court-martial Byng - no qualms of conscience re sentence. 1766 Morton sold Orkney and Shetland to Lawrence Dundas. Douglas left Parlt, devoted himself to naval career:  rear-adm, 1762, c-in-c W. Indies, 1763-5; vice adm. 1770; c-in-c Portsmouth, 1773-6; adm 1782


Political Career:
English constituency, 1748-68;; regular govt supporter. 1768, retd for Wigtown burghs, the first Englishman to sit for a Scottish constituency - no recorded votes for this parlt; no recorded speeches in all 22 years

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
extensive mining and other interests; money through govt contracts

Comment:
Lost his father, aged 2; taken into mother's family business, linen drapery et al. By 1750, he was working coal mines in Wales, + metals; held govt contracts for provisioning troops and ssettlers in Nova Scotia; extensive connections in America; got grsnt of 20,000 acres in St Johns Island in 1767; but mining interests dominated. Claims to have spent c.£6000 - more than he could afford - to carry two boroughs (in which family had an interest) in 1754, on promise of govt assistance (He wanted contracts). Lord Galloway had a reciprocal arrangement  with George Selwyn which allowed his eldest son (Lord Garlies) a n English seat. Townsend succeeded Selwyn in the Scottish seat, on a Treasury arrangement


Title History:
succeeded brother (murdered) as 11th earl of Eglintoun, 1769, but not his SRP place till 1774

Political Career:
opposition in Ayrshire from Loudoun interest; returned 1761 on Bute/Argyll interest; loyal but silent supporter of Bute, then Grenville. SRP 1776-1796

Link to Peerage:
self, father, father-in-law (George, 21st Earl of Crawford

Land in Scotland:
Minnoch (Ayr), Eglintoun estates (from 1769)

Comment:
Dep. Ranger Hyde Park and St James's Park, 1766-8 (lucrative place secured under Rockingham admin). Concerted action by Loudoun, Cassillis and Kennedy to displace him in 1768. Montgomerie was defeated. Described as lazy and heedless, and not popular; few intellectual interests. 'A violent Scorsman with a contempt for Englishmen equal to Dr Johnson's for Scots'. Disliked ministerial direction while in the Lords


Title History:
earl of Islay (1706); succeeded bro as 3rd duke of Argyll (1743)

Father's Name:
Archibald Campbell, tenth earl and first duke of Argyll (d. 1703)

Career:
career politician (legal training, army experience)

Political Career:
lifelong career as a parliamentary politician; swansong in 1750s when Newcastle needed him as Scottish political manager.

Wealth:
dependent on govt offices, till inherited dukedom

Link to England:
born in Surrey, schooling, main residence

Land in Scotland:
one of the largest territorial magnates in  Scotland, from 1743

Comment:
(ODNB)Must assess him in context of his long political career from early 1700s,  role in creation of the Union, support for Hanoverians, efforts with Walpole re economic devt in Scotlan ;  became one of the sixteen representative peers for (almost) the rest of his life; hrlp most of the main offices of state in Scotland1711 Queen Anne appointed Ilay as lord justice-general of the court of justiciary in Scotland (lifetime apptmt,salary of £2000 on the Scottish civil list); privy council in 1711. Later career - Appin murder trial, put political policy before justice in his intervention; regained influence via raising of highland regiments and through his nephew's influence with Geo III.


Title History:
Until  1722 (Father > marquess) he was known as Lord Jedburgh; ; afterwards, as earl of Ancrum; fourth marquess from 1767; KT 1768

Father's Name:
William, third marquess (c.1690–1767) of Lothian

Political Career:
MP for Richmond, 1747 -1763 in the interest of his brother-in-law, Robert D'Arcy, fourth earl of Holdernesse;followed Cumberland's political lead; . Vacated seat in  1763 after Holdernesse sold Richmond to Sir Lawrence Dundas. 1768, SRP, till 1774

Link to England:
married Lady Caroline D'Arcy (d. 1778), only daughter of Robert, third earl of Holdernesse;

Comment:
apptd a cornet in his grand-uncle Lord Mark Kerr's regiment (the 11th dragoons) on 20 June 1735;Ancrum acted as aide-de-camp to William, duke of Cumberland, at Fontenoy;active, with Cumberland, against the Jacobites;1755 he was promoted major-general; general in 1770


Title History:
succeeded father as 5th earl of Findlater and 2nd earl of Seafield in 1731

Father's Name:
James Ogilvy, 4th earl of Findlater and 1st earl of Seafield

Land in Scotland:
Seafield  estates. Family seat: Seafield House, Cullen (?)

