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Archibald Cockburn
Archibald Cockburn (1738 in Edinburgh, Midlothian – 20 June 1820) was a Scottish judge. He lived at Caroline Park House north of Edinburgh. Family Son of Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen and wife (m. 17 August 1735) Martha Dundas, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston (died 1727) and wife Margaret Sinclair, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Murkle and Stevenston, 3rd Baronet (1643 - 1713), and first wife (m. Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 10 September 1663) Lady Helen Lindsay, daughter of John Lindsay (c. 1611 - Tyninghame, East Lothian, 1678), 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 1st Lord Parbroath and Hereditary Steward of St Andrews, etc., and wife Lady Margaret Hamilton.Cockburn: Thomas H. Cockburn-Hood, ''The House of Cockburn of That Ilk and the Cadets Thereof…'' (Edinburgh, 1888), p. 151 and 152. Biography A keen Tory, he was Sheriff of Edinburgh until 1790, when he succeeded David Stuart Moncrieff as a Baron of the Exche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobite Broadside - Royston House, Now Caroline Park
Jacobite means follower of Jacob or James. Jacobite may refer to: Religion * Jacobites, followers of Saint Jacob Baradaeus (died 578). Churches in the Jacobite tradition and sometimes called Jacobite include: ** Syriac Orthodox Church, sometimes colloquially known as the Jacobite Church ** Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, autonomous branch of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Kerala, India ** Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, an autocephalous Jacobite church based in Kerala, India * Jacobite, follower of Henry Jacob (1563–1624), English clergyman * Jacobites, Biblical name for descendants of Jacob Politics * Jacobites, followers of Jacobitism, political movement to resurrect the Stuart kingship, 1688–1780s * Jacobite risings, series of rebellions in Great Britain and Ireland, 1688–1746 * Jacobite succession, the line through which the British ''crown in pretence'' has descended since 1688 * Jacobite consorts, those who were married to Jacobite pretenders since 1688 * Jacobite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In 1975, the historic county was incorporated for local government purposes into Lothian Region as East Lothian District, with some slight alterations of its boundaries. The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 later created East Lothian as one of 32 modern council areas. East Lothian lies south of the Firth of Forth in the eastern central Lowlands of Scotland. It borders Edinburgh to the west, Midlothian to the south-west and the Scottish Borders to the south. Its administrative centre and former county town is Haddington while the largest town is Musselburgh. Haddingtonshire has ancient origins and is named in a charter of 1139 as ''Hadintunschira'' and in another of 1141 as ''Hadintunshire''. Three of the county's towns were designated as roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Randall Davidson
Thomas Randall Davidson (1747–1827) was a Church of Scotland minister and landowner. Life He was born Thomas Randall in July 1747, the son of Rev Thomas Randall (b.1710), minister of Inchture west of Dundee. Early education was at least in part at a college in Glasgow. His family had strong Dutch connections and he studied at the University of Leyden. He was licensed to preach as a Presbyterian minister by the authorities in Rotterdam in June 1769. He preached a little in Amsterdam. In 1771 he returned to his home town of Inchture to replace his father as parish minister of Inchture, his father having translated to Stirling. In 1773 he translated to the "Outer High" Church in Glasgow. In November 1778 he translated to Lady Yester's Church in Edinburgh in place of Rev James MacKnight. In 1785 he succeeded Rev Alexander Webster as minister of Tolbooth Parish: one of the four parishes contained within St Giles Cathedral. His writings began attracting international atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Castle
Melville Castle is a three-storey Gothic castellated mansion situated less than a mile (2 km) west-south-west of Dalkeith, Midlothian, near the North Esk. History An earlier tower house on the site was demolished when the present structure, designed in 1786–1791 by James Playfair for Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, was built. The original tower house was owned by the Melville family, before passing to Sir John Ross in the 14th century. It subsequently changed hands with the attached lands several times and was sold to David Rannie in 1705. It then passed to Henry Dundas through his marriage to the daughter of David Rannie, Elizabeth Rannie. The Castle was owned by the Dundas family until after the Second World War, when the ninth Lord Melville moved to a smaller house on the estate and the castle was leased as an army rehabilitation centre and then later as a hotel. By the early 1980s, the hotel fell into disrepair and was unoccupied. In the late 1980s, the esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British Prime Minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century. Dundas was instrumental in the encouragement of the Scottish Enlightenment, in the prosecution of the war against France, and in the expansion of British influence in India. Prime Minister Pitt appointed him Lord of Trade (1784–1786), Home Secretary (1791–1794), President of the Board of Control for Indian Affairs (1793–1801), Secretary at War (1794–1801) and First Lord of the Admiralty (1804–1805). His deft and almost total control of Scottish politics during a long period in which no monarch visited the country led to him being nicknamed "King Harry the Ninth", the "Grand Manager of Scotland" (a play on the masonic office of Grand Master of Scotland), the "Great Tyrant" and "The Uncrowned King of Scotland". He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Rannie
