James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth (25 June 1616 – 7 September 1661), was a devoted

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Royalist who was raised to the peerage of Scotland as Viscount Kilsyth and Lord Campsie in 1661. Lee, Sidney (1903),

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(see also main entry vol. 33 p. 397)

Biography

James Livingstone, born on 25 June 1616, was younger son of Sir William Livingstone of Kilsyth, a

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, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Houston of Houston. On 23 April he was served heir male of his brother's grandson. Being a devoted loyalist he garrisoned Kilsyth Castle against

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, for which and for other services he received from Charles II a letter of thanks dated 7 October 1650. He was excepted from

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in 1654, and fined £1,500. After the Restoration he entered the

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in 1661 as a

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for

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. On 17 August 1661 raised to the

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by the title of Viscount Kilsyth and Lord Campsie but died the following 7 September in London.

Family

James Livingstone married Eupheme, daughter of Sir Robert Cunningham of Robertland. They had two sons, James, 2nd viscount, and William, 3rd and last viscount, who having engaged in the rebellion of 1715 was

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for high treason, and died an exile in Holland in 1733. Of his two daughters, Elizabeth married General Robert Montgomery, fifth son of

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, 6th

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, and Anne died unmarried.

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Attribution: * This entry cites **Douglas's Scottish Peerage (Wood), volume 2 p. 38

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