LYO FIFESHIRfi BTOGEAPHY. MAC
January 1753. John, the tenth Earl, was mis Castle, on the morning of Thursday the bom the 11th April 1709, and was enrolled 14th of September 1865, in the 43rd year of among the Peers of the United Kingdom his age. The family estates and honours by the title of Baron Bowes of Streatlam now therefore devolve upon his only brother, Castle, 18th July 1815. His Lordship the Hon. Claude Bowes-Lyon. The new married, on 2d July 1820, Miss Mary Earl is married, and has a family of five Milner, of Staindrop, County of Diu:ham, sons, his Countess being Frances Bora, and died the day after his nuptials. The daughter of Oswald Smith,'Esq. of Blendon. EngUsh Peerage thereby expired, and the Both Earl and Countess are already well Scottish devolved upon his brother, Thomas known on the estates, where they have often Lyon-Bowes, eleventh Earl, who was born visited, and ministered to the wants of those 3d May 1773, married, on the 1st January who were in distress. 1800, Mary-EUzabeth, only daughter and heiress of George Carpenter, Esq. of Red- bourn, Herts, by whom he had issue, George, M Lord Glamis. He was bom 6th May 1801, married Charlotte, daughter of Charles MACANSH, Alex.ujder, was bom Grimslead, Esq., and died on the 27th of at DuntermUne in 1803. At the age of January 1834, leaving the present Peer. eleven apprenticed to a flaxdresser, he fol- LYON-BOWES, Thomas George, lowed his occupation during a ]X'riod of twelfth Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn, thirty-eight years, of which the greater por- and Baron Glamis, was the son of Thomas tion was spent in Harribrae factory in his George, Lord Glamis, and was bom on the native town. During the intervals of his 2Sth September 1822. He succeeded his occupation, which demanded his attention grandfather as 12th Earl on 27th August about fourteen hours daily, he contrived to 1846. The family honours in the form of become famiUar with British and Continen- titles to which he succeeded were very nu- tal authors, and with the more esteemed merous. He was not only Earl of Strath- Latin classics. He likewise formed an in- more, but Earl of Kinghorn, Viscount Lyon, timate acquaintance with mathematical Baron Glamis, Tannadice, Seiulaw, and science. Of decided poetical tastes, be StrathdichMe. In his younger days he was contributed verses to Tait's Matiazine, the
in the 1st Life Guards ; but for a long Ediiiburyh lAterary Journal, and the Scots- period he chiefly devoted his time to the man newspaper. In 1850 lie published by turf. He lost, it is said, enormous sums of subscription, his volume of poems entitled money in this way, and so ira])overished and " The Social Curse and other Poerns," burdened the family estates. Like the Earl which has secured him a local rejiutation.
of Glasgow, bis horses seldom or ever won ; Continumg to reside in Dunfermhne, he but he always adhered to his e.xpensive has for 'several years possessed a hterary amusement. "Strange stories are told of the connection with some of the provincial extent of his difficulties, and the means newspapers, and has deUvered lectures on adopted to meet them. But that he died in science to the district institutions. pecuniary difficulties is certain. It is known MACDUFF, LoED Fife, The Family that he had enormous quantities of wood OF. —This noble family derives from Fyfe
cut down and sold ; the money received for Macduff, a chieftain of great power and which common rumour places at a fabulous we.alth, who lived about the year 834, and amount. His difficulties were such that we who afforded to Kenneth II., King of Scot- beUeve the entail of the estates was broken land, strong aid against his enemies the by consent of the next heir, in order to ad- Picts. In reward of these services, MacdutF mit of his lordship's liabilities being met. received from the monarch a grant of all the He resided comparatively Uttle at the Castle lauds then called Othdinia, which he himself
of Glamis ; but was, we understand, very had conquered from the Picts, and which well liked by the tenantry, in whom he took extended from Fifeness to Clackmannan, a considerable interest. At
the show was to be an annual one ; buthis pe- his county of Fife, of which he created him cuniary difficulties, it is su]5posed, ]ireventeil Earl in 1001. The thirteenth Earl, Duncan, the execution of the idea. He uian-ied iu (lying in 1353, without male issue, the 1850 the Hon. Charlotte Jlaria Barrint;t„n, earkiom became extinct. His descendant,
eldest daughter of Lord r.arrin'_;t('U ; but however, David Duff, received, in 1401, that lady died in 1854 without leading issue, from Uoliert III., a grant of considerable and Lord Strathmore ilied at his seat, Gla- lauds, and of the barony of Muldavit, which 310 MAC FXFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MAC continued to be one of the chief titles of the ruary 1796, he was elected an associate of family, until alienated in the beginning,' of the LiunaMi .Society of London. In 1800, the reign of Charles IT. WilliamDufT, Esq., on the death of Mr Menzies, he succeeded the descendant of David Duff, was elevated hira as Superintendent of the Royal Botanic to the Peerage of Ireland, by the Queen Garden of Edinburgh, where he died April Eegent Caroline, as Baron Braco, of Kil- 14, 1802. bryde, 28th July 1735, and advanced to a MACKIE, Dr John, was bora under
Viscountcy and Earldom, 26th April 1759, the same roof as Charles I. , in part of the by the titles of Viscount Macduff and Earl ancient Abbey of Dunfermline, in the of Fife. His Lordship married, first, Jane county of Fife, in the year 1748, and waa Ogilvie, daughter of James, Earl of Find- descended from a very ancient Highland later and Seafield, and Chancellor of Ire- family, who possessed the lands of Creigh, land, but by her had no issue. He married, Spanzedell, and Robrossie, in Sutherland, secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir James so far back as the year 1427. But the highly- Grant, Bart., of Grant, and by her had gifted subject of this brief memoir was not several children. His Lordship died 30th .1 person who stood in need of this sort of September 1763, and was succeeded by his illustration, or, indeed, who was desirous of second and eldest surviving son, James, borrowing meritfrom the dead. The eldest second Earl, who was created a Peer of of fifteen children (his father having been Great Britain, 19th February 1790, as Baron thrice married), he was early engaged in Fife. His Lordship married Lady Dorothea the busy scenes of life; and his visits to his Sinclair, only child of Alexander, ninth native city were consequently " few and f.ar
Earl of Caithness ; but dying without male between ;" yet his name will ever be revered issue, in 1809, that barony expired, while the by his townsmen, aa doing honour to his other honours devolved upon his brother, birthplace, being always connected with AJexander, third Earl, bom in 1731, who acts of generosity and kindness to all who married, 17th AprU 1811, Mary, daughter in any way needed assistance. He never of George Skene, Esq. of Skene, anil had forgot an old familiar face, and the Scottish issue, James, the present Earl, K.T., accent was always a passport to his heart. G.C.H., Viscount Macduff and Bar.m Being intended at an early age for the Braco, of KUbryde, county Cav.an, in the medical profession, he was placed under the Peerage of Ireland, Baron Fife, in the Peer- care of Dr John Stedman, and accompanied age of the United Kingdom, Lord Lieute- him to the LTniversity of Edinburgh in nant of the county, of Banff, Knight of the 1763. Here, by extraordinary diligence in
Spanish order of St Ferdinand ; born 6th the pursuit of knowledge, and an unusual October 1776, succeeded to the Irish honours aptitude for acquiring every sort of informa- upon the decease of his father, 17th April tion, he soon became a favourite pupil in 1811, and obtained the Barony of the Em- the classes of CuUen, Monro, Gregory, and pire bv jiatent of creation, dated 27th April Black ; and we have the authority of his 1827. His Lordship married, 9th Se|)tember schoolfellow, the late Sir Henry Moncrieff 1709, Mary-Caroline, second daughter of Wellwood (himself one of the most univer- John Manners, Esq., and Louisa, Countess sally respected men of his time), for saying, of Dys:irt, by whom (who died 20th Decem- that, both at school and at college, young ber i805) he had no issue. The Earl dis- Mackie was the most remarkably popular tinguished himself during the Peninsular youth he had ever known. During one of War, having volunteered his services, and his v,acation3 he made a voyage to Green- obtained the rank of Major-General in the land, to see the only foreign country which
Spanish Piitriotic Army ; he was wounded was then accessible to him. This love of at the battle of Talavera, and again at the travel was, in later years, amply gratified. storming of Fort Matagorda, near Cadiz. Dr Mackie first settled in practice in Hunt- MACKAY, John, an eminent botanist, ingdon, and afterwards at Southampton, was bom at Earkcaldy, December 25, 1772. where he remained above twenty years, al- He early discovered a strong predilection though tempted in the course of that period for botanical pursuits, and even at the age by strong solicitations to move both to of fourteen, he had formed a very con- liath and to London. It has been well ob- siderable collection of the rarer kinds of served by Paley, that, if a metropolitan garden and hothouse plants. In the begin- residence presents more attractions to a ning of 1791 he was placed in Dickson & man of talent than a provincial town, he is
Company's nurseries at Edinburgh ; of often rewarded for resisting them, by the which, in 1793, he received the principal closer friendships which local circumstances charge. Every summer he made a bot,anical throw in his way, by a greater degree of excursion to the Highlands ; he likewise independence, and by the consciousness of traversed the Western Isles, and in most of being the means of improving the tone of these journeys he was successful in adding the little circle around hira. Of these ad- some new species to the British Flora. To vantages Dr Mackie was perfectly sensible ; ' the elegant work entitled ' English Botany," and he was confirmed in them by a con- then in course of publication, under the care versation with Dr Baillie, about the year of Dr Smith and Mr Sowerby of London, 1808. On casu.iUy complimenting that he contributed various valuable articles and illustrious physician, during a medica,l.con- figures of indigenous plants, .and in Fj^b- sidtation, on the pre-eminence to which he —;;
MAC FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MAC had attained, Dr Baillie replied, in an im- or was Young, and his favourite Latin pressive manner—" Dr Mackie, you are the classic, Horiice. An edition of each of these writers was always found in the object of my envy ; you have a full practice pockets of his post-chaise. We have some- in the country ; you are actively employed times seen there an old volume of •without being harrassed ; you enjoy pure Guy air, the society of friends, and intervals of Patin, and some of the witty productions leisure which I can scarcely ever command of Dr Gregory. Though educated under and you talk of retiring from business in his maternal uncle, Andrew Donaldson, a few years, whilst I feel that I shall die in whose religious opinions were peculiar, and harness." On a calm retrospection of his though belonging to a profession which has life, T)r Mackie was indeed accustomed to been too frequently accused of a leaning consider this as the happiest ]ierind of it towards scepticism, it is gratifying to know for, besides the satisfaction of having ex- that Dr Mackie alw.ays acl gains ; and he had so much of that liberality senesceuteur," and prepared to quit a pro- which belongs to a truly philosophic mind, fession to wliich he had devoted forty of the that he is believed to have refused half as best ye.ars of his life, with singular assiduity many fees as he received. Few practitioners and success. He left Southampton, not had a better knowledge of the treatment of without some painful struggles, on the 27th consumption. Patients in that disease were of September, and many will stiU remember sent to him from the metropolis, and from the affecting parting with his^ friends on the northern counties ; and he was in fre- that day. In walking from his own resi- quent correspondence and consultation with dence above the Bar to the Quay, opposite the first names of the profession. Sir Lucas the Custom House, where he embarked for Pepys, Sir Richard and John Jebb, William Havre, on board the Chesterfield, Captain and John Hunter, Lettsom, Fothergill, Wood, he was detained more than three Pitcairn, Saunders, Denman, Reynolds, hours receiving, as he went along, the affec- Pemberton, Farquhar, Fraser, Baillie, tionate farewells of his patients, and of Halford, Knighton, Bain (of London), An- many inhabitants and visitors, to whom he drew Duncan, sen. (of Edinburgh), Percival, was before unknown. This scene of melan- the younger (of Dublin), Wall (of Oxford), choly gratification was relieved only by a Pennington (of Cambridge), Falconer (of bon mot of Dr Jekyll, then residing at :— Bath), Raitt (of Huntingdon), MoncriefFe Paultons " Oh ! Doctor, you are only (of Bristol), Carrick (of Clifton), Fowler (of going to pay a visit to the Cyclades (sick Salisbury), Robertson Barclay (of Cavill), ladies) ; we shall soon have you back and .John Storer (of Nottingham). To all amongst us." This remark was not only of these he was more or less personally humorous, but in some degree prophetic, for known ; but with the two latter estimable Dr Mackie h.ad no sooner arrived in Paris men he maintained an uninterrupted friend than Mrs Fitzherbert requested his advice; ship .and epistolary intercourse for more and a few d.ays after he reached Marseilles, th.an half a century. Whilst in full busi Lord Winchelsea called on him to desire his ness, Dr Mackie contrived to read a great attendance on his sister, Mrs Fielding. deal, .and, as it were, to make time to j* With both these requests he cheerfully tlie most remarkable ]")ublications of the complied, observing to the last-mentioned day, but this was not done without dctri nobleman, th.at when he quitted EngUand ment to his eyes, by reading constantly he meant to leave behind him the practice with open curtains at earliest dawn, and, of physic, but that his leisure and experience afterwards, in the daytime, during should always be at the service of his coun- rapid journeys in his carriage. AVe may trymen. Some years afterwards, when on here mention that his favourite English the verge of seventy, heedless of fatigue or 312 MAC FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. candidate f inc menienre be male two Ion'' it that be never was a r hterary col, f 1 IS rractice arduous] irnej"; in Italy tbe nto%ert fm lliini th he I I 1 I 1 1 tj 1 i nbileit It toj ub ApennniL I v i It f n 1 ntc 1 1 I cs I b b eiei 1 Ici One Bologna to \ It I 1 1 1 lU 1 id, r 1 e t f the e 11 1 1 t ansfeiiel to greatgrinl i fl liti leiiletpili the All ir Itv L IS inich i-* waocxll 1 tl tl ifi 111 11 I ^ ll t 11 t thi ill uit \ It tl it 1 1 1 ly 11 1 1 S| It 1 I tl n of n I 11 1 t I a 1 I L 1 I I I 1 U leliU l]iii Et iIUM 1=. 1 1 cci Ue f Ma Hue 1 Stael Let i n t n any let in flora the few great x 1 1 t i binl'-K' b3 Sir Maclie c h 1 1 , chii„c f eieril them f 1 It 1 \ 1 C nl thither Ln„l h lU 1 1 :7:.m his tilenU lu II i \le ch attheco i mini f 1 is •felloi\ ] anl nlich men C raparitvely ^.leilin" theii but bl 1 elf cbiracter i but few m h ent trayellei-s re i lin" i , d eel 1 t3 decile fl ittei and na sing tl I I h til I t cities f Eu m lit 11 fteis 1 il fi\el n Bitb ^ e U 1 tl e e 1 Hg ^ n e 1 I I tl t 1 1 Itful era He of 1 1 a„ as a re i are t 1 t 1 t bit a severe lo tbe^ aiil 11 M V eral w inters 1 t 1 luity (tl epiematuie 1 itb of bis fin 1 r h t f f s n in law in IS ") v 1 eh he f It with all der e 1 n lit 1 i t the 1 een sensi! ibty of v ith r 1 him mai > of tl e F to Lhichest r vvl re be 1 r tbe 1 1 s Kbt < n tbe 21th cf Jauu ij Is 1 itter a i i lence v\ is lit ill} ei^btj when sei 1 f three year He then 1 I 1 e 1 it itoi U ig tbeiu becimet settle in that Uce A^e 1 ad piov 1 1 fiom 1 1 I It 1 en an 1 euij t\ !„ i ahe ly Imu 1 tl u h not olscirel the 1 1 ly their inline 1 ate h s \ u Ii 1 I luoltres f hi f c Ities and weakened want It, lec e 1 tl t n f t r t fj n bib 1 Otter 1 ut n t m 1 nation to do go d CIV 1 ties Urn 1 ti i\ Is in Fri e It Although lee 1 1 1 not a 1 rmerlj attrict has I een toi much the c t m in En Ian 1 I the f roe of bis el ji ence oi in re ^ra t( denounce this cli f men a 1 eirik s y i titu le by his bl ill and ten lei ne s in lUev lat and unn-rateful f r elt i r i mill n" to ase et tbe chaim of u itural j ohte acknowle Ige tb it sei es f k n Ine ses whirh ing dib j ness cheerful ] lety 0| erated equally on pre&erve I them fioiii st nation and mas and old, high and low who were Bacre A wnter t ti i\ lb has gone so far young and brought within his sphere, and mspiied to state tb it a 1 1 of eau s ici ee was tbe OS who knew bim tl lact cal h sp t il ty t their those with warm attachment extent of e r i t tl e V ale c f eai s Hib family had English frien lb Thib c 1 iin Pi Macl le nly m V tilt iiiex] le bil le | lei ire of seeing bim was en il led t detl ire to be f 1 from h 1 1 1 1 when many V e I I el ve 1 it a 1 en own e peuencc an 1 he has I n 1 e i 1 t 1 1 ele nemleisofs ciety thus 1 a 1 c in letl I 1 say that giatitile bo | it 1\ I V n„ tb t neitbei itl noi vigour nor plaisance were never m le beiitif 11\ com I y nor science n r even usefulness, tuned thin m the ei tertainmenls ^i\en to eloquence conciliate lov e Benevolence, hira by M de Mo ihns at Bor leaux M isneces iry to of self and c nsileia Scevole Ca/otte and M Ai is e de la a total f i^etfulness invest age and infirmity T ur at\ei lUe M le Mirecbal de tl n for tbers w ill will ensure tt itb tl e 1 ners of i leabm^ and 1 11 nes to tl e p e if such a di po . M I b t Instei 1 of tl e tir ly 1 reluc ant (111 tl 1 t\ f 0\f rl b n m ervices f I nw Uin^, atten 1 lilt 1 e en a,ed an 11 t 1 f tl 1 1 h anl Itibm ited attenti not 11 n h d a]. 