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 472 BITRKE'S COLONIAL OE.XTKV iHacaitnc^n SIR JOHN MACARTNEY, Bart., of Lish, co. Armagli, Ireland, and Forest Hill, Maclcay, Queensland, Australia, 6. 1833 ; in. 1st September, 1865, Catherine, second daughter of the late Alexander Mil.LEii, of Mcrindiui, Victoria, and has issue, I. William Isaac, h. 13th October, 1867. It. Alexander Miller, h. 24th Jaly, 1869. HI. John Barriugton, h. 26th October, 1873. TV. Heibert Charles, /;. 11th March, 1876. y. Robert C4rahaui, h. 7th December, 1878; (7. 20th August. 1870. VI. David Edwin, b. 5th July, 1880. vii. Harold Eric Joseph, b. 1882. viii. Victor Allan, b. 1887. Hincnge. The family of M.ACAKTNEY is said by Platfair to liave sprung fi-oiu the youngest sou of McCaktht Moke, of the oo. Cork (see McCarthy, of Carriqnavar, in Burke's Landed Genfjy), but when or why his des- cendants moved to the co. Down (where we find them in the early part of the Ittli century) is not known. Edward Bruce, brother of the famous Robert, King of Scot- land, was invited by some of the Irish chief- tains to come over to help them to cast off the English yoke and to be himself their king. The expedition failed, Edward was killed in a duel, and the chieftains who had taken part with him were naturally objects of displeasure to England and souie of theui escaped to Scotland, among whom was Mac- artnet of Moiirne, in Downshire. Robert Bruce rewarded this supporter of his brother with lauds in Argyleshire. The Macartneys subsequently moved to Gralloway to lands still called by their name. There the family divided into three branches, Macartxet of Lenihes ; of Blacirtt (from whom the present baronet) ; and of Auchinleck. The Leathes branch ended in James Macartney, who had four daughters, one of whom was Frances, the celebrated authoress of the Ode to Indifference, who m. Fulke, son of the Hon. Algernon Gretille, and was by this marriage, ancestress of the present Lord Greville, who is now the representative of the eldest branch of the Macartnet family (.seeBrRKE's Peeraije,siih Baron Greville, and the Earl of Warwick). The Auchin- leck or youngest branch, ended in Georoe Macartney, of Lissanoure Castle, co. Antrim, grandson of George Macartney, of .■i.uchinle-k. who settled in Ireland 16t9. This George, of Lissanoure, was b, 1737, and sent 1754, as envoy extraordinary to the Empress of Russia and knighted on his return. lie was M.P. for Armagh and Chief Secretary (1709) to Lord Townshend, the Lord Lieute.iant of Ireland ; in 1772, was installed a Knight of the Bath, was Governor of the Caribbee Islands, in 1775; and on 19th July, 1776, was raised to the [risli Peerage as Lord Macartney, Baron of Lis- sanoure, CO. Antrim. He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China in 179.', and was advanced 19th July, of that yeir, to be Viscount Macartney, of Dcrvoch, co. Antrim, and was on his return to England in 179.i, created Earl Macartxry. He was cre.ite.4 on Sth ■Tune, 1790, Baron Macartney, of Parkhurst in SurrcT and of Auchinleck, in the stew,irtry of Kirkcudbright, in the Peerage of England, for important services in Italy in the previous year. His last othce was the Governorship of the Cape of Good Hope, to which c >lony he sailed in January, 1797, and from which he came back in 1799. He m. 1st Febvuary, 1768, Lady Jane Stuart, second daughter of John, Earl of Bute, but d. without issue 31st March, 1806, when all his honours became extinct. The Blackctt branch of the Macartneys, referred to above, removed from Scotland to Ireland in 1630. George Macartney (son of Georqe Macartney, the last or the Macartneys of Blackct, who resided in Scotland), settled at Belfast about the year 1630. He m. Martha Davies, of the family of Sir John Davies, Knt., attorney - general for Ireland temp. James I, and had two sons, George, who served under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, had the misfortune to act as second to Lord Mohun when the latter fought the celebrated duel with the Duke of Hamilton in which both the Duke and Lord Mohun lost their lives. At the time of his death he was a lieutenant-general in the ai'iuy, Coui- mandcr- in-Chief of the Forces in Ireland, Governor of Port.<nionth, and Colonel of the Carabiniers. His line is now extinct.