Sir Thomas Maclellan (died 1597) was Provost of

Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbright ( ; sco, Kirkcoubrie; gd, Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a Royal Burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The town lies southwest of C ...

and father of

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. He was responsible for the construction of MacLellan's Castle in the town. He was appointed as a gentleman in the bedchamber of James VI in October 1580. During his illness in June 1597, Maclellan travelled to

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in England to seek a cure. He wrote to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley asking permission to send things he had bought for his house in Kirkcubright by sea from London. Physicians in Bath told him there was no cure for his "tympanicall hydropsie".''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 13 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 11.

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