1 1 icbe 1 lau 1 es iuiin„tbeEe\ 1 ti n) afterwards the dev ir hini and if he often evpreb ed ^reat ] Archl ishop of Tours It is t 1 e lamented inhabitantb f Cbicbe ter that the sul ject of our memoir ba 1 bO httle tiabty for the with every os of the prevalent passion for authorship, and they returned his affection i 313 ; — MAC FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MAC sible mark of kindness and reg:ard. He re- smile. To the dignity of the vieille Cour hours of all tained his faculties till within a few he added the ease of modem manners ; his decease. His abstemious habits and and there was something of grace and ur- natural actirity. joined to a fine constitu- banity in his address which reminded his tion, had enabled him to enjoy a most ex- visitors of Bums' happy expression, traordinary length of uninterrupted health ** In heaven itself I'd ask no more except a sliirht attack on his lungs, for, Than just a Highland welcome." which lie parried by drinking the goats' milk at Amubrie, in the Highlands, in 1790, In his youth, owing to the elegance of his he was never confined by sickness to bed form, he was admitted into the " Society of forty-eight hours in his life. To his extreme Free and Accepted Masons" before the temperance also may fairly be attributed, usual .age, in order to take a prominent p.art under Providence, much of the comfort and in a splendid proees.sion through the streets tranquility of his old age ; his total freedom of Auld Reekie. Although dissimilar in from pain or irritability; and the gi-eat features and complexion, he had so much blessing of preserving his judgment un- of the air and figure of the late amiable clouded, and his memory unimpaired, to the Gerard Andrewes, Dean of Canterbury close of life. His remains were interred, by {who lives in the recollection of most of our his own express desire, in the most private readers), that be was often t.aken for him in manner, in the village churchyard of West the streets of London— particularly .as he Hampnett, near Chichester. The mourners was in the habit of dressing in blacli, and of were-~his son, the Rev. John William wearing a turned-up or shovel hat ; and Mackie ; his nephew, the Rev. George Por- once, in the Dean's own church of St cher, of Oakwood ; and his friend, Dr For- .James's, Dr Mackie created no slight sur- bes, who had watched his gradual decline ]irise by politely declining to assist at the with unremitting kindness and .assiduity. cnuimuniou tal)le, when called njion by one The funeral service was performed by the of the persons in attend.ance on a sudden worthy Vicar, the Rev. Cecil Greene, who emergency. A fine jiortrait of Dr Mackie alluded to his loss in a very feeling manner, was painted in miniature by Engelheart in in a sermon preached on the sulisequent 1784 ; another, liy Marchmont Moore, in Sunday. The Rev. Charles Hardy also 1830, engraved by Freeman in the same preached a funeral sermon at the Sub- year ; a drawing in water-colors, by Slater, Deanery Church in Chichester, taking for in 1808 ; nor can we omit in this catalogue his text, "Let me die the death of the of excellent likenesses, a small whole-length righteous." This sermon was much ad- sitting figure, in terra cotta, by Gah.agan of mired for its simplicity and truth. Dr Bath, which was considered by the critics Mackie was married, in 1784, to Dorotha of the d.ay a masterpiece of classical design Sophia, eldest daughter of the Rev. John De? Champs (de Marsilly), rector of Pilles- M.4.CKIE, Akdeew, was bom at Sau- den, Dorset, and chaplain to the Queen of choiie. in the neighbourhood of Crail, in the Prussia. This lady was allied to some of year 1815 ; and received his education p.artly the most illustrious Protestant families in at the Burgh .and P.amchial School of Crail, France. She was much admired for the and pcartly at the University of St Andrews. brilliancy of her wit (which is hereditary in When his studies, which had been directed the Chamier family), as well as for her other to the medical profession, were completed, accomplishments ; and, having been edu- he commenced practice in the year 1836 at cated chiefly amongst foreigners, became Collar ; .and .although then a young man, deeply versed in French literature. She autl his experience, of course, but limited, may be said to have been the first to give his activity' and unwearierl exertions in the to her fair countrywomen a picture of prosecution of his business soon brought Madame de S^vign^in an English dress, by him into very extensive practice, which con- a spirited translation which she publislied in tinued greatly to increase. Not only in the 1802. By this marri.age, which proved in town and pari,sh of Cupar, but in several ad- every respect a most happy one, as Mrs joining parishes .also, his services were Mackie was not only .in .affectionate and sought after, and were duly .ajipreciated. exemplary wife and mother, but a congenial One sphere of Dr JMackie's duties exposed friend and companion, Dr Mackie left one him to more than an ordinary degree of son, now student of CHirist Church, Oxfiird, danger, and there is no doubt that it was and one daughter, widow of the late lament- in tiie |>erform.ance of his duties here—duties ed John Mackie Leslie, Esq. Mrs IU.-ol FIFESHIKE BTOGRAPHY. tion to his professional aid, to ameliorate, as neighbourhood of his native village, and at far as be coulil, the destitute condition of that time discovered great aptitude for the his patients. A very few days liufnre lie teacher's work. From inability, we pre- bis stuilits at slIicuI, w.os taken ill, be pressed, with ;,Te;it ..anicst- sume, to prosecute he that art, lie went to Glasgow 11- as IMaeklL- 1" his patients was acknowledged by f. some time jnurueyman sight his all who kii.w liini. In iiiiuisteriny; to the H L- never lost of am- and in his sill;, Ills i.iaiin.r was kiurl an It IS s I posed thit leatl was caused by aneur h n of the aorta which theappearance t of the C rt f ; MAC FIFESHTRE BIOGRAPHY. MAI married Isabella, daughter of Albm of Col- Solicitor-General, and subsequently, before laitown, and was father of an only son, Al- his elevation to the bench, became Lord- lan Maconochie, Lonl Meadowbank, the Advocate. He Wiis succeeded by his son, very eminent and soientirio Judge. He M AC O N O UH I E - VV EL L W O D, married Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Allan-Alexander, Esq. of Meadowbank "Wellwood, Esq. of Garvock, by Anne, his House, Midlothian, and Pitliver House, in wife, eldest daughter of Sir George Preston, the county of Fi fe, formerly Profe.ssor of Laws Bart, of VaUeytield, and had issue Alex- in the University of Glasgow ; born in 1806 ander, hia heir (of whom a separate notice married, tirst, Ellen, daughter of T. Wig- is given), and other children. Lord gin, Esq. of Harley Street, London ; and, Meadowbank died in ISIO, and w-vs suc- secondly, in 1S59, Lady Margaret Penny ceeded by bis son iMaconouhie. Dalryinple, youngest daughter of the 9th MACONOCHIE-WELLWOOD, Alex- Earl of Stair. ander, an eminent Judge and Fife Pro- MAITLAND.—The noble Scotch family prietor, Wivs born in March 1777, and died in of this name lioasts of several celebrated Nov. ISlJl. In Mr Alaeouochie-Wellwood persons :—1st, Sir Itichard Maitlaud, a poet, we lost one of the last survivors Ill w ho put on his ^owu lu tlie folio a m^ \ i i M nlii. I 111-. -t-.n S uetirv to Queen He W.VS raised to the bench by the till it Lord Meadowbank m 1S19, ere jet ti m Btoun, Moncreifl", Cockbuin, and Jcthi\ had atu.uiied their full renown. Attti twenty four years of service as a ]ud,L, bi retired in 1S13, and ever afterwauK lived the life of a country £,euUeman, chieHj .it Meadowbank, near Kirknewtou ; to winch propel ty ho some yeare ago added, by sue cession, the v.diuble entailed estates of Gar- vock and Puluci, in Fif On the bench In auothei ca of the line aits— invd perhaps the 11 in Edinburgh, Jii Hv dm, the coiuiLiK ot ,vui t.ictuies lu Eihubuuli, .utaiul cuUectioiia 111 .u t a bouii-es nf pubLc t.ilui.1 itiuent In thtsL 111 itti r- uinittiL-t, mil L lU tributed hl»uiaueiltuil . distill, uish MAI FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. ceived him with the utmost kindaess, and a Leghorn, on his way to attend the Congress few days after permitted him to return to at Laybach. On his Majesty's landing, he Gibraltar, without being exchanged. After personally invested Captain Maitland with being Commander of the Cameleon sloop, he the insignia of a Knight Commander of the was, December 10, 1800, appointed by Lord Order of St Ferdinand and of Merit, and Keith to the Waa.fsenaar, 64 ; but as that presented him with a valuable gold box, ship was lying at Malta unfit for service, containing his portrait set with diamonds. obtained permission to accompany the Subsequently he was promoted to the rank pedition against the French in Egypt, where of Rear-Admiral, and ajipointed Com- his conduct in command of the armed mander-in-Chief in the East Indies. He launches employed to cover the landing of died on board his flag-ship, the Wellesley, Sir Ralph Abercromby's army, and in the at sea, in the vicinity of Bombay, Decem- subsequent battles of March 13 and 21, 1801, ber 30, 1839. He was nominated a Com- obtained him the thanks of the naval anc panion of the B.ith in 1815, and a Knight military Commanders-in-Chief. In October Commander, November 17, 1830. 1802 he wa.s appointed to the Loire frigate MAITLAND, J.^mes, bom 18th April mounting 4G guns, two boats of which dur 1806, is second surviving son of the late ing the night of June 27, 1803, carried th( Chas. Maitland, Esq. of liankeiUour, cnuuty French national brig Venteux, lying ch)S( of Fife, by Mary, eldest daugbtt-r of David under the batteries of the Isle of Bas. In Johnston, Esq. of Lathrlsk, in the same the succeeding March he ca])tured tht shire. He is brother of C^onmiander Lewis Braave French ship privateer; and in Au- Maitland, R.N. ; nephew of the late Rear- gust following, while cruising for the pro- Admiral Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland, K.C.B., tection of the homewarJ-bound convoys, wh fight of 15 minutes, he made himself master R.N. ; and cousin also of Rear-Admiral of the Blonde, of 30 9-pounders and 240 the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, C.B., men. On June 3, 1805, he entered Muroi K.C.M.G., and Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, Bay, on the coast of Spain, and the fort hav R.N., K.C.B. His grandfather, Hon. Fred. ing been gallantly carried by Mr Yeo, his Lewis Maitland, a Captain in the R.N., was First Lieutenant, he took possession of all son of Charles, sixth Earl of Lauderdale, the enemy's vessels lying in the road. On and had one brother, Richai-d, a Colonel in the 27th of the same month the Common the army, and another, John, a Lieutenant- Council of the City of London voted him Colonel in the R.M. He commanded the their thanks for his distinguished conduct on Elizabeth, 74, in Keppel and Rodney's this occasion, and about the same period he actions, and afterwards captured a French received an elegant sword from the Commit- 64-gun ship. This officer entered the navy tee at Lloyd's. On October IS, the Corjio- 22d Dec. 1818, .as First Class Volunteer, on ration of Cork voted him the freedom of that board the Vengeur, 74, Captiiin Fred. Lewis city, in a silver box. He afterwards cap- Maitland, and during the two following tured the French frigate La Libre, of 40 years was employed on the North Sea, guns, and subsequeutly the Princess of South American, and Mediterranean Sta- Peace, »Spanish privateer ; and November tions. He then, until promoted to the rank 28, 1806, he was appointed to the Emerald of Lieutenant, 10th July 1826, served as frigate, on board of which he made several Midshipman and Mate, again in South important captures of French, Spanish, and America, as also at Portsmouth, and in the American vessels. After serving ou the West Indies, in the Aurora, 46, Captain Halifax and West India stations, he was Henry Prescot, Ganges, 84, Capt. Patrick early in 1815 removed to the Belleroijhon, Campbell, and Allegator, 28. He next 74, in which he was sent to watch the mo- cruized for some months on the station last tions of two French frigates and two cor- mentioned, in the Ferret, 10, Capt. Henry vettes lying .at Rochefort. While there, he Gosset, and wss subsequently appointed, effectually frustrated the plans of Napoleon 18th Jan. 1828, to the Tribune, 42, Captains for his escape by sea, after the battle of John Wilson and John Alex. Duntze, at- Waterloo ; in consequence of which the fal- tached to the force in the Pacific, whence he len Emperor surrendered to him on the 15th returned home at the close of 1831 ; 17th of July. Ou their arrival at Plymouth, and October 1832, to the Portsmouth Yacht, as previous to his removal to the Northumber- Flag-Lieutenant to his uncle, Sir F. L. land, his Ulustrious ca|itive sent one of his Maitland, Admiral-Superir.tendent at that attendants to Captain Maitland, proposing port, and 2d September 1834, in a similar to present him with a gold box containing capacity to the Thaha, 46, bearing the flag his portr.ait, set with diamonds, an otter at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral which the latter declined ; and some time Patrick Campbell. He went on half-pay after addressed a letter to the Edinburi/k in the summer of 1835, and has not been Annual Register^ correcting several mis- since afloat. He acquired his ]n"esent rank statements contained in th.at publication 9th May 1836. Commander Jlaitland (the respecting his prisoner. In October 1818 he senior of his rank on the list of 183G), mar- was appointed to the Vengeur, 74, on board ried, first, in March 1836, Emma, daughter of which, in December 1820, he conveyed of Thomas Mague Willing, Esq., of Phila- \ the King of the Two SiciUea from Naples to delphia, and (that lady dying in June 1838) 318 ; MAI FIFESHTRE BIOGRAPHY. MAL secondly, 20th August 1840, Francis Harriet, Lady Maitland was Iri-sh by birth, bei daughter of the late Richard Samuel Short, father having been an e.Ktensive landed pro- Esq. of Edlington Grove, Lincolnshire. prietor in the county of Cork. She was MAITLAND, Wit. Heriot, born 3d bom in the year 1785. She had survived .Tuly 1819, is second son of James Maitland, the late Sir Frederick, her husband, for up- Es(|. of Ramorny, by Margaret, daughter wards of a quarter of a century. Through of WilUam Daljjleish, Esq. of Seotscraig, him, who died in the Ea^t Indies in 1839, and first cousin of Commander James where he was Commander-in-Chief of Her Maitland, E.N. This officer entered the Majesty's Navy on that station, Lady Mait- navy 16th October 1832, as First Class land connected the ;-.reseut time w'ith the VohmtecT on board the Castor, 30, Captain stirring period of Waterloo. It was to Sir Lord John Hay, and in July 1836, after Frederick when in command of H.M.'sship having been employed on the Home Station, "apoleon and olf the Xorth Coast of Sjiain dm'ing the For this civil war, removed as midshipman to the and other services Sir Frederick was ulti- Vanguard, 80, commanded in the Mediterra- matelv promoteil to be Admiral, and re- nean by Captains the Hon. JohnDuncombe ceived the honour of K.C.B.from his own Pleydell Bouverie and Sir Thomas Fellowe."). country, besides being distinguished by va- Joining next in June 1837, the Wellesley, rious orders from Continental Sovereigns. 72, bearing the flag of his uncle Sir Fred. Lady Maitland spent her widowhood at Lewis Maitland, he served as mate of that Lindores . House, which was built by her ship at the taking of Currachee in February husband, though she occasionally wintered 1839, and in her boats in a skirmish at at an Enghsh watering-plaee. 'This elegant Bushehr, in the Persian Gulf, in April of mansion is prettily situated on the side of the same year. His appointments as lieute- Lindores Loch. When resident in the nant, a rank he attained on the sixth of tlie county, her Ladyship mamtained the most month last mentioned, appear to have been friendly relations with her neighbours, and —10th July 1839, to the Hyacinth, 18, kept up a close intimacy with a large circle Captain WiUiam Warren—23d June 1840, of her husband's wide-spread famdy connec- .i<;ain to the Wellesley, Captain Thoma,s tions. She dispensed a liberal hospitality, Maitland—10th Oct. 1841, to the command and her many charities and virtues will of the Alfferine, 10—and 20th Sept. 1842, to make her much missed, and long and fondly the Blonde, 42, Captain Thomas Bourchier. remembered in the district. Irish by bu-th, In the Hyacinth Mr Maitlimd was in her father being a landed proprietor in the action with the enemy's junks at Chuenpee county of Cork, she yet became one of our- and when in the Wellesley, he assisted in selves, confirming this by joining our demolishing the enemy's fortifications at the National Church, of which she remained a latter ])lace—landed, during the attack on warm and attached supporter. There being the Bogue forts, in command, with Mr W. no issue of the marriage, Lindores House H. Hall, of the Nemesis, of a party of sea- and grounds, with the estate of Ku.ssell men and marines, and took possession of Mill, descend to Capt. Jas. Maitland, R.N., Little Tycockter, spiking at the same time nephew of the late Sir Frederick Mait- its guns, and destroying a neighbouring en- land. Lady Maitland died at Lindores campment, and united in the operations House on Monday the 6th of March 186.5, against Canton, Amoy, Chusan, Shanghai, in the eightieth year of her age, and twenty- and Ningpo. In the attack upon Amoy sixth of her widowhood. his skull was fractured, and he was other- MALCOLJI, Alexander, of Lahore, wise much injured. During his command was the sou of Sir John Jlalcolm, and was of the Algeriue, we find him particularly admitted advocate on the 9th Feb. 1676. mentioned for his conduct at the capture of On the 3d November 1681, he was ap- Chapoo, where, after he had assisted in pointed Sherift-Depute of the county of landing the troops, he accorap.anied them on Fife by the Privy Council, untU thev sh..ulJ tlieir advance, and with his own liands slew recall the C.mimission of the Sherifl-Prin- two mandarins. He was also employed in cipal, the Earl of Balcarres, who then re-. the same vessel in surveying the Yungtse- fused to take the test. On the 16th Feb. Kiaug, and was jiresent in the action with 10S7, he was admitted an Ordmary Lord of the Uvosung batterie?, and at the pacifica- Session, in place of Sir Alexander Seaton ton of Nanking. On his return to Fngland of Pitmidden, removed about fourteen in the Blonde, in March 1843, Mr Maitl.and months before for his opposition to Minis- found that his services had secured him a ters. He was an unsuccessful candidate commander's commission dated 23d Dec. for the seat in the Court of Justiciary, 1842. His last appointment was 31st Jan. vacant by the removal of Lord Harcarse, 1840, to the command of the Electra, 14, but was, through the influence of his patron, fitting for the North American and West the Earl of Balcarres, appointed Chamber- India Station, where he remained until his lain of Fife, in December 1687, and a Privy health obliged him to invahd in March CouncUlor in July 1688, but was deprived • 1847. of all these offices, at the outbreaking of MAITLAND, or Conner Dame Catha- which he was subjected to a short im- rine, Linilores House, relict of the late prisonment. Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, K.C.B. MALONE, Robert L., was a native of 319 MAR FIFESHIEE BIOGRAPHY. MAR Anstruther, where lie was liorn in 1812. w.as succeeded, in 1724, by his elder surviving His father w.aa captain in the navy, and son, R.iliert, second Baron, F.R.L. and afterwards was employed in the Coast LL. T). , 1 i. .rn in 1712. Tliis nobleman mar- Guard. He ultimately settled at Rothesay, ried, in 1742. Priseilla, dau'.,diter and heiress in Bute. Receiving a common school of Charles Pym, E-ir,., ,,f the Island of St education, Robert entered the nav-y in his Christopher, by whom he had Kve daughters fourteenth ye.ar. He served on board the and three sons. The vmu-e-t '^-n,. David gun-brig Marshall, which attended the Marsham, D.D., Can.in ..f Windsor, Pre- fisheries department in the we.st ; next in bendary of Rochester and Wells, linrn, 28th the Mediterr.anean rice.au, and latterly in Febru.ary 1759, married, 2Sth June 1784, South America. Compelled from impaired Amelia-iFrances, only daughter and heiress health to rfnmince the sea-faring life after a of Joseph BuUock, Esq. of Caversfield, service of ten ye.irs, he returned to his Bucks, .and by her had issue, Robert family at Rothesay, but afterwards settled BuUock-Marsham, D.C.L., Warden of in the town of (Treennck. In 1S4-5 he became Merton College, Oxford ; bom, 17th June a clerk in the Lons-room of the Customs at 1786, married, March 27, 1828, Janet, Ladj- Greenock, an appointment which he retained Carmichael Anstruther, daughter of the late till nigh the period of his death. A lover of General David Dewar, of Gilston House, poetry froln liis youth, he solaced the hours Fifeshire, and h,as issue, Charles-Jacob, of sickness liv the ci^mpi isition of verses. He born in 182!), Robert-Henry, born in 1833, published in 1R4.- a .b.o-decimo volume of CImidesley-Dewar, born in 1835, with two poetry entitle.! " The Sailor's Dream, and other Poems;" a \v.,rk which was well re- MARSHALL, John, a Senator of the ceived. His death t'lok pl.ace .at Oreenock Colles-e of Justice, bearing the title of Lord on the fith Julv 1X50. in his thirty-ei'.dith CurrieliiU.—He is a native of Galhiway, and ye.ar. Of a modest and rctirinc,' disjiosition, was born about the end ..f the last century. Malone was iniamljitions of distinction as a He studied first at the University of Glasgow, poet. His style is bold and animated, and and afterw.ards comiileted his academical some of his pieces evince considerable power. and legal education at Edinburgh. He was called to the bar in l.Sl.'^, am I soon attained THE THISTLE OF SC0TL.4ND. to eminence in his ))rofession. He was esteemed a first class Chamber Counsel, particularly in matters of conveyancing, being one of the best feud.al lawyers of his t woodlands adorn- time. In 18.52, on the elevation of the late Lord Anderson to the bench, he was chosen Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, by the unanimous vote of the brethren ; but he stle—the thistle of Scotland for c did not long retain the distinguished posi- tion, for in the same year he was appointed one (if tie.' Lrirds of Session, and having What scenes o* lang?yne even thy name can soiii, lime pre\ ini^ly purchased the beautiful estate "f I ui 1 ieliill, a few miles to the west Thou badge of the fearless", the fair, and the of hMiiilan;^h. once the property of Sir free; John Skene, Lord-Clerk-Registrar, in the And the tenderest chords of the spirit are shaken, sixteenth century, and author oE the well- The thistle—the thistle of Scotland for me. known treatise, " De Verborum Significa- iione" Mr Marshall took his place on the bench by the title of Lord Curriehill, and is MAR SHAM, Vt Robert Bullock, now attached to the First Division of the Husband of Lady .Taxet Carmich.