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40 HISTORY OF AYRSHIRE
of a great clan and the head of a famous house ; oi
outstanding character and worthy of the respect in
which he was universally held. His family consisted ot
three sons and three daughters. On his death he was
succeeded by
Archibald, the present Peer, third Marquess of Ailsa,
and fourteenth Earl of Cassillis, born ist September,
1847. He was a Lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards,
and a Captain in the Army. He is a Deputy-Lieutenant
for Ayrshire, and hon. Commander Royal Naval Reserve.
He was also Lieutenant commanding Clyde Royal Naval
Artillery Volunteers. By his first wife, Evetyn, third
daughter of Charles, twelfth and last Lord Blantyre, to
whom he was married in 1871, and who died in i888 ; he
had three sons and two daughters ; and by his second
wife, Isabella, daughter of the late Hugh MacMaster,
Esq., of Kasani, North West Provinces, India, he has a
son and daughter. His eldest son, Archibald, Earl of
Cassillis, born May, 22, 1872 was Captain in the 3rd
Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers ; served in South Africa,
1900-2, and has two medals and five clasps ; is an
Advocate, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for Ayrshire. On
30th April, 1903, he married Frances Emily, third
daughter of Sir Mark Stewart, Bart., of Southwick,
Kirkcudbright, and Ar dwell, Wigtownshire, late M.P. for
the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. It would obviously be
premature to say more of the present Marquess than that
in addition to wearing worthily the honours that have
descended to him from a long line of ancestors, he has
shown himself in many and diverse directions, in the
fullest sympathy with the spirit of the age ; and that,
in addition to the respect due to his high rank, he has
earned also the respect that is due to unblemished
character, and the faithful and considerate discharge of
his many duties.
The insignia of the family are thus described : —
Arms. — Argent, a chevron gules between three cross
crosslets fitchee sable, within a double tressure flory
counterflory of the second.