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kenzie, and was known and styled Edward Hay-Mackenzie, Esquire of Cromartie.
Like a true Tweeddale, Mr. Hay-Mackenzie was a large, strong-made man, while
his wife was a lady of small stature. Mrs. Hay-Mackenzie died at No. 10 Royal
Circus, Edinburgh, on 8th October 1858. Mr. Hay-Mackenzie predeceased her
on 5th December 1814. Their children were one son and three daughters :
(1.) John Hay -Mackenzie ; (2.) Dorothea, married, 2d July 1813, Sir David
Hunter Blair, and died 22d May 1820, leaving issue; (3.) Isabella, married, 1st
November 1817, John Buckle, Esquire, and had issue ; and (4.) Georgina. The
latter married James Earl of Glasgow, without issue. On the death of the Hon.
Mrs. Hay-Mackenzie, she was succeeded in Cromartie by her only son,
JOHN HAY-MACKENZIE, Esq. of Cromartie and Newhall.
His mother conveyed the fee of the Cromartie estates to him in 1822 and
1828. He married, 23d April 1828, Anne, third daughter of Sir James Gibson-
Craig of Riccarton, Baronet. Mr. Hay-Mackenzie died at Cliefden on 9th July
1849. He was survived by his wife, who died at Castle Leod on 8th September
1869. The remains of Lady Elibank, and her daughter, and also of her grand-
son and his relict, were all placed in the Cromartie aisle, in the parish church of
Kilmuir Easter, in which parish the family mansion of Tarbat House is situated.
The remains of Edward Hay-Mackenzie were interred in the Tweeddale family
vault, near Yester House. Mr. Hay-Mackenzie was succeeded by his only child,
ANNE HAY-MACKENZIE, Heiress of Cromartie,
now Countess of Cromartie, Duchess of Sutherland, etc.
She married, on 27th June 1849, George Granville William, Marquis of
Stafford, now third Duke of Sutherland, K. G., and Premier Peer of Scotland.
Her Grace was created Countess of Cromartie, Viscountess Tarbat of Tarbat, and
Baroness Macleod of Castleleod, and Baroness Castlehaven of Castlehaven, by
patent dated 21st October 1861. Her Grace's second surviving son, Lord Francis
Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Viscount Tarbat, is the heir-apparent to the Earl-
dom of Cromartie and the Cromartie-Mackenzie Estates, in terms of a new entail
of them made by Her Grace on 16th October 1861, under the authority of a
special Act of Parliament.