Aitken [Atkine], James (1612/13–1687), bishop of Galloway, was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, the third son of Henry Aitken, commissary and sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, and Elizabeth Buchanan. He attended Kirkwall grammar school before moving on to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MA on 23 July 1636. During the next two turbulent years of the covenanting revolution he completed his formal education at ...
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Alexander, William, first earl of Stirling (1577–1640), poet and politician, was born probably at Menstrie Castle in Clackmannanshire, the only son (there were four daughters) of Alexander Alexander (d. 1581) and Marion, daughter of Gilbert Graham of Gartavertane. His descent has been traced from the lords of the ...
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William Alexander, first earl of Stirling (1577–1640) by unknown artist Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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David George Mullan
Annand, William (1633–1689), dean of Edinburgh, was born at Ayr, the son of William Annand (d. 1661×3), minister there, and his wife, Margaret Lindsay of south Leith. His father, having been assaulted by some women in Glasgow for preaching in support of the Scottish book of prayer in 1637, fled his charge even before his deposition by the ...
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W. D. H. Sellar
Bruce, Alexander (d. 1729), lawyer, was the second son of Andrew Bruce (d. 1696) of Earlshall, Fife, and his cousin and second wife, Anna, daughter of Robert Bruce, minister of Ballingry, Fife, and Anna, daughter of George Seaton. He may have been the ...
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Paul Hopkins
Buchan, Thomas (c. 1641–1724), Jacobite army officer, was the third of four sons, of the eight children of James Buchan of Auchmacoy (d. c.1659) and Margaret, daughter of Alexander Seton of Pitmedden. He was descended of a family who had been proprietors of ...
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David George Mullan
Burnet, Alexander (1615–1684), archbishop of St Andrews, was baptized in Edinburgh on 6 August 1615, the younger of two sons of James Burnet, minister of Lauder from 1615, and his wife, Christian, daughter of George Dundas of that ilk, and kin to the ...
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Tristram Clarke
Cairncross, Alexander (c. 1637–1701), archbishop of Glasgow, was the son of George Cairncross (d. 1667), a dyer burgess of the Canongate, Edinburgh, and his wife, Christian Ogilvie (d. 1668). A tradition records that from financial necessity he followed his father's trade, but he graduated MA at ...
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John Campbell, first earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1634–1717) by Sir John Baptiste de Medina Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Paul Hopkins
Campbell, John [called Iain Glas], first earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1634–1717), magnate and politician, was born on 29 May 1634 at Stronmillochan, Glenorchy, Argyll, the eldest son of Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy, fourth baronet (d. 1686), and his first wife, ...
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Peter Sherlock
Cranston, Andrew (d. 1708), creator of a public library, was born in the late 1650s in Scotland to unknown parents. He was perhaps connected to the lords Cranstoun, for the descendants of his only known brother, James, assumed the same coat of arms. There is a volume in his library inscribed to him from ...
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Gerard Carruthers
Crawford, Robert (1695
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John R. Young
Douglas, James, second duke of Queensberry and first duke of Dover (1662–1711), politician, was born at Sanquhar Castle, Dumfriesshire, on 18 December 1662, the eldest son of William Douglas, third earl and first duke of Queensberry (1637–1695), and Lady Isabel Douglas (d...
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James Douglas, second duke of Queensberry and first duke of Dover (1662–1711) attrib. Sir Godfrey Kneller Chatsworth House. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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William Douglas, seventh earl of Morton (1582–1648) by unknown artist Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Douglas, William, seventh earl of Morton (1582–1648), politician and nobleman, was the son of Robert Douglas of Lochleven (d. 1585) and Jean Lyon (d. 1608×10), daughter of John Lyon, eighth Lord Glamis (c. 1544–1578). Following his father's death in March 1585 his mother married ...
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James Drummond, fourth earl of Perth and Jacobite first duke of Perth (1648–1716) by Nicolas de Largillière, c. 1714 private collection
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Edward Corp
Drummond, James, fourth earl of Perth and Jacobite first duke of Perth (1648–1716), politician, born on 7 July 1648, was the elder son of James Drummond, third earl of Perth (c. 1615-1675), and Lady Anne (1616?–1656), eldest daughter of George Gordon, ...
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Edward Corp
Drummond, John, styled first earl of Melfort and Jacobite first duke of Melfort (1649–1714), politician, was the younger son of James Drummond, third earl of Perth (d. 1675), and Lady Anne (1616?–1656), eldest daughter of George Gordon, second marquess of Huntly, and younger brother of ...
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John Drummond, styled first earl of Melfort and Jacobite first duke of Melfort (1649–1714) by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1688 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
