Related Research Articles
The House of Stuart, originally spelled Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain. The family name comes from the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had been held by the family progenitor Walter fitz Alan. The name Stewart and variations had become established as a family name by the time of his grandson Walter Stewart. The first monarch of the Stewart line was Robert II, whose male-line descendants were kings and queens in Scotland from 1371, and of England, Ireland and Great Britain from 1603, until 1714. Mary, Queen of Scots, was brought up in France where she adopted the French spelling of the name Stuart.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, was a British Whig lawyer and politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.
Broxburn is a town in West Lothian, Scotland. It is 12 miles (19 km) from the West End of Edinburgh, 5 miles (8.0 km) from Edinburgh Airport and 5 miles (8.0 km) to the north of Livingston. Originally a village known as Easter Strathbock in the medieval period, by 1600, the village had become known as Broxburn. The area developed rapidly during the Victorian era as a result of industrialisation related to shale oil extraction. While much of the industry in the area is now diminished, the town has continued to grow following new residential development, resulting in Broxburn forming a conurbation with neighbouring Uphall. It lies just to the south of Winchburgh.
The Mormaer or Earl of Buchan was originally the provincial ruler of the medieval province of Buchan. Buchan was the first Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a non-Scottish family in the male line. The earldom had three lines in its history, not counting passings from female heirs to sons. Today, it is held by the Erskine family as a peerage. The current holder is Harry Erskine, 18th Earl of Buchan. Subsidiary titles are Lord Cardross and Lord Auchterhouse and Baron Erskine.
Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus and 5th Earl of Morton was a Scottish aristocrat.
The Honourable Henry Erskine was a British Whig politician and lawyer.
David Stuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan,, styled Lord Cardross between 1747 and 1767, was a Scottish antiquarian, founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and patron of the arts and sciences.
Henry David Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan,, styled Lord Auchterhouse until 1745, was a Scottish peer.
John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn was a Scottish nobleman, cavalry officer, and finally a priest.
Henry Erskine may refer to:
Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan, Lady Beaumont was a Scottish noblewoman, a member of the powerful Comyn family which supported the Balliols, claimants to the disputed Scottish throne against their rivals, the Bruces. She was the niece of John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, to whom she was also heiress, and after his death the Earldom of Buchan was successfully claimed by her husband Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, by right of his wife. His long struggle to claim her Earldom of Buchan was one of the causes of the Second War of Scottish Independence.
Sir David Erskine was a Scottish dramatist and antiquary.
Henry Erskine, third Lord Cardross, was a Scottish peer and covenanter.
Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar (1576-1644) was a Scottish courtier. She was the daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox and Catherine de Balsac d’Entragues (d. c.1631) and a favourite of James VI of Scotland. After her marriage, as was customary in Scotland, she did not change her name, and signed her letters as "Marie Stewart".
Shipley Gordon Stuart Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan,, styled Lord Cardross from 1857 until 1898, was a Scottish nobleman and racehorse owner.
The Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar was constructed in 1776 by David Stewart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan and erected in the grounds of his estate at Kirkhill House, near Broxburn, Scotland. The pillar fell into disrepair and eventually collapsed in the 1970s but fortunately the stones were preserved and the pillar was reconstructed (1988) in Almondell Country Park on land once owned by the Erskine family. The pillar records the details of an adjacent scale model of the Solar System constructed by Erskine following the measurements of the size of the Solar System deduced from the observations of the Transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. The model, centred on a Sun of stone six feet in diameter with planets at distances and sizes to scale, has long since disappeared; only the pillar remains.
David Stuart Erskine, 13th Earl of Buchan,, was a British Army officer and equestrian. He was the son of Henry Erskine, 12th Earl of Buchan and Elizabeth Shipley, daughter of Sir Charles Shipley.
Lady Anne Agnes Erskine was a Scottish aristocrat and friend and trustee of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. She became an important figure in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion which was a group of churches which still survives.
David Erskine, 9th Earl of Buchan, 4th Lord Cardross, was a Scottish peer. He was the son of Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, by Catherine, daughter of Sir James Stewart of Kirkhill. He was styled Master of Cardross and then Lord Cardross until 1695 whereupon he claimed Earldom of Buchan.
References
- ↑ Charles Mosley (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Vol. 1. p. 567.
- ↑ "Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "KIRKHILL HOUSE (Category B Listed Building) (LB19678)" . Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ↑ Harrison, William (1892). Ripon Millenary: A Record of the Festival. W. Harrison. p. 179.
 | This biography of an earl in the Peerage of Scotland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |