Sir Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton, 3rd Baronet (23 June 1676 – 2 March 1747) was a Scottish landowner.
Early life
Kinloch was the son and heir of
Sir Francis Kinloch, 2nd Baronet, of Gilmerton, and Mary Leslie, daughter of
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c. 1600–1682) was a Scottish cavalry officer. He fought for the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus during the Thirty Years' War. He had entered Swedish service in 1630, serving as a captain in the regiment of Alex ...
. He was a member of a noble family whose ancestry is displayed in ''
The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal''.
['' The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal'' – The Anne of Exeter Volume, by the Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, London, 1907, table LVI.]
Career
Kinloch succeeded his father in 1699 and inherited the family seat,
Gilmerton House, about a mile east-north-east of
Athelstaneford
Athelstaneford () is a village in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies almost 6 kilometres (3.5 mi) north-east of the market town of Haddington and about 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Edinburgh.
Battle of Athelstaneford
According to popul ...
,
East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the histo ...
.
[''The Buildings of Scotland – Lothian (except Edinburgh)'', by Colin McWilliam, London, 1978, pps: 215–7, ]
Personal life
Around 1705, Kinloch married Mary Rochead, daughter and co-heiress of
Sir James Rochead, 1st Baronet of
Inverleith. Mary's sister, Janet Rochead, married Alexander Murray of Melgund and, after his death,
Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet. Together, Mary and Francis were the parents of three sons and three daughters:
[''The Scottish Nation'', by William Anderson, Edinburgh, 1867, volume VI, p. 608.]
*
Sir James Kinloch, 4th Baronet
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, of Gilmerton (1705–1778).
*
Sir David Kinloch, 5th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only ...
, of Gilmerton (1710–1795).
*
Alexander Rocheid of Inverleith (d. 1755).
* Janet Kinloch, who married Charles Broun, an
advocate
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.
* Mary Kinloch, who married Alexander Hamilton of Beil, near
Stenton.
* Magdalen Kinloch, who married John Wilkie of
Foulden, Berwickshire, in 1745.
Sir Francis died on 2 March 1747 and Lady Kinloch died on 2 April 1749 at Gilmerton House. Sir Francis was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son
James, although he lived all his adult life in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. Following Sir James' death in 1778, his second son
David inherited the baronetcy.
Descendants
His grandson, Sir Francis Kinloch, 6th Baronet
FRSE
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...
FSA was notoriously murdered by his younger brother
Archibald Kinloch in 1795 in order to inherit the baronetcy.
[''Index to Genealogies, Birthbriefs, and Funeral Escutcheons'', recorded in the Lyon Office, by Francis J. Grant, W.S., Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records, Edinburgh, 1908, p. 46.]
References
1676 births
1747 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
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