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to fancy himself ruined and sold off all his property in Eccles, retaining only the Lees estate. He seems to have had some sort of break-down and went to live in Paris for a while, where his fortunes continued to decline. "The shadows passed," says Charles, "but the scars remained." He returned to Lees where he passed the remaining few years of his life in relative serenity. It is not altogether easy to catch the flavour of the man. In appearance he was stocky and square-faced. His son Charles, who is by far the main witness to his personality, found him a severe and unsympathetic even frightening father, although, what is unusual for those days, he never beat his children. It is to Charles that we owe the description of him as a tempestuous man, unable to compose himself to routine, preferring a "grand dash to the mark," and liable to fly into a rage when upset by minor frustrations, although Charles adds that "few men would bear up with more manliness and composure against a heavy and unavoidable calamity." Fortunately, a few notes pencilled in the margin by John's youngest son David suggest a different and more loving side to his nature. The truth probably is that Charles, being rather easy-going and a bit of a dreamer, and perhaps physically somewhat timid, was temperamentally a world away from the excitable, powerful personality of his father. It may be that David, being more robust, was better able to appreciate his true worth. Warm Friendship Certainly John's letters to both Bute and Thomas Coutts show a capacity for warm friendship and also a deep concern for the welfare of his brothers and children. His concern, however, was not always exercised with good judgment. He obtained a post with the East India Company for his son Edward for which the boy was quite unfitted and which ended in disaster. He was also generous -- some would say careless -- with his money. It is very clear that he generated the warmest respect among his colleagues on the City Council. He could be both devious and ruthless in the pursuit of either his own, his employer's, or his family's interest, and he made enemies thereby. He may perhaps have been loved by the few, respected by the many, and hated by those who crossed him. What is certain is that he was one of the most eminent of what was for several generations a particularly brilliant family. 5. See "Marjoribanks in Eccles," The Marjoribanks Journal No. 2, page 22. R. J. Marjoribanks 6. While in the service of the Marquis, John presented his employer with a volume detailing the Marjoribanks history and supporting the notion that the ancestral lands once belonged to Lady Marjorie Bruce. See The Marjoribanks Journal No.1, page 3. 7. Charles is commemorated in a monument which stands in the centre of Coldstream, erected in admiration by his friends and constituents. See The Marjoribanks Letter No. 7, December 1992. 8. See The Marjoribanks Journal No. 2, pages 19, 20. REFERENCES The Commons, 1790-1920, by R.G. Thorne. The Lord Provosts of Edinburgh, 1296-1932, by M. Wood. A History of the Bank of Scotland. Lodge's Peerage, 1911. Biographical Note No. 99 from an edition of the prints of John Kay, Edinburgh, 1820. Untitled MS Memoir by Charles Marjoribanks (Macao, 1831) in the Signet Library. Letters in the archive of Coutts Bank. Letters in the archive of the Marquis of Bute. City Council Minutes of Edinburgh. Extract from records supplied by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scotland. Cess and Valuation Roll for Berwickshire, 1779-1817 Assessed Tax Schedules for Berwickshire, 1789-99 Old Parish Register, Coldstream, Berwicks. 53. Acting, George, 8th Marquis [Marquess] of Tweeddale 1818-20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hay%2C_8th_Marquess_of_Tweeddale George Hay, 8th Marquis of Tweeddale KT GCB (February 1, 1787 - October 10, 1876) was a Scottish soldier and administrator who rose to the rank of Field Marshal in the British Army. George Hay was born in Bonnington, Scotland is 1787. He succeeded his father to the Marquisate of Tweeddale (1804) who had been imprisoned until his death by Napoleon in France. He fought in the Anglo-American War of 1812. He married Susan, daughter of the 5th Duke of Manchester (1816) [grand daughter of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, GM Premier GL 1737-88], and fathered both the 9th and 10th Marquesses. Lord Tweeddale was admitted to the Order of the Thistle as a knight in 1820. Professionally, Tweeddale rose to the rank of Field Marshal in the army and was Governor of Madras in India [1842-48]. He died in 1876 at Yester in Scotland, and is buried there. http://welland.ontario-restaurants.com/ Welland is a city on the Welland Canal in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. The city was first settled in 1788 by United Empire Loyalists. In 1814, Canadian forces led by George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, met American invaders near the present-day town site during the Battle of Cook's Mill. After two days of combat, the Americans retreated to Buffalo, New York, ending the War of 1812 on Canadian soil. 84
Recollections of the War of 1812 by George Hay, Eighth Marquis of Tweeddale Lewis Einstein The American Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Oct., 1926), pp. 69-78 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(192610)32%3A1%3C69%3AROTWO1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 "To the wonder of the industrious peasant:" The Victory Ball in Montreal http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/Warof1812/2006/Issue2/c_victoryball.html When news of the end of hostilities reached North America in the late winter of 1815, there were victory celebrations on both sides of the border. And why shouldn't there have been as the conflict that had just ended was "the war that both sides won." One of the festive events was a masquerade ball held in Montreal by Lieutenant-George Hay, the Marquis of Tweeddale and commanding officer of the 100th Regiment of Foot, a veteran of the battle of Chippawa. It was quite the event and Montreal Herald duly provided a detailed description of the revellers, their costumes and their antics in its issue of 11 March 1815. It should be noted that 29-yearold Julia de Rottenburg, the 29-year-old wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Francis de Rottenburg, was regarded as one of the most beautiful women in British North America. Dianne Burton-Graves ***************************************************************************** Montreal Herald, 11 March 1815 "The Marquis of Tweeddale's Masquerade" Mrs. General de Rottenburg, an interesting Squaw when masked; at Supper when the fair revealed their charms, her beauty was conspicuous, and shone forth unrivalled in spite of the savage costume, which in vain attempted to hide the Symmetry of her Person. 85
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