\el, Court. His connection with the county of Anstruther, Oxford, The Family of. -This Fife arises from his uiavria'4e with JIarg.aret, gentleman is connected with Fife by mar- second daughter of the llev. Andrew Bell, riage. This familv derives its surname minister of Crail, and proprietor of the from the town of .Marshara, in Norfolk, in estate of Kilduncan, in that neighbourhood. which ooiintv it held a bicrh station so far Lord Curriehill is considered an acute and back as the lie-inninir nf the twelfth cen- sound lawyer, and possesses a distinct and tury. Passiii-.iiifn.u. that period to the be- forcible, though not always a ready elocu- ginninfr of tlie r'-lite.uth ceiiturv. we find tion. His admitted worth and proliity, to- that Sir R.iKert MarOeim of Biisliv Hall, gether with a high feeling of honour, give county of ll.r'f.-rd, wl,u r.'i.reseiited .Maid- force and authority to his arguments, stone in sev.r.il l':iili:niients, died on 2.5th opinions, and decisions. July 1703. :nid wi.) -iieeeeded by his eldest MARSHALL, Andrew, an eminent son. Sir Tlo'iert ^r,ir MAT riFESHIEE BIOGRArHY. MAT course into the quagmire of disappointment, go-between betwi.xt them ; and on the vessel and completely frustrated their heartless reaching her destination, the sighing lover design of rendering some poor unfortunate was once more the flaming pohtician wight destitute of a home. . Throughout his quickly became a member of the London whole life, this singularly gifted individual's Corresponding Society, and was on terms sole aim was, as the poet says of intimacy with Thomas Hardy, Home Tooke, Thelwall, and others of the leading * to wipe Longing each t ) heal each groan. Eefomiers of the period. On the apprehen- sion of these worthies for treason against Mr Mathie died at Dysart on the 16th of the Government, our hero was constrained August 1864, in the sixty-ninth year of his to flee, and escaped to the Island of Jersey, age, and his remains were followed to the where he remained till the storm blew over, grave on the 20th of the same month liy a and then returned to the metropoUs, when, very large comp.iny, many having come to readily obtaining an employer, he rose in pay the last duties from a considerable dis- due course to be foreman in the estabUsh- tance. ment. All along he kept up a regular cor- MATHIE.SON, Alexander, of Sandy- res]>ondence, through the medium of the knowes, was bom in the year 1771, and captain, with Nannie Richardson. His served his apprentic-eship to a wright, in situation was a good one, and, accumulating Newburgh. Smart, Idnd-hearted, and of a cash, he made up his mind to return to joyous disposition, he was a general fa- Newburgh and marry. The wedding ar- vourite with the young men of his own rangements being mutually agreed on, he age ; and tall, handsome, and remarkable told his master his intention to leave, but for manly beauty, as we have heard an before the fortnight exjiired his friend the old lady say—" his company was no less captain had sailed without him. This was prized by his female acquaintances ; while tantalising, but away he must get. A bold, aspiring, and impulsive, his s]iirit chance vessel was taking in a cargo for the caught fire at the new doctrines of liberty, same destination, and a passage was at his equality, and fraternity, and plunged serWce. On the evening before quitting, him at once into the troubled ocean of and just on the men leaving the workshop, politics." At that time, only eight indi- his master's niece entered, and laying a silk viduals in the town of Newburgh dared to bag on a bench, timidly asked him if it assert that the representation of the country were tnie he was quitting? "Yes, mem, in Parliament was defective, and should be to-morrow," replied ^Mathieson. *'And made right, and the youngest and most will you take me to Scotland—with you? forward of these was Mr Mathieson. Fluent Here"—and she lifted the bag " Here is in speech, he was soon a village orator, and, £.500 ; it is all my fortune at present ; but too indejiendent to allow discretion to bridle all my uncle has will be yours when he is his tongue, he quickly found that he was served of it." "0, mem," repUed Mathie- marked as a dangerous youth, by the public son, " 1 cannot. My errand to Scotland authorities. Our young " blackneb," how- Is to get married,'' The girl made no ever, cared for nothing of the sort. He had answer, but, bursting into tears, left the even the hardihood to visit Perth, and walk apartment. In a day or two after, a fair the High Street with yeUow ties in his shoes, breeze was wafting him home, and soon he for which bravado he was apprehended and arrived in the Tay, at Newburgh ; but, thrown into jail, but was speedily set at scarcely had he reacheil the harbour, when liberty again, by the representation of some an acquaintance called out—"Ah, Mathie- friends well affected to Government, who son, why have you been so long in coming ? happened fortunately to be there at the You've lost your lass. The captain and time of the occurrence. This adventure, Nannie Richardson were married yester- instead of operating soothingly on him, had day." The truth was, the captain never quite a different tendency ; strengthening, deUvered any of Mathieson's letters to instead of weakening his oratory, so that Nannie save the first, and forged all the warrants were soon after issued ag.ainst him answers in return. AH the reports she and his party. Four were pounced on liy heard of Sandy were evil reports ; but, the officers of the law from Cupar, liefore h(>|jing against hope, she steadily repelled they were aware, but JNIathieson havmggot the captain's suit till the last one with- a hint of what was going on, fled in the ered all her happy expectations, and then, direction of the Shore, at Newburgh, and with a heavy heart, she consented to become sprmgmg mt ok then leavi the his bride. When the truth flashed out, Quay, was on his way to I^ondon, %vith a Nannie well nigh went distracted, and fair wind, ere his pursuers had time to reach jM.athieson in his madness swore he would his master's worlisli.ip. L'.ut altliough he marry tlie first woman he met—and he kept had escaped, he now found himself deeply his word. In his recklessness, however, humbled aud sad at heart. If S;tiulv Providence was kind to him, for he got a Mathieson was tlie liravest I;M iu the i.arish, good wife ; but poor Sandy was no longer Na the same man. However, all his original and he had be.u forced to l-ave her witlioi Ijoldness, impulsiveness, buoyant disposi- opportunity of saying farewell. Ho\ tion, and fervent aspirations for freedom, remained unchanged. Beginning business ; MAT FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHy. on hia own account in the country, he stooc, several young children. His poetry is alone— the only man iu the jiarish—whc chiefly remarkable for depth of feeling. A dared to do battle for Reform. Years rolled specimen of his verses is subjoined : — on without brintriiig what he was evei proclaiming come l)ut still he hoped must ; THE DAYS THAT ARE AWA'. and never flagged in contending for what hi .f Is.iO thought the right. The eventful year . December winds are sigliin* sou-. found him an old man, grey-baired i mt hal And sackcloth veils the skies ; youthful days still nu 1 with the flush of While dowie Nature diapa a tear cheeks, and aspirit as hearty andunsubni A n' mourns departed joys. siveas ever. How the veteran rejoiced that Now gano are a' her sumtner scenes, day when the inhabitants of Xewburgh, with Her flowers and foliage braw ' music and banners, led him in triumj the uid The dajs that are awa'. thuu lit fu ; Consei' nces of An' may not we, a' Nature's kin. wailing sad encore ? perin.l, Her 17;i-t ! During the r.fomi Mathie- Our early joys, alas ! are gane, son was the soul of all the popular move- Our happy days of yore ! ments of the iilace. llis time and speeches Is there a huait that ducsna' feel were ever ready to forwarl tlie cause ; and Ket-ret in hut or l,.a'. a joyous old man was he when he found While duon the checks the saut tears steal his warfare of a hfetime couijileted—the Refe.rm Bill having been passed-wheu, as he thought, the jxriod had arrived when ; bracken braes, fig tree, none daring to make them afraid. However, all he au\ieipated for his country has not yet been got, nor ever will ; but to the end he desjiaired not. He kept ever going with the tide, voting for a For days that are awa'. Liberal member for the county always in opposition to a Conservative, and hoping How canty sped our early days Wi' frien's and lovers fair ! still that a time would come when radical O'er life's young sUy Hope shed the country. principles would rule But Without a cloud o' care. his labours antl his longings are now Our early frien's are dead and j over, and his bones rest iu peace in the Orl ' sweet little churchyard of Dunbog, among that's I to I the dust of his forefathers. Peace to his The days that are awa ashes ! Like others, he had his failings ; is 1; but few that knew hun will ever forget the Ah ! whaur noo that dandled's on her warm, honest, ojien-hearted man, Alexander That Sae ready aye to tak our Jlathieson of Sandy Knowes. JIATHERS, THOiSLVS, fisherman iu St Monance, was born there in the year 179-J. s when we'd fa' ? Receiving an education at the Parochial i the heait that doesna yearn School, confined to the simplest branches, he chose a seafaring life, and connected himself with the merchant servic?. At Venice, he had a casual encounter with the celebrated Lord Byron—a circumstance which he was in the habit of narrating with [fast enthusiasm. Leaving the merchant service, he married, and became a pilot and fisher- The the past- man iu his native village. His future life The days that are i was a career of incessant toil and frequent penury, u\uoh alleviated, however, by the Tho' Nature wails in dowie weed. Her beauties will return; invocation of the muse. He contributed And sweet the woodland an' the mead for series of years to several of the verses a Will bloom by bank an' burn. public journals ; and his compositions For fracrant flow'rs, sae sweet aa' fair, gained him a wide circle of admirers. Willc He long cherished the ambition of publish- ing a volume of poems ; and the desire at length was gratified through the subscrip- tions of his friends. In ISol he • printed a Then may not we, Nature's kin, duodecimo volume entitled " IMusings in Her wailin' sad encore ? Verse by Sea and Shore," which, however, Our early joys, alas ! are gane, Our happy d.ays of jore. had only been put into shape when the But there's a day nlair brightly fair author was called to his rest. He died of a Tha short iUness, at St Monance, on the 25th September 1851, leaving a widow and ' MEL FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MEL MELVILLE, or LESLIE-MEL- be disbanded, without having recourse to VILLE, Alexander, First Earl of Leven, hostilities. In April 1640 the Scots thought the celebrated General of the Presbyterian it expedient to re-assemble their army, and army during the civil wars, was the son of the command was again given to General Captain Georse Leslie of Balgonie, Com- Leslie. In August of that year he marched mander of the Castle of Blair, by Anne, his into England, at the head of at least 23,000 wife, a daughter of Stewart of Ballechin. foot and 3000 cavalry ; and on the 28th he Having early adopted the profession of attacked and routed the King's troops at arms, he served as a Captain in the regiment Newburn, which gave him possession of of the Lord de Vere, then employed in Newcastle, Tynemouth, Shields, and Dur- Holland, in assisting the Dutch against the ham, with large magazines of arms and Spaniards, when he obtained the reputation provisions. This success was followed by the of a brave and skilful officer. He then en- treaty of Eipon, and afterwards transferred tered the service of Gustavus Adolphus, to London, and not ratified by Parliament King of Sweden, by whom he was promoted till 1641. As it was now King Charles' first to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and object to conciUate his northern subjects, in afterwards to that of Field-MarshaU. In August of that year he went to Scotland, 1628 General Leslie defended Stralsund, and, passing through Newcastle, where the then besieged by the Im|ierialists, under Scots army were quartered, he was received Count Wallenstien, and acquitted himself with great respect by General Leslie, whom with so much gallantry and skill, that he raised to the Peerage, by the title of though the plague had broken out in the Lord Balgonie, and October 11 of the same city, and the outworks were in a ruinous year, created him Earl of Leven. In 1 042 condition, he compelled the besiegei-s to re- the Earl was sent over to Ireland as General tire with considerable loss. So sensible of the Scots forces, raised for the suppres- were the citizens of his great services on sion of the RebelUon there, but was recalled this occasion, that they rewarded him with in 1043 to take the command of the trooijs a valuable present, and caused medals to be despatched to England to the assistance of struck to his honour. In 1630, he drove the Parhament. At the battle of Marston the Imperialists out of the Isle of Rugen ; Moor, 2d July 1644, he commanded the left and he continued to serve in the Swedish of the centre division of the Paidiamentary army with great distinction until after the forces, when the royal army was totally death of Gustavus ; but in the beginning of defeated. He afterwards, with the assis- 1639 he was invited back to Scotland by the tance of the Earl of Callander, took the Covenanters, to take the chief command of town of Newcastle by storm ; and, having their forces. He accordingly returned home sent to Parliament a copy of the overtures with many of his countrymen, who had, like made! by the King to the Scots Generals, h ' him, acquired miUtaiy experience on the Con- receive'ved in return a vote of thanks, with tinent; and his first achievement was the capture of the Castle of Eirmbmi,'h, by as- asult, at the head of one th<'usaiid select and English army, engaged in the siege of musqueteers, on the Sod of March, which Newark, the uufurtunate Charles came to he effected without the luss uf a man. In him privately, 5th May 1046 ; and the Earl May 1039, when Charles I. advanced with was one of a hundred officers who after- his army to the borders, tlie Scottish forces, wards on their knees entreated his Majesty under General Leslie, marched to meet o accept the propositions offered him by the them, and to the amount of 24,000 men en- Parhament, but in vain. In 1048 he was camped on Dunse Law. The appearance offered the command of the .army raised for they made here is said to have been " a the rescue of Charles 1., which he declined, Bpectacle not less interesting to the militarj' on the score of his .age .and infirmities. On than edifying to the devout." The blue the failure of the Eng.agement, however, he banners of the Presbyterians were inscribed was restored to his place at the head of the with the Arms of Scotland wrought in gold, army. At the battle of Dunbar, in 10.50, with the motto '* For Christ's Crown aiul lie served as a volunteer. August 2S, 1051, Covenant." The soldiers were summoned lie attended a meeting Lif some noblemen, to sermon by beat of drum, and at sunrise ami a committee of the Estates at Eliot, and sunset their tents resounded with the in Forfarshire, to concert measures in be- voice of psalms, reading the scriptures, and half of Charles II., when all present were prayer. The clergy, of whom there were surprised and taken prisoners, by a detach- great numbers present, raanyof them armed, ment from the garrison at Dundee, and like the rsst, were assiduous in preserving conveN-ed to the 'I'ower (jf London. At the discijihne ; and the ambition of the nobles iutercessionnf Christina, (,Kieen of Sweden, was restrained by the greatness of the cause he was ivlea^eil I'V ( roiiiwell, and returned in which they were engaged, aided by the to Scotland in May ir,:4. He subsequently discretion of the General, who, though an went over to Sweueii, personally to thank imlettered soldier of fortune, of advanced the Queen for her liind interference in his age, diminutive stature, and deformed per- favour. He died at I lalgoiiie, 4th April 1661. son, was prudent, vigilant, experienced, His Lordship ae'iuiied extensive landed skUful, and enterprising. The pacification of property, p.articulaily Inchmartin, in the Berwick in June 1639, caused both armies to Carse of Gowrie, which he purchased from MEL FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MEL the Ogilviea in IfiSO, and called it Inch- brother, John, &c. His Lordship died in Leplie. He was twico married, and by hia 1621, at the age of ninety-four, and was first wife had, with tivedan^diters, two sons, succeeded by hia only son, Robert, second who both predecease(.l him, ami he was suc- Lord Melville, who had been constituted an ceeded by his grandson. Tlie Earldom of Extraordinary Lord of Session in 1601, as Leven is now held by his descendant, in Lord Burntisland. This nobleman obtained conjunction with that of Melville. a charter from Charles I., dated Bagshot, MELVILLE, or LESLIE-MEL- 10th August 11.27, of the barony of Mony- VILLE, The Family of.—This noble mail, and the dignity of Lord Monymail, house is chief of the very ancient Scottish with X'eversion to his heira general, bearing hich derived, it is the surname and arms of Melville. His a. person of Anglo-Norman Lordship died, without issue, 9th March lineage, called Male. This person settled, 1635, when he was succeeded by his cousin, under David I., upon some lands in the John Melville of Raith, as thii\l Lord, who county of Edinburgh, which he called Male- man-itil Aime, eldest daughter and co- Ville, .and his descendants assumed that lieiress of Sir (ieurge Erekine of Invertiel, a designation as a surname. Galfre.l lie Mel- Lord of Session; and dying in 1643, was ville, the first of the family, Uved in the succeeded by his elder son, George, fourth reigns of David I., Malcolm, and WilUani Lord IMelville. This noblem.an was in- the Lion. He was A'ieecomes de Castella volved in the rebellion of the Duke of Mon- Puellarum for Malcolm IV., and had the mouth, but had the good fortune to efl'ect honour of being the first .lusticiary of Scot- his escape into HolLand. His estates were land on record. He left three sons, viz,, oonsefpiently forfeited by Act of Attainder Gregory, I'liiUii, and Walter. The third in 1685 ; but retm-ning to England with sou, Walter, was grandfather of Sir Joliu King WiUiam, his L.n-dship w;is fully re- de Melville, one of tlie principal men of instated in dignity and fortune, on the suc- Scotland who agreed to the marriage of cess of that Prince, with the additional Queen Margaret with Prince Edward of jiommrs (Sth April 1G',)0) of Lord Itaith, 12!I0 England, in ; and who swore fealty to Monyuiail, and Balwearie, Viscount of Edward I. in 12'Jl). from him ilescended KirlccaUlie, and Earl of Melville. Lord Sir John Melville of Raith, who had char- Melville married, in 1655, Laily Catherme ters jointly with his wife, Helen Napier, of Leslie (who succeeded her niece as Countess the King's Lands of Murdoc.arney, in Fife, of Leven), daughter of Lord Balgonie, and dated 23d May 1530, and 23d Oct. 1542. grandilaughter of the renowned General He enjoyed the confidence of James V., Alex.ander Leslie, created 11th October who appointed him Master-General of the 1641, Baron Balgonie and Earl of Leven, of Ordnance, and Captain-General of the whom we have given a separate life in the Castle of Dunbar, having previously precetling article. By this lady his Lord- kniglited him. Sir John, in the minority sliip had issue, and died in 1707, succeeded of Queen Mary, was, however, convicted of by his eldest surviving son, David, as second treason, and executed towards the end of Earl of Melville, who, on the decease of 1549. He man-ied Helen, eldest daughter his mother, 1713, inherited as third Earl of Sir Alexander Napier of Merchistoun, of Leven. His Lordship married Anne, and had issue. The second son. Sir Robert daughter of James Wemyss, Lord Burnt- Melville of Murdocarney, on his return island, by Margaret, Countess of Wemyss, from Fr.ance, where he held some official and was succeeded by his grandson, David, employments, was sworn of the Privy fourth Earl of Leven, and third Eari of Mel- Council of Scotland, and accredited Ambas- ville, who died a youth, in 1729, when the sador to England in 1562. In 1567, he had honours reverted to his uncle, Alexander, a charter of the hereditary office of Keeper fifth and fourth Earl. This nobleman waa of the Palace of Linlithgow, and was sent one of the Ordinary Lords of Session, one of a second time Ambassador to England, in the Representative Peers in 1747, and High 1587, to endeavour to prevent the execution Commissioner to the Church of Scotland of Mary Queen of Scots, which duty he dis- from 1741 