William Keith, 9th Earl Marischal KT (c. 1664 – 27 May 1712, London) was a Scottish Jacobite politician and

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of Scotland.

Life

His parents were the army officer

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(d. 1694) and the courtier Lady Mary Hay (d. 1701), third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Kinnoull. Keith succeeded to the earldom in March 1694, swore loyalty to the ''de facto'' monarchy, took up his seat in Scotland's parliament in July 1698, was sworn into the privy council in June 1701 and made a

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in 1705. However, he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for Jacobitism during the 1708 rising then sent to London for trial once it was over, but still managed to be made one of 16 representative peers at Westminster from 1710 to 1712. He was anti-

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and

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in political sympathies and founded a medicine chair at

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(though he did not endow it). John Macky described him as:

Marriage and issue

Around 1690 Keith married the committed Jacobite Mary Drummond, daughter of

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(1648–1716), and his first wife, Lady Jane Douglas (d. 1678), the fourth daughter of

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. Mary thus did not join her father when he was exiled in 1693 for Jacobitism. Their children were: * George Keith, later tenth and last Earl Marischal (1692/93-1778) *

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(1696–1758), named after the 'Old Pretender' *Mary (d. 1721), married John, sixth earl of Wigtown *Anne (d. 1728), married Alexander, sixth earl of Galloway

Arms

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External links

William Keith, 9th Earl Marischal
on the website of the '' Dictionary of National Biography'' (subscription required) {{DEFAULTSORT:Marischal, William Keith, 9th Earl 1664 births 1712 deaths Earls Marischal Scottish Jacobites Scottish representative peers Knights of the Thistle