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 410 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. of WaUer BrcnANAy, of Euelianan, and d. between 1531 and 1540, having had two sons, I. William, third Karl. II. Walter, of Gartnr, of which he had a charter from the Abbot of Inchma- honio in 1553, and was ancestor of the Geahajis of Gariur. The elder son, William Graham, thied Earl or IMen- TF.TH, tn. i'argai'et, flaiightrr of .John Mow- brat of Biirnbougle, and d. before June, l.T 15, leaving issue, I. John, fourth Earl. II. Kobert, of Gartniore, who d. s. p. in. Gilbert, of Garlmore, whose male line is extinct, I. Margaret, m. Arcbibald, fourth Earl of Argyll, and had issue. The eldest son, John Graham, rouRTn Earl of Men- TETH, was one of the prisoners taken at the 1-out of Solway, 1542, and ransomed for 200 marks, 1st Julj, 1543, being designed in Evmer, Lord jlonke-etli. He m. Marion, eldest daughter of George, fiftli Lord Setox, and was killed in a scuflle with the tutor of Appin in October, 1547,* having b_f her '^who Mi. secondly, John, tenth Earl of Sutherland) had issue, I. William, fifih Earl. II. George, of Keduoch, whose son, Jamea, had a charter of the King's lands of Easter Kednoch, in Perthshire, 12th June, 1598, and left a daughter, Marian, who brought that estate to her hus- band, JoHX Graham, of Duch- ray. I. Mary,' )«. John Buchanan, of Buchanan. II. Christian m. Sir William Living- ston, of Eilsyth. The elder son, William Graham, fifth Earl of Men- TETH, m. Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir James Uouglas, of Drumlanri;;. and widow of Edward, Lord Crichtun, of Sanquhar, and d. before October, 1587, having by htr (who m. thirdly, Wauchofe of Niddry) had a Bon, John Graham, sixth Earl of Men- TETH, was served heir to his father, 21st Ootober, 1587, m. Mary, third daughter of Sir Colin Camfbell, of Glenorchy, and d. in Deeeuiber, 1598, leaving issue, I. William, seventh Earl. II. James, m. Lady Margaret Erskine, second daughter of James, Earl of Buchar, but d. without male issue. His daughter, Marion, m. WaUer Graham, of Gartur. I. Christian, m. Sir John Black ADDER, of TuUialian. The elder son, William Graham, seventh Earl of Menteth, or Menteith, b. 1589, s. his father in December, 1598, and was served heir to him 7th jiugust, IfilO. He >«. 1611 (con1ractdated3('th January, 110-11) Agnes, daughter of Patrick, seventh ford Gray. He was constituted iu August, 1628, Chief Justice Geueial of Scotland, and iu the Novemher following, an extraordinary lord of session ; and in 1629, was ap]iointed President of the Privy Council. On the 25th May, 1630, he was served heir of David Stewart, Earl of Strathern, of Patrick Graham, Earl of Stratbern, and of Malise, Earl of Menteith. Standing high in (he royal favour of Charles I, he had charters of various lands and baronies from 1626 to 1632, amongst which was a charter of the lands and b.aronies of Airth. He obtained the title of Earl of Strathern by patent, Juiy, 1(>31. being styled Earl of Strathern and Menteith, &c. The fable, gener.ally credited at the time, but cleai'ly disju'oved by the actual dispensation found at the Vatican, concerning the validity of the first marriage of King Robert II and Elizabeth Mure caused King Charles land his ministers considerable uneasiness, en- hanced by the Earl's pretensions, for in his service for the Earldom of Strathern, while solennily renouncing his claim to the Crown, he reserved the right of bis blood, which he incautiously asserted to be " the reddest in Scotland." The King, on the strong remon- strances of his ministers and Sir W'illiam Drummond, of Hawthornden, ordered a law form to be gone through to cancel the Earl'a retour and patent, and the Court did accor- dingly set them aside, and deprived him of his patent not only of the Earldom of Strathern, but also that of Meuteitii, 22ud March, 1633. Thus stripped of his honours, the King was pleased to confer by patent (dated 21st January, sealed 2Sth" March, 1633) the title of Earl of Airth, annexing to the same the Earldom of Menteith, with precedence from the date of the original patent of that honour, namely 6th September, 1428, to him and to his heirs. His lordship was about the same time dcpriAed of his public offices and retired to his casile in the Loch of Menteith, where he d. befoi'c 26th September, 1662, having had with other issue, I. John, Lord Graham of Kilpoxt AND Kilbetde, of whom presently. II. James. III. Robert. IV. Patrick, v. Charles. VI. Archibald. I. Margaret (second daughter), m. Lord Gar LIES. II. Anne (third daughter). III. Jane (fom-th daughter). The son, John Graham, Lord Graham of Kil- FONT AND KiLBEVDE (who d. in the lifetime of his father, and was commonly called Lord Kilpont, or Kinpont, to distinguish him from Lord Graham, eldest son of the Earl of was present in Parliament in August, 1560 (Acts of Parliament, vol. ii, p. 606).
 * According to "Wood's Douglas Peerage," vol. ii, p. 228, but John, Earl of Menteith,