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 524 CRAWFORD pressing a dangerous revolt of the Maroon negroes. Rep. Peer [S.] 1784-96 and 1802-25. ^ Tory, but supported Cath. emancipation. He m., 1 June 1780, at St. Marylebone, Elizabeth, da. of his maternal uncle, Charles Dalrymple, of North Berwick, and only child and heir of her mother, Elizabeth, (*) da. and h. of John Edwin, of Haigh Hall, co. Lancaster. He finally resided on her property, Haigh, selling his paternal estate of Balcarres C*) to his yst. br. Robert Lindsay. She, who was /?. 5 July 1759, d. 10 Aug. 1 8 1 6. The Earl of Balcarres (for he never assumed the title of Earl of Crawford), d. 27 Man^) 1825, at Haigh Hall, aged 73, and was i>ur. with his wife, at All Saints', Wigan. M.L Will pr. 25 May 1825. XXIV. [1825] 24. James (Lindsay), Earl of Balcarres, &?c. [S.], o „ and ij'i? Jure Earl of Crawford [S.],('') s. and h., i>. " "^ ' at Balcarres, co. Fife, 23 Apr., and lap. 16 June 1783, at Kilconquhar; M.P. (Tory) for Wigan, 1820-25. On 5 July 1826 he was cr. BARON WIGAN OF HAIGH HALL, co. Lancaster [U.K.].(') He claimed the Earldom of Crawford and Barony of Lindsay [S.] as heir male of the i6th Earl (the issue male of the 17th being extinct) under the regrant of 1642. His claim to the dignities of " £«r/ <?/" Crawford and Lord Lindsay " was, after reference to the House of Lords, declared to have been made out 1 1 Aug. 1848, whereby he became de facto Earl of Crawford and Lord Lindsay [S.]. He also unsuccessfully, in 1853, claimed the Dukedom of Montrose [S.], which had, in 1488, been granted to the 5th Earl (whom see), as heir male [collateral] of that Earl. He was a Tory. He m., 21 Nov. 181 1, at Muncaster, Maria Frances Margaret, only da. and h. of John (Pennington), ist Baron Muncaster [I.], by Penelope, da. and h. of James Compton. She, who was bap. 28 Nov. 1783, at Muncaster, d. at Haigh Hall, 16, and was bur. 25 Nov. 1850, at Wigan, aged 67. He d. at Dun Echt, co. Aberdeen, 15, and was bur. 23 Dec. 1869, at All Saints', Wigan, aged 86. Will pr. 14 Mar. 1870, under £~if)00. XXV. 1869. 25. Alexander William Crawford (Lindsay), Earl OF Crawford, Earl of Balcarres, &'c. [S.], also Baron Wigan of Haigh Hall, s. and h., b. at Muncaster Castle, co. York, (") Through this match the estate of Haigh, co. Lancaster, for many centuries the property of the Bradshaigh family, passed to that of Lindsay. Elizabeth, sister of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 4th and last Bart, (who d. 1787), m., 8 Apr. 1731, John Edwin (5th and yst. s. of Sir Humphrey Edwin, Lord Mayor, 1697-98), and d. 24 June 1735, aged 37, leaving Elizabeth (as in the text), who w., 29 Sep. 1758, in London (as his ist wife), Charles Dalrymple. See Her. and Gen., vol. vi, pp. 56-62, and vol. viii, p. 187. ('') This estate of Balcarres passed to the purchaser's son, Lieut. Gen. James Lindsay, and on his death, 4 Dec. 1855, to his son, Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart., whose trustees, in Apr. 1886, resold it to the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres for ^150,000. (<=) Not 27 May, as in Diet. Nat. Biog. V.G. ('^) See note " a " on preceding page. (') As to the choice of this title, see note sub John, Earl of Enniskillen [1803].