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From the Book of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee 1513 to 1885.
Mungo Murray of Garth - 7th March 1663
AT DUNDEE, THE SAID DAY THE PERSONS UNDERNAMED WERE ADMITTED BURGESSES AND GUILD BRETHREN OF THE SAID BURGH, GRATIS : WILLIAM, EARLL OF MORTOUN; DAVID, LORD LOWRE; CHARLES, LORD CLAREMONTH, ANDREW MIDDLETOUN, BROTHER TO THE EARLL OF MIDDLETOUN; SIR ALEXANDER DURHAM, LORD LYON; SIR JOHN STRACHAN, RECEIVER OF His MAIESTIE'S REVENUES; MUNGO MURRAY, CORNET To His MAIESTIE'S LYFE GUARDS.
WILLIAM, tenth EARL OF MORTON, was the son of ROBERT, LORD DALKEITH, and the grandson of WILLIAM, eighth EARL OF MORTON, who were admitted Burgesses of Dundee on 10th April, 1622 (vide page 121). He succeeded his father as EARL OF MORTON in 1649. As already related, his grandfather had obtained a gift of the islands of Orkney and Shetland, in acknowledgment of the large sums of money which he had expended to support the Royalist cause. The ninth EARL had a new grant of these islands in 1662, but both the charters were objected to by the KING'S ADVOCATE, and the islands were conjoined to the Crown on 27th December, 1669. The EARL OF MORTON was married to LADY GRIZEL MIDDLETON, eldest daughter of JOHN, first EARL OF MIDDLETON (vide page 156), on 12th June, 1662, and had one son, CHARLES, LORD DALKEITH, who died, unmarried, before his father. The EARL survived till 1681, and as he left no issue, the title devolved upon his uncle, SIR JAMES DOUGLAS of Smithfield.
DAVID CARNEGIE, LORD LOUR, was the eldest son of the first EARL OF NORTHESK, and of MAGDALEN, daughter of SIR JAMES HALIBURTON of Pitcur. His father, SIR JOHN CARNEGIE, was a brother of the first EARL OF SOUTHESK, and had been created a Peer in 1639, with the title of LORD LOUR, and was afterwards advanced to the dignity of EARL OF ETHIE. After the Restoration he obtained a new patent, by which his title was changed to that of EARL OF NORTHESK, the older style of LORD LOUR being reserved for the Heir apparent. DAVID, LORD LOUR, succeeded his father as second EARL OF NORTHESK in 1667. He spent a large portion of his early life on the Continent, and was closely connected with the leading members of the Royalist party before the Restoration. His sister, LADY MAGDALEN CARNEGIE, was the wife of SIR WILLIAM GRAIIAM of Claverhouse, and the mother of the first VISCOUNT OF DUNDEE (vide page 166). He was married, in 1638, to LADY JEAN MAULE, eldest daughter of PATRICK, first EARL OF PANMURE, and left a numerous family. Though his name does not appear prominently in the history of his time, the second EARL OF NORTHESK seems to have been highly respected in Dundee. His death took place at Errol, on 12th December, 1679, and the following extract from the Records of the Presbytery of Dundee relating to his burial shows how highly he was esteemed in the Burgh:
"Dundee, 14 Jany. 1680.
This day while the exercisor was in his gown going to the pulpit, the Earl of Northesk's corps were handed and lifting, and the canons shutting [shooting], and the body of the towne attending the corps, and the ministers invited to the burial, and the corps to be deposited in the Church for the night, therfor it was thought expedient to curreease [surcease] the exercise this day. Notwithstanding, after the close of the funeral solemnity, the brethren met for discipline."
The EARL was succeeded by his eldest son, DAVID, third EARL OF NORTHESK.
