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 APPENDIX G 623 LOCKHART [45] William i,ocKHART,(*) ist s. of Sir James L., of The I.ce, co. Lanark, by his 2nd wife, Martha,('') da. of Sir George Douglas, of Mord- ington, CO. Berwick, br. of Sir James Douglas, of Parkhead, jure uxoris Baron Carlyle of Torthorwald [S.]; I/. 1621. He was a Capt. of Horse in the French service; knighted by Charles I, at Newark, in May 1646; Lieut. Col. of the Scottish regt. com. by William Hamilton, Earl of Lanark, in 1647; app. Gen. of Horse, in the Scottish army, 1650, but resigned his commission, and in 1652 joined the Pari, party. Com- missioner of Justice for Scotland 18 May 1652; Com. of the English army before Dunkirk May i658,('=) and Gov. of Dunkirk. M.P. for Lanark i653,(^) 1654, and 1656-58. English Resident at the French Court 9 Apr. 1656 to Sep. 1658, and 13 June to Oct. 1659. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, but did not take his seat.(^) At the Restoration he was deprived of the government of Dunkirk, but was not otherwise molested, and retired for a time to his estate in Scotland. Ambassador to the Courts of Brandenburg and Lunenburg in 1671 ; Envoy Extraordinary to the French King i Apr. to 17 June 1672, and 3 Apr. to 3 Oct. i673;(') app. Ambassador to France 20 Oct. 1673, arr. in Paris 3 Jan. 1673/4, and remained there till his death. He ;«., istly, Margaret, da. of John Hamilton, of Ormiston, Senator of the College of Justice. He m., 2ndly, 2 July 1654, Robina, da. of John Sewster, of Wistow, Hunts, by Anna,(^) 5th da. of Robert Cromwell, of Huntingdon. He d'. 7 June 1675, at Clermont.C") (') He bore for arms: Silver a man's heart Gules within a fetterlock Sable, with three boars' heads razed Silver on a chief Azure. C") She was Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria. (') Fauconberg writes from Calais, 29 May 1658: "As to the siege of Dunkirk, by the little discours I have had with the duke de Crequy, chevalier Grammont, and others, I find they infinitely esteeme my lord Lockhart for his courage, care, and enduring the fatigue beyond all men they ever saw. These were their owne words." (Thurloe's State Papers, vol. vii, p. 151). {^) He was one of the five Scottish representatives in the " Supreme As- sembly of Notables " sum. to meet at Westminster, 4 July 1653, ^"'^ "'"^ °^ the thirty members sent from Scotland to the Lord Protector's first Pari., 3 Sep. 1654. (') When the House was called over, 2 Feb. 1657/8, he was entered as absent, being then " Ambassado' in France." ( House of Lords MSS.). (') He had a grant of £^ per diem, as Envoy Extraordinary to the French King. {Privy Sea/, 9 Mar. 1 672/3). («) She (who was sister of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector) was iap. 2 Jan. 1602/3, ^"'i '^^ I Nov. 1646. C*) Burnet writes, in 1676: "About this time Lockhart the ambassador in France died. ... I have ever looked on him as the greatest man that his country produced in this age, next to sir Robert Murray." [Hist, of his own Times, vol. ii, pp. 84, 86).