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Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne
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(26 January 1743 – 30 November 1833) was a distinguished Scottish
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, judge,
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and historian.


Life

The son of Mr. Roderick Macleod WS and Isabel Bannantyne, daughter of Hector Bannatyne of Kames. He received a liberal education, including a period at the High School of Edinburgh (1755-6), and was admitted advocate, 22 January 1765. At this time he lived near the head of Craig's Close on the north side of the
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in Edinburgh, close to the Law Courts. He was appointed
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in 1776. On the death of Lord Swinton, in 1799, he was promoted to the bench as a
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, and took his seat as Lord Bannatyne. Among his intimate friends were
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, Robert Cullen, William Craig,
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, Erskine and Alexander Abercromby. He was a contributor both the ''Mirror'' and ''Lounger'' magazines, at the end of the eighteenth century. In 1784 he was a co-founder of the Highland Society. He assumed the surname of Bannatyne when he succeeded, through his mother to the estate of Kames in the
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. He extended Kames Castle by the addition of a fine mansion house in the early eighteenth century. He sold the Kames estate in 1812 to James Hamilton, and moved to Edinburgh. He retired in 1823, when he was knighted and also became a member of the
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in the same year. He died at his home, Whitefoord House on the
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section of the
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in Edinburgh in 1833. He is buried in
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in the centre of Edinburgh. He collected a library of historical, genealogical, and antiquarian works, and at its sale in 1834, a set of the Bannatyne publications was purchased for Sir John Hay, Baronet of Smithfield and Haystown, for one hundred and sixty-eight pounds sterling.


See also

* Bannatyne manuscript (Clan MacLeod), attributed to William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne


References

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banntyne, William M 1743 births 1833 deaths Lawyers from Edinburgh People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Members of the Faculty of Advocates Bannatyne Scottish knights 18th-century Scottish judges 19th-century Scottish judges 18th-century Scottish historians 19th-century Scottish historians Scottish antiquarians Scottish sheriffs Founder fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard