Sir Charles Erskine, 1st Baronet (4 July 1643– 1690), of Alva, Fife, was a Scottish politician who sat in the Scottish Conventions in 1665 and 1667 and in the

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from 1689 to 1690.

Life

He was born in Alva House which had been built by his father in 1636. Erskine was the third, but eldest surviving son of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva and

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, and his wife Mary Hope, daughter of

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of Craighall. He succeeded his father as laird of Alva House on 8 July 1663 and purchased a

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on 30 April 1666. Very few of the Nova Scotia baronets visited their lands, and the exercise was largely a money-raising exercise on the part of the Scottish Parliament, creating a new wave of baronets in the New World. Erskine was returned as

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for

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to the Conventions in 1665 and in 1667. In 1689 he was elected MP for

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in the Scottish Parliament. He was returned as Shire Commissioner for

in 1689. Erskine died on 4 June 1690 aged 46.

Family

In about 1670 he married Christian Dundas, daughter of Sir James Dundas of Arniston (just south of Edinburgh). They had at least four sons. * Sir James Erskine, 2nd Baronet (c.1672-1693). He was killed at the

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(1677-1718)

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in Russia *

Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald Charles Erskine also spelled Areskine (1680 – 5 April 1763), of Tinwald and Barjarg, Dumfries, and Alva, Clackmannan was Lord Advocate, a Scottish judge, and a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1742. Life Erskine ...

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, one of the legal colleagues of her brother Lord Tinwald. His daughter Helen Erskine (-1724) married John Haldane (1660-1721), 14th baronet of Gleneagleshttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/haldane-john-1660-1721 His grandchildren included

James Erskine, Lord Alva James Erskine, Lord Barjarg and Alva (20 June 1722 – 13 May 1796) was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice. For convenience his name was usually contracted to James Erskine, Lord Alva. Life He ...

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