The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . ife.(See title Mar.) Hewas the son of Henry,tliird Lord Oardross(see that title), andCatherine, youngerdaughter and co-heiressof Sir William Stewartof Kirkhill, Linlithgow-shire. He filled severaloffices of State in thereigns of William iii. and Queen Anne, and gained universalesteem; but, on account of his protest against the clauseof the Treaty of Union which interfered with the right ofScottish Peers to sit in Parliamen
The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . ife.(See title Mar.) Hewas the son of Henry,tliird Lord Oardross(see that title), andCatherine, youngerdaughter and co-heiressof Sir William Stewartof Kirkhill, Linlithgow-shire. He filled severaloffices of State in thereigns of William iii. and Queen Anne, and gained universalesteem; but, on account of his protest against the clauseof the Treaty of Union which interfered with the right ofScottish Peers to sit in Parliament, he was deprived of hisoffices under the Grown. He was, however, a zealous sup-porter of the interests of the Elector of Hanover, and whenGeorge i. became King he made the Earl of Buchan LordLieutenant of Stirling and Clackmannan. He joined theDuke of Argyll in suppressing the rebellion of 1715. Hewas chosen a Representative Peer for Scotland in 1715, andcontinued to be one till 1734. He died in London in 1745,and was buried at Hampstead. He married, first, in 1697,Prances, daughter and heiress of Henry Fairfax of Hurst,Berkshire, by , daughter of Sir Thomas Browne. 276 BRSKINB, EARL OF BUOHAN of Norwich, author of Beliyio Medici, etc. She died 31July 1719, and he married, secondly, on 15 September 1743,Isabella, daughter of Sir William Blacket, Bart., who sur-vived him, and dying in 14 May 1763 was buried at Hamp-stead. She had no offspring. By his first wife the Earlhad seven sons and two daughters :— 1. Henry David, Lord Auchterhouse, who was born 21 September 1699 and died in infancy. 2. David, Lord Auchterhouse, born 22 April 1703, died young. 3. Henry David, Earl of Buchan. 4. Fairfax, born 8 February 1712. He married Annabella Manning, and died without offspring in 1735. 5. Georcje Lewis, born in 1711. He was deaf and dumb, but was taught to speak, though not died unmarried in 1744. 6. Edivard, born in 1714 and died in infancy. 7. Frederick, born in 1
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