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231 B1,OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The Marquis married, in 1793, MARY TURNER GAVIN, eldest daughter and co-heiress of David Gavin,’ Esq., of Langton, by Lady Elizabeth Maitland, daughter of James seventh Earl of Lauderdale. The issue of this union were two daughters and one son. The eldest, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, was married to Sir John Pringle, of Stitchel, Bart., and the youngest, Lady Mary, to the Marquis of Chandos, afterwards second Duke of Buckingham. The Marquis of Breadalbane died at Taymouth Castle, after a short illness, in 1834, aged seventy-two.’ He was succeeded by his son, John Earl of Ormelie, lately M.P. for Perthshire. He married, in 1821, the eldest daughter of George Baillie, Esq. of Jerviswood, then heir-presumptive to the earldom of Haddington, but had no issue. As a substantial proof that the “ sway I’ of the surviving Countess Dowager sat lightly, her ladyship was left one of the richest widows in Scotland. Another instance of peculiar esteem, on the part of the Marquis, was the fact that, a few years before his death, he caused to be erected, at great expense, a Cross of the most elegant architectural design, in honour of the Marchioness, upon which is an inscription highly complimentary to her ladyship. The Cross stands in a delightful and conspicuous situation, at the extreme end of the celebrated “Beech Terrace,” at Taymouth. No. CCXLIX. CAMPBELL OF SONACHAN LAUGHING AT THE PRINT OF ‘( PETTICOAT GOVERNMEKT.” THE shop of the artist, a place of much attraction, was unusually so while the novelty of the above Caricature continued. Mr. Campbell, whose property bordered on that of Breadalbane, was acquainted with the Earl; and happening, as rarely occurred, to be in Edinburgh, he was induced to gratify his curiosity by a peep at Kay’s window, where, little dreaming of the trap laid for him by his friends, he no sooner recognised the burlesque representation Subsequently settling in Scotland, he purchased the beautiful estate of Langton (the ancient seat of the Cockborns), near Dunse, in Berwickshire. -a The whole of the personal estate of the late Marquis, it is said, exceeding 6300,000, had been directed by his will to accumulate for twenty years, at the end of which it was to be laid out on estates, to be added to the entailed property ; but his settlement wm partly set aside by the Marquis of Chandos, in right of his wife, xrho obtained an affirmance, by the House of Peers, of the decisiou of the Court of Session, declaring that the Marchioness and her husband, in her right, were entitled to demand legitim. This gentleman made a fortune in Holland or the Netherlands.
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