Patrick Lyon of
Auchterhouse
Auchterhouse is a village, community, and civil parish in the Scottish council area of Angus, located north west of Dundee, south east of Alyth and south west of Forfar. It lies on the southern edge of the Sidlaw Hills, below Auchterhouse ...
(1669 – 13 November 1715) was a
Scottish politician.
He was the second son of
Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (29 May 1643 – 15 May 1695) was a Scottish peer and nobleman. He was the son of John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne and his wife Lady Elizabeth Maule, daughter of Patrick Maule, 1st Earl of Panmu ...
and his wife Helen, daughter of
John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton. He
married his second cousin Margaret, daughter of
James Carnegie of
Finhaven, but they had no children.
He represented
the barons of Forfarshire in the last
Parliament of Scotland
The Parliament of Scotland ( sco, Pairlament o Scotland; gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the 13th century until 1707. The parliament evolved during the early 13th century from the king's council o ...
, 1702 to 1707. He was killed fighting on the
Jacobite side at the
Battle of Sheriffmuir.
References
*Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
Strathmore and Kinghorne, Earl of (S, 1606) Retrieved 15 November 2011.
*John Foster,
Members of Parliament, Scotland' (London and Aylesbury, 1882), p. 221
Shire Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland
Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1702–1707
Politics of Angus, Scotland
Scottish soldiers
Scottish Jacobites
18th-century soldiers
18th-century Scottish politicians
18th-century Scottish people
Patrick Patrick may refer to:
* Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name
* Patrick (surname), list of people with this name
People
* Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint
*Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...
Younger sons of earls
1669 births
1715 deaths
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