. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. rgaret,eldest daughter and heiress of David Guthrie of fair, andgrand-daughter and heiress of Henry Guthrie of Halkerton,Forfarshire, by his wife, Margaret Sibbald, heiress and last ofthe ancient family of the Sibbalds of Kair in the had two sons, John, the representative of the Kairfamily, who succeeded to Inchbreck, and James, who, afterserving with the army in Holland, joined the Pretender in1745, and after the battle of Culloden, fled to France, andentered
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. rgaret,eldest daughter and heiress of David Guthrie of fair, andgrand-daughter and heiress of Henry Guthrie of Halkerton,Forfarshire, by his wife, Margaret Sibbald, heiress and last ofthe ancient family of the Sibbalds of Kair in the had two sons, John, the representative of the Kairfamily, who succeeded to Inchbreck, and James, who, afterserving with the army in Holland, joined the Pretender in1745, and after the battle of Culloden, fled to France, andentered the French service. He died at St. Omer in 1776, aknight of the order of St. Louis. John Stuart of Inchbreck, the eighth of this family, wasprofessor of Greek in Marischal college, Aberdeen, and diedin 1827. His eldest son, George Andrew Stuart of Inch-breck, died, without issue, 16th June 1814, and was sue-ceeded by his brother, Alexander Stuart of Laithers; mar-ried, with issue. STUART, 538 JAMES. Stuakt Arabella, commonly called the Lady ArabellaStuart, see vol. ii. p. G50, article Lennox. Her portrait STUART, James, prior of St. Andrews andearl of Moray, celebrated as the Good Regent,was the natural son of James V. by Lady Marga-ret Erskine, daughter of the fifth earl of Mar, whoafterwards married Sir Robert Douglas of Loch-leven. He was born in 1583, and in his infancywas placed under the care of the celebrated GeorgeBuchanan. In 1538 he was constituted prior ofSt. Andrews, and from his earliest years he exhi-bited proofs of an extraordinary genius for stateaffairs. In 15-48. though then only fifteen yearsof age, at the head of a little band of patriots,he repulsed an English force which had made adescent on the coast of Fife. He accompanied hissister, the young Queen Mary, when she went toFrance for her education ; and having, in additionto the priories of St. Andrews and Pittenweem,acquired that of Mascou in France, he received, in1555, a dispensation from
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