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 3i6 COMPLETE PEERAGE atholl 1689. On 17 Feb. 1676 (") he wastr. (to him and the heirs male of his body) MARQUESS OF ATHOLE (") EARL OF TULLIBARDIN, VIS- COUNT OF BALQUHIDDER, LORD MURRAY, BALVANY AND GASK [S.]. He was instrumental in opposing Argyll's invasion in 1685. K.T. 29 May 1687, being one of the original Knights on the revival of that order Q by James II. In the Revolution, shortly afterwards, he played a trimming and shuffling part. ('^) He m., 5 May 1659, Amelia Sophia, da. and, in her issue, sole h. of James (Stanley), 7th Earl of Derby and ist Lord Strange, by Charlotte, da. of Claude de la Tremoille, Duke of Thouars, in Poitou. She d. 22 Feb. 1702/3, and was bur. at Dunkeld, co. Perth. He d. 6, and was bur. 17 May 1703, also at Dunkeld, afsd., aged 72. Fun. entry at Lyon office. MARQUESSATE [S.] IL EARLDOM [S.] XXIX. DUKEDOM [S.] I. 1703 (June). 1703- 2, 3, or 8, and i. John (Murray), Marquess of Atholl, £sPc. [S.], s. and h., b. 24 Feb. 1659/60, at Knows- ley, CO. Lancaster, the seat of his ,Jj. ^' ^ maternal uncle, Charles (Stanley), 8th ^ ^'' Earl of Derby. Being blind of one eye, he was known as " Ian Cam. " He, having been a zealous supporter of William III, as one of the Principal Secretaries of State [S.], i^c, was in his father's lifetime cr., by patent dat. 27 July 1696 (at the Castle of Atre, a league S.E. of Ath, in Hainault), EARL OF TULLIBARDIN, (") (*) See notes sub i Duke of Hamilton and i Duke of Queensberry. C") The spelling of the Atholl titles is given in accordance with the (rather variable) orthography of the Register of the Great Seal. The Scottish Order of t1ie THE THISTLE (or St. Andrew) was revived (or rather instituted) by King James II on 29 May 1687; eight Knights being nominated on 6 June following. These eight original Knights were as under : — 1. James (Drummond), 4th Earl of Perth. 2. George (Gordon), 1st Duke of Gordon. 3. John (Murray), ist Marquess of Atholl, d. before Dec. 1703. 4. James (Hamilton), styled Earl of Arran, afterwards (1698) Duke of Hamilton. 5. Kenneth (Mackenzie), 4th Earl of Seaforth, d. before 1703. 6. John (Drummond), ist Earl of Melfort. 7. George (Douglas), ist Earl of Dunbarton, d. before 1703. 8. Alexander (Stewart), 5th Earl of Moray, d. before 1703. No additions were made to the order till 31 Dec. 1703 (2 Anne), at which time, out of the above eight Knights, only two, viz. the Duke of Gordon and the Duke of Hamilton, were recognised as such. Perth and Alelfort, the only others who were then living, were passed over, having (as had Seaforth and Dunbarton) adhered to their founder, and gone with him in exile to St. Germain. C) If Lord Macauiay's superlatives are to be accepted, he was " the falsest, the most fickle, the most pusillanimous of mankind. " Had he been more actively disloyal to James, no doubt this unfavourable opinion would have been modified. V.G.