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James’ second wife [1740], Margaret Wemyss, was the daughter of David Weymss, 4th Earl of Wemyss, who by his first wife had a
son [Margaret’s half-brother], James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss, GM Scotland 1743-44., whose son and grandson were GMs
of Scotland, 1747-48 and 1786-87 [both named Francis Wemyss Charteris], respectively [see below and genealogical charts].
10. Henry David, 10th Earl of Buchan 1745-46
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Erskine%2C_10th_Earl_of_Buchan
Henry David Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan (17 April 1710 – 1 December 1767) was the son of David Erskine, 9th Earl of Buchan.
On 31 January 1739), he married Agnes Steuart and they had three children:
David Stewart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan (1742–1829)
[34th GM of Scotland, below]
Henry Erskine (1746–1817)
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823)
http://www.thepeerage.com/p2831.htm
Henry David Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan was born on 17 April 1710. He was the son of David Erskine, 9th Earl of Buchan and
Frances Fairfax. He married Agnes Steuart, daughter of Sir James Steuart, Bt. and Ann Dalrymple, on 31 January 1739 in Lady
Huntingdon's Chapel, Bath, Somerset, England. He died on 1 December 1767 at age 57 in Walcot, Somerset, England. He was
buried on 21 December 1767 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Henry David Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.) on 10 January 1733/34. He
succeeded to the title of 5th Lord Cardross [S., 1610] on 14 October 1745. He succeeded to the title of 10th Earl of Buchan [S.,
1469] on 14 October 1745. He succeeded to the title of 10th Lord Auchterhouse [S., 1469] on 14 October 1745.
Family Agnes Steuart b. before 1724, d. 17 December 1778
1. Children Hon. Isabella Erskine d. 1824
2. David Erskine, Lord Cardross b. 12 Jun 1741, d. 4 Oct 1747 3
3. David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan+ b. 1 Jun 1742, d. 19 Apr 1829
4. Hon. Henry Erskine+ b. 1 Nov 1746, d. 8 Oct 1817 1
5. Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine of Restormel Castle+ b. 10 Jan 1749/50, d. 17 Nov 1823 4
see also, 60th GM Scotland, Henry David, his grandson, 12th Earl of Buchan 1832-3
11. William Nisbet of Dirleton 1746-47
http://www.wintonhouse.co.uk/lawyers6.php
< William Nisbet of Dirleton, husband of Mary Hamilton who bought Winton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nisbet
William Nisbet (of Dirleton) was a Scottish Freemason.
He had four children:
Janet Nisbet (c. 1717–?)
Wilhelmina Nisbet (1724–1798) [m. David Melville; see No. 22 below]
Jean Nisbet (d. 1790)
Mary Nisbet (c. 1764–?)
http://www.valacar.net/nisbet/origins/plates5.htm
William Nisbet of Dirleton, grand master of the freemasons in Scotland, served heir to his father 7th November 1733. Married, 2nd
February 1747, Mary, only child and heiress of Alexander Hamilton of Pencaitland and Dechmont, and heiress of entail of James,
fifth lord Belhaven. A three-quarter length portrait of him by Allan Ramsay, dated 1750, is in the dining room at Archerfield. He died
1st March 1783, and his wife in March 1797. They had -
(1.) William Hamilton Nisbet. (See No. V.)
(2.) John Hamilton Nisbet of Pencaitland, Dechmont, and Winton. Born 1751, died 1804. Married, in 1782, Janet Dundas, daughter
of the second Lord President Arniston. They had no children, and he was succeeded in the Pencaitland estates by his sister Mary
(3).
(3.) Mary, born 1750. She married (1) William Hay, heir-presumptive to George, marquess of Tweeddale, who died in 1781. They
had issue a boy, who died in infancy. She married (2) Walter Campbell of Islay and Shawfield, and had issue -
(i.) William, died unmarried.
(ii.) Mary, married James, sixth lord Ruthven, and had no issue. She died in 1885, aged 96.
(iii.) Hamilton, married Robert Montgomery, eighth lord Belhaven, and died s.p.
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/msprior.pdf
. . . whilst the social world of the modern city had made impression management into an art form, pouring into its higher ranks a
heightened degree of performance, it was possible for Edinburgh worthies to be depicted with drunks, giants, beggars, dwarfs,
criminals and fishwives. John Kay’s status as an independent limner had been guaranteed by his friendship to William Nisbet of
Dirleton, a Jacobite country gentleman, who provided Kay with enough money to give up his trade as a barber. On Nisbet’s death in
1784 Kay received an annuity of £20, stabilizing his occupation as an etcher in the city and facilitating his initiation as a freemason
in the Lodge of Saint David. Kay’s identity as a caricaturist was, therefore, a product of occupational improvement made possible by
social intermingling in the city – the same social intermingling that insinuated popular social and cultural practices into the very heart
of the city.
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