Elizabeth Rannie, also known as Elizabeth Rennie, (1750–1847) was a British noblewoman who was married to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and was mother to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Early life Elizabeth was born in Calcutta around 1750. Her father, David Rannie, was a Captain in the British merchant service, and amassed a considerable fortune in India. Her mother was Elizabeth Bayley. A younger sister, Janet, was born around 1753. In 1760, with the fortune amassed through 30 years of trading with the East India Company in Calcutta, her father purchased Melville Castle. In November 1764 her father died, aged 48, leaving the estate and a considerable dowry to Elizabeth, then aged 13 or 14, and her younger sister Janet. Her sister married Archibald Cockburn in 1768. Marriage to Dundas On 16 August 1765, Elizabeth Rannie and Henry Dundas were married; she was 14 years old, and he was 24. Through the union, Dundas acquired the Melville castle and estate, and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Of The Exchequer
The Barons of the Exchequer, or ''barones scaccarii'', were the judges of the English court known as the Exchequer of Pleas. The Barons consisted of a Chief Baron of the Exchequer and several puisne (''inferior'') barons. When Robert Shute was appointed second baron in June 1579 the patent declared "he shall be reputed and be of the same order, rank, estimation, dignity and pre-eminence to all intents and purposes as any puisne judge of either of the two other courts." The rise of commercial trade in Elizabethan England occasioned fraudulent application of the ''Quo minus'' writ. More taxation demanded staff at the exchequer to sift an increase in the case load causing more widespread litigation cases to come to the court. From the 1580s onwards the Barons of Exchequer were no longer held in such low regard, and more likely to be Serjeants-at-law before qualification. The Inns of Courts began to exclude solicitors, and held posts for judges and barons open equally to barristers. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Stuart Moncrieff
David Stuart Moncreiff of Moredun FRSE (1710-1790) was an 18th-century Scottish advocate, landowner and agricultural improver. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His name is occasionally given as David Stewart Moncreiff. David Hume appears to occasionally have written under his name. As they clearly were acquainted this appears mischievous rather than a nom de plume. Life He was born in Perthshire on 8 September 1710 the second son of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 2nd Baronet (d.1738) and his wife, Margaret Smythe. Trained as a lawyer he qualified as an advocate in 1736. In 1743 he became a Deputy King's Remembrancer to the Exchequer and Secretary of Scottish Affairs to the Prince of Wales. In 1766 he became Solicitor of Taxes for Scotland. In 1769 he demolished the former mansion of Goodtrees (originally given a more Germanic spelling of Gut-Tres) and built a new mansion which he called Moredun in memory of a hill on his Perthshire estate. Moredun House w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheriff Of Edinburgh
The Sheriff of Edinburgh was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in the shire of Edinburgh (also known as Edinburghshire or Midlothian) in Scotland. In 1482 the burgh of Edinburgh itself was given the right to appoint its own sheriff, and thereafter the sheriff of Edinburgh's authority applied in the area of Midlothian outside the city, whilst still being called the sheriff of Edinburgh. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar. In 1872, following mergers, the sheriffdom became known as the sheriffdom of Midlothian and Haddington After further reorganisations it became part of the sheriffdoms of The Lothians in 1881 and The Lothians and Peebles in 1883. Sheriffs of Edinburgh *Norman (1143–1147) * Geoffrey de Melville (1153) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tory (British Political Party)
A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. The Tory ethos has been summed up with the phrase "God, King, and Country". Tories are monarchists, were historically of a high church Anglican religious heritage, and opposed to the liberalism of the Whig faction. The philosophy originates from the Cavalier faction, a royalist group during the English Civil War. The Tories political faction that emerged in 1681 was a reaction to the Whig-controlled Parliaments that succeeded the Cavalier Parliament. As a political term, Tory was an insult derived from the Irish language, that later entered English politics during the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–1681. It also has exponents in other parts of the former British Empire, such as the Loyalists of British America, who opposed US secession duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steward Of St Andrews
Steward may refer to: Positions or roles * Steward (office), a representative of a monarch * Steward (Methodism), a leader in a congregation and/or district * Steward, a person responsible for supplies of food to a college, club, or other institution * Communion steward, a position in the local church responsible for the distribution of the Eucharistic elements * Horse show steward * Steward, an official in horse, greyhound racing or car racing * Steward, another term for majordomo * Steward, an older term for a flight attendant * A member of the Steward's Department of a ship, responsible for preparation of food or caring for living quarters * Steward, United States Navy rate prior to 1975, now Culinary Specialist (US Navy) * Union steward, a labor union official, also known as a shop steward * Wine steward or sommelier * Steward, a person who assists with crowd control * Steward, a junior officer of a Masonic Lodge People * Steward (surname) * Steward Ceus (born 1987), foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Parbroath
Earl of Lindsay is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1633 for John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay, who later inherited the ancient Earldom of Crawford. The two earldoms remained united until the death of the 22nd Earl of Crawford, also sixth Earl of Lindsay, in 1808. Then the earldom of Lindsay passed to David Lindsay, while the earldom of Crawford became dormant because no-one could prove a claim to the title until 1848. Both David, 7th Earl of Lindsay, and his successor Patrick, 8th Earl of Lindsay, died without sons, and the disputed claim over the earldom was resolved by the House of Lords in 1878 in favour of Sir John Trotter Bethune, 2nd Baronet. The subsidiary titles of the Earl are: Viscount of Garnock (created 1703), Lord Lindsay of The Byres (1445), Lord Parbroath (1633) and Lord Kilbirnie, Kingsburn and Drumry (1703), all in the Peerage of Scotland. The title Viscount Garnock is used as the courtesy title for the eldest son and heir to the Earl. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
