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160 HISTORY OF AYRSHIRE
The second son of the first Earl— we shall deal with
the eldest son presently — Patrick Boyle, was an advocate,
an able man and influential in his time, who in 1746 was
appointed a Judge of the Court of Session, and who took
the title of Lord Shewalton from the estate in which he
had succeeded his uncle William in 1740. He was
afterwards a member of the Board of Manufactures.
For many years he was Commissioner to the Duke of
Queensberry, with whom, as with " Lovely Kitty," the
Duchess, he was on terms of intimate friendship. He
died unmarried at Drumlanrig, 1761, and was buried at
the Church of Largs. He was succeeded in Shewalton,
under the provisions of his uncle's entail, by his nephew,
also named Patrick. The Earl's third son, Charles, was
an officer in the Royal Navy, was repeatedly in action,
and was twice made prisoner by the French. The
"Advice," in which he served, fought a gallant action
single-handed off Yarmouth, against no fewer than eight
French privateers, but was overpowered and forced to
strike. Charles, leaving the navy, was appointed
Collector of Customs at Irvine. Later, getting into
difficulties, he went to Ireland and thence to America,
where he resided for a number of years, getting a grant of
land in Long Island, New York, and becoming a Justice
of the Peace. He subsequently returned to Great
Britain, and died unmarried in 1770. By his second wife,
Jean Mure, heiress of Rowallan, Lord Glasgow had one
son, William, who died young, and four daughters, only
one of whom, Lady Jean, was married. Her husband,
the Hon. James Campbell of Lawers, Colonel of the Scots
Greys, third son of James, second Earl of Loudoun, was
a very gallant and distinguished soldier. Lady Jean
succeeded to Rowallan at her mother's death in 1724,
and, dying at Lawers five years later, was buried in the
Rowallan family burying place. Her husband later
attained the rank of Lieutenant-General and was made
a Knight of the Bath. He was killed at the battle of
Fontenoy, April 30, 1745. Their son succeeded his
mother in Rowallan, and took the name of Mure, and