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

Memorials of tJie Families of Strachan and Wise. 2 5
in the lands of Thornton. In order to complete the family
arrangements, Sir James Strachan resigned his liferent of
the lands, which was thereupon conditionally conveyed to
James Strachan and Barbara Forbes, his spouse, " by a
royal charter under the great seal, dated at Whitehall,
31st October 1681.^
The Eev. Sir James Strachan died at Inverness, in
1715, aged seventy-five. His second wife seems to have
long predeceased him, for in 1690 a tablet in the family
burial aisle at Marykirk commemorates Philip Forbes,
styled " de Thornton." In 1720 the estate of Thornton
was acquired by the family of FuUerton, a member of
which sold it in 1786 to Lord Gardenstone, a celebrated
lawyer and patron of literature. By Francis Garden of
Troup, son and successor of Lord Gardenstone, the pro-
perty was sold to Alexander Crombie of Pliesdo ; it is
now possessed by his son, Alexander Crombie, Esq., of
Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law.
James, eldest son of the Rev. Sir James Strachan, pre-
deceased his father ; he is believed to have fallen during
the rebellion of 1715. William,^ his second son, succeeded
1 Register of the Great Seal, Book 68, No. 65.
- In his Fasti (vol. iii. p. 206) Dr Scott names John as the Reverend Baronet's
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