CHARLES, LORD CLERMONT AND FETTERCAIRN, was the only son and successor of the first EARL OF MIDDLIETON (vide page 156), and of GRIZEL, daughter of SIR JAMES DURHAM of Pitkerrow. During his youth his father was abroad at the Court of CHARLES II, and he was reared in the midst of those devoted noblemen who shared the KING'S exile. Shortly after the Restoration he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Austria; and he succeeded to the title of EARL OF MIDDLETON on the death of his father, in 1673. Returning to this country in 1682, he was made one of the principal Secretaries of State for Scotland; and two years afterwards was raised to the position of an Extraordinary Lord of Session, and sworn of the Privy Council of England. On 25th August, 1684, he was appointed one of the Secretaries of State for England, and held this high office till the Revolution of 1688, at which time he retired to France with KING JAMES. He was outlawed as a rebel on 23rd July, 1691, and his estates were forfeited the following year. The EARL never returned to Scotland, but remained with the exiled Royal Family at St Germains until his death. He is thus referred to in MACKAY'S Memoirs:
"This man, who had stood all the temptations of King James' reign and all the endeavours of that prince to bring him over, to the surprise of all who knew him, declared himself a Roman Catholic upon the King's death ; and, after having said as much as any man against Popery, yet hath now the entire manage¬ment of the Court of St Germains."
The EARL OF MIDDLETON was married to LADY CATHERINE BRUDENEL, daughter of ROBERT, EARL OF CARDIGAN, and had two sons and three daughters. The COUNTESS survived till 1743, having then reached her ninety fifth year.
ANDREW MIDDLETON was the younger brother of the first EARL OF MIDDLETON, and was therefore paternal uncle of LORD CLERMONT, who was admitted a Burgess of Dundee on the same day as himself. His family had been connected with the County of Kincardine from the time of WILLIAM THE LION, and in 1690 he acquired the lands of Balbegno there, and founded the family of MIDDLETON of Balbegno, which became extinct on the death of his only surviving son, ROBERT, in 1710.
SIR ALEXANDER DURHAM was the third son of SIR. JAMES DURHAM of Pitkerrow, and was one of the members of a family that had been long, associated with Dundee. His father suffered severely for his adherence to CHARLES I, but was replaced in the offices from which he had been ousted when CHARLES II. was restored to the throne. Sir ALEXANDER was also a faithful supporter of the Royalists, and was Knighted and made Lord Lyon King of Arms in August, 1660. Two years afterwards he acquired the lands of Largo, in Fife, of which he had a charter under the Great Seal, dated 1st January, 1663. At this time he held a commission as Colonel of one of the Royal Regiments, and was Receiver General of the Land Tax of Scotland. His sister, GRIZEL DURHAM, was married to the first EARL OF MIDDLETON, and he was the maternal uncle of LORD CLERMONT. The exact date of SIR ALEXANDER DURHAM'S death is not recorded, but as it appears from LAmONT'S Diary (page 162) that the Parliament which met on 18th June, 1663, “ratified CH. ARSKIN, KELLY'S brother, his commission to be Lord Lyon in stead of the deceased SIR ALEX. DURHAME," his death must have taken place early in that year. He was never married, and his estate went to his nephew FRANCIS, Son of the famous JAMES DURHAM, minister of the High Church of Glasgow, and one of the most eminent divines of the period.
SIR. JOHN STRACHAN, Receiver of His Majesty's Revenues, was a scion of the house of STRACHAN of Thornton, in Kincardines hire. His father, SIR ALEXANDER STRACHAN of Thornton, was created a Baronet by CHARLES I. in 1625; and his aunt was the mother of the first EARL OF MIDDLETON.
SIR MUNGO MURRAY of Garth was the second son of JOHN, first (MURRAY) EARL OF ATHOL, and of JEAN, youngest daughter of SIR DUNCAN CAMPBELL of Glenurchy. He held a commission in the Royal Guards at the time of the Restoration; and he represented Perthshire in the Parliaments of 1661 3 and 1669. He died unmarried in 1671, and was buried in St Giles', Edinburgh.