Historical memoir of the family of Eglinton and Winton

106 BRANCHES OF THE
of the most surpassing excellence. Mr William
Dobie of Grangevale, near Beith, doubtless the
most accomplished " Old Mortality " of the present
time, has given a very minute description of this
elaborately ornate monument in his curious and
interesting work on the " Churches and Burying-
Grounds of Ayrshire," printed at Glasgow in 1847.
Further, it is understood that a series of correct
drawings of this structure were executed by the
late distinguished Mr Lizars of Edinburgh, for the
worthy and patriotic twelfth Earl of Eglinton.
The first baronet of Skelmorlie married Mar-
garet, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Drum-
lanrick, and was succeeded by, apparently, his only
surviving son, of the same name. He died in 1651,
"having enjoyed the estate of Skelmorlie for the
long period of sixty-seven years."
Sir Robert Montgomerie, the eighth baron and
second baronet of Skelmorlie, " got from his father
the lands of Lochransay," hence he appears usually
designed therefrom prior to his succession to the
family inheritance. In 1607, he was knighted by
the Duke of Lennox, then High-Commissioner to
the Parliament of Scotland. This baronet married,
in 1617, Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of Archi-
bald Earl of Argyle, by whom he had a consider-
able family both of sons and daughters, but he did
not long survive his accession to Skelmorlie, dying
in 1654.
The third baronet of Skelmorlie was still of the
same name of Robert. And of him the worthy