Memoir of the life of John Law of Lauriston

OF LAURISTON. 203
1799, to Lady Anne Wellesley, sister of the
Marquis of Wellesley and Duke of Welling-
ton, relict of the Hon. Henry Fitsroy.
John Law of Lauriston, the eldest son, born
19th October 1719, after very important ser-
vices in a civil and military capacity in India,
detailed in the Ancient and Modern State of
the Parish of Cramond, 251 — 263, rose to the
rank of Marshal de Camp, Governor of Pon-
dichery, Commandant General and President
of Council of all the French settlements in In-
dia. He succeeded to the estate of Lauris-
ton on the death of his father in 1752, and
died at Paris about 1796, having married, in
1755, Miss Jean Carvalho, daughter of a Por-
tuguese gentleman settled at Calcutta, by
whom he had nine children.
1. Jean, born 8th March 1757, married, in
1777, to the Comte de la Fare Lopez.
2. Anne, born 21st December 1761, died
2d December 1762.
3. John, born 31st July 1765, died 19th
December following.
4. John William Law de Lauriston, born
8th September 1766, an accomplished officer
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