Historical memoir of the family of Eglinton and Winton

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CHAPTER XII.
ARCHIBALD, Lord Montgomerie, the Earl's
last surviving son, having predeceased his
father, as previously noticed, in 1814, Hugh, the
twelfth Earl, came to be succeeded by his grandson,
the only surviving issue of his lordship. Lord
Montgomerie had attained the twenty-third year of
his age ere his father's succession to the earldom ;
and early in life he adopted the military profes-
sion — his first commission being in the famed Forty-
second Highlanders. Subsequently, he was pro-
moted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel command-
ant of the Glasgow regiment, originally raised by
his father, and afterwards reduced in 1795 ; subse-
quently Colonel of the Ayrshire Militia ; and finally,
he obtained the rank of Major-General, October,
25th, 1809. During the years 1812 and 1813, his
lordship served with the army in Sicily ; and, for
some time, "in the absence of Lord William Ben-
tinck, he represented his Majesty George III. at
the court of Palermo." But "he was obliged to
leave Sicily on account of bad health, and died at
Alicant, 4th January, 1814, to the great grief of his
aged father. He was buried in the convent chapel
at Gibraltar;" and on his tomb is inscribed a long
and exceedingly beautiful epitaph, said to have been