Alexander Livingston, 2nd Earl of Linlithgow PC (died 1648) was a

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Early life

He was the eldest surviving son of Alexander Livingstone, 1st Earl of Linlithgow and Lady Helen Hay (–1627). Among his siblings was

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; Anne Livingston, who married to

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; and Margaret Livingston, who married John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown. His paternal grandparents were William Livingstone, 6th Lord Livingston and Agnes Fleming (second daughter of Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming). Among his extended family were

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, the

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(husband of his aunt Jean Livingston) and

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and

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(both husbands of his aunt, Margaret Livingston). His mother was the eldest daughter of Andrew Hay, 8th Earl of Erroll and, his first wife (and cousin), Lady Jean Hay (only child of William Hay, 6th Earl of Erroll).

Career

From 1609/10, he served as an Extraordinary Lord of Session. Upon his father's death on 24 December 1621 at Callendar House, he became the 2nd

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, and was hereditary Constable of

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in 1627. He became a Privy Councillor in 1623/4 and in 1627 during the minority of the James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox (later 1st

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), he served as

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. In 1631, he was commissioner for the plantations in

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and

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and Commissioner in the

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in 1640. In 1628 he was granted a patent for making gunpowder by the

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Personal life

On 4 May 1611, he was married to Lady Elizabeth Gordon, second daughter of

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and Lady Henrietta Stuart (eldest daughter of Esmé Stuart, 1st Duke of Lennox). Together, they were the parents of: *

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(1616–1690), who married Lady Elizabeth Lyon (widow of John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne), and second daughter of Patrick Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure. After the death of Elizabeth Gordon, his first wife, in childbirth in July 1616, Robert Gordon, ''Genealogical history of the Earldom of Sutherland'' (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 335. he remarried to Lady Mary Douglas on 17 October 1620. Lady Mary was the second daughter of

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and Hon. Elizabeth Oliphant (the eldest daughter of

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). Together, they were the parents of: * Alexander Livingston, 2nd Earl of Callendar (d. 1685), who married Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, third daughter of

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and Lady Elizabeth Maxwell (eldest daughter of

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). * Lady Margaret Livingston (d. 1674), who married Thomas Nicolson of Carnock. After his death, she married, as his fourth wife, Sir George Stirling, 6th of Keir in 1666. After his death, she married thirdly to her late husband's cousin Sir John

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, 8th of

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on 6 February 1668. * Lady Eleanor Livingston, who died unmarried. Linlithgow died between 11 June and 20 December 1648, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son.

References

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