Sir George Mackenzie, king's advocate, of Rosehaugh [electronic resource] : his life and times 1636(?)-1691 . quis of Bute, and the Earl of WharnclifTe, the epitaphhas been engraved on a tablet within the tomb. It will beremarked that the epitaph, contrary to Mackenzies ownstatement of his age, gives his birth year as 1636. Mackenzies only surviving son, (no son by his firstmarriage survived,) a Gentleman Commoner of UniversityCollege, Oxford, died without issue in 1707. Agnes, hiseldest daughter by his first marriage, wedded James Steuart,Advocate, Sheriff and later Earl of Bute; his family d
Sir George Mackenzie, king's advocate, of Rosehaugh [electronic resource] : his life and times 1636(?)-1691 . quis of Bute, and the Earl of WharnclifTe, the epitaphhas been engraved on a tablet within the tomb. It will beremarked that the epitaph, contrary to Mackenzies ownstatement of his age, gives his birth year as 1636. Mackenzies only surviving son, (no son by his firstmarriage survived,) a Gentleman Commoner of UniversityCollege, Oxford, died without issue in 1707. Agnes, hiseldest daughter by his first marriage, wedded James Steuart,Advocate, Sheriff and later Earl of Bute; his family descendsfrom Robert III., and is represented by the Marquis ofBute. The younger daughter, Elizabeth, married, first,Archibald Cockburn, younger of Langton. This gentleman,in 1690, was in some trouble in England, as a suspectedJacobite ; his secretary confessed to having written frequentlyto Sir George. Cockburn, as we saw, sent to the publisher,Hindmarsh, the manuscript of Mackenzies dedication ofMoral Frugality to the University of Oxford. Elizabethssecond marriage was to Sir James Mackenzie, Baronet, of. TOMB OF SIR GEOkGI-: MACKKN/Ii: THK KKVOLLTION DKATH OF MACKKNZIl: 3« Koystoii. Lord Roystoii \v;is :i Judge of Session, third sonof Mackenzie of , wlio became first Earl of Cromarty. Mackenzie left his widow, (who later married RoderickMackenzie of Prestonhall, a Lord of Session,) as sole tutrixto his son, because, as he says, I have found my friendsunwilling to be tutor even to my own son. This shows,as Mr. Barty writes, the solitary position, politically andpersonally, which he occupied after the Revolution. Theguardianship of the boy, in fact, was apt to involve litigation,as in the case of Hardens fine. Mackenzie could onlysuggest that his widow should consult his sons-in-law; theWedderburns of Gosford and Blackness; and his brotherColin, Tarbat, and other Mackenzies.^ • Barly, pp. ^S, 39. Details of liliijaiion may be read in Dr. Bartys book,PP- 39-45- CHAPTER
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