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 126 BUEKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Beaumont and otlier English liniglits. He fought at Beange in 1421, visited James I when in captiTity in England ; and was made a lord of parliament as Lord Foebes, circa 1442. lie m. Elizaheth, diiiiffhter of George Donglas, Earl of Angus, and granddaughter of RoBEHT II (afterwards wife of Sir David Hay, of Yester), and d. 1448, having had issiie, James, 2nd lord ; John, provost of St. G-iles ; Annabella, m. Patrick, master of Gray ; Margaret, m. Meldrum, of Fyvie ; and EUzabeth. m. Alexander Irvine, of Drum. His son and successor, James, second lord, had, in 1456, a licence to fortify his castle of Drumminnor, other- wise called Forbes, then the chief seat of the family (the name Castle Forbes has since been transferred to Putachie). He m. Egidia, daughter of William, first Earl Marischal, and had, William, third lord,OT. Christian Gordon, daughter of Alexander, first Earl of Huntly, and was ancestor of the Barons Forbes. Duncan, of whom presently. Patrick, of Corse, a quo the Foebeses of Craigievar, and the Eaels oe Gea- nard. Egidia, m. Malcolm Forbes, of Tolquhon. James, second lord, d. in 1460 or 1461, and was s. by his eldest son, William ; his second son, DrNCAK" Forbes, of Corsindae, had, by Christian, his wife, daughterof Mercerof Bal- lief, a son, William, of Corsindae, who, by his wife, Margaret Lumsden, had two sons, James, of Corsindae, who continued his line ; and Duncan, who obtained the Priory lands of Monvmusk at the Reforniiition, d. 1.587, having m. Agnes Gray, and had, with otlier issue, William, of Monymusk, who m. Lady Margaret Douglas, eldest daughter of William, 9th Earl of Angus, by whom he had five sons and three daughters. He d. previously to 1618, and was *. by his eldest son, I. William Forbes, Esq., who was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, by patent, dated 31st March, 1626, to himself and his heirs male whomsoever, of the lands, barony, and regality of Forbes, within the region of Nova Scotia, in North America. Sir Williimm. Elizabeth, daughterof Wishavt of Pitarow, by whom he had three sons, and three daughters. Sir William was s. in 1665 by his eldest son, II. SiE William, who m. Jean, daughterof Sir Thomas Burnet, Bart., of Leys, by whom he had one daughter, who m. George Rickart, of Auchnacant, and an only son, his successor, III. Sir John, who s. his father in 1670, and m. 1st, Margaret, daughter of Robert, 1st Viscount Arbuthnot, by whom he had a son, SrE William, his heir, and a daughter, Jean, m.io Maitland, of Pittrichie. Hem. secondly, Barbara, daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy, of Dalmahov, by whom he had, with other issue, John, from whom the Forbeses of Boyndlie (see Burke's Landed Gentry). Sir John was s., in 1710, by his eldest son, IV. Sir William, who sold Monymusk to Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, in J 71 3. He m. Lady Jean Keith, daughter of John, first Earl of Kintore, hy Lady Margaret, his wife, daughter of the Earl of Haddington, and had by her two sons and four daughters, of whom Mary «j. William L^rquhart, Esq. of Meldrum. John, the eldest son, m. Mary Forbes, daughter of Alexander, third Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (through whom, on the decease of John, master of Pitsligo, in 1781, her descendants became heirs of line of that noble family), and dying before his father, left two sons, the elder of whom, V. SiE William, s. his grandfather as fifth baronet in 1730. He m. 1730, Christian, daughter of John Forbes, Esq. of Boyndlie. and wass. at his decease, in 1743, by his eldest surviving son, Ti. Sir William, a banker of great emi- nence in Edinburgh. He m. 1770, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Hay, of Haystoune, co. Peebles, Bart., and had, with otliers who d. young, I. William, seventh baronet. II. John Hay, of Medwyn, co. Peebles, Lord Medwyn, a Senator of the College of Justice, h. September, 1776 ; d. 1854 ; m. 1802, Louisa, daughterof Sir Alexander Cuming-Gordon, first baro- net of Altyre and Gordonstoun, and had, with other issue, William, of Medwyn, West Linton, CO. Peebles ; of 17, Ainslie-place, Edinburgh ; and of the New Club, Edinburgh, J. P. and D.L. for co. Peebles, and Secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland ; b. 1803 ; educated at the University of Edinburgh ; called to the Scottish Bar, 1825 ; m. 1841, Mary Anne, second daughter of the late John Archer Houblon, Esq. of Hallingbury, CO. Essex, M.P., and has had, John Houblon, J. P. for co. Peebles; b. 1852; m. 29th March, 1883, Hon. Alexandra Catherine May Eraser, daughter of Alexan- der, seventeenth Lord Saltoun, and has issue a daughter, b. 1884 ; Dorothy Charlotte Mary Eleanor ; Mary Anne, m. 14th October, 1863, Walter Henry, eleventh Earl of Mar and Keflie, who d. 1888 ; Louisa, m. 17th October, 1877, as his second wife, Sir James Ranken Fergusson, of Spital- haugh, Bart., d. 12th September, 1878 ; Harriet, m. 1871, Hon. Augustus Erskine, and d. 23rd February, 1884 ; Helen Anne ; and Elizabeth Jane. Alexander Penrose, Bishop of Brechin 1847—75, d. num. 1875. George Hay (Rev.), m. Eleanor Mara Irby, daughter of James Werayss, of Cariston, d. s.p. 1875 Helen, d. 1881.