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 <jne time it ap- from east to west, and from the river Forth peared as if he were to become a pattern of on the south, to the rivers Tay and Erne a resident landlord. He made his first pub- on the north. Of that tract of land, which lic appearance in Dundee, at a dinner of the he called Fife, Macduff was appointed Aii^'us Ai;ricultural Association, at which hereditary Thane. The eighth in descent w,-re .also thf Earl of Airlie and the Earl of from him was that Macduff with whom the Kiutra-e. Somewhat later lie orf,'.T,nised an genius of Shakespeare has made the world a:4ricultiu'al uxliihition for his own tenantry, familiar. This powerful thane having con- in his own park, giving the prizes himself, tributed to the destruction of the usurper, and taking a great interest in all agricultural Macbeth, and to the restoration of JIalciilm improvements. Hints were thrown out that Canmohr, the latter king confirmed to him 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.