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 28 LAUDERDALE. [S.l with rem. to the heirs niiile of his body. He was el. K G., IS April, and mat. 3 June 1072. Shortly afterward* he was made a Peer of England, being cr., 20 .lime 1674, BARON PETEKSHAM and EAllli OF QUILDFORD, both eo. Surrey ; T.L.D. (Cambridge). H Oct. 1G7G; Commissioner to the Convention 'if the Estates [S.J, 1678 80 i P.O. [E.J 107!'. In lliSO, however, his credit declined, and he was shortly afterwards deprived of all his offlcpa. He in. lir.-tly Anne, sister uid Coheir (1633) of James, 2d Earl BP Home [St], 2d and yst, da. of Alexander iHomk 1st Haul ok Home [Sj, by his second wife. Mary. da. of Kdward (SCTTOS atiat Ih-iiley). 9th Lord Dnnr.EY. She d. at Paris about 1671. lie m. secondly, 17 March 1(171/2, at Petersham, Surrey (Lie. Vic. Gen.), Elizabeth, suo jure Cocntkss ok Dvsart [St.], widow of Sir Lionel Toi.lkmachk, 3d Hart., 1st da. and h. of line of William (Mkrray), 1st Earl ok Dysart [8.], by Catharine Bri ck, his wife. He d. s.p.m. at Tollbridge Wells 24 Aug'. 1682. in his 87th year, and was bur. at Haddington. (" when his English titles as also the Dukedom of Lauderdale ami the Marquatttlc of March [S.] became extinct. 11. 1. Will pr. Jan. 1GS3. His widow, by whom he had no issue, was bur. 1G June 1698, at Petersham. Her will pr. 28 Oct. 1G98. Earldom, &c. [S.] 3. Charles (Maitland), Earl of Lauderdale, TIT IfiS' 1 [^-]> ' )r - IU "' n- "tale, being 3d and yst. s. of the 1st Earl ; was M.P. for Midlothian, 1689-72 ; a Lord of Session, 1070: Treasurer Depute. 1G72, and (Jen. of the Mint [S.] lie sue. In the peerage [S.], 24 Aug. 16S2.C 1 ) He m.. IS Nov. 1652, at Hatton, eo. Edinburgh, Elizabeth, 2d da. and coheir)") of Richard Lakder, of Hatton ai'sd., and of Overgogar, Norton, tc, with whom he acquired those estates. He d. 9 June 1891. IV. 1691. J h KicHARb (Maitland), Earl ok Lauderdale, &c. [S.]. s. and h.. b. 20 June 16H3 : P.O., 1678 ; Joint Gen. of the Mint [S-] ; Lord Justice (ion. [S ], 1681-84 ; tti/led Viscount Maitland from 16S2 till he sue. to the peerage [S.] in June 1691. After the Revolution he being a Roman( d ) Catholic accompanieil King James II. in 1689 to St. Germain and was outlawed by the Court of Justiciary [8,1 23 June 1694. He m. Anne, 2d da. of Archibald (Camprell), 9th Eari. ok Argyll [Si], by his first wife, Mary, da. of James (Stewart). Eari. ok Moray [S.] He d. s.p. in Paris ly'95.( c ) His widow Nt. Charles (Stewart), Earl ok Moray [S.], (who d. s.p. 7 Oct. 1735), and d. 18 Sep. 173J, in her 76th year. V. 1C95. 5. John (Maitland sometime Lauder), Earl ok Lauderdale, &e. [S.], br. and h., b. about 1655; a member of Faculty of Advocates, 1680. He was cr., 18 Nov. 1680, a Baronet [S.] ; M.P. for Midlothian, 16S5-SG and 1G89-96: was a Lord of Session [S.]. 1689, by the style of Lord Rarclri'i, holding that ollice til! his death ; Col. of the Edinburgh Militia ; sue. to the peerage [S.] in 1G95, taking his seat 8 Sep. 1696, and supporting the treaty of Union. He m. about 1680 Margaret, only da. and h. of Alexander (Cunhinoham), 10th Earl ok Gi.kncairn [SJ, by Nicola, da. of Sir James Stewart. He d. 30 Aug. 1710, aged about 55. ( r ) His widow d. 12 May 1742, aged about 80, at Hawthorndeu (") Bishop Burnet says of him " he was very big ; his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth." ( b ) He is often said to have been cr. a Baronet [S], 12 May 1672, but this creation (made to heirs male whatsoever) apparently applies to Richard Maitland (the elder), of Pitrichie, co. Aberdeen. ( c ) Jean, her elder sister, m. Sir Thomas Elphinstone, of Calder Hall, but Elizabeth seems to have inherited the family estates. ( d ) He was author of a translation of Virgil. He is facetiously called (Fountainhall Diary, 215), "All Roman but the nose." («) Adinon. 22 Jan. 1703/4, of the goods of " Richard, Lord Maitland," granted to James Gray, Esq., principal creditor." ( f ) In Macky's " Characters" [1 707 f] it is said of him that "he is a gentleman that means well to his country but comes far short of his predecessors who for three or four generations were Chancellors and Secretaries of State. He is a well bred man, handsome in his person, fair complexioned, and towards 50 years old."