to 1753. He mamed, first, Mary, charged with so much boldness before the daughter of CoL Erskine of Carnock, by Council, that Elizabeth menaced his Ufe, whom he had an only son, David ; secondly, and would have imprisoned him, but for the Ehzabeth, daughter of David Monypenny, influence of lus colleague, the Master of Esq., and had issue. The Earl died 2d Sept. Ciray. In 1589, when Lord Thirlstane, the 1745, and was succeeded by his elder son, Chancellor, went to Denmark on the afTair David, sixth and fifth Earl, bom 4th May of the King's marriage. Sir Robert was ap- 1722, who married, in 1747, WUhehnina, pointed Vice-ChanceUor and Treasurer- daughter of Wni. Nisbet, Esq. of Dirleton, Depute ; and in 1594 he was constituted an by whom he had issue. His Lordship, who Extraordinary Lord of Session, under the was high Commissioner to the General As- title of Lord Murdoc.arnie ; from this sembly from 1783 to 1801, died in 1802, and judicial office he retned in favour of his was succeeded by his eldest son, Alexander, son, in 1601, and was elevated to the peerage, seventh and sixth Eari, born 7th Nov. 1749, 30th Ajn-il 1616, as Baron Melville of Mony- manieil in 1784, Jane, daughter of John rnail, with special remainiler in default of Thornton. Es<|., of London, .and by her had his own male issue, to the heirs male of his issue. His Lordshiji died 22d Feb. 1820, - MEL FIFESHIEE BIOGRAPHY. MEL and was succeeded by His eldest sdn, David, been little more than an alternation of par- as eighth and seventh Earl, a retired Kear- tial recoveries and relapses ever after, all Admiral, li.N., bi.rn, 22d June 178."i, mar- borne with a serenity and a patience truly ried 21st June 18i4, whose memoir is the wonderful. In winter 1856, his Lordship subject ofthe next separate article. went to Egypt in the hope of gaining that MELVILLE, or LE.S LIE-MEL- improvement in health denied to him in his VILLE, The Ri-lit Hon. IJ.wiD, Earl own country, but the season proved unpro- of Leven and Melville, is eldest son (by pitious there, and in May 1857, he re- Jane, daughter ot John Thornton, Esq., turned to England weaker and more pros- of London)" of the late Earl, whom lie suc- trated th.an he had left it. From that ceeded as eighth Earl of Leven, and seventli period he gradually sunk, until the end of Earl of ilelville, 22d February 1S20. This August, when his solemn change came. In officer attained the r.ank of Lieutenant 8th the full flush of autumn's beauty, gently and August ISOU, and while attached to the happily he died, in the quiet house of Roe- Ville De Paris 110, bearing the flag of Lord ham|)ton, with all his friends around him. Collingwood, iiv.as mentioned f( .r his conduct Lord Balgonie was beloved by all who bad in hei- boats with those of a squadron under the pleasure of his acquaintance, as a young Lieutenant John Tailour, at the cajrture nobleman of a peculiarly generous and and destruction, on the night of 31st October amiable disposition, and his death was 1809, of the French armed store ship Lam- deeply regretted by a wide circle. The boily proie, of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards was conveyed from Surrey to Melville Victorie and Grandeur, armed rebel Nor- House, and interred in the family burying- mande, and seven merchaut vessels, tie- ground in the quiet church-yard of Moni- fended by numerous strong batteries, in the mail. Bay of Kosas, after a des|ierate struggle, MELVILLE, or LESLIE-MEL- and a loss to the British of 15 kiUed and 5.5 VILLE, John Thorxtos, Earl of Leven wmmded. Although not aware, we belie and JNlelville ; Viscount Kirkaldie, Lord of the circumstance, bis Lordship h.ad been Balgonie, &c., son to Alexander, seventh awarded a second promoted commission oi Earl, by Jane, daughter of John Thornton, the 16th of the preceding .September. H_ Esq. of ClaiJiau). Snrr.-v, who .lied in l.ll.^ was posted, after having for some time had command of the Delight sloop in the Medi- terranean, 28th Feb. 1812, and advanced to his present rank 1st October 1S4G. The Earl married, 21st June 1824, Elizabeth Anne, die.l md, 2d, in 1834, Sophia, daughter of Sir Archibald Campbell, Bart., rthi f the late Henry Thornton, by whom he had issue, two sous, who both Esq. Issue—Emily Maria, born 1815, predeceased him, and four daughters. He married John Deacon, Esq., banker, Lon- died in ISGO, and was succeeded by his don ; Alexander, Viscount Kirkaldie. 1817 ; brother, John Thornton Leslie-Melville. Julia Louisa. 1829; Adelaide Harriet, MELVILLE, or LESLIE-MEL 1831 ; Ronald Ruthven, banker, London, VILLE, Lord Balgonie, son of the above 1835 ; Norman, Captain Grenadier Guards, David Earl of Leven and Melville, died at the 1839 ; Clara Sophia, 1843 ; Earnest, 1845, seat of his uncle the Hon. J. T. Leslie-Mel- died-1802 ; Florence Lucy, 1S4.S. ville, Roehamptou House, Surrey, in 1S57. MELVILLE, Andrew, was the youngest Lord Balgonie was bom on the lOth Nov. of nine sous ot Richard Melville of Baldovy, 1831 ; he entered the Grenadier Guards in near Jlontrose, and w.as born on the 1st 1850, and was in active service during the August 1545. When only two years old he whole of the Russian war. He was .at A^ai-na, lost his Lather, who was killed at the battle Alma, Inkermann, B.alaklava, and Kertch. dilapidated seminary. In I08O, he was on occasion of the marriage of a daughter translated to tlie Principality of St Mary's of the ducal house. Episcopal Government Colleye, St Andrews, where his labours had now been restored in Scotland, but the Were v( i\- ilnuj'l.int in the reform of aca- old man was still such an object of terror demie treiuiii. md discipline. But his that he was not recalled from exile. In ' attenti-'ii V ,;- ', ;uid rliiefly, devoted to 1620, his health, which had been seriously ,1 i cerl.-ia~lii : i.I he heartily and irajiaired during his incarceration in the vi-iiiMii~l\ ;.' >nvictions. On Tower, failed him, and he died at Sedan in ,' • tile Milijeei Ml Mil i, .\ . iiinient his \-iews VMI, at tlic age of seventy-seven. Melville's ': .0:,, ,..„..,—. were strielly i're.,Lo Lei,.ui, and tl, I o,„.ti ns his "Carmen Mosis," I ! blishment t)f thia foriii of eeeh ' i^ ' e ! already in this article, ministration in Scotland w.is nt ions of a high order. to his exertions and inHiKii and divine also of no Moderator of the General Assei:r ',,, : a :iniM.nts. He was active, met in St Andrews in 1SS2, he iir.ie.nled . la eifiil, li'ild, candid and devout, and his witli an act of discii.liae in .lefi.uiee ..f a impetuosity often aro.se to sublimity, when royal messase to desist. I'reaeliin- at the lie appeared in excited vindication of his next meeting; of Assembly, he iuveiylied I lunch and country. Dr M'Crie concludes severely ag.ainst the tvrauuous measures his two interesting volumes of Melville's of the Court, and against those who had Life with the declar.ati.pii :--" 1 know of no brought into the country the " Idudie guUie" individual after her Keforraer, fnnu whom of absolute power. This fearless char^^e led Scotland has received greater heiiefits, .and to a citation before the ^ri^'y (_',.micil fur to whom she owes a deeper debt of gratitude high tre.asou, and thou-li tlie erinie was m.t and res t, than Andrew Melville." proved, he was senteii-'ed to iniprisonuient. .MELN'ILLE, J.uiKS, a Scottish divine Apprehensive that his life was really in ivlio tool: a i.roniiuent i.art in public affairs iKiring the the reign of James the Sixth, return to the north till the fivction of Arran was honi in loiiii. His father, Richard had been dismissed. At length he took his iMelville, laiid ( Jialdovy, near Montrose, former place in St Andrews, and continued and minister e.t Marykirk, was the elder in he.arty warfare for the hberties of the brother of the eelebr.ated Andrew Mel- Church. For his share in the trial of ville, ami llie fri.iid of Wishart, and of Adamson, the King dismissed him from John iir-l lu- if 1 >un. James was edu- the PrincipaUty, and charged him to confine cated li--i I'v _M!- (-ray, minister of Logic, himself beyond the Water of Tay. The Montro-o, a giiid, learned, kynd man," suspension, hoMever, was only brief. On and afterwards at the University of St the arrival of ,T:.mes with his Queen from Andrews. After quitting coUege, his Denm.ark, Mehille pronounced, and after- studies were revised and extended under the wards publisheil a Latin poem of high suiterintendence of his uncle, whom he ac- merit, n.amed " StephanisUion." In 1590, companied to I ;ias.;'ow in 1574, when " Melville was elected Rector of the Univer- Andi' A ' I. i'i \\ as made Principal of the sity. In 1594 he was again Moderator of Univ.: a a -ira'. In the following ' .1 ' the General Assembly. There was evi- year ' was a]^poiuted one of dently after this time a strong desire on the the i-a^. iiN. aad I ne.'Iit his class Greek, part of the King to make the Kirk a mere mathematics, logic, and moral philosophy, tool of jiolitical power, or to restore Epis- with great diligence and success. In 1580 copacy. Melville strenuously resisted every he removed with his uncle to St Andrews, such attempt. A tumult in Edinburgh was and was made Professer of Oriental Lan- taken advantage of, its ministers were se- guages in the New CoUege there. In 1584, verely dealt with, and by and by Melville when Anrlrew Melville rjuarreUed with the was prohibited from attending Church King and Privy Council, James w^as also Courts, and soon after confined wdthin the obliged to leave St Andrews, and to take precincts of his college. After King J ames' refuge in the North of England, where he accession to the throne of England, Mel- resided for more than a year, when he was ville was summoned to London, with several allowed to return home and resume the of his brethren, and severely catechised and duties of his office. In 1586, he was ordained reprimanded by the Sovereign. Melville sujierintendent of the united parishes of enrageil the King by some verses he hap- Aliercrnndjy, Pittenweem, Anstruther, and pened to write on the furniture of the lioyal Kilrenny— three of which he soon disjoined Altar, was found guilty of scandalum uiag- and ])rovided with ministers, at a great natum, finally imi.risoned in the Tower, pecuniary loss to himself, retaining the and deprived of his Principality. At length, charge of Kilrenny, the endowment of after four years' confinement, he was libe- which he considerably augmented for the r.ated, principally .at the request of the Duke benefit of his successors. While Melville of Bouillon, who wished him to occupy a apphed himself assiduously to the duties of ch.air in the University of Sedan. Jlelville his parish, he took a deep interest in the arrived there in 1(511, entered on his work general welfare of the Church. Although with zeal, boldly refuted the Arminianism the King made zealous attemi.ts to gain his of one of his colleges, and in his seventy- support, and showed him many tokens of fourth year wrote a beautiful Epithalamium favour, Melville strenuously resisted the MFX FIFESHIRE BIOGEAPHY. MEL schemes of tlie Court for the establishment the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and of Episcopacy. The offer of a bishopric, had the degreee of LL.D. conferred on him and threats of persecution, alike failed to by the University of Edinburgh. A treatise shake his resolution. He was at length of his " On an Ancient Sword," is inserted commanded, along with six other ministers, in the 7th volume of the Arch.-elogia. In to repair to London in 1606, for the pm-pose 1798 he was appointed a full General, and of conferring with the King on the affairs died unmarried in 1809. of the Church. Having thus got his MELVIL, Sir James, an eminentcourtier opponents into England, James peremp- and statesman, third son of Sir John Melvil torily refused to allow llelvUle to return of Eaith, was bom at Hallhill, in Fife- home, not even to visit his wife when shire, about 1535. His father early joined on her death-ljed. He was informed once the party of the Reformation in Scotland, and again, that if he would abandon his op- and after suffering from the animosity of position to Prelacy, his Majesty would not Cardinal Beaton, at length fell a victim to only receive him into favour, but "advance his successor. Archbishop Hamilton, in him beyond any minister in Scotland,'' but 1549. At the age of fourteen, young Melvil Melville was inflexible. He was allowed, was sent by the Queen Dowager, under the however, to preach both at Newcastle and protection of the French Ambassador, to be Berwick. At length leave was given him a Page of Honour to the youtliful Mary, to return to Scotland, but it was now too Queen of Scots, then the consort of the late. He died at Berwick in 1614, after a Dau|jhin of France. In M.ay 1553, by the few days' iUness, in the fifty-ninth year of permission of his royal mistress, he entered his age, and the eighth of his exile. Melville the service of the Constable of France, and was a pious, amiable, antl learned man, and was present at the siege of St Quentin, though possessed of a mild temper and where the Constable was wounded and courteous manners, was distinguished by taken prisoner, and he seems to have at- the energy of his character, and liis in- tended him in his cajitivity. After the flexible adherence to principle, regardless peace he visited his native country in 1559, alike of fear or favour. "He was one of on a sort of secret mission, to ascertain the the wisest directors of Church affairs in his state of parties in Scotland. He afterwarda time," says Calderwood. His literary repu- travelled on the Continent, and remained " tation mainly rests on his Diary," which three years at the Court of the Elector has been iirinted by the Bannatyne and the Palatine, who employed him in varioiis ne- the Woodrow Societies. Its interfesting gotiations with the German Princes. In narratives and simple graphic style render May 1564 he returned to Scotland, having it one of the most captivating volumes of its kind in the literature of our country. Melville was also the author of a catechism, d nominated one of her Privy Councillors. a posthumous apology for the Church of Soon after he was sent on an embassy to Scotland, and of several poems which do Elizabeth, relative to Mary's proposed mar- not rise above mediocrity. riage ; and in June 1566 he was again dis- MELVILLE, Robert, an eminent patched to the English Court with the intel- military ofBcer and antiquarian, was the son ligence of the birth of the Prince, afterwarda of the minister of MonimaU, Fifeshire, where James VI. He maintained a correspon- he was born on the 12th October 1723. In dence in England in favour of Mary's suc- 1744 he entered the army, in and served cession to the crown of that kindom ; but FUnders till the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in venturing to remonstrate with her on her 1748. In 1756, he obtamed the rank of unhappy partiality for Bothwell, the Queen Major in the 38th Regiment, then in communicated his admonitions to the latter, Antigua, and soon after he was employed and the faithful Melvil was, in consequence, in active service, particularly in the invasion obliged for some time to retire from Court. of Guadaloupe, for which he was created He was, however, present at the ill-starred Lieutenant-Colonel ; and in 1760 was ap- nuptials of Mary to that nobleman, and he pointed Governor of that island. Shortly continued her confidential serv.int as long as after he proceeded as second in command she remained in Scotland. He appears to with Lord EoUo to the capture of Dominica. have had a high idea of his own imjiortance, In 1762 he contributed essentially to the and occasionally in his Memoirs blames him- taking of Martinico, which was followed by self for the unfortunate propensity which he the surrender of the other French islands ; says he possessed, of finding fault with the and Colonel Melville, now jiromoted to the proceedings of the great. By James VI., rank of Brigadier-General, was made Gover- to whom he was recommended by his un- nor-in-Chief of all the captured possessions fortunate mother, and who continued him in the West Indies. After the general peace, in his offices of Privy Councillor and Gentle- he travelled over Europe, and made nume- man of the Bedchamber, he was entrusted rous observations to ascertain the passage with various honourable employments. On of Hannibal over the Alps. He also traced the accession of King James to the English the sites of many Roman camps in Britain, throne, he declined to accompany him to idge to England, but afterwards paid his Majesty a visit of duty, when he was graciously re- in several inventions. He was a fellow of ceived. On account of his age he retired ' MER FIFESHTRE BIOGRAPHY. MER from the public service, ami ocuupieJ his WHYTE-MELVILLE, John, Esq. of remaining years in writing the " Memoirs" Benochy and Strathkinness, formerly of the of hi3 life for the use of his son. Ho died 9 th Lancers, was born 21st June 1797, and November 1, 1007. His maniisori|it, acci- married, on the 1st June 1819, Lady Cathe- dentaUyfonnd in the Castle of Edinburgh in rine-Anne-Sarah Osborne, youngest daugh- 1660, and the work, which affords uiiuute ter of Francis Godolphin, fifth Duke of and curious ciescri|)tions of tlie manuers of Leeds, and has issue, George John, late of the times, was iiublished in IDS:! by Jh- the Coldstream Guards, served in the George Scott, under tlie title of " Jk'moirs Turkish Cavalry Contingent as Aid-de-Camp of Sir James Melvil ,.f Hallhill, containing to General Shirley, born 19th July 1821, an impartial Account (tf the most remarkable and married, 7th August 1847, the Hon. Affairs of State during the last Age, not Charlotte ! Hanbury, second daughter of mentioned by other Historians." A brother Wilham, first Lord Eateman, and has issue, of Sir James was the Sir Andrew Melvil, Florence-Charlotte, Catherine-M.argaret, the Steward of Queen Mary's household, married, in 1841, to Sir David Dundas, who attended her in her hist moments at Ba,rt. of Dunira, and died 23d April 1856; Fotheringay. Elizabeth-Charlotte, married, 25th March MELVILLE, or WHYTE-MEL 1852, to James Wolfe Murray, Esq. of VILLE, John, The Family of.—The Cringletie, and died in 1837 ; Maria-Louisa, Whytes of Scotland, said to derive from th died young. noble family of the Lcs Blancs in France, MERCER, Rev. Robert, minister of were free barons iu Fife, Perth, and Kennoway, was fifth son of James Mercer other counties of North Britain. MatI of Clevage, who died iu 1625, and who was Whyte of Maw, living in the times of James the son of Lawrence IMercer of Newton of III. and James IV., h.ad a charter under Dalgettie, who w:is the son of James Mercer the Great Seal, d.ated 22d June 1492, to of the same place, who was the son of Robt. Matthew Whyte De Maw, terarum de Kil- Mercer of Ochtertyre, Newton of Forgan- maron, John Whyte, second sou of John denny, and Newton of Dalgetty, who was Whyte, (younger son of David Whyte of second son of Sir Lawrence Mercer of Maw), by Euphram, his wife, daughter of Aldie. His brothers were William Law- Michael ISalfour of Burghley, acquired con- rence, a merchant in Edinburgh, John, and siderable wealth and died towards the close James of Clevage. Robert Mercer was of the reign of King James VI. , leaving a Chaplain to Lord Cranston, and in 1652 son and successor, Robert Whyte, the first succeeded Mr Thomas Hogg, as minister of Provost of the Royal Burgh of Kirkcaldy, Kennoway. He married, first, Alison Cran- who purchased Benochy, whence his descen- ston, gentlewoman of Lady Cranston, who dants have since been chiefly designated. died in 1657, leaving an infant behind her. His son and heir, John Whyte, of Benochy, He married, secondly, Euphame, second married Jane, daughter of Thomas Melville daughter of Robert Durie of Easter Newton, of Murdocamey, younger brother of John, through whom he acquired the property of third Lord Melville of Raith, and, dying in Easter Newton, in the neighbourhood of ] 095, was succeeded by liis elder son, Robert Kennoway. In 1662, he at first resolved to Whyte of Eeu MILLAR, David, residing in Perth.— speciuifiia iif liis playful humour. Dr Mr Millar was a native of Newburgh, ligari (liftl :it Elic in 1S59. where he was bom in 1803, and there spent MlLI.Ki.VN, (Jaiitaiu George, wag the his early years, indulged his literary jiur- 8nn cif the I Ivv. Cn;ii. MilLigan, D. D. , minister suits, married, and kept a shop, till, in 1840, of Elic ; he was horn in the year 1S26. In he went to Perth, having been offered a 1842, at tlie age of sixteen, George Milligan situation in the PerOishire Adrcrtiscr office, went to India in the Company's Artillery and with which newspaper ho was connected, Service, where he obtained two medals—one either as reporter or traveller, till his death. for the Gwailor campaign (Maharaj-pore), In early life he was fond of poetry and lite- and the other for the field of Sobraon. He rature, and tlie pages of the Fife Hcraid were also served under Sir Charles Napier in often enriched with his verse and other Scinde; and in 1854 came home im fur- articles, which were highly esteemed, i)re- liiugh. He was shortly after appointed vious to his going to Perth. In 1850 he Brigade-Major of Artillery in the Turkish publislied " The Tay';—a poeni of 380 pages Contingent, and proceeded to the East, where death prematurely laid him low. He scenery on the Ijunks of that noble river, was an accomplished Oriental scholar ; and from the head of the Loeh 'J'ay to its influx while in India obtained the reward of 1000 into the ocean, inters]iersed with legends rupees, offered at Calcutta to those who and traditiou.tl tales. This ]ioem received acrpiit tlieiuselves with distinction at a its due meed of praise in the Fife flcndd at searching examination, in which an inti- the time of its publication. Mr Millar had mate acquaintance with at least three a keen appreciation of the charius of nature Oriental tongues is necessary. We wiJl not from his years of boyhood, and tliis was attempt to draw his private character, as we shown in bis *' Saturday Afternoon Kam- would certainly fail to convey to those bles," published in the Fife Hcraid, in who did not know him a just idea of the which he described the enthusiasm he felt beautifid combination of the quiet firm- as he roamed on the shores oi the Tay, ness and c.\i|uisite tenderness which marked wanderet.1 iu the glens around Liutiores, or his ciiaraeter ; but the following tribute climbed the slopes of the Fifian OchUs, from his superior officer, General Neill, listening to the hum of the wild bee, the cannot fail to be gratifying to all :—" In all song of the lark, or the cry of the lapwing, the relations of hfe, biith as a man and as a or gazed on the varied blooms that adorned member of his profession, no one stood the haunts of his youth. While in connec- liigher than the truly excellent and good tion with the Perthshire Advertiser, he Cieor^e MiUigan—mild, kind, and in every twice a year travelled through the greater resjtect a thui-Mugli Christian in principle. part of Perthshire and adjoining counties, He was a most accomplished soldier and he collected a great store of antiquarian tifficer ; and among a long list of honoured and legendary lore, which he embodied in and gallant names, none could stand higher " Walks in the Country"—articles published and give a better promise. His loss has from time to time in the Perthshire Adrcr- been a very great one to his corps, and a tiscr, full of historical and topographical greater one to this contingent Colonel information, while they showed that the Fitzgerald, who commands the Artillery, writer had an observant eye for whatever and Gener.al Vivi.an, who commands the was grand and beautiful in art or nature, force, also both express the highrestiect and and which if published in a volume would esteem they entertained for him as a man, be very interesting. On the Saturday pre- and their admiration of his qualificaticms vious to his decease he returned from his and abilities as a most accomplished otfiuer spring journey to the Highlands, apparently of great promise." General Neill adds, in in good health .and spirits ; but during writing—to Dr Milligan, announcing his Sunday night he was suddenly seized with : death " On board ship, in particular, an alarming illness ; and on Monday even- «'here people's characters are observed and ing the Poet of the Tay, the interesting known in so many ways, in his own quiet topographer and antiquarian, the kiud- unostentatious m.anner, so mild and truly hearted friend and cheerful companion, gentlemanly, he showed what he really was, whose glalsoma face, meny laugh, and free and secured the good-will and opinion of all general disposition, were fitted to interest who saw him. Even in the short time he and delight every sensitive bosom, closed had served with the Turks he had secured his mortal career, and finished the journey their confidence and affection, and the man- of life, aged sixty-two years. ner in which they evinced their regard in JIITCHELL, James Fleming, Captain attendance at his funeral was very beautiful. of the merchant steamer *' Powerful," was He has been buried near where he died, on born at Markincb on the 14th July 1833.— a mound under an oak tree, commanding Having been bred to the sea, he raised him- an extensive view of this lovely country ; self by rectitude of conduct, diligence, and and we shall have erected over his remains persevercnce, to a respectable position in something to m.irk the resting-place of one the mei'cbant service. Sir Mitchell was a so worthy." We can add nothing to this young officer of great ability and promLse. simple and touching tribute to the memory He served as an otlicer for several years in of this young and gallant officer. the Cuuard Comiianv's celebrated Une of 331 — ; MIT FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MIT steamers between Liverpool and New York. was sure to be ready with a shrewd answer It was while on one of these passages in the in short, he was one who, in the language " Asia," and during a violent hun'icane, a of the time, "never had his tale to seek." sinking ship was observed, with the crew At the period he lived, all the people in clinging to the rigging, that Mr Mitchell Crail had nick or bye-names, by which they volunteered to attempt the rescue of the were better known than by their real names. drowning men. At the imminent risk of Mitchel's bye-name was " Slidam." When his own life, a boat was at once lowered, the law was enacted that every cart should and with a crew of brave fellows under his have the name of its owner painted upon it command, succeeded in taking them off the in large letters, and on a conspicuous part wreck, and placing them safely on board of it, James inadvertently omitted to comply the "Asia," and for this .act of gallantry he with the regulation. One day he was re- received the approbation of her Miijesty's turning from Pittenweem with a load of Government, accompanied with the gift of coal, when Mr Lumsdaine of Innergellie, a telescope. He afterwards joined, as chief who was a J ustice of Peace, met him, and officer, the 6. s. "Southerner," comratinded observing that Mitchel's name was not by the late Captain Butcher, who fell a painted on his cart, challenged him for his victim to yellow fever, .and in July 1864 only transgression of the law. " What is the reached the height of his profession by being reason you have no name on your cart?" appointed to the comm.and of the merchant asked the Laird. " I dinna ken. Sir," said steamer " Powerful," when, a few d.ays after James. " Ye dinna ken," cried Innergellie, reaching Bermuda, along with many others, " don't you see that every one has his name he was seized with this most fatal malady, on his cart but yourself." " Ou then,"Te- and died on the 23d of August 1864, at the plied SUdam, in his soft easy way—" It early age of thirty-one years. Capt.ain that's the case, ye'll easily ken mine Mitchell was a native of this picturesque frae the rest." It happened that an old village, where he leaves a sorrowing mother woman named Betsy Anderson died while and many friends to mourn his loss, with her son was at sea, and who did not whom great svmpathy is felt. M I T C H "E L , James, landlabourer n Crail. —Before entering ou this biography at his mother's grave, but the we may remark that although individuals grave-digger was dead, and no record re- possessing rank and talents in society have mained to tell the exact spot where the body undoubtedly the fairest claim to biographical was deposited. In this dilemma " Slidam" distinction, yet, where these are wanting, was applied to—he could not point out the respectability of character, wit, and humour, spot any more than others, but soon fell on are entitled to be noticed, and sometimes a plan to get over the difficulty. " Do you produce a narrative both amusing and in- get the stone ready," said Shdam, " and I structive ; and accordingly, the names of shall write an epitaph which will make all persons in humble life have been recorded right," and sitting down, he wrote the fol- merely on account of some singularity which lowing : attends them, not generally observed in others, in the passing scenes of life. James Mitchel, the subject of this memoir, was rather an extraordinary man. He was bom of resjiectable parents, in or about the year 1710. He was educatedjat the burgh school, and when grown up, followed the occupation of a small farmer or landlabourer. He In the "good old times," when contested drove his own horse and cart, which he en- elections occurred for a Member of Parlia- gaged for hire when not employed on his ment for the East of Fife burghs, the Coun- farm. He was one of the most singuLir cillors often partook of good dinners. At characters in the East of Fife for punc- one time, an occasion of that sort was ap- tuality, methodical conduct, and uniform proaching, and one Mr Loch of Lochty, waa diligence. His ready wit, eccentricity of agent for one of the candidates. The Coun- manners, and strange habits, rendered him cillors of Crail were invited to a dinner, a general object of attention. Mitcliel was and being in the winter season, the streets a stout healthy man, who took his glass were covered with ice. All the Councillors freely at public entertainments, but was had arrived with the exception of "Slidam," never known to exceed the bounds of deco- and surprise was expressed at his absence, rum, or neglect his business. Being of a knowing that few men were fonder of a shrewd and independent mind, yet always good dinner than he. Doubts were even cheerful, and remarkably witty, his house beginning to be entertained that he had was the resort of all the young people of the gone over to the opposite side, at which the place, whom he used to amuse with his agent was somewhat alai'med, when Slidam witty repartees and funny stories. Mitchel, luckily entered the Town Hall. Mr Loch, though a man of no depth of learning, was who was a stranger in Crail, thought that nevertheless an honest, inteUigeut, indus- "Slidam'' was his real name, and rose from trious ]>ersou. He was noted for good his chair to give the Councillor a hearty humourand pleasautry, and when addressed welcome. " Come away, Mi- Slidam ; I'm 332 MIT FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY, MOL g'?,! at the cS^y^L'^TllT^'^V''^^'"^ usual '''='™ "f resort to '' v^ew th ' ^ ^o^'' wrd'^et";' J;\V'£ -ythlnn^^an: bi. warks, ami a,,k«l wi.at 1:. "'L .„„<„„ at so earnestly? " " ' Qu sivs Si;,?-,,., t"" JJ,st«.onderin^„hateanlS^i:!'t 'in!;^='" ^<^''y yo.inL'man "snl.l T,,, ,< , '™e, tea!;,'l:s-j;ri;.T"i^tx,i!:i: A nea, is a native of7nv«k fh i'""!'"' "^ i5pfhnn„n r. ' . "^ removed to the iiSilicome clown " antl hvAtZ ^t'' , l,-^,"" '•I'll '^ try svlut . .' ct 1 1 n'^"' 'f™> the renowned " Slidara." Tbe GenS told daughter is hiscompafntSTmanThetsr'e^^^^ married to the Rev" Da^iH them would i"^"^-"-' refdva'^f certaMy give a ^°°"'«'- ^'^ ready answer in rhyme nwT''"".' to any question thev if' '''°l*:°««'n missionary . i' t^ ^» ou wn would try "° his mettle wh^n C!i; t near, his Lordship cried "Bocl^?"" you make 'Z'^" metre of that, old boyV" neverwas SlirS^ without his akswe'Tndi^tn?,^ • General Scott and Lord Boyd. "='""«" 'hey are void Just l"e "'"'".amonga^l , j . the kye— Cry'Boertorolkaatheygi^gby...r-rt u in "'^ .'^?''n Monimail, May 4 178Q ' A'!'' the rudiments oftisV/n^c'atiof^^^^^^^^^^^ Collessie w-w'rr^i^^^T" ^^'^ school of " ^^ ^'"'J'"' I^atin and Greek He wasu^l thenJi sent to learn the trade of a cW h^e've^'tX^fr""' '"^ word?t^ith"er thesm:s':tru:;'^tCft'sa.^atiiinl fair "'"^ compensation. - ^-^ '"" Jjy He v an arrangement with a the commandments , iJUt the Seventh and tenth . impressed on his heart. H ought pnzes ^^^^5^"!%^^^^out by -SnSnaturalmathematical n'tr'.t';""^'^ ^^^ in "^tbe I phii^Tl T terday..whtntr„fniTv°rM!!."i?'?™--|?'--- «"onX'Mi r^o^rnin^^^^^ apiiointid e.li'tu: of laily nt..„ titsheight,::;;dis;:r;^--— |£.^.;njOublin ^^Mmms era' Ncws- about two MOL yiFESHIKE BIOGBAPHY. MON years, when an unfortunate disaijreement paid some attention to the Gaelic language, with the proprietor caused liini to resign his he wrote several jiapers for the Herald, situation. During; his resilience in the Irish showing that many places in Fifeshire de- capital, he acquired a knowledge of the rived their names from the Gaelic. In July Spanish and German languages, and be- 1831 bad health obhged him to resign hia came so far master of arcliitecture and situation, when he returned to his native dbrawing, that he once had the mteution of village, where he commenced the business going to London and following the profes- of a land-surveyor. In this profession he sion of an architect. On leaving DubUn, obtained so much employment as enabled he returned to Monimail on a visit to his him, with the assistance of his pension, not parents, and soon after accepted the situa- only to BUpi>ort himself, but abo to i>rovido tion of a conductor of a private academy in for those who remained of his father's Kirkcaldy, of which the Kev. John Martin family. His father died July 30, 1832 ; and was one of the chief managei-s. This office, to recruit his own health, he went with hia however, he only held during a few months. brother, for a short time, to the fishing vil- Owing to some misunderstanding with one lage of Buckhaven, an interesting descrip- of the managers, he resigned his appoint' tion of which he afterwards ccmtributed to ment, in July 1814, and enlisting as a pri- Chambers^ Journal. He died, unmarried, vate soldier in the service of the East India at JMonimail, after a Ungering illness, March Company, immediately embarked for Bom- 4, 1834. He was of a modest and retiring bay. In this capacity he soon .attracted the disposition, and much esteemed by all who notice of his superiors. Having drawn up knew him. To him his native village is a memorial for one of his comrades, the indebted for a library, of which he was the officers were struck with the superior style first suggester and president, and a tribute in which it was written, and made inquiry of esteem and gratitude is recorded in its as to the author. Soon after, the following minutes to his memory. circumst.ance occurred :-The officers of the MONTEITH, Alexander Eakle, was regiment had been unsuccessfully endeavour- born in 1793, and passed advocate in Edin- ing to work some difficult problem in en- burgh in 1810. His father w.as Mr Robert gineering, relative to the throwing of shells, Monteith of Rochsoles, whose brother, the which they left unsolved on the table of late Henry Monteith of Carstairs, for some their room. JVIolyson had occasion to see it years represented the city of Glasgow in lying there, when he solved it at once. The Parliament. Before he reached manhood, officers found it next morning, and on in- his father died, and he thenceforth resided quiry were informed that private Molyson with his mother and sister in Edinburgh. was the name of tlie person who had solved He served his apprenticesliip with the late the jiroblem which had so much puzzled Archibald Swinton, Esq., Writer to the them, on which they ])ronioted him at once Signet, in whose office Mr Conelly, Town to the r.ank of Sub-Conductor of the Ord- Clerk of Anstruther, was then a clerk, and nance. He had also some connection with after attending the law classes, and entering the Post-Ottice, and all the letters which ui>on his jirofessiun, Mr IMonteith became came to soldiers who were dead fell into bis intimate with the l.riUiant band of eminent possession. Of some of these he made an lawyers who then adorned the Scottish bar, interesting use afterwards, in a series of anil whose fame is known far beyond the articles which he wrote for Chambirs' Edin- limited bounds of North Britain—Jeffrey, burgh Jonriml, entitled "The Dead-Letter Cranstown, Clerk, MoncreifF, Uockbum, Box." After a residence of twenty-two Murr.ay, Fullertou, and Rutherford. His months in Bombay, his health beg.an to fail talents and estimable qualities were early under an eastern climate ; and, having ob- appreciated by these eminent men, and he tained his discharge, he returned to Scotland showed how competent he was to take with a broken constitution and a small pen- dace with them, whether in social inter- sion of two shillings a day. He now took course, or in the forensic arena, and formed np his residence at" Jlonimail, where he de- with most of them ties- of strong personal voted himself to study, and jiarticularly to friendshipand attachment. A further bond of poetry. During his stay in India, he had connection was found in his adherence to the made himself thoroughly acquainted with ue great cause of pohtical iirogress for Hindostanfe, and in his retirement he ich these ardent lovers of freedom so long, translated a long poem from that language, and for many years so hopeles-sly.strove. His which, on his death, was found among his arly success at the bar was great and rajiid. manuscripts. He wrote a great many poems Jis mental qualifications peculiarly fitted for JBJuckicQod's Mufiazine, the principal of dm for the legal profession ; for great which, entitled "Hubert, an Indian Tale," .cuteness of intellect was joined to a sound in blank verse, extended over six or eight udgment, and untiring industry. It has pages of that periodical. He also con- peen matter of surprise that with qualities tributed largely to the Culcdon ian Mainnine, so fitted ajiparently to command permanent a Dundee piddication. About 182!> he was success at the bar, he failed to maintain his appointed editor of tlie Fife Hcndd, which jiractice. This was to a large extent at- he conducted with talent and s|iirit during tributable to a severe attack of illness, which the peculiarly arduous period which followed continued throughout almost the whole of Earl Grey's installati(ui into office. Having the years 184U-1, and which withdrew him 331 ; MON FIFESHIRP ElOGRAPH": durinfc that period from tho active Juties of with tho greatest his profession, and interrupted tlie pros- perous career in which ho seemed to nave entered. In part also, however, it arose from the circumstance tliat he could not sufBcientl}' submit himself to some pf the factitiously conventional rules bjf which an advocate's devotion to his profession is tried at the Scottish liar, or rather by tho Edin- liurfjh agents. The main recogniseil jiroof that a uran iutends to make Ids profession his chief object is his giving personal at- tendance in the Parliament House for many hours on every successive d.ay, whether he has anythin" to do in the Courts that day or no. If ne has nothing to do, the time is generally spent in walking up and down the hall, and gos.sipping with his brethren in like circimist.anees. This w.oste of time Mr Mouteith gru.lged, anil occa- sionally absented himself when he had no cause before the Judges, anil desired to pro- secute some matters of study at hia cham- bers—perhaps somewhat ilesi.isiii,' and defying the factitious standard by which best in-oof of devotinu to a pr.ifession de- man.lin- t!:e nmst unremitting study. The fals.- iuipr' -^i'>n. Imwever, became prevalent that, lie 1' ilMck liiiQself to other objects than his husiuLss, auil, although on no occasion otherwise than thoroughly prep.areil in all his causes, the number of cases in which he was engaged diminished, and, with the diminution of calls to be present, hia Par- liamentary House non-attendanceincreased, so that, ultimately, he almost entu-ely with- drew. Still greater surprise has been felt that his political friends, after the cause in which he had so effectively laboured along with them became triumphant, and they came into power, shoidd have so much sUghted him. Whatever disadvantage the circumstances above referred to might have subjected 1dm to, in reference to ]irivate practice, these need in no way have aftected his promotion to those superior offices to which the Government have the nomination, and the duties of which he was known and acknowledged to be so eminently quali- fied to discharge. No one more energeti- cally devoted himself to the performance of any duty committed to him ; and no one in the profession h.ad his services more fre- quently put in requisition by the Govern- ment, for the discharge of public functions, not implying remuneration or professional advancement. Then his appointment to any office, however high, would have done credit to his party in general estunation, and promoted the public service. Still he never appears to have enjoyed the favour of the Inner Council, by which the exercise of Scotch professional patronage was directed and with the exception of the Sheriffdom of Fife, bestowed on him in 18;1S, while the late Lord Murray was Lord-Advocate, a situation far within his merits, he received no appointment from Government. The duties of that office, however, he performed MON FIFESHIRE BIOORAPHY. MON He kept well up with the readinf; of the clay his Saviour. In the words of the Rev. Mr in literature, science, ami art, ami cuUivated Kainy, the successor of Dr Gordon, and the thesociety of men eminent in these branches. pastor of the Frae High Church congrega- With so many qualiticatinns f (tr society, and tiim at the time of Mr Monteith's death, in exercising himself a Icindly hospitality, Mr the sermon —preached on the Sunday after Monteith moved in an extensive circle of the funeral : "His public usefulness—his acquaintance, to whom his warmth of heart, decision in the cause of truth —his interest in his chivalrous honour, and his generous un- the affairs of the Church and of this congre- selfishness, greatly endeared him; and in gation, sprang from personal religion and a him those of a still more intimate circle ever sense of personal indebtedness to the Saviour. found the best and staunchest of friends. ReUgion with him was not a name—not a From the largeness of the area over which mode—not a party-cry— far less a system of the warmth of his affection expanded, it outward constraint—it was a beUeving love might almost have been expected that he of the Lord Jesus Christ." " He early," to would have none to spare for the inner use again Mr Rainy's words, " took up his circles of his being. But, on the contrary, ground as a labouring man. He did so in the force of his affections became only the spite of some peculiar obstacles and tempta- more intense in passing from mankind at tions ; for he moved in a circle in which he large to his fellow-countrymen—to the mem- had aquireil the friendship of men of bril- bers of his own church—to his personal liant quaUties, of much influence, at the friends—to his family—and to the source of hands fof some of whom he experienced all—his fervent love to his God and Saviour. much kindness, but who did not, then at Warm-hearted and generous, rejoicing in least, share his views. He took his ground, the mercies he received, and drawing liis notwithstanding, and kept it with frank in- chief enjoyment of them from sharing them tegrity to the end." From the following with others, he presented the grateful pic- entries in a private note-book a few extracts of are given, illustrative of Mr Monteith's ture of a happy Christian, as the head a — family, gathering aljout him men of worth trains of thought and sentiment : " When- and intelligence, irrespective of politics or ever I have been"Conscious of having derived denomination, and gladdening the hearts of injury from the conversation of unbelievers, all with his own joyous and pleasant con- I think T have been able to trace it to my verse flowing from a heart at peace, Ijecause own want of faithfulness in the mode of stayed on Him in whom alone perfect peace is found. As a citizen, he was foremost in every work of benevolenceand philanthrojiy, spirit and child-like confidence of faith in bringing to it a soundness of judgment and Christ himself, which pervaded his—being, an untiring energy, scarcely surpassed by the following extracts are examples : " Our his warm-hearted zeaL As a member and faith is doubtless the instrument of our office-bearer of the church to which he be- sanctification ; but if it were the ground of longed, he discharged the duties incumbent our hope we should be resting but on a on him in that capacity with conscientious shifting sand. The love of God in Christ ia diligence, and Cliristiau devotedness. He the rock that underlies it, and on which was an elder of the High Church congrega- alone we can securely buUd." "9th Nov. tion, of which his Rev. friend, the late Dr 1S60. —O gracious Fatlier : In the strength Gordon, was minister, and he not only gave of thy most gracious and holy spirit, I seek, diligent attendance at the meetings of without reserve, cheerfully, gratefully, lov- Session, but had a district in one of the ingly and eternally, to dedicate my soul and closes of the High Street in which he faithfully all that is within me to the service of Jesus visited the inhabitants individually—main- Christ, thy Son, my Saviour. Guide me, tained a stated prayer meeting - and assisted and strengthen me from day to day, from to keep up a school for the children. Of the hour to hour, from minute to minute, in higher Cliurch Courts he was a prominent this great and glorious work. Perfect thy weakness, and in thy good and influential member ; and in the long strength in my contest which issued in the Disruption, no time receive me into tliy heavenly kingdom, one contributed more essential aid, whether clothed in the wedding garment of Christ^s accejited for liis in counsel or in debate ; his powerful intel perfect righteousness, and sake. Lord save me from that narrow and selfish spirit, that even in the matter of sal- the Free Church, his effective services as an vation would make self a central object. elder, whetlier in the Session or the General But may I comparatively lose sight of myself of the glorious blessedness Assembly, were continued as before ; one in the enjoyment visible memorial of which exists in the New of the gospel dispensation, and the salvation College, at the top of the Mound, the erection of the mighty hosts of the redeemed." For of which, and the acquisition of its noble site, some time before Mr Monteith's death, his being, to a large extent, attributable to his health had been failing, and on his return unwearied and judicious exertions. The in the autumn of 1860, from the Continent, great motive power to his labours in all the whither he had gone with his family, he was capacities alluded to, and that which made aware of the existence of disease of specially permeated his whole character and the heart, which, though the issue might be actings, was his abiding faith in Chiist as long postponed, would ultimately prove 336 ; MON FIFESHIRE BlOGEAPH^j MON fatal, aa it did munli sooner than was at had done his early work, and he died leaving first anticipated. For the account of his many to mourn for him with a sincere and last days we again quote from tlie sermon loving sorrow, and yet to rejoice with — ' of Mr Rainy : ' And so, wlien his time thanksgiving at what God had wrought by came, he died as he had lived. There was him—at the example he had left behind no getting ready as by some sudden resolu- him—and at the thought of the reward into tion ; there was no room for any such thing. which he had entered. He departed this life Very visibly, indeed, was a maturing and ou the 12th day of January 1861. The fol- ripening, such as we all love to see in any lowing minute was adopted by the Commis- Christian friend departing ; and the expe- sioners of Sujiply of Fifeshire, a few days rience of sickness and the approach of death after his death, and similar testimonies were gave occasion to special exercises of mind. borne to his excellent cliaracter by the But all waa of a piece with his previous General Assembly of the Free Church, and character. When I saw him last, four days liy other public bodies with wliich he was before his end, while there was much that connected :— "At Cupar the 15th day of might interest any one in the humility of January 1861 years, at an adjourned meet- bis feelings, and the simplicity of his faith, ing of the Commissioners of Supply of the nothing, I confess, struck me more than the County of Fife, John Whyte Melville, E,=q. perfectly natural demeanour with which he of Bennochy, Convener, in the chair. —The was looking upwards and forwards—the Chairman addressed the meeting, and strict continuity of aU I found in him then moved the adoption of the following resolu- with all I had ever seen in him before." Al- tion, viz. :—That this meeting desires to though unwilling to make public anything record on their minutes the loss the County written by departed friends, and not intended of Fife has sustained by the death of Alex- by them for the public eye, yet, considering ander Earle Monteith, Esq. , SheriffPrincipal the cordial regard generally felt among us of this County ; and at the same time to towards Mr Monteith, we think we shall express the unanimous feeling of the Com- not infringe on any feeling of propriety by missioners of Supply as to the zeal, ability, impartiality, and sound judgment, which he brought to bear on all cases brought before 1861, and, if we do not mistake, the very him, as well as the courtesy he ever dis- last passage he wrote with his own hand. played individually in all his communica- After referring gratefully to some happy tions with the Commissioners of Supply of feelings by—which he had been cheered, he this county ; which motion was seconded proceeds : " I do not shut my eyes to the by Lord Rosslyn, and unanimously adopted ' ee another by the meeting. —Extracted from the prin- jh I cannot cipal minutes by (Signed) Wm. Patrick, say 1 have any such presentiment. The Clerk of Supply." ^ year opens with me under a combination of MONYPENNY, The Family or.—The bodily ailments, but softened by innume- surname of Monypenny is of great antiquity rable blessings. The most distressingfeehng in Scotland. Ricurdus de Monypenny ob- is that to which I have adverted, viz. , the tained from Thomas, Prior of St Andrews, effect of the ailments of my body on the the lands of Pitmullen, now PitmiUie. healthy energy of my mind, and the depart- John de Monypenny of PitmiUy, swore ment in which this gives me most distress fealty to Edward the First in 1296. Another is the spuitual one. I cannot sustain a of the same name was one of the Ambas- lengthened meditation on God and heavenly sadors from the Pope and French King to things as I have been able to do in health solicit Edward the Third on behalf of the but I can trust my soul to God in Christ with Scots, and obtained a safe conduct to pass the same confidence, believing thatlie will be into Scotland 22d January 1335. Among as careful of me while under the cloud as in the missing charters of David the— Second, ia the sunshine of his countenance, waiting the following among others : " To John with patience and thankfulness his own Monypenny of PitmuUie, of the lands of good time, when the day shall dawn again, Drumranct (may it not have been Drura- which, if I continue faithful to Him, it as- r.ack) in the barony of Crail. (I.) Thomas suredly one day will, whether in this world or Monypenny and Christian Keith, his wife, the world that is to come. Lord, I would of had a charter from King Robert the Third new dedicate myself, body, soul, and spirit, of the third part of the barony of Leuchars. unto thee in a perpetual covenant. Give He was the father of (II.) Sir William me grace to love thee more and more. Monypenny, who married Margaret, daugh- Make me zealous of good works.' Give me ter of Philip Arbuthnot of Arbuthnot, and continually to remember that I am not my by her had a son. (III.) William Mony- own, but bought with a price. Make me penny, who had a safe conduct to William desirous to be perfect, as my Father in Monypenny, armiger, dated 5th Dec. 1444. Heaven is perfect. If it shall please thee to Another safe conduct was granted 14th July spare my bfe, may I devote it exclusively 1447, to William de Monypenny natif to thy service ; and grant me the privilege d'Escoce escuier d'escuieres of the King of of being useful to my fellow-men, in how- France to negotiate the marriage of Eleanor ever humble a scale." It was not the Lord's of Scotland to the Dauphin. He acquired will that his life should be prolonged. He the lands of Conquirsall in France. Three NO. XLIU. 337 — MON FIFESHIRE EIOGRAPHY. MOR commissions passed the Great Seal, 8th Nov. church-y.ard of Kingsbams, a tombstone is 1458, to William Monypenny. Baron of Retre, erected bearing the following inscription : " Lord of Conquirsall, and John Kennedy, Sacred to the memory of DAVID MoNT- Provost of St Andrews, to proceed on an PENST, Esq. of Pitmilly, for many years embassy to France, to demand the earldom one of the Senators of the College of Justice, of Xantoign, which had been pranted to who died at Pitmilly on 24th December King James the First. They were also 1850, in the eighty-second year of his age, directed to form a treaty with the King of and was here interred. Also,—To the Castile, to settle the debt due by Scotland memory of liis second wife, Makia-Sophia to the King of Denm.ark, and .afterwards to ABERCKOSfBIE, daughter of Sir George Aber- pass to Rome to certify the King's obedience crombie of Birkenbog, Bart., who died at to the new Pontiff Pius II. William, Lord Pitmilly on loth June 1846, aged sixty-three, Monypenny of Conquirsall, was next in re- and was here interred." On the death of mainder to William Monypenny of PitmuUy, David, without issue, his brother and the heirs of his body in a charter of the MONYPENNY, William Tan- lands of Luthers, Monypenny, Drumranck kerville, of Pitmilly, the present prftprietor, and Balboot, in Fife, aiid Ardweny, in For- succeeded to hrm. He was born on the 5th farshire, 9th November 1458. He was of April 1782, and manied, in Aiiril 1844, created a Peer by King James the Second, Hannah, daughter of Colonel Spens of for charters were granted to William, Lord Craigsanquhar. Monypenny, of the b.arony of Kirkenn.an MORRIS, Jajies, formerly Provost of and Corstrathane, in the stewartry of Kirk- Dunfermline. —This gentleman was born in cudbright, on the resignation of James, Dunfermline in the year 1800, and was edu- Lord Hamilton, and Euphemia, Countess of cated and brought up in his native town. Douglas, 17th July 1464. Charters were On attaining man's estate he took an interest granted to William Lord Monypenny, of in public business, and was distinguished the barony of Feldy in Perthshii'e, of Kir- during a long series of years for his attention kanders in the county of Wigton, of Bal- to the affairs of the burgh. Mr Morris was gredan and Corstraithan, and of Easter a member of the Town Council of Dunferm- Leky, in Stirlingshire, 13th September 1472. line ever since the passing of the Reform Guillaume, seigneur et baron banneret de Bill, and was one of the first magistrates Monypenny et de Congressault, was Am- of the town under its Reformed Council. bassador from France to England 16th In 1842, he was elected Provost of the city, February 1471. His son (III.) Alexander, and discharged the onerous duties of the Lord Monypenny, had a charter. Alex- office during a period of intense political andre Monypenny filio et heredi Wilhelmi, excitement in Dunfermline. Since then Mr Domini Monypenny of Luchres-monye, in Morris has alw.ays been more or less occupied Fife; Corstrathane, in the stewartry of with public affairs, a task which his means Kirkcudbright; and ArdwenyinForfarshu-e, enabled him to indulge. Liberal in his 20th March 1483, on his father's resignation. opinions, and the friend of whatever pro- Having no m.ale issue, he exchanged his mised political or religious progress, in his barony of Earlshall, in Fife, with Su- Alex- death Dunfermline has lost another of a ander Bruce, for his lands called Escanot, race now rapidly passing away—the race of whose opinions were formed, in France, in 1495 ; and the Peerage failed public men was kindled, amidst in him. The late representative of this and whose enthusiasm of thirty ancient family was Alexander Monypenny the Reform and other agitations ago. About the 23d of September of Pitmilly, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 56th years Kegiment, who married, in November 1767, 1864, Mr Morris returned from London, for about five Marg.aret, sister of the late Mr Justice, where he had been sojourning good Chamberlain of the Court of King's Bench weeks, and seemed to all his friends in the morning of the following in Ireland. He died in December 1801, and health. On slightly of his was svicceeded by his son David. Tuesday, he complained MONYPENNY, David, of Pitmilly, head, but dressed, and was about to leave breakfiist, when he fell was born in May 1769, and passed advo- his bedroom for had just strength cate on the 2d of July 1791. He was stricken l)y p.xralsyis. He appointed Sheriff-Depute of the County of left to call a servant, to whom, on entering, broken words of surprise Fife on the 7th February 1807, and married he addressed some once sent for, Maria-Sophia, daughter of Sir George and alarm. Dr Dewar was at call, but Abercrombie, fourth Baronet of Birken- and promptly responded to the recovery, an opinion in bog, by whom he left no issue. He was con- gave no hope of Edinburgh, on being con- stituted Solicitor-General for Scotland on which Dr t.egbie, however. 22d February 1811, and advanced to the sulted, fully shared. Mr Morris, Bench on the 25th February 1813, in room ____gered on in a semi-conscious state until night the 3d of August, when of Lord Woodhouselee, whom he also suc- Monday ceeded as a Lord of Justiciary. His Lord- death put a period to his sufferings. Mr sixty-four years of age, ship was nominated one of the Lords Com- Morris w.aa .about business missioners of the Jury Court on the 13th and was distinguished for his active June 1815, at the original constitution of habits. factor to Lord Ducie. that Court. He resigned his offices in MORTON, John, at the ripe age October 1830, and died in 1850. In the —This gentleman, who died , ;; MOU FIFEfiHIIiE BIOGRArHY. MUD of eighty-three, deserves a passiriK tribute. the East Indies until the peace i Ho was the leading' member of the Koyal 7th MaylS03, as senior to the Seahor.'ie, 38> Agricultural Society, and English a>:rieul- Capt. Hon. Courtenay Bovle ; lilting for the ture owes to him tho Whitfield uioik-1 farm Meditterrancan, 4th Nov. 1S04, to the Boyal on the property of the Earl of Ducie, whose Sovereign, 100, bearing the flag of Sir Kich. agent for many years he was. Hiimlretls of riickerton off Toulon ; and, 5th October visitors came to this f;irm to witness the success of his drainage and his vigorous management. He w:is the first to illustrate loyed in the ensuing action off Cape the connection between agriculture and Trafalgar. Succeeding to the command of geology. He had a small farm once in the later ship immediately after the action, Fifeshire, but early in the century he left owing to the serious illness of his Captain, his native country and took one of the Earl Lieut. Moubray had the good fortune, dur- of Carnarvon's farms, at Dulverton, Somer- ing the gale that followed, to regain jjosses- setshire. Through Lord Carnarvon he was sion of the Argonauter Spanish, SO, and de- intnuluced to the Earl of Ducie and to Mr hor over to Admiral Collingwood off Pusey of Pusey, and well he managed the Cadiz. He afterwards took in tow tho Vic- estates committed to his charge. He had tory, with the body of Lord Nelson on walked through most of the counties of board, and conducted her to the mouth of England to examine the geology and the the Straits of Gibralter ; and he also, in spite farm practice. He and the late Joshua of her mutinous crew, carried the Swiftsuro, Trimmer, F.G.S., advocated tho repeal of French, 74, in a similar manner from tho the Corn Laws on the ground that the neighbourhood of Cadiz to Gibralter. On farmer is, or ought to be, one of the largest 24th Decemher 1805 he was promoted to the consumers of grain in the the right jirose- rank i.f commander, and he was next, 27th cution of hi.s business. His well-known January 1809, and 27th March 1812, ap- work on " The Soil," which has passed (loiuted in that capacity to the Rhodian, 10, through several editions, was honoured by and iUoselle, IS ; in which vessels heserved in introductions by the late Dr Buckland and tho West lutlies, the chief part of the time the late Mr I'hilip Pusey. Mr Morton with asmall sqnadrtm under his orders fortho married Jean Chalmers, sister of the Rev. protection of the Baham.as until 31st March Thomas Chalmers, D.D., and left issue. 1813. Capt. Moul )ray, whose promotion to MGUUKAY, (George, born 9th February post rank had taken place, 12th August 1773, is sou of the late George Moubray, Esq. 1812, was not again employed until 23d of the ancient family of JNIoubray of Cock- September 1S44, whcu ho obtained com- aidue, Co. Fife ; brother-in-law of the late mand of the Victory, 104, at Portsmouth, Vice-Admiral Jas. Katon ; and cousin of which he retained until admitted to Green- the late Vice-Admiral Sir Kichard Hussey wich Hospital, 25th Jlarch lS4(i. He mnr- Hussey, K.C.I!., G.C.Jf.G. This officer ried, 14th Juno 1S12, EUza Pellew, eldest entered the navy, 1st February 1789, as mid- daughter of A. N. Yates, Esq., Naval shipman on board the Bellona, 74, Captain Storekeeper at Jamaica, by whom he has Fras. John Hartwell, on the home station, issue five sons and three daughters. and in June of the same year removed to the MOUBRAY, Thomas, entered the Royal Adamant, 50, bearing the flag of Sir Eich. Naval College, 15th November 1805, and em- Hughes at Halifax, where he remained until barked, 23d December 1808, as Midsliipman June 1792. He then joined in succession on board the Eoadicea, 38, Capt. Jolm the Hannibal, 7-t, Caipt. .John Colpays, and Heatlcy, with whom, after serving for up- Juno, 32, Capt. Sam Hood ; and in Jan. wards of twelve months at the Cape of G ood 1794 he was acting as master's mate of the Hope, he returned to England in July 1810 latter ship when she eifected an extraordi- in the Raisonnable, 04. Between the latter nary escape from theHarbourof Toulon, into period and the date of his promotion to the which she had entered in ignorance of the rank of lieutenant, 2d February 1813, we evacuation of the British. Being shortly find him employed on the Home Station in afterwards received on board the Victory, the Tonnant, 80, Capt. Sir John Gore; 100, flag-ship of Lord Hood, he served in Elizabeth,'74, Capt. Edward Leveson G ower the boats at the .sieges of St Fiorenzo and Royal William, flag-shiiJof Sir Roger Curtis Bastin. He was promoted, 27th May 1794, and Tyrian, brig, Capt. Augustus Baldwin. to a lieutenancy in La Moselle sloop, Ca]its. His last appointment was, 3d November Percy Eraser, Charles Dudley Pater, and 1813, to the Surprise, 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Charles Brisbane, under the latter of whoi Cochrane, in which ship he beheld the was hotly piu-sued, and aU but captured, in attacks upon Washington and Baltimore in Hotham's first partial action, 14th M 1814, and participated in the operations on 1795, andhewassubsequeutlyappointed, 19th the Coast of Georgia. He was placed on August 179G, to La Virginie, 40, Capt. An- half pay 1st September 1815. tliony Hunt, in which frigate, after the S[>it- MUDIE, RoBEKT, sometime teacher in head mutiny, he escorted the Duke and Pittenweem, was a man of extra Forfar and Kincardine Militia, and on the himsel'—he maun do duty Sunday as well disbanding of that regiment was appointed a« Saturday.' The soldier, after cleaning one of the principal teachers of the Dundee his clothes and taking a etroU in the ro- Academy. For many years he filled that mantic deU of Denfenella adjoining, re- important situation with the highest accept- turned in time to breakfast, which was a ability and public approval. While in Pit- silent meal. With Mrs Lyall there was tenweem, he executed some first-clasa only * mony a sad and sour look,' and on drawings. Hla view of Anstruther from the table being cleared she laid, or rather the BiUowness was much admired. The thrust, the big ha' bible immediately in writer remembers seeing it in the house of front of the soldier on the table. ' Well, Mrs John Chalmers. Mr Mudie was some Mistress,' said thesoldier, 'what book is this!' time editor of the Dundee Advertiser, and ' That's a bulk, lad,' said the guidwife, afterwards went to London, where he filled ' That I muckle doubt that you and the an important literary situation. He was like o' ye ken unco little about.' ' Perhaps,' the author of a poem styled "The Maid of was the reply, ' we shall see.' On opening Griban," 8vo., 1809. The following anec- the book the soldier said, ' I have seen such dote, taken down from the recital of a com- a book before.' ' Gin ye've seen sic a book rade of Mr Mudie, will perhaps be deemed before,' said Mrs LyaU, ' lat's hear gin ye ' not unworthy of preservation :—" In the can read ony. ' I don't mind though I do,' autumn of 1803 the Forfar and Kincardine said the soldier, and taking the bible he read Militia—then an infantry regiment of about a chapter that had been marked by Mrs 1000 strong—e» route from the south of Lyall as one condemnatory of his seeming Scotland to Aberdeen, along the coast road, disregard of the Sabbath. The reading of happened to perform the march between the soldier was perfect. ' There, lad,' said the towns of Montrose and Bervie on a David Lyall, ' ye read like a minister.' ' An' far better than many one o' them,' said Saturday. _ The want of the required ac- ' commodation in Bervie for so many men the Mistress ; but gifts are no graces,' she rendered it necessary that a considerable continued, ' its nae the readin' nor the portion should be billeted in the adjoining hearin' that raak's a guid man— na, na, its villages of Johnshaven and Gourdon, and the right and proper application—the prac- on farmers and others on the line of March. tice that's the real thing.' David saw ' that In carrying out this arrangement, it so the Mistress was aboot to mount her fa^ happened that one private soldier was bil- vourite hobby horse', and cut her lecture leted on a farmer or crofter of the name of short by remarking ' that it was time to ' Lyall, on the estate of East Mathers, situ- make ready for the kirk. ' Aye, ye'll gae ated about a mile north-west of the village to the kirk,' said Mrs Lyall, an' tak' the of Johnshaven. David Lyall, guidman of soger wi' ye, and see that ye fesh hame the Gateside, was a douce, respectable indi- sermon atween ye, as I am no gaen mysel' vidual, a worthy memberj if not an elder, the day.' The soldier acquiesced, and on of the Secession Church, Johnshaven. His their way to church Mr Lyall remarked, wife, Mrs Lyall, inherited many of the good among other things ' that the guidwife was, qualities of her worthy husband, whom she if anything, precise and conceited about highly venerated, and pithily described as kirk matters an' keepin' the Sabbath day, being ' as guid a man as ever lay at a but no that ill a body fin fouk had the git woman's side.' Mrs LyaU was a rigid o' her and latten gang a wee thing her ain Seceder, a strict Sabbatarian, stem and git. I keeps a calm sugh mysel' for the vigorous in everything relating to the kirk sake o' peace, as her an' her neebor wife, and kirk affairs, deeply learned in polemical Mrs Smith, gudewife o' Jackston, count disquisitions, had a wondrous gift of gab, themselves the Jachin an' Boaz o' our and by no means allowed the talent to lie temple. Ye'Umind as muckle o'the sermon idle in a napkin. The soldier produced his as you can, as depend upon it she will be billet, was kindly received, treated to the speerin'.' The soldier said, ' he would do best as regarded bed and board, was com- his best to satisfy her on that head.' The municjitive, and entered into aU the news of Parish Church of Benholm, as well as the the day with the worthy couple. Every- Secession Church of Johnshaven, were that thing ran smoothly on the evening of Satur- day iilled to overflowing more by red coats day, and an agreeable intimacy seemed to than black. On their return from church, be established in the family, but the horror and while dinner was discussing, Mrs Lyall of Mrs Lyall may be conceived, when on inquired about the text at David. He told looking out in the morning rather early, she her the text. * A bonnie text,' she said. * Mr saw the soldier stripped to the shirt, switch- Harper,' (the name of the minister) ' would ing, brushing, and scrubbing his clothes say a hantel upon that ; fu did he lay out on an eminence in front of the house. ' Get his discourse ?' * Weel, guidewife,' said up, David Lyall,' she said, ' get up, it ill David, ' I can tell ye little mair aboot it—ye sets you to be lying there snoring an' that may speir at the soger there. I can tell ye graceless pagan brackin' the Lord's day wi' he held the kilUvine (pencil) gaen to some a' his might, at oor door.' David looked tune a' the time.' ' Ye've taen a note o' the up, anil quietly composing himself again, sermon, lad,' said the Mistress, ' I will see said, * the Articles of War, guidwife, the it when we get our dinner.' After dinner, Articles of War, ]iuir cliiel, he cauua help and after the soldier had read the chapter 340 — FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MUI of which the text formed part, in the same lectual qualities of soldiers. ' I aye took correct and eloquent style as he did in the them for an ignor.int, graceless pack, the morning, Mrs Lyall asked him ' to favour affscourings o' creation, but I now see that her with a sight of the sermon.' After ad- I have been far mistane ;' and imtil the day justing her siiectacles, Mrs Lyall examined of her death, which happened many years with seeming seriousness the mnnuscript, afterwards, she would tolerate no insinua- page after page, glancing a loolc now and tion in her presence, to the prejudice of the then at the soldier and her husband, she profession. When such was attempted in took the specks, and handing back the her hearing, she instantly kindled up with ' — sheets to the soldier, said, Weel, lad, ye are ' Awa wi' yer lies an' yer havers, I'U hear the best reader that ever I heard, an' the pane o' them ; there shall nae child speak warst writer I ever saw ; there is nothing ill o' sogers in my presence, na, na. Mony's there but dotes an' strokes an' tirUewhirhes, the minister that I hae seen in my house 1 canna mak' a word o' sense o't, ye've sadly some better, some waur—but nane o' them neglected yir handwrite—sadly.' 'That had either the wisdom, the learning, the may be,' replied the soldier, * but I can as- ready unction of a gallant single soger.' sure you the sermon's aU there.' 'Ye can The name of 'the gallant single soger' was read it yoursel' then,' said the guidwife. Robert Mudie. " Mr Mudie afforded a strik- The soldier took the manuscript and read or ing illustration of the triumph of persever- rather re-delivered the sermon, each head ance and genius over obscurity of birth and and particular, word for word as Mr Harper indigency of circumstances. had given it. When he had concluded it, MUIK, Rev. William, minister of the David Lyall, looking triumphantly at the first charge of Dysart. This amiable clergy- Mistress, said, ' Weel, gudewife,ye'vegotten man was born in the year 1793. Having the sermon to Amen. Fat think ye o' that ?' received an education to qualify him for his She sat in silent amazement for a consider- sacred profession, he was duly licensed to able time, at length ejaculated, ' Fat do I preach the Gospel. In 1839 he was ordained think o' that? Fa' wadna think o' that ? I minister at Dysart, and discharged his re- may just say this, that 1 never believed sponsible duties there, for upwards of 25 before that a red coat had sae muckle grace years, with much acceptance. On Thursday, about it, but I've been thinkin', lad, that ye the 8th of December 1864, the rev. gentle- are no a soger—at ony rate if ye are ane ye man, being then in the enjoyment of good could be something else —I'm doon sure o' health and spirits, visited several of his that.' The soldier stated that he was only people in diflerent parts of the parLsh, whose a private soldier, that there was nothing dangerous maladies had enhsted his sym- extraordinary in what he had done, that all pathies, and whose spiritual welfare he or nearly all the men in his regiment could wonld not overlook. After family prayers just do the same thing, and that many of the same evening his household retired had ; them were better scholars than he pretended and Mrs Muir, seeing nothing beyond his to be ; and taking from his knapsack a copy usual manner, left the apartment also. In of the Greek New Testament, laid it before a few minutes she heard a heavy fall on the her saying, ' That as she had been so kind floor beneath, and hurried to the dining- as allow him to read in her Bible, he would room, and found him prostrate on the floor, favour her with a look of his, and hoped near the sideboard, whither, it is conjectured, that she would now in turn read for his he had gone to procure a glass of water edification.' Mrs Lyall examined the volume which was there standing. He was breath- with deep attention for some time, and ing, but quite unable to reply .articulately to ' shaking her head, s.aid, Na, na, lad, they her appeals ; and after calling his medical maun be deeper book-learned than me that attendant, who visited him as soon as pos- read that book—yer far ayont my thumb.' sible, he breathed his last before his arrival, He told her what book it was, employed the in the same calm and tranquil mood in afternoon or evening of th.at Sabbath in which he lived. His charities to the deserv- reading, expounding, and giving literal ing poor were, if not of large amount, yet translations of many of the passages of the compensated by being very numerous and New Testament that seemed doubtful or diffused, and many of them may linger in difficult to Mrs Lyall. She found the soldier affection over the many kind, meek words equally conversant with all her theological he so often dropped into their ears at season- authors — Bunyan, Baxter, Brown, and able times. His memory will be cherished Boston, were at his finger-ends ; the origm by a sorrowing population for long, and and history, as well as the fathers, of the Secession Church were nothing new to him. The soldier conducted family worship that colleague on terms of the utmost affection evening in a solemn and becoming manner and harmony, and with the session and for David Lyall. On resuming his march parishioners in love and unison ; and the in the morning he was urgently pressed by deepest sympathy was felt by all for his Mrs Lyall to accept of some of her country sorrowing and bereaved family. Mr Muir cheer, such as cheese or butter ; in fact, she was a great antiquarian, and for many years would have filled his knapsack. A complete he took pleasure in accumulating rare speci- revolution had been effected in her opinion mens of the coin.ago of this and other coun- regarding the moral, religious, and intel- tries, and devoted much of his time in im- 341 ; MUB FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MUR parting to others the information he had Scott, Esq. of Scotstarvit, in the county of been at so much labour to acquire. As a Fife, by whom he had issue. He died in lecturer on this subject, his efforts were well 1731, and was succeeded by his eldest son, known and appreciated in the country. Mr David, sixth Viscount Stormont, who mar- Muir was in the 71at year of his age, and ried, in 1723, Anne, only daughter .and heir- 26th of his ministry. ess of John Stewart, Esq. of Inneryntie, by MURRAY, William David, Earl of whom he had issue. He died in 1748, and Mansfield, The Family of.—Sir William was succeeded by his elder son, David, Murray of Tullibardine died about the year seventh Viscount Stormont, K.T., bom 9th 1511, leaving, with other issue, William, October 1727 ; who married, first, in 1759, ancestor of the Dukes of Atholl, and Sir Henrietta Frederica, daughter of Henry, Andrew Murray, who married Margaret, CountBunau, iirivy-couucillor to the Elector daughter and sole heir of James Barclay of of Saxony. He niiirried, secondly, in 1776, Balvaird, by whom he acquired the estates Louisa, third daughter of Charles, ninth of Arngask, Balvaird, Kippo, &c., .and was Lord Cathcart (which lady succeeded as succeeded by his elder son, Sir David Mur- Countess of Mansfield). By this lady the ray of Balvaird, Arngask, &c. , who married Earl had issue. He died 1st September Janet, sister of John, fifth Lord Lindsay, 1796 (h.aving in 1703 inherited the earldom and had issue. Sir David died in 1550, and of M.ansfield upon the decease of his uncle, was succeeded by his elder sou, Sir Andrew of whom here.after, in a sep.arate life), and Murray of Br.lvaitd, who left, by his second was succeeded \ arch (having been instrument.al in saving SconCy bom 1806 ; succeeded his father in his Uie from the attempt of the Earl of 1840. Married, 1829, Miss EUison (died Gowrie and his brother, Sir Ruthven, in the 1837). Issue—La*ly Louisa, born 1830, town of Perth, 5th August 1000), accom- married, 1851, Hon. Geo. Edwin L.oacelles, panied the king to Englam', and w.as cre.ated third son of the Earl of Harewood ; Vis- Lord Scone, 7th April 1()0.5, having previ- count Stormont, bom 1835. The Earl's ously received a grant of the wlmle A,bbey brothers .and sisters are—Charles John (mar- of Scone, of which the Eari of Govwie had ried Miss Anson, daughter of the late Vis- i-een commendatnr. His lordship was ad- count Ansou, .and sister of the Earl of Lich- vanced to the Viscounty of Stormont, lOth Helil), and David Henry, Captain, Scots August 1021 ; and, having no issue, ob- Fusilier Gu.ards (married, 1840, Miss Grant, tained a reversion.ary clause in the iiatent, daughter of John Gr.ant, Esf[. of Kilgraston) conferring the honours upon Sir jlungu L.ad'ies Elizaljetli, Car.iUnt', Georgina, and Murray of Drumcairn and several of bis Kmily il.ary (who lu.irried, 1><3'.I, Captain kinsmen. His lordship died 27th August F. H. a. Seymour, Scots Fusilier (iiiards). 1631, and was buried at Scone, where a MURR-VY, William, Hrst Kariof Mans- magnificent monument was erected to his field, a celebrated lawyer and statesman, memory. His honours devolved, .according the fourth son of David, fifth Viscount to the extended limitation, upon Sir Mungo Stormont, was bom at Perth, March 2, Murray of Drumcairn, as second viscount. 1705. He was removed to London in 1708, This nobleman married Anne, elder daugh- and in 1719 was admitted a King's Scholar ter of Sir Andrew Murray of Balvaird, and at Westminster School. In June 1723 he niece of his predecessor ; but, dying without w.as entered at Christ Church, Oxford, where issue in 1G42, the honours of Stormont, by he distinguished himself by his classical at- virtue also of the entail, descended to James tainments. In 1730 he took the degree of Murray, second Earl of Ann.andale, as third M.A., and afterwards travelled for some Viscount Stormont ; at whose decease, time on the Continent. Having become a without issue, however, in 1658, the Vis- student at Lincoln's Inn, he was called to county of Stormont and Barony of Scone the bar at Michaelmas term 1731. His devolved upon David Murr.ay, second Lord abilities were first displayed in appeal cases Balvaird, as fourth Viscoinit. This noble- before the House of Lords, and he gradually man married Elizabeth, eldest dauglittr of ruse to eminence in his profession. In 1736 James, Earl of Southesk, and widow of the be was eiupliiyed as one of the counsel for aforesaid J.ames, Earl of Annandale, and the Lord Provost .and Town Council of was succeeded, at his decease in 1068, by Edinburgh, to oppose in Parliament the his son, David, fifth Viscount Stormont, Bill of Pains and Penalties, wliich after- .and thir.l Lord B.alvaird. Tliis nobleman wards, in a modified foruj, passed into a law against them, on account of the Porteoua "342 MUE FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MUR riots. For hia exertions on this occasion, made his escape in disguise, before the he w.os presented with the freedom of the flames burst out. He declined the offer of city of Edinbui-gh in a golii box. In Nov. compensation from Government for the de- 1742 he w.as ajipointed Solicitor-General in struction of his property. The infirmities of the room of Sir John .Strange, "wlio had re- age compelled him, June 3, 1788, to resign signed. Aljout the same time he obtained the office of Chief Justice, which ho had a seat in the House of Commons as mem- filled with distinguished reputation for 32 ber for Eoroughbridge in Yorkshire. His years.