Wife of William Murray of Touchadam and Polmaise. He married, second, 10th February 1738, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Alexander Gibson
of Pentland, who died 7th August 1757.
Minister of Gargunnock. Presented by Sir John Stewart of Allenbank in 1766 as minister of St Ninians Church. Admitted after 8 year fight in 1773. Opponents formed the Relief Church of St Ninians. Died in 1788.
Of Pentland.
James Maitland was born the eldest son of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale, himself the second but eldest surviving son of John Maitland, 5th Earl of Lauderdale and Lady Margaret Cunningham, and Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and Anne Dunbar.
He served for twenty-five years in the army; and was appointed Lieutenant-colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot on 20 September 1745. He resigned his commission upon the promotion of a junior officer above him.
He was also unlucky under the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 which abolished heritable jurisdictions, when he got for the Regality of Thirlestane and bailiary of Lauderdale £1000, instead of the £8000 he claimed.
He was a Lord of Police from February 1766 until the abolition of that board in 1782; and Rector of Glasgow University from 1779 to 1781.
Lord Lauderdale died at Haltoun House.
He was the son of James Callander, and Katherine Mackenzie, daughter of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromarty. He passed advocate at the Scottish bar, but never obtained a practice.
The preface by James Maidment to Letters from Thomas Percy, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Dromore, John Callander of Craigforth, Esq., and others, to George Paton, which appeared at Edinburgh in 1830, indicates that in his latter years Callendar was reclusive, and a religious melancholic. He died, at an old age, at Craigforth on 14 September 1789.
Writer in Edinburgh. Deals with William Murray of Polmaise frequently.
Born 6th July 1773; died 12th September 1847.
He was served heir to his father 9th January 1815, and to his grandfather 5th October 1821. On 11th June 1799 he married Anne, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, Bt. of Monreith,
and was succeeded by his cousin John Murray (1797 - 1862).
(245) Lieutenant-Colonel John Murray, third son of William
Born 12th July 1744; died 29th August 1814.
He was served heir to his father 8th September 1758, and to Robert Junkine, or Murray, of Pitlochie 5th April 1764.
He married, first, September 1772, Margaret, daughter of John Callender of Craigforth, who died 28th July 1784, having had:
(a) William Murray, 1773 – 1847
He married, second, 7th June 1791, Ann, daughter of John Campbell of Clathie and Killermont, who died 2nd August 1802, and had issue:
(b) Captain John Murray, R.N., died 3rd March 1821.
(c) Archibald Murray, E.I.C.S.
(d) Alexander Murray, Advocate, died 1835. He married, 12th April 1826, Johanna, daughter of John Wilkinson of Castlehead, Denbigh, and had a daughter, Anne, who married Gilbert Innes Murray Menzies, and recorded Arms as James Murray in Lyon Office, 1852.
John Coats Campbell (1721-1804), 6th of Clathick, was a wealthy Glasgow tobacco merchant and one of the founding partners of the Thistle Bank in 1761, as well as Lord Provost of Glasgow 1784-1785. He married Agnes Colquhoun.
William Murray (1744-1814) married, second, 7th June 1791, Ann, daughter of John Campbell of Clathie and Killermont, who died 2nd August 1802.