Comment:
Committed prisoner to the Castle of edinburgh when ’15 broke out. Apptd a lord of police 1734; Vice-Admiral of Scotland 1737; SRP 1734-54 (LR to 1761) uniform supporter of Geo II. [Father] ; 1698 cr. Viscount Seafield and Lord Ogilvy of Cullen (heritable); 1701 cr Earl of Seafield, Viscount of Reidhaven and Lord Ogilvy of Deskford and Cullen (still Secy of Scotland); commissioner for the union; 1707 SRP and till 1727 [B-P]


Title History:
succeeded father in 1731, as fourth earl of Loudoun

Father's Name:
Hugh Campbell, third earl of Loudoun (c.1673–1731),

Political Career:
was elected in 1734 as a Scottish representative peer; held position till 1782

Comment:
ODNB resulting patronage gained him the governorship of Stirling Castle in 1741. In 1743 he campaigned in Flanders, and following the battle of Dettingen was appointed aide-de-camp to George II.played an active pro-government role during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and raised a regiment of loyal highlandersDuring the notorious punitive operations in the highlands after Culloden he earned a reputation for humanity and honourable conduct towards surrendering rebels.January 1756 he accepted the position of commander-in-chief of the forces in North Americasimultaneously appointed to the sinecure of governor-general of Virginia His troubled command coincided with an era of defeat, recalled in December 1757.June he assumed command of the British troops in the Iberian Peninsula,created governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1763,general in April 1770.A keen botanist, he improved his Ayrshire estates through systematic and scientific planting and encouraged the building of roads and bridges. The Royal Society elected him a fellow in 1738.


Title History:
Lord Aberdour; 14th earl of Morton, 1738-1768

Father's Name:
George Douglas, thirteenth earl of Morton (1662–1738)

University:
England (MA from King's College, Cambridge)

Land in Scotland:
Orkney and Shetland (sold to Lawrence Dundas, 1766 for £63,000) Fife?

Comment:
during grand tour,  established connections with French scientists. In Scotland he entered scientific circles in Edinburgh, and became close friends with the mathematician Colin Maclaurin.  As Lord Aberdour, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in  1733; May 1737 proposed the formation of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, which expanded the Medical Society founded in 1731 into a broader society devoted to natural philosophy and related subjects. Aberdour was named the society's president.1738, invested with the Order of the Thistle. 1739,  appointed a lord of the bedchamber.With Maclaurin and the earl of Hopetoun he was successful in establishing an observatory at the University of Edinburgh. A member of the Honourable Society for Improvement in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, he was also interested in mining and chemistry, and was keen to exploit resources of lead and coal on his estates. A trustee of the British Museum and member of the longitude commission, he was also one of the commissioners of annexed estates between 1755 and 1760, but never attended a meeting. Having been elected to the council of the Royal Society on 30 November 1763, he was elected president following the death of the earl of Macclesfield   Lord Clerk Register, 1760 – 1768


Title History:
succeeded father as 8th earl of Home, 1720

Political Career:
1741 he was chosen a Scottish representative peer, a place which he continued to hold until his death, 1761

Link to England:
married at Hampstead on 25 December 1742 Elizabeth (1703/1704–1784), daughter and heir of William Gibbons, of Vere, Jamaica, the widow of James Lawes, (but later separated)

Land in Scotland:
Berwickshire Family seat: the Hirsel (?)

Comment:
Active on govt side during '45; consistent support for the Argyll interest, he being described about 1757 as one of the third duke's ‘greatest favourites’ (Carlyle, 166). Home's local power base was in Berwickshire where he faced the intense rivalry of the Hume family of Polwarth, earls of Marchmont. Early in April 1757 Argyll procured for Home the lord lieutenancy of the county, and on 16 April he was named governor of Gibraltar. He was made a lieutenant-general in 1759. He was succeeded by his brother Alexander


Title History:
succeeded father, 1739, as 8th earl of Moray

Father's Name:
Francis Stuart, 7th earl of Moray, (c.1673 -
 1739)

Comment:
Knight of the Thistle 1741; Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1744-45
;Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1744-45


Title History:
succeeded his father in 1715, as 4th marquess of Tweeddale

Comment:
1722 Tweeddale was elected on the squadrone interest as an SRP, re-elected in 1727,  excluded,  1734.For a time he deserted politics, concentrating on improving his estate at Yester, Haddingtonshire. 1742. On the strength of his connections with Carteret, he was appointed  principal secretary of state for Scotland and keeper of the signet. In April he returned to the Lords as a SRP following the death of  first earl of Hopetoun. He also became governor of the Bank of Scotland, a post he held until his death.  Tweeddale, had little political influence in Scotland, went to Scotland only once—in 1742—during his time in office, failed to take any precautionary measures against the Jacobite threat, resigned on 4 January 1746.Tweeddale continued as SRP, 1747, 1754, and 1761 but played little further active part in politics.1748 he married Carteret's daughter Lady Frances Carteret,  had two sons and four daughters. 1755 Tweeddale was appointed to the annexed estates commission.  1761 he was appointed lord justice general, on Ilay's death, but by then he was severely disabled and could barely stand. He died in London on 9 December 1762, and was privately buried at Yester.


