Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

24 Memorials oj tJie Families of Slraclian and Jf^ise.
his relative Sir John Forbes, Bart,, of Craigicvar, to tlie
parish of Keith, Banffshire, and was ordained to the charge
on the 25th July 1665. He was deprived by the Privy
Council, 7th November 1689, for not reading the pro-
clamation of the Estates, not praying for King William
and Queen Mary, and praying for the restoration of the
late King. Encouraged by the adherents of the exiled
House, he established a meeting-house at Keith, and was
in consequence subjected to popular violence. His library
was scattered, many of his books being tossed into the
street. A few odd volumes are preserved in the vestry
of the parish church. He succeeded his father in the
baronetcy while occupying the parochial charge. His
]^lurality of dignities was thus set forth l)y a local rliymster :
" The beltit kniclit o' Thornton,
An' laird o' Pittenilric^-cli ;
An' Maister ^ James Straelian,
Minister o' Keith."'
The reverend baronet married, first, Katherine Ross,
who died in 1680; secondly, in 1681, Barbara, daughter
of Forbes of Waterton (niece of his father's second wife),
when, by an anti-nu})tial contract, his wife Avas liferented
' III iilln^ion t.i liis lioMiiiir tlie lU'-ivc ol' Master of Arts.