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

Mcinorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise.
With Sir Richard Strachan, eighth baronet, departed
the last representative of Patrick, second son of James
Strachan of Inchtnthill, when the succession to the family
honours devolved on the representative of his third son,
David, Bishop of Brechin. This distinguished member of
the House graduated at the University of Edinburgh, 27th
July 1622. In 1630 he was presented by Charles I. to
the parish of Fettercairn. He took a leading concern in
ecclesiastical affairs, and was ajjpointed by Parliament, 22d
February 1661, one of the Commissioners for visiting the
University of Aberdeen. In the following year, he was,
through the influence of his relative, John, Earl of Middle-
ton, nominated by Charles II. to the Bishopric of Brechin.
He was consecrated at St Andrews on the 7th May 1662.
Bishop Strachan died on the 9th October 1671, about
the age of seventy. He married Margaret Henderson, by
whom he had two sons, David and James, and two
daughters, Beatrix who married her relative, Mr John
Strachan,^ minister of Strachan, and Margaret a spinster.
1 John Strachan was or.hxiued Jliiiister of Strachan ]jrior to tlie I7th April 1660,
and died between 28th January and the 26t]i February 1701, at an advanced age!
He married 1st, Beatrix Straclian, daugliter of David, Bisliop of Brechin, and had
a daughter Jean ; lie married 2dly, in 1669, Mar-aret Speid (Dr Scott's i'asii vol
iii. 541). '