William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
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Johnstone (surname)
Johnstone is a surname. It is a variant of the similar surname Johnston which in most cases is a habitational surname derived from several places in Scotland. However, it can also be a variant of the surname Johnson.-Etymology:...
, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
The title Earl of Annandale and Hartfell was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1661 for James Johnstone.In 1625, the title of Earl of Annandale had been created for John Murray, but it became extinct when his son James died without heirs....
, 1st Marquess of Annandale KT
Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...
(17 February 1664 – 14 January 1721) was a Scottish
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nobleman
Peerage of Scotland
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. He was the son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell
James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell
James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell was a Scottish peer and royalist.-Background:He was the only son of Sir James Johnstone, the Warden of the West Marches and his wife Sarah, sister of William Maxwell, 5th Lord Herries of Terregles...
and Henrietta Douglas. He succeeded to the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell on the death of his father in 1672.
He was a friend of Monmouth
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC , was an English nobleman. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter...
and nominally supported Revolution, but joined "The Club" of Jacobite
Jacobitism
Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...
malcontents and was imprisoned in connection with Montgomery plot. He was restored to favour on making confession and was created an Extraordinary Lord of Session
Extraordinary Lord of Session
Extraordinary Lords of Session were lay members of the Court of Session in Scotland from 1532 to 1762.When the Court of Session was founded in 1532, it consisted of the Lord President, 14 Ordinary Lords and three or four Extraordinary Lords. The Extraordinary Lords were nominees of the King, not...
in 1693, and a Lord of the Treasury
Treasurer of Scotland
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. He received a pension for services in connection with Glencoe inquiry
Massacre of Glencoe
Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, an infamous massacre took place in Glen Coe, in the Highlands of Scotland. This incident is referred to as the Massacre of Glencoe, or in...
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He was created Marquess of Annandale in 1701, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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in 1701 and 1711, Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
The office of Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, one of the Great Officers of State, first appears in the reign of David II. After the Act of Union 1707 its holder was normally a peer, like the Keeper of the Great Seal...
in 1702, and president of the Privy Council of Scotland
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from 1692 to 1695, 1702-4 and 1705-6. He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle
Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...
in 1704, joint Secretary of State
Secretary of State, Scotland
The Secretary of Scotland was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland.The office appeared in the 14th century when it was combined with that of Keeper of the Privy Seal. Called Clericus Regis , he was regarded as an Officer of State...
from March-September 1705.
He opposed the Union, but later served as a representative peer
Representative peer
In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords...
from 1709-13. He was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
Great Seal of Scotland
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from 1714-16.
William was married twice: first on 1 January 1682 to Sophia Fairholm, daughter of John Fairholm of Craigiehall
Craigiehall
Craigiehall is a late-17th-century country house, which now serves as the Headquarters of the 2nd Division of the British Army. It is located close to Cramond, around west of central Edinburgh, Scotland....
, and second on 20 November 1718 to Charlotte Van Lore Bempde, daughter of John Vanden Bempde of Hackness.
Children of first marriage
by Sophia Fairholm- Lady Henrietta JohnstoneHenrietta Hope, Countess of HopetounHenrietta Hope , Countess of Hopetoun was a Scottish noblewoman born in Lockwood, Dumfries, Scotland. She was the daughter of Sir William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale and Sophia Fairholm...
(11 November 1682 – 25 November 1750) married on 31 August 1699 to Charles Hope, 1st Earl of HopetounCharles Hope, 1st Earl of HopetounCharles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun KT was a Scottish nobleman.He was the son of John Hope of Hopetoun, grandson of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet of Craighall, Fife. John Hope purchased the barony of Niddry Castle from the Earl of Winton around 1680... - Mary Johnstone (15 June 1686 – died an infant)
- James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of AnnandaleJames Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of AnnandaleJames Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and 2nd Marquess of Annandale, was born about 1687-8 and was the eldest son of William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and 1st Marquess of Annandale, by his first wife Sophia Fairholm...
(1687– 21 February 1730) died unmarried - John Johnstone born in 1688 and died young
- William Johnstone (1696 – 24 December 1721)
Children of second marriage
by Charolette Van Lore Bempde- George Johnstone, 3rd Marquess of AnnandaleGeorge Vanden-Bempde, 3rd Marquess of AnnandaleGeorge Vanden Bempde , 3rd Marquess of Annandale, succeeded James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale on his death in 1730 , and enjoyed that title from then to his own death, whereupon the title became extinct.- See also :* Earl of Annandale and Hartfell* Sir Richard Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st...
(29 May 1720 – 29 April 1792) died unmarried - John Johnstone (8 June 1721 – October 1742) died unmarried