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divided Lords Craig, Cullen, and Hermand argued against; and Lords
Armadale, Meadowbank, and the Lord Justice-clerk for the relevancy ; but, as
the latter had only a casting vote, the libel was found “not relevant”4nd the
parties were dismissed.
On resigning his offices in the Courts of Session and Justiciary in 18l1,
Lord Armadale retired to Smyllum Park, his residence in Lanarkshire, where
he died on the 5th June 1825. Be married Mary, eldest daughter of the Lord
Justice-Clerk, M‘Queen, of Braxfield, by whom he had a numerous family. His
two eldest sons, Patrick and Robert, entered the army. The former served in
the 28th Light Dragoons ; and the latter, who died in Jamaica on the 20th
November 1809-deeply regretted as an officer of much gallantry and the
highest promise-was Lieut.-Colonel of the 18th Regiment of Foot. The
following notice of his demise appeared in the journals :-
“ In Jamaica, Lieut.-Colonel Robed Honyman, second son of Lord Armadale. He served as
a volunteer during the campaign in Egypt, where he was honoured with the approbation of Sir
Ralph Abercromby, and acquired the esteem and friendship of Sir John Moore, Generals Hope,
Spencer, and other distinguished otficers. At the attack on the Dutch lines, at the capture of
the Cape of Good Hope, he, under Sir David Baird, led on the 93d Regiment, of which he was
Major, and was severely wounded. As Lieut.-Colonel of the 18th Foot, he lately received the
thanks of the Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Jamaica, for his active services in suppressing
a mutiny of the black troops in that Island, where he has since fallen a victim to the fever of
the countrg, at the age of twenty-seven.”
No. CCXXVIII.
REV. DR. ALEXANDER TURNBULL,
OF DALLADIES.
DR. ALEXANDETRU RNBULwLa s the eldest son of Mr. George Turnbull, Writer
to the Signet, a gentleman of good family (being a descendant of the Turnbulls
of Stracathro, in Forfarshire), and of considerable eminence in his profession.
By his mother’s side, he was related in a distant degree to the celebrated
Charles James Fox..’ He was born in Merlin’s Wynd (subsequently removed
on the erection of the South Bridge), in the month of February 1748. While
yet a minor, he had the misfortune to lose his father, but the loss was
mitigated by the good offices of Lord Gardenstone, whom Mr, Turnbull had
appointed guardian to his children. At the usual age the subject of this notice
was apprenticed to Mr. Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, father of Sir Walter
Scott, a gentleman of whom he was accustomed to speak in terms of affection
The rise of the family of Fox is curious. Though there are peerages, viz nchaster and Holland,
in the family, the founder, Si Stephen Fox, w~as originally B footman, in the reign of Charles IL