Genealogical memoirs of the Scottish House of Christie

42 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIKS OF
in the Coldstream Guards, 5th March 1801, he in 1805 became
captain. In 1805 he served in Germany, and in 1807 at
Copenhagen. He also served in the Peninsular War. At
the battle of Talavera, on the 28th July 1809, he was severely
wounded. In August 1810 he was taken prisoner, but was
soon afterwards exchanged, when he quitted military service.
He now established his residence at Durie, having succeeded
his father in 1803. A Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-
Lieutenant of Fifeshire, he obtained celebrity for his skill
in field sports. Of deep religious convictions, he became an
office-bearer of the Established Church; in 1843 he adhered
to the Free Church, which he continued zealously to pro-
mote. He died in 1871, at the age of eighty-six. Charles
Maitland Christie of Durie married, first, 18th November
1815, Mary Butler, eldest daughter of the Hon. Eobert
Lindsay, son of the fifth Earl of Balcarres, and by her had
seven sons and five daughters. Elizabeth Butler, the eldest
daughter, born on the 14th September 1816, died unmarried.
Mary, second daughter, born 8th April 1823, married, in
January 1845, Francis Brown Douglas, Esq., advocate, subse-
quently Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Anne, third daughter,
born 23d January 1827, married, on the 31st July 1856,
Benjamin Wyld, Esq., youngest son of James Wyld, Esq.
of Gilston, Fifeshire, with issue one son. Margaret, fourth
daughter, born 2d February 1828, married Bichard Lundin
Brown, Esq., son of the Bev. Eobert Brown, minister of Largo,
by his wife, Elizabeth Lundin of Auchtermairnie, Fifeshire,
with issue one daughter.
James Christie, eldest son of Charles Maitland Christie of
Durie, was born on the 25th August 1817. He married, 3d
August 1858, Frances Jane, second daughter of David