Memoranda relating to the family of Haldane of Gleneagles

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ancestor to the Lennox estates. He is mentioned by
(Vol. 2, Nisbet (Vol. ii. p. 148) as having at the funeral of the
"' Duke of Rothes borne the banner of his relative the
Earl of Tullibardine. He married a daughter of the
DiedA.B. family of Grant of Grant, and died in 1685, having had
685 - (with two daughters, Margaret wife of Sir Patrick
Murray, Bart., of Ochtertyre, and Janet, m. 1682 Patrick
Smythe Esq. of Methven) a son and successor,
John John Haldane of Gleneagles, Member for Co. Perth
Haldane, j n ftie last Scottish Parliament and in the first
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a.d. 1685. British Parliament after the Union in 1707. For forty
years he occupied a conspicuous position down to the
time of his death, a.d. 1722. He married first Mary,
third daughter of David Drummond, Lord Maderty, by
Lady Beatrix Graham his wife, daughter of John fourth
Earl of Montrose, and secondly Helen, only
daughter of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, grandson of
the Earl of Mar, and ancestor of the Earls of Rosslyn.
By his first marriage he had issue an eldest son,
llungo L Mungo Haldane of Gleneagles, successively M.P.
Haldane f 01 . t] ie Counties of Perth and Stirling, d. unm. 1st
June, 1755, aged 73. His successor, his next brother
by his father's first marriage, was
Patrick H. Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, Professor of
Haldane History at St. Andrew's, afterwards M.P. for the St.
who sold.
Glen- Andrew's Boroughs, and Solicitor-General, died 1769.
eagles. jj e married Margaret, daur. of fourth Lord Forrester,
and had an only son, George Haldane, who served in
the Coldstream Guards, and was wounded at Fontenoy.
He afterwards became Brigadier-General and M.P., and
died in 1759 Governor of Jamaica, unmarried. Being
thus left without male issue and a heavily incumbered
estate, Patrick Haldane in 1760 sold the Gleneagles
estates to his half-brother, Captain Robert Haldane, who
had returned from India with a large fortune. Patrick
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