Title History:
Lord Haddo until 1745; 3rd earl of Aberdeen

Land in Scotland:
[Father]acquired the estates of Ballogie, Boddam,  Crichie, Fedderat, Fyvie, Ruthven and Tarland in his lifetime

Comment:
no ODNB info; nothing further in B-P.
[Father] William Gordon succeeded his father in 1720 and became active in the House of Lords. In 1732, he commissioned architect William Adam (1689 - 1748) to build Haddo House.
He had been elected MP for Abereen in 1708, but as eldest son of  peer was ineligible. Died 1746, at Edinburgh .having travelled there to declare his support for the Jacobite Uprising.


Title History:
succeeded his father 1744, as 7th earl of Lauderdale

Link to England:
marriage to heiress, da of London Alderman

Comment:
Charles's eldest son died young. Jmes wasa 2nd son. Kept a low profile during '45. Like his father he was High Sheriff of the County of Edinburgh. Under the HJ Act he got £1000 outof his original claim for £8000 for  Regality of Thirlestane, and Bailiary of Lauderdale. Apptd a lord of |Police for Scotland 1766; retained it till abolished 1782. . Their 2nd son, James (eldest son died young) became 8th Earl of Lauderdale)


Title History:
succeeded as tenth earl of Rothes on the death of his father in May 1722,

Political Career:
1723 he was chosen as a representative peer for Scotland, and was re-elected in 1727, 1747, 1754, and 1761.

Link to Peerage:
self, father, maternal grandfather (Tweeddale)

Comment:
ODNB retained his father's post as governor of the castle of Stirling.He was also chamberlain of Fife and Strathearn between 1722 and 1727.. Under the Heritable Jurisdictions Act of 1747, he lost the family's hereditary sheriffdom of Fife, receiving in compensation £6268 16s., though he claimed £10,000.was appointed on 25 May 1732 to the command of the 25th regiment of foot (later the King's Own Scottish Borderers. 1743 he was made major-general and acted in this rank at the battle of Dettingen.1753 Rothes was created a knight of the Order of the Thistle. In 1754 he was made governor of Duncannon Fort, in 1756 he became an Irish privy councillor, and in 1758 was put in command of all the forces in Ireland.made a full general on 19 March 1765. He died  1767 at Leslie House, Leslie, Aberdeenshire, which during his time was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. He was buried at Leslie on 17 December.Eldest son, John, succeeded him as eleventh earl.


Title History:
From 1724, he was known as Lord Polwarth, (father's 2nd title). He became the third earl of Marchmont on his father's death in 1740.

Father's Name:
Campbell, Alexander Hume, second earl of Marchmont (1675–1740)

Link to England:
constituency (Berwick), 2 marriages, died there,

Land in Scotland:
dominant landed interest in Berwickshire

Comment:
Wealth at death  20,900 acres; income from rents and bonds; payments still being made on purchase of Hume barony · goods at Marchmont House valued at £1381: inventory, 1794 · house in Hemel Hempstead; library and plate.Hugh Hume Campbell and his twin brother, Alexander, both entered politics in 1734;he was returned for the town of Berwick, his brother was elected for the county. This marked the effective end of his father's political career,  Walpole having deprived him of  his political offices  to ensure that he was not re-elected as sn SRP. The second earl's implacable opposition to Walpole, on account of his treatment of Scotland through the earl of Ilay, was continued by his sons. Hugh Hume Campbell, sitting as Lord Polwarth, rapidly established a reputation for political sagacity and adroitness with his attacks on Walpole,and was acknowledged as one of the leaders of the opposition.Marchmont's diaries kept during this period, together with his correspondence with his friends,esp. Lord Bolingbroke, indicate an endless quest to serve in government. 1764 he was made keeper of the great seal of Scotland (the highest Scottish office in the gift of the crown). Marchmont's decision to field his son-in-law, Sir John Paterson of Eccles, bt, as candidate for the 1780 election remains a baffling one.  1784, the last year he served as a representative peer, he had most  of his magnificent library sent from Marchmont to his house at Hemel Hempstead. He died there in 1794,. Marchmont papers, GD158/2553)


Title History:
Order of the Bath, 1725; Lord Glenorchy (1717-52) Peerage.com); succeeded father, 1752, as third earl of Breadalbane and Holland

Father's Name:
John, second earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1662–1752)

Political Career:
extensive, from 1720; MP for English constituencies pre 1752; SRP,1752–68 and 1774–80.

