Red and white book of Menzies

366 THE "RED & WHITE" BOOK OF MENZIES. [a.d. 1748.
being mentioned as distinguished in the capture of Martinique, 8th January 1762 ;
and the next year at the conquest of Havanna, where, after all the hard fighting
was ended, he caught fever and died without issue. (3rd) The only daughter, Jane
Campbell, was born 1st June 1744, the witnesses (?) of her baptism being,
" My Lord Holyroodhouse and Robert Menzies of Culteralers," by Rev. Allan
Webester, one of the ministers of the city of Edinburgh, 17th June 1744.
III. The third son of Captain James Menzies of Comrie was Neil Menzies, who
became a surgeon in Brigadier Middleton's regiment, and who is said to have
ultimately practised as a surgeon in Perth. He married his cousin Mary Bothwell,
only child of Henry, Lord Holyroodhouse, by whom he had an only son Robert.
She died 24th May 1783. Their only son Robert, on the death of Sir John the
fourth Baronet, became Sir Robert Menzies, fifth Baronet. He married Catherine
Ochiltree, by whom he had an only son Neil, who became Sir Neil Menzies, sixth
lit Baronet of Menzies, who by his second wife, the Hon. Grace Charlotte Conyers
Norton, had two sons — 1st, the present Sir Robert Menzies, the seventh Baronet of
Menzies ; and 2nd, Fletcher Norton Menzies of Menzies. Sir Robert had two sons,
Neil, who became captain in the Scots Guards, and Robert, who died young.
IV. The fourth son of Captain James Menzies of Comrie, by his spouse the
Hon. Ann Campbell, was Robert Menzies, born in 1699. He became a writer
at Coshievill in the parish of Dull, and married Margaret Arnot, and by her had
two sons, William and James. (1st.) William Menzies, born 25th July 1732, at
Cushavilla (near Comrie Castle), the witnesses being George Small and James
Stewart, yr. of Garth. He married Isobel Janet Macdonald Menzies, by whom
he had seven sons — John, Alexander, Dr Thomas, Robert, Duncan, William, and
Archibald. [(1st.)] John, born 24th June 1770, at " Tomntougal," parish of Dull,
but who died young. [(2d.)] Alexander, born 22nd February 1776, but who also
died in childhood. [(3rd.)] Thomas, born nth May 1781. This son was sent to
the University of Glasgow, where he became Dr Thomas Menzies, of 8 St Andrew's
Square, Glasgow, one of the graduates of the Old College of Glasgow, where he
became one of the lecturers on surgery and a leading doctor of that city. He was
one of the first medical men to introduce the hydropathic treatment of patients by
hot, cold, vapour, and other baths, which were first fitted up in his dispensary in
Nelson Street. His name stands in the books of the University of Glasgow as a
" CM.," 22nd April 1822, signed " Thomas Menzies Scotus." He was appointed by
the Council in 1831 one of the medical staff to take measures against the first attack
of cholera, then approaching the city. He married Janet Campbell, cousin to Sir
James Campbell of Stracathro, Lord Provost of Glasgow, and William Campbell, Esq.
of Tullichewan, and by her he had three sons — Dr John, Thomas Marshall, and David
Ferguson ; and also five daughters — Margaret, Isobell-Blair, Ann, Mary, and Jessie.
(1ST.) First son of Dr Thomas — John, who afterwards became Dr John Menzies, a