^ The latter part of his life was spent eloquence anil legal knowledge soon ren- in retirement, iirinci pally at his seat at Caen dered him very powerful in debate, and as Wood, near Hampstead. He died March he was a strenuous defender of the Duke of 20, 1793, and was buried in Westminster Newcastle's ministry, he was frecjuently Abbey. The earldom, which was granted opposed to Pitt, afterwards Eai-1 of Chatham ; .again by a new patent in July 1792, de- these two being considereil the best speakers scended to his nephew. Viscount Stormont. of their respective p.arties. In March 1740 A life of Lord Mansfield, by HoUiday, wjis he was apiiointed one of the managers for published in 1797, and another, by Thomas the impeachment of Lord Lovat, and the Roscoe, appeared in " The Lives of British candour and abiUty which he displayed on Lawyers, " in Lardner's Cyclopaedia. the occasion received the acknowledgments MURRAY, W. H., sometime editor of of the prisoner himself, as well as the Lord the Daili/ Sxpress Edinburgh Newspaper, Chancellor Talbot, who presided on the trial. died at Cupar, at the house of his father-in- In 1754 Mr Murray succeeded Sir Dudley law Mr Charles Duncan, on the 1st of Aug. Eyder as Attorney-General, and on the 1S58. Mr Murray was in the strictest death of that eminent lawyer, in Nov. 1756, sense of the term a self-educated man. He he became Lord Chief Justice of the King's was indebted, indeed, to the schoolmaster Bench. Immediately after he was created for the rudiments of education ; but these a peer of the realm, by the title of Baron rudiments were in his case of the simplest Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham. kind. The ability to read and write he ac- He was also, at the s.ame time, sworn a quired at the school ; but it was only after member of Privy Council, and, contrary to he had commenced his early apprenticeship general custom, became a member of the to the shoemaking tr.ade that he may be said Ciibinet. During the unsettled state of the to have commenced his education, and when ministry in 1757, his loi-dship held, for a few he discovered the purposes which reading months, the office of Chancellor of the Ex- .and writing might be m.ade to subserve. Ho chequer, and during that period he effected must, indeed, have been a man of no ordi- a co.aUtion of parties, which led to the for- n.ary t.alents, when in such a comparatively mation of the administration of his rival shfirt period of time he had qualified him- Pitt. The s.ame year, on the retirement of self to be the conductm- of a d.aily newspaper, Lord Hard wicke, he declined the offer of the le of the most difficult and laborious tasks Great Se.al, which he did twice afterwards. hich can be .assigned to any man. Our During the Rockingham administration in correspondent has referred to the weekly 1765, Lord Mansfield acted for a short time njirratives of news wi-itten by Mr Murray with the Opposition, especially as regards for the Edinlmrjh Guardian. Never were the bill for repealing the Stamp Act. As a there better summary articles. Even the judge his conduct was visited with the severe London weeklies—got up in the same style animadversions of Junius, and made the as the Guardian, and having the highest subject of much unmerited attack in both liter.ary talent at comm.and—have never Houses of Parliament. He was uniformly contained more racy and vigorous writing a friend to religious toler.ation, and on vari- than the n.ai-rative wTitten week after week ous occasions set himself against vex.atious by Mr Murray. The editor of the Gioardia n, prosecutions founded upon oppressive laws. Mr Finlay, at a very early period cf hia On the other hand, he incurred much popu- .acquaintanceship with Mr Murray, recog- lar odium by maintaming that, in cases of nised his great ability ; and we hapjien libel, the jury were only judges of the fact to know thiit to the very last moment of of publication, and h.ad nothing to do with their joint connection with that paper, the law, as to libel or not. This was par- although some mutual misunderstanding ticularly shown in the case of the trial of had chilled the cordiality of their inter- the publishers of Junius' letter to the king. course, Mr Finlay entertained the very In October 1776 he was .advanced to the highest opinion of the talents of the dignity of an earl by the title of Earl of deceased gentleman, and w.as demonstrative Mansfield, with remainder to the Stormont in his praises of them. Under Mr Murray's family, as he had no issue of his own. man.agement the Baili/ Express was imme- During the famous London riots of June diately recognised, both by the Edinburgh 1780, his house in Bloomsbury Square was and general public, as a special power attacked and set fire to by the mob, in con- amongst Scottish newspapers. The sub-edi- sequence of his having voted in favour of torial department was admirably conducted the bill for the relief of the Roman C'athoUcs, by Mr Wylie, one of the most skilful and and all his furniture, pictures, books, manu- Laborious of sub-editors, and Mr JNIurray scripts, and other v.aluables, were entirely threw his whole soul into the editorial consumed. Hia lordship himself, it is said, columns. We frequently disagreed with the 343 ; — MUR FIFESHTRE BIOGRAPHY. MUR Express on public questions and with the the English bar, where, according to the estimate given in it of public men. We opinions of his friends, he might have won have protested against the spirit in which the emoluments and distinctions of the pro- some of the leading articles seemed fessor had he either required or chosen to written, but the ability, honesty of pur- compete for them. This indifference to the pose, and downright independence dis- usual objects of ambition, which might have played in the articles were such as to chal- made an inferior man insignificant, invested lenge the respect of aU right-thinking men. him with the dignity of a sort of proud simpli- Had Mr Murray been spared he would have city. He stoodinthe position of desiringno- risen to a high eminence in his profession, thingthat the world could give him, whether for what he had already achieved was more it were the fruit of the Sovereign's patronage promise than the real friutage of his genius. or of the multitude's applause. Thus there He waa a truly conscientious writer, the were few so high in rank and wealth as to editor's desk being with him a-s sacred a feel that Mr Murray waa not above them place, in a certain sense, as the pulpit itself in independence of position, and thence it and the public, we have no hesitation in often occurred that very eminent persons saying, have lost a servant whom, at a trusted him with their affairs ; he was im- time when there are so many moral, social, pUcitly relied on when there were matters of and poUtical questions requiring to be fear- dehcacy or difficulty to be adjusted. Mr lessly, intelligently, and vigorously dis- Murray early joined the Liberal party, and cussed, they could ill afford to lose. never swerved from it, so that in the latter MURRAY, William, Esq., of Hender- days he was one of that small band—now, land, succeeded a few years ago to the estate alas, so very small—who, having stood by of Kinkell, in the parish of St Andrews, as their party in its days of danger and adversity, the heir and representative of his uncle, the know its colours better than some of those public to it only the late General Ramsay. As a ' cha- who have belonged during racter Mr Murray was distinguished for his sunshine of prosperity. As to private cha- active but unobtrusive benovelence ; and as racter—one would have as soon thought of a supporter of the Liberal party, he was doubting a demonstration in geometry as of indefatigable in forwarding to the utmost doubting hia integrity, and hia acta of libe- of his power those schemes which he believed rality and charity were, as the pubUc of calculated to advance the best interests of Edinburgh weU knew, nemerous and muni- his countrymen. He occasionally acted as ficent." a Parliamentary Commissioner, and was MURRAY, William, an eminent Scot- one of the three who fixed the boundaries of tish actor, made his first appearance in his burghs for the Reform Act, the other two 19th year, .it Covent Garden, under the being General Sir J. H. Dabymple (now auspices of Mr Kemble ; soon after he settled Lord Stair), and Capt. Pringle. The man- in Edinburgh, where he remained forty-two ner in which that duty was executed left no years as actor and lessee, and during that room for future cavil, and the reports on period, besides his professional fame, he en- each of the burghs, we understand, were gaged the respect of the citizens and the adopted without alteration or amendment. particular friendship of Scott, Allan, Wilson, Mr Murray died at Strachan Park, Loch Jefirey, and other leading literati of Fine, in the eighty-first year of his age. The Modem Athens. Mr Murray was one following genial tribute to hia memory we of the most versatile actors ever on the :— quote from the Scotsman " It would by no atage ; and there were few who could take means be in harmony with his own simple successfully so vride a range of characters. and unostentatious character that Mr Mur- Hia addresses at the commencement and ray should be made the object of a public close of the theatrical season were master- eulogium. His character was eminently pieces of wit and humour. Mr Murray, simple, manly, and upright. Those who after his retirement from the stage, removed had the means of noticing hia abilities knew to St Andrews, where he spent the latter that they were very great. 'He was a years of his life, and died there in 1852. A scholar, and a ripe and good one.' He was handsome tombstone was erected in the St a colloquial master of French—no light Andrews .bur;^ng ground over Mr Mur- acquisition—and there were few matters ray's grave, with the following inscription connected with literature and art in which " Sacred to the memory of WiUiam Henry both hia tastes and bis accomplishments Wood Murray, Esq., grandson of Sir John were not of a very high order. But no man Murray of Broughton, who for upwards of ever showed gre.ater indifference towards forty years was the talented and highly- publicity or common fame. Not that his respected manager of the Theatres Roy.al qualities were so obscure before the world and Adelphi, Edinburgh—born 26th Aug. as to require our testimony to make them 1790, died 5th May 1852. Requiescat in known. From his early youth he had been accustomed to the intimacy of the foremost MURRAY, The Right Hon. Lieut. men of his age, and thus a wide circle of General SiR George, was born in 1772, those whose votes are the most potent in and w.os the second son of Sir William Mur- the social world long ago pronounced the ray, Bart., by the youngest daughter of the judgment that he was a man of no ordinary third Earl of Cromartie. - This gentleman is mark. Mr Murray became a member of connected with Fife by his marriage with ; MUR FIPESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. MUR the widow of Sir James Erskine, Bart, of will testify to the nature of the military Torriehouse. Sir George Murray entered career of Sir G. Murray. For these distin- the army in 1789, his first commission being guished services he was created a G.C.B. in dated March 12th in that year, and his 1813, and a G.C.H. in 181(5; and for the others as follows .-—Lieutenant and Captain, different Spanish actions in which he w.aa Jan. IG, 1701 ; Captain and Lioutenant- engaged he received a cross and side Colonel, Aug 5, 1799 ; Colonel, March 9, clasps. From 1818 to 1824 he was Go- 1809; Major-General, Jan. 1, 1812; Lieu- vernor of Sandhurst College. Like hia teuant-General, May 27, 1825 ; Genera!, No- great Commander, the Duke of Wellington, vember 23, 1841 ; Colonel-in-Chief of the 42d peace left him at leisure to devote himself Highlanders, 1823 ; Colonel of the Ist Royals, to the civil service of his country. He waa liecember 29, 1843 ; Governor of Sandhurst Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance dur- College, from 1818 to 1824; Lieutenant-Gene- ing the years 1824 and 1825 ; and from the ral of the Ordnance, from 1824 to 1S25 ; Com- latter year till 1828 he was commamler of the mander of the Forces in Ireland, from 1825 to forces in Ireland. We next find hira in a 1828 ; Master-General of the Ordnance in more prominent position as Colonial Seore- 1834-1835 ; re-appointed to the office in 1841 t.ary. This office he held from 1828 to 1830. and Governor of Fort-George, or Inverness, On the fall of the Wellington Administra- from 1829 to 1840. At the period of Sir tion he followed his party, and continued George Murray's entry into the army, the unemployed till 1834, when he was made French Revolution had commenced, but it Master-General of the Ordnance, a post was not till a few years later, when France which he did not long hold, being succeeded had declared war with all the monarchies of in 1835 by Lord Vivian, an old companion the world, that England entered into the in arms, though an opponent in politics. war, of which the duration and the results The return of the Conservative party to were so little foreseen by either of the Powers power in 1841, again made Sir George Mur- engaged. In one of the earliest movements ray Master-General of the Ordnance, and of that war was Sir George Murray actively he continued to act as such up to the acces- and prominently engaged. We may first sion of Lord John Russell. It is understood mention the campaign in Holland in 1793- that Sir George Murray, on more than one 94, where he served with the Third Guards, occasion, owing to the state of his health, and was present at the affair of St Arnaud, tendered his resignation, but Sir Robert Peel, battle of Farnans, siege of Valenciennes, it is stated, requested the gallant general to attack of Lincelles, investment of Dunkirk, formally retain the office owing to the ap- attack of Lannoy, and also acted in the re- proaching downfall of his cabinet. For treat through Holland and Germ.iny. In eight years, namely, 1824 to 1832, Sir George 1795 he was appointed aide-de-camp to represented his native county, Perth, in Par- Major-General Alexander Campbell, on the liament. He was also elected in 1834, but staff of Lord Moira's army. In this year in 1837 his connection with the county he also sailed in the expedition intended for ceased. On the occasion of the general Quiberon, and in that for the West Indies election, in the latter year, he contested under Sir Ralph Abercromby. In 1799 he Westminster, but was left in a consider- accompanied the disastrous expedition to able minority. In 1841 he contested Man- Holland, being employed on the staff of the chester, and was also defeated; and, not Quarter-Master-Goneral, and was wounded succeeding in finding a seat elsewhere, he at the action, near the Helder. When the was obliged to discharge the duties of hia French invasion of Egypt called our arms department without one. The personal ap- into that part of the world. Sir G. Murray pearance' of Sir George Murray, when in accompanied the force under Abercromby, the enjoyment of heaJth, was distinguished and was present in most of the actions, in- by that bearing in character which bespeaks cluding that on the landing, those of the the soldier as well as the gentleman. He 13th and 21st March, siege of Rosetta, was above the middle height, and notwith- action of Rha Marie, and investments of standing the wear and tear of his active life, Grand Cairo and Alexandria. In 1805 he looked much younger than he really was. served on the expedition to Hanover. In Lengthened illness, however, wrought a re- 1807 he was placed at the head of the markable change. His hitherto noble form Quarter-Master-General's department on was fearfully emaciated, and it came pain- the expedition to Stralsund, and after- fully evident to his friends that the hand of wards to Copenhagen. Sir George Mur- death was upon him. Sir George died on ray bore a distinguished part in the the 28th July 1846. Mrs Boyce, his daughter, war in the Peninsula ; he shared in the re- and Captain Boyce were with him at the treat on Corunna and the battle under the last moment. walls of that town. He was present at the MURRAY, MRi3 Catherine, relict of battle of Vimiera and the actions at Lugo Robert Murray, Esquire, sometime Chief and Villa Franca. Among the multitude Magistrate of Crail, was the daughter of of actions in which he bore a part during John Bell, _ Esquire, of Bonnyton and the ne.xt few years, we need only mention Kilduncan, in the parish of Kingsbarns, the names of Oporto, Douro, Talavera, and was born at Bonnyton in 1761. She Busaco, Fuentos d'Onor, Vittoria, Pyrenees, received her early education at the parish Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, emd Toulouse, which school, and told the following anecdote o£ HO. XLIV. 345 : MUR FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. NAI her Bchool-days, in after life, with great glee. in holy orders, who succeeded as ninth The spelling-book was not in use in schools baronet. Sir Robert died in 177J , and was in those days, and only one scholar besides succeeded by his eldest son. Sir James, as herself were learnt to spell. The other seventh baronet, a distinguished miUtary favoured individual was John Carstorphin, officer during the first American war, and who was taught that art because he was the Adjutant-General of the forces serving upon son of a landed proprietor, and was himself the Continent in 1793. He married, in to become a laird. Mrs Murray recollected 1794, the Right Hon. Henrietta, Baroness not only of the French Revolution, but also of that in America, and told another curious anecdote in connection with the latter event Sir James subsequently held the office of —A poor man, who supported himself by Secretary at War, was Col. of the 18th Foot, making and selling broom besoms and and a general officer in the army. He died heather ranges, called at the door one day. 26th April 1811 (his lady having predeceased Boon after the commoncement of hostilities him), and leaving no issue, the title and with America, and asked Mrs Murray to buy family estates devolved upon his half-brother, a heather range. The price of this article Sir John, as eighth baronet, a heutenant- was a halfpenny, but the seller now sought a general in the army, and Col. of the 56th penny for it. On being asked the reason why Regiment of Foot. He married, in August he had raised the price to double what it 1807, Anne EUzabeth Cholmondeley, only was formally, he replied, "Ou, ye ken its on daughter and heiress of Constantine John, account o' the Ameerican war." Mrs Mur- second Lord Malgrave ; but dying without ray was a universal favourite with old and issue, in 1827, the title devolved upon his young. Her personal attractions, her kind only brother, the Rev. Sir WiUiam, as ninth and amiable disposition, her excellent prin- baronet, who married, in 1809, Esther Jane ciples, and clear, good sense, rendered her Gaytin, and had issue. Sir William died 14th May 1842, and was succeeded by his elder son. Sir James Pulteney, as tenth of August 1862, aged 101 years. baronet, who died unmarried in 1843, when MURRAY, of Clermont, The Family the honours devolved on his brother. Sir or. —This is a branch of the ancient house Robert, as eleventh baronet ; bom Feb. 1, of Murray of Blackbarony, springing from 1815 ; succeeded his brother, 22d February Sir William Murray, fourth and youngest 1843 ; married, 21st August 1839, Susan son of Sir Andrew Murray of Bhickbarcny Catherine Saunders, widow of Adolphus (who lived in the reign of Queen Mary). Cottiu Murray, Esq., and danghter and This gentleman received the honour heiress of the late John Murray, Esq. of of knighthood from James VI., and Ardeley Bury, Herts, UneaUy descended having acquired the lands of Clermont, from Sir WiUiam Murray (father of the County of Fife, thence assumed his designa- first Earl of TulUbardine), by the Lady tion. He married a daughter of Sir James Margaret Stewart, his wife, and has issue, Dundas of Arniston, and was succeeded by William Robert, born, 19th October 1840, his only son, WiUiam Murray, Esq. of Cler- and EmUy Mary. mont, who was created a Baronet of Kova Scotia, 1st July 1626. Sir WiUiam married Mary, daughter of William, first Earl of N Stirling, by whom he had four sons, and was succeeded at his decease by the eldest. NAIRNE, of East Newton Rires, The Sir William of Newton, who was succeeded Family of.—The first of this family, was by his only surviving son. Sir WilUam. Simon Nairne, probably of the Nairnes of This gentleman was succeeded by his only Sandford. Thnnigh his mother, who was a son Sir William, at whose death, without daughter of WiUiam Kemback or Parle, issue, the title devolved upon his kinsman. then tacksman of the King's Courts of New- Sir James (grandson of the first baronet, ton Rires,lhe succeeded to this property, and through his youngest son, James Murray, obtained a charter of feu farm in 1526. Esq., and his vriJfe, Magdalene, daughter Simon died in 15.52, leaving by his wife, and heiress of Johnston of Polton). This EUzabeth Auohmutie, three sons, James, gentleman, who was Receiver-General of the David, and Peter. James does not appear Customs of Scotland, married Marion, to have ever married, and in 1558 he handed daughter of James Nairn, Esq. ; but dying over his interest in the estate to his brothers. without issue in Feb. 1769, the title devolved David Nairne had several children by his upon his nephew. Sir Robert (son of Colonel wife, EUzabeth Auchmutie, (probably his WilUam Murray by Anne, daughter of cousin), of whom Peter, the j-ounger son, is Hosea Kewman, Esq). This gentleman probably the Peter Nairne mentioned as married, first, .Janet, daughter of Alexander, tutor of the Master of EdzeU at theUniver- fourth Lord Elibank, by whom he had one sity of St Andrews in 1.59S. Two daughters, son, James, and a daughter. He married, Agnes and Elspath, died unmarried. David secondly, Susan, daughter of John Kenton, died in 1596 at the age of sixty-three, and Esq. of Lamerton, and by that lady bad, seems to have been buried near the high with five daughters, two sons, John, his altar of Kilconquhar Church. The broken successor as eighth baronet, and WilUam, tombstone Uea in the churchyard with an in- 346