Comment:
ODNB. 1720 Campbell was appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the court of Denmark, where he remained until March 1729; 1727 and 1734 Glenorchy was elected MP for the borough of Saltash, and between 1741 and 1746 he represented Orford. in May 1741 his abilities were recognized by his appointment as one of the lords of the Admiralty; 1745 he was nominated master of the king's jewel office;lord chief justice in the eyre south of the Trent in 1756, an office he held until October 1765; He was keeper of the privy seal of Scotland (1765–6), was sworn of the privy council in May 1766, and was appointed vice-admiral of Scotland on 26 October 1776. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Glenurchy, Benederaloch, Ormelie and Weick [S., 1681] on 23 February 1752.1 He succeeded to the title of 7th Baronet Campbell, of Glenorchy, co. Perth [N.S., 1625] on 23 February 1752.1* He succeeded to the title of 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland [S., 1681] on 23 February 1752.1 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Viscount of Tay and Paintland [S., 1681] on 23 February 1752.* (the peerage.com) No direct male heir.


Title History:
succeeded his father as 9th Lord Cathcart, 1740

Father's Name:
Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart (1685/6–1740),

Political Career:
SRP from 1754 to 1776; Cathcart's diplomatic career was relatively brief and  undistinguished (ambassador to St Petersburg,till 1772)

Wealth:
his financial situation was such that in 1763 he had sold an estate owned by the Cathcarts since 1376

Link to Peerage:
self;. His daughters made marriages that underlined the Cathcarts' position in the Scottish ruling class (4th duke of Atholl, Viscount Stormont)

Comment:
Father was largely responsible for the victory at Sheriffmuir;from 1725 to 1729 he was receiver-general for Scotland, and from 1727 to 1732 he was groom of the bedchamber to George II;in 1739 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the force sent against the Spanish dominions in North America. father's influence secured a flying start for son's military career.. The decisive influence upon his career was to be George II's favourite son, William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, whom he served as aide-de-camp in his campaigns in the Low Countries and Scotland .. This important connection secured for him a series of significant offices: high commissioner of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1755 to 1763 and again from 1773 to 1776, while he also held a string of military positions: He was a knight of the Thistle in April 1763, and served as Scotland's first lord commissioner of police from 1764 to 1768. rector from 1773 to 1775 of Glasgow University,


Title History:
succeeded father as 7th viscount Stormont (1748); uncle as 2nd earl of Mansfield (1793)

Father's Name:
David, sixth viscount Stormont (c.1689–1748)

Political Career:
posts in Dresden, Warsaw, Vienna and Paris (till 1778) SRP, 1763 (check) till 1790s

Comment:
Murray and his uncle integrated more fully into the British political establishment than any other Scots since Argyll and  Ilay. Cf most Scots opted for a career in the British army or as a colonial administrator. Murray's ascent in diplomatic service was remarkable because of family's  Jacobite sympathies. His success was the result of a deliberate family strategy of integration into the emerging British state+ uncle's crucial influence; a competent, if rather uninspired, diplomat,  Stormont was reappointed as SRP in 1768, 1774, 1780, 1784, and 1790, though he only became an active member of the House of Lords when he returned from France in 1778.  Mansfield   secured his apptmt  as ambassador to France, the apex of the British diplomatic service. Stormont was one of the few professional diplomats to fill it during the 18th century, and  one of the few Scotsmen to do so.1778 Stormont was appointed to the post of lord justice general for Scotland, a sinecure that he continued to hold until 1794. The two and a half years that he spent as secretary of state for the northern department (1779– 1782) were dominated by the diplomacy of the American War after the intervention of France and Spain. He acted as de facto foreign secretary,


Title History:
3rd marquess of Lothian from 1722 ; K.T. (1733/4)

Father's Name:
William, fifth Lord Jedburgh; later second Marquess of Lothian

Political Career:
a Representative Peer for Scotland 1731-61

Comment:
Knight of the Thistle 1733/4; Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Kirk 1732-38; Lord Clerk Register 1739-56 (cracroft)


Career:
entered the Army 1754, Maj General 1777, Lieut General 1782, General 1796

Political Career:
Representative Peer for Scotland 1778-90

Comment:
Knight of the Thistle 1776; Gold Stick in Waiting 1777


Title History:
3rd Baron Mountcastle; succeeded father as 8th Earl of Abercorn and viscount Strabane, 1744; created, 1786, Viscount Hamilton (Peerage of Great Britain), with remainder, in default of male issue, to his nephew, John James Hamilton

Father's Occupation:
James [Hamilton], 7th Earl of Abercorn, PC

Land in Scotland:
Duddingston, Paisley (Abercorn Church? Nr S. Qu'ferry)

Comment:
ODNB. + Cracroft>sum. v.p. 23 Mar 1735/6 to the Irish House of Lords in his father's Barony of Mountcastle;   Father died 11 Jan 1743/4 (bur. in the Duke of Ormond's vault in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey); father was Privy Councillor [E] 1738 and [I] 1739. Son 1745 Abercorn purchased the Duddingston estate, outside Edinburgh, from the third duke of Argyll, where Sir William Chambers built a mansion for him in the 1760s. At Paisley, in Renfrewshire, the family's former property which he reacquired in 1764 from the eighth earl of Dundonald, he built the Place of Paisley, and then laid out a new town in the 1770s. He also had a seat at Witham, Essex. Although an absentee landlord, he was later to build one of Ireland's most important neo-classical houses at Baronscourt, Newtownstewart, co. Tyrone.Abercorn's advancement to the British viscountcy of Hamilton in 1786, with remainder to his nephew and heir, John James Hamilton, was in part a response to his own services and standing in Scottish public life. He was a patron of the arts, a builder, and the consolidator of the family's property and influence. He died, unmarried, at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, in  1789, and was buried  in the abbey of Paisley.


Title History:
succeeded to his father's titles and lands in  1723, under the guardianship of his Campbell uncles, the duke of Argyll and the earl of Ilay.

Career:
career politician (improver, patron of the arts)

Political Career:
SRP 1737, 1761-1780; secy of state, 1761-3; first lord of the Treasury, 1762-3.

Land in England:
marriage ultimately brought the immense Wortley estates into the Bute family

Comment:
Posts held: October 1750 lord of the (PoW) bedchamber. groom of the stole (5 November 1756), privy councillor, 1760; 1761 secretary of state for the northern department and a cabinet seat; ranger of Richmond Park; May 1762 Newcastle resigned as first lord of the Treasury. The following day Bute succeeded him and was invested with the Garter, having previously resigned the Order of the Thistle; now head of government, 1762-3. Sep 1763, Bute agreed to leave London.  He resigned his last post, of keeper of the privy purse1763, Bute left London for  Luton Hoo, his country home in Bedfordshire. For an excellent assesment of Bute and description of politics in the 50's and 60's, see Karl Schweizer's ODNB article (copied into my file). Retired to estates in Hampshire


Land in Scotland:
Dunmore Estates (Stirlingshire), Glenfinart (Argyll)

Comment:
see ODNB. B-P-> John was Page of Honour to Prince Charles Edward , at Holyrood 1745. His father was a Jacobite, pardoned on guilty plea but imprisoned for remainder of life (in  England). 1752 – he was allowed to succed to title and estates, on death of elder brother, John, 2nd Earl. He died at Lincoln. John Changed name of Stirlingshire estate, purchased from Lord Elphinstone,  to Dunmore. Purchased Glenfinart (Argyllshire) estate, 1768. Governor of NY 1769, then of Virginia :remained there during hostilities 1774-5, retd home 1776 *(See The Winning of the West by Pres Roosevelt chs 8,9.  Lord Dunmore’s War) Govr Bahamas  1787-96. D. 1809 , buried Thanet.


Title History:
succeeded his father as 10th earl of Eglinton, 1729.

Father's Name:
Alexander Montgomerie 9th earl of Eglinton

Career:
landowner (agricultural improver and politician)

Wealth:
The purchase of land for his many children caused father to leave debts of £18,000 on his death  in 1729.

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
Father's  income, 1713,was estimated at £4000,  exceeding that of all other elected Scottish peers save duke of Hamilton.

Comment:
One of the most powerful landed families in west central Scotland. Father: after the revolution of 1688, appointed a lord of the Treasury and chosen as a PC  by William III. 1702  again chosen a privy councillor; 1711  named one of the commissioners of the chamberlain. 10th Earl - could have been an important political figure; as compensation for  loss of  heritable jurisdictions in 1748, Eglinton received £7800, though he (had  claimed £12,000) from the crown lacked application to detail; conflict with Loudouns caused local problems; political career rose when Bute became PM;  agricultural improver, but asserted his 'feudal rights' in process; see ODNB art (in my file) for details. Murdered, 1769


Title History:
succeeded father as earl of March in 1731;  father's first cousin, as 4th duke of Queensberry, in 1778; succeeded to the earldom of Ruglen on his mother's death in 1748; 1786  was created a British peer as Baron Douglas of Amesbury

Father's Name:
William Douglas, second earl of March (c.1696–1731)

Political Career:
dominant parliamentary influence in Peeblesshire; as heir to the dukedom of Queensberry he gained a similar influence in Dumfriesshire; less commanding interest in Dumfries burghs; SRP 1761-1787

Wealth:
Queensberry estates in 1778 said to be worth £18,000 a year

Categorisation of Wealth Status:
the duke was one of the richest men in the kingdom (ODNB)

Link to England:
settled in London; was buried at St James's, Piccadilly

Land in Scotland:
March estates in Peeblesshire, Queensberry lands in Dumfriesshire

Comment:
see ODNB entry (in my file)+ var biogs.  By 1756, he had established himself as a leading man about town,an active and successful gambler, a careful breeder of horses.Another passion was music;long string of mistresses but died unmarried;associated with the Leicester House group during the 1750s; on PoW accession, as George III, March was named a lord of the bedchamber and elected a SRP in 1761; knight of the Thistle (1763), vice-admiral of Scotland (1766–76), and first lord of police (1776–82).As SRP, he was more regular than most in attending House of Lords but sought no reputation as a speaker; usually supported Admin,though in 1766 he opposed the first Rockingham administration on  repeal of the Stamp Act, and in December 1783 opposed by proxy the Fox–North coalition's India Bill. He was in many ways a nominal Scot. Usually voting in peers' elections by sealed list, he attended in person only 3 times,and generally spent little time in Scotland, but In 1794 he became lord lieutenant of Dumfriesshire.


Title History:
succeeded his father, 1750, as 18th earl of Sutherland

Father's Name:
William, 17th earl of Sutherland (1708-1750)

Comment:
at 15 was placed under the charge of General St. Clair, his granduncle, who started to disentangle his involved affairs; served heir to the earldom 1751; 1752 sent to Gottingen by St. Clair’s direction; retd to Britain 1755 to join his regt, in Ireland; back in Scotland 1756. Received a commission to raise highlanders in 1759.his only surviving child, Elizabeth became Countess of Sutherland the premier earldom of Scotland). Lived mainly in Edinburgh for early years, then 1779   went to London; 1785 m George Leveson Gower,did up Dunrobin; 1793 she raised the (ultimately) 93 Sutherland Highlanders; also became Marchioness of Stafford (via her husband’s succession) – improvements to estates 1811-33, when the Marquess> Duke of Sutherland (UK). Little info on 17th  earl. Family more prominent under his great grandfather (16th earl)  BP confuses 17th and 18th earls


Title History:
Alexander, 12th Earl, 7th Marquess of Huntly and 4th Duke of Gordon, inherited from his father (died 1752); cr, 1784, Baron Gordon of Huntly and Earl of Norwich (GB)

Father's Name:
Cosmo George [Gordon], 3rd Duke of Gordon, KT

Wealth:
Father got c. £5000 of claims of £22,3000 comp under HJ Act.

Comment:
Father received  K.T. 1748. Died in France, 1752, buried in Elgin Cathedral. stepfather, General (Staats Long) Morris. Bros were:
 Lt Col Lord William Gordon, Deputy Ranger of St James's and Hyde Parks 1778, MP for Morayshire 1779-84,  Inverness-shire 1784-90 and  Horsham 1802-06, Vice-Admiral for Scotland 1782-95 (d 1823),3. Lord George Gordon, MP for Ledgershall 1774, instigator of the "No Popery" riots in London in 1780, after which he was tried for high treason.Alex: -  a Knight of the Thistle 1775; a Col in the Army 1793; Chancellor of King's College, Aberdeen 1793-1827; Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland 1794-1806 and 1807-27; Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire 1794-1808.


Title History:
John Lyon (later Bowes), ninth earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Father's Name:
Thomas Lyon, eighth earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Comment:
Strathmore was an honest, good-natured, and uncomplicated man, who played no role in public life apart from being one of Scotland's representative peers. Married Bowes, Mary Eleanor, countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1749–1800),only child of George Bowes MP (1701–1760), of Streatlam Castle and Gibside, co. Durham. Mary Eleanor was intelligent. By her own account she could read fluently at the age of four, had a gift for languages, and took a great interest in botany., at the age of sixteen, she fell in love with ‘the beautiful Lord Strathmore’, as contemporaries called him. It took eighteen months to negotiate the marriage contract, during which time Mary Eleanor realized that he and she had nothing in common. He had no interest in literary or intellectual matters, and she certainly did not want to settle down to a quiet life on his Scottish estates. Too proud to admit her mistake, she married him in St George's, Hanover Square, London, on 26 February 1767, two days after her eighteenth birthday.By the time Mary Eleanor was twenty-four she had three sons and two daughters, and was finding domestic life unbearably dull. Lord Strathmore had contracted tuberculosis and spent an increasing amount of time away from home, in search of a cure. He was succeeded by (I) his eldest son, Hon. John Bowes, as 10th Earl, then (ii) his third son, who became Thomas Bowes-Lyon, 11th Earl of Strathmore. Ninth Earl was bro. Of Hon Thomas Lyon, of Hetton House, co. Durham, Member of Parliament for Montrose 1768-74 and for Forfarshire 1774-79


Title History:
succeeded his uncle George as  9th viscount Irvine and Lord Ingram, 1763.

Wealth:
M 1758 ‘a considerable heiress,'she was worth approximately £60,000

Link to England:
marriage (to Frances Gibson, commonly called Shepheard, of Scotland Yard, Whitehall, illeg da of Samual Shepheard, MP for Cambridge.

Land in England:
Once married and secure in her inheritance, they divided their time between London and Irwin's estates, Hills, near Horsham, Sussex, and Temple Newsam, at Whitkirk, Yorkshire

Comment:
Info from BP, Cracroft and ODNB (see BP file). This is an english family!  Father was 7th son of Arthur 3rd Viscount Irvine)5 of 7 sons succeeded to the title Viscount Irvine. Chas (9th viscount) was apptd a groom of Bedchamber to George( PoW), 1756.


