Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

204 AN OLD FAMILY. [a.d. 1600
I believe that the last of the family was a gallant young officer
killed a few years ago at Cabul during the campaign of Lord
Roberts in Afghanistan.
Janet, married to Bernard Oliphant of the family of Sir
William Oliphant of Aberdalgie, who so gallantly defended
Stirling Castle against King Edward I. in 1304. His grand-
son was created Lord Oliphant before 1456. The peerage
is dormant or extinct since 1 751. The family is now repre-
sented by Oliphant of Gask.
Margaret, married to Robert Hunter of Newton Rires, son
of Patrick Hunter of Newton Rires, and of Dorothy Forbes,
whose father, John Forbes, married Barbara Sandiland of St.
Monans.
III. John Seton of Lathrisk.. We know little of him,
except that he married Alice Bonar. The Bonars of Rossie,
in Fife, are mentioned as landowners in the middle of the
fifteenth century. He had several sons, and among them
George, James, and Patrick. Jane, the daughter of James
Seton, married Robert Echlin, of the Echlins of Pitaddro,
who in 1 60 1 was Minister of Inverkeithing in Fife, but in
1613 became Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland. Their
great-grandson, Sir Henry Echlin, was created a baronet in
1721.
Captain Patrick Seton, the fifth and youngest son, is a pic-
turesque figure. He had served in the famous corps of Scots
men-at-arms, or " Mounted Scots Guard," which became
later (under Louis XIV.) the Gens d' Amies Ecossais and the
first cavalry regiment in France after that of the Royal
Household, called Mahon du Roi. Patrick remained all his
life a bachelor, but not because he was too poor to marry,
judging trom his will. He had probably been crossed in love
early in life. He died at Elgin, in the house of his distant
kinsman, Alexander Seton, Lord Fvvie, on 16th February,
1600, leaving by will, dated two days previously, 900 merks