The Hon Alexander Lockhart, Lord Covington also styled as Alexander Lockhart of Craighouse (1700–17 November 1782) was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer who rose to be a

Senator of the College of Justice The senators of the College of Justice are judges of the College of Justice, a set of legal institutions involved in the administration of justice in Scotland. There are three types of senator: Lords of Session (judges of the Court of Session); ...

Life

Old Craig House, Craiglockhart Edinburgh

He was the son of Euphemia Montgomery (d.1738) daughter of the Earl of Eglinton and her husband, George Lockhart of Carnwath (1673-1731). The family lived at Craig House, now known as Old Craig House, in south-west

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. He studied law at the

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, and qualified as an advocate in 1722. In 1745 he oversaw the trial of several captured during the rebellion and imprisoned at

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. In 1764 he was appointed Dean of the

Faculty of Advocates The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constitu ...

. In 1773 he was living at Adam's Court in old Edinburgh. In March 1775 he became a

following the death of Alexander Fraser, Lord Strichen. His title "Lord Covington" comes from a family estate near Biggar south-west of Edinburgh. He died on 17 November 1782. His place as a Senator was filled by John Swinton, Lord Swinton.

Family

His son was

Thomas Lockhart (MP) Thomas Lockhart (1739 – 22 July 1775) was a Scottish lawyer and politician. Lockhart was the oldest son of Alexander Lockhart, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews, at Emma ...

. He had two daughters, Rebecca and Anne. Rebecca married

James (Boyd) Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguati ...

. Anne married Charles Boyd (1728-1782) the brother of James Hay. His sister Euphemia Lockhart became Countess of Wigton. His half-sister Grace Lockhart married

John Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne John Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne (April 1700National Library of Scotland, MS 1338, f. 143. – 7 April 1732) was the son of Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne and Elizabeth Lyon. He succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Aboyne in April 1702. On the da ...

and when widowed married

James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray KT (1708 – 5 July 1767) was the son of Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray. In 1741, he was elected as one of the 16 Scottish Representative peers who sat in the post-1707 British House of Lords, a position ...

. His great-grandsons included

William Lockhart William Lockhart may refer to: * William Lockhart of Lee (1621–1675), Oliver Cromwell's ambassador at Paris * William Lockhart (surgeon) (1811–1896), medical missionary and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons * William Lockhart (priest) (18 ...

(1820-1892). and

John Gibson Lockhart John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: ''Memoirs of the Life of Sir ...

References

1700 births 1782 deaths 18th-century Scottish judges Senators of the College of Justice Deans of the Faculty of Advocates {{Scotland-law-bio-stub