Title History:
4th, but eldest surviving son of 2nd earl, he succeeded as 3rd earl of Rosebery, 1755

Father's Name:
James Primrose, 2nd Earl of Rosebery (b. 1690)

Link to England:
2 marriages (M, in London, (Hanover Square) (i) Susan, da and heiress of William Randall of Yarmouth, 1764, (ii)  In London, 1775, Mary, only da of Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke d’Abernon, Bt.

Land in Scotland:
Family seat: Dalmeny; gt g'father acquired,1662, the barony of Barnbougle and Dalmeny from the Earl of Haddington. Neil alsoalso inherited the estates of Hugh, Viscount of Primrose (son of Sir William, 2nd son of Sir Archibald of Carrington.

Comment:
cr K.T 1771.Neil was  grandson of Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny, (family originated in Culross); 1703  g/f was cr Earl of Rosebery , Viscount of Inverkeithing, and Lord Dalmeny and Primrose – commissioner for union, SRP, Queen’s chamberlain of Fife and Strathearn, d. 1723. Gt G'father (Carrington)amassed a considerable fortune and made extensive land purchases; father (James) James was a very eccentric person, ultimately declared a lunatic; died 1755. He married
 Mary, da. of Hon John Campbell of Mamore (>dukes of Argyll)


Title History:
Lord Boyd; succeeded grandmother, in Erroll earldom, as 15th earl of Erroll

Father's Name:
William 4th earl of Kilmarnock (attainted for high treason, executed 1746)

Career:
armed forces (pro-Hanoverian, served in America during 7 Yrs War)

Political Career:
SRP 1768-1774; replaced earl of Eglintoun in 1770

Comment:
Claimed his father’s estate after his execution as disponed to trustees, for his use  Aug 1732, claim sustained 1749 by Court of Session, affirmed by House of Lords, 1751. succeeded his grandmother (Margaret Hay ,heir of her sister,Mary, Countess of Erroll, 4th child of Sir John Hay, 12th Earl) as 15th earl of Erroll in 1758 and resigned his commission. Was hereditary Constable of Scotland, apptd a lord of Police 1767, SRP in place of the E/Eglintoun, 1770,


Comment:
Supptd as a compromise candidate in 1761 by Argyll after Forrester was rejected by TC.  Post of Conservator of Scottish privileges in the Netherlands (£200 pa almost sinecure, apptd by Bute, 1762 > Lind’s resignation from Parliament.


Title History:
Inherited father's baronetcy, 1789.
Lord Glenlee, SCJ, 1795

Comment:
ontested Edinburgh vs Lawrence Dundas; lost seat in 1781.


Comment:
Old Orkney family.mother connected with the Douglases, Earls of Morton. 1780 Robert Baikie stood as the Government sponsored candidate for Orkney and Shetland against Charles Dundas, then in opposition. Payments were made from the King’s private account to assist Baikie. Unseated on petition


Title History:
suc. Cousin as 12 Earl of Eglintoun 1796,cr. Baron Ardrossan [UK] 15 Feb. 1806; K.T. 22 May 1812.

Comment:
Suc to parents’ estates by 1783. Served in America during 7 Yrs War
Inspector of military roads in Scotland 1789
Lt-Govr Edinburgh Castle 1794-6
Ld Lt Ayrshire 1796-1819


Father's Name:
Sir Francis Grant (Lord Cullen, SCJ) 1st Bt

Comment:
Procurator for Church of Scotland and principal clerk of assembly 1731-46; solicitor-gen. for Scotland 1737-42; commr. for fisheries and manufactures 1738; lord adv. Feb. 1746-Aug. 1754 ; commr. for annexed estates 1754.owed his political advancement to Archibald, Duke of Argyll, whose personal affection he retained despite his attachmentto the interests of his clan and kinsmen, whom Argyll disliked.In 1760 he unsuccessfully pressed his claims to the presidency of the court of session in opposition to Dundas


Comment:
A country gentleman whose chief interests seem to have been the improvement of his estates, the embellishment of his house, and the investigation of local antiquities' + notorious for his gambling, ruthlessness and dissolute life. Opposed 1780 by Hugh Scott, Yr. of Harden, Marchmont’s grandson and Paterson’s nephew by marriage .


Father's Name:
Sir Robert Stuart, 1st Bt., of Tillicoultry (SCJ as Lord Tillicoultry)

Link to Peerage:
uncle = 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton [S]

Comment:
Ensign 3 Ft. 1720, capt. 1736; maj. 75 Ft. 1758; lt.-col. commandant 97 Ft. 1761. distant cousins of Lord Bute who used Stuart on election of JSMack to Ross-shire. Died shortly after in London, little known.


# SRPdata

Comment:
SRP    1738, 1741, 1747, 1754 and 1761; diplomat; Excellent landlord; English marriage. Local politics complicated by dukes of Hamilton and Douglas conflicts


Comment:
undistinguished diplomat, but rector of Glasgow University.Chaired various prlty committees (Lowe) Daughters married well - Atholl, and Stormont.  Holder of govt post that took him abroad


Comment:
Holder of govt post that took him overseas


Comment:
control over Lauder, influence in Haddington


Comment:
any connection between George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen and the Dukes of Gordon not established.


Comment:
strong English connections; dipl. Career + govt posts, SRP later in life


Comment:
Holder of govt post that took him abroad


Comment:
Rivalry wih Argyll. Chaired various committees regular attender (Lowe)


Comment:
Improver and enlightenment figure. Challenged in O&S by freeholders - sold esttes there, 1766 to L. Dundas


Comment:
Controlled burgh of Cullen, some influence in Elgin.son, Lord Deskford, better known politically; Newcastle rather than Argyll supporter (Murdoch)


Comment:
interest/influence extended across many Parlty seats


Comment:
Bute's influence secured further promotionVoted for repeal of Stamp Act by proxy


Comment:
By mid 1770s, Argyll interest being challenged by Marquis of Graham and Elphinstones. Much vote creation and court action. Voted for repeal of Stamp Act


Comment:
a figure of at least middling importance in politics.More regular than most in attending the House; supported the ministry of the day; voted against repeal of the Stamp Act.December 1783 opposed by proxy the Fox–North coalition's India Bill;Usually voting in peers' elections by sealed list, he attended in person only in 1747, 1761, and 1784.in many ways a nominal Scot.


Comment:
Family Jacobite connections No cnstituency influence detected.Voted for repeal of Stamp Act. Opposed Bute, 1762 re ending war in Germany. Holder of govt post that took him abroad


Comment:
an Improver. Daughters married English dukes. GB peerage 1784


Comment:
Voted for repeal of Stamp Act by proxy. Opposed Gilbert's Poor Act 1765


Comment:
played no role in public life apart from being one of Scotland's representative peers. Siblings married into Durham families. Bro. Thomas was MP for Montrose and Forfarshire


Comment:
MP for Perthshire, 1761-4 (when he inherited title); 1773-84, MP = bro. James, of 3rd Duke; much vote creation.Duke, disaffected with London politics from mid 60s (ODNB), retired to estates (forestry). Much competition and vote creation for Perth Co. seat


Comment:
Influence via patronage controlVoted against repeal of the Stamp Act


Comment:
Regular attender . Chaired committees (Lowe).  Voted against repeal of the Stamp Act. Opposed Gilbert's Poor Act 1765


Comment:
opposed to Loudoun/Argyll (Ilay) interest. Voted against repeal of the Stamp Act. Opposed the Window Tax, 1766


Comment:
Voted against govt on 4th Feb re repeal of the Stamp Act. Opposed Gilbert's Poor Act 1765


Comment:
Supported second Dissenters' Relief Bill 1773


Comment:
Member of Parliament for Horsham  1747-63; Groom of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales, 1756-60 and to King George III 1760-63; an English family


Comment:
inherited estate+earldom; born into Dalrymples of Dalmahoy (cf North Berwick - Hamilton of Bargany connection?) English marriage; Stair voted with the whigs and was critical of Lord North's treatment of the American colonies . In 1774 he presented a petition to the government on behalf of Massachusetts;failed to be returned as a representative peer in 1774. Political influence in Wigtownshire also declined


Comment:
Jacobite family, rehabilitated; replced Eglintoun as SRP, 1770


Comment:
Independent freeholders defeated alliance of 3 earls in 1774 for co. seat (Eglintoun/Cassillis/Loudoun; bill to regulate voting intrduced 1775 (no effect)


Comment:
After inheriting the Panmure estate, (N&B)controlled some 18 votes, and had strong links, through Buccleuchm Dundas and Ilay Campbell, with the ministry. Backed Archibald Douglas for the Forfarshire seat.


Comment:
Culzean and Cassillis; improver, smuggler, renaissance figure, merchant;not engaged much with either society or politics in Britain, he was elected, to his surprise, a representative peer for Scotland in 1774, very probably because of his brother David's alliance during the 1774 election with John Campbell, fourth earl of Loudoun, and the government interest in Ayrshire. Jacobite past.


Comment:
2 English marriages; sisters married well: Marquess of Stafford, Earls of Aboyne, Dunmore,duke of Hamilton. See N&B for Wigtownshire politicking


Comment:
influential in county politics in 50s and 60s


Comment:
uncle was Perthshire MP. GB peerage 1786


Comment:
Controversial candidate (son-in-law) for 1780 election


Comment:
Politically active in Lords only in later decades;briefly de facto foreign secretary,


