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.770, and appears to have been succeeded by
,he son of his sister Margaret, who had married
John Oliphant of Carpow. This brings us
X) what may be termed the third family of
Bachilton. John Oliphant of Carpow and
Bachilton is stated to be great-grandson of
William Oliphant, first of Carpow, third son
of Ninian Millar, calling himself Oliphant, a
natural son of the fourth Lord Oliphant, or of
his son the Master of Oliphant (Condie chart).
William Oliphant of Carpow was guardian
to Hay of Balhousie, and died about 1666.
His son John Oliphant, second of Carpow,
married Margaret B... (name undecipherable),
and died 1690. His son, John Oliphant of
Carpow, married Margaret, sister of David
Oliphant of Bachilton, and died 1727 (Condie
chart). John, fourth of Carpow, who suc-
ceeded to Bachilton, was twice married
(Condie chart and ' N. & Q.,' 4 th S. ix. 322,
393). It is reasonable to remark that the
Condie chart is, in all probability, nearly, if
not quite, correct in the descent of the Bac-
hilton property from this John. By his first
marriage this 'so-called Lord Oliphant had a
son John and a daughter Margaret. John
the son is asserted to have died in 1777,
during the lifetime of his father, and to have
left issue a son John Harrison Oliphant, who
succeeded his grandfather and died in 1791.
First Marriage.
=pJohn Oliphant of Carpow and Bachilton, " called Lord Oliphant," d. March, 1781.
John Oliphant,=p
d. 1777.
Margaret, mar. 1, Gumming;
2, Mackenzie ; s. her half-
brother John* : d, about
1800.
John Harrison Oliphant, d. 1791,
s. by his half-uncle John.
Union Club, S.W.
John Harrison Oliphant's successor was his
half -uncle John Oliphant, who, with his sister
Janet (afterwards of Bachilton and Lady
Elibank), was of the second marriage of John
Oliphant of Carpow and Bachilton with
Janet Morton (see ' N. & Q.,' 4 th S. ix. 322,
393). This John, who inherited the property
from his half-nephew in 1791, died in 1797,
and was succeeded by his half-sister (of the
first marriage) Margaret, who married, first,
Gumming, and, secondly, Mackenzie. She
was served heir in that year to her father
John Oliphant of Bachilton, "called Lord
Oliphant" as heir of tailzie and provision
special in Bachilton (see 'Chancery Records').
On her death, apparently witnout issue,
Bachilton passed to her half-sister (of the
second marriage with Janet Morton) Janet,
who married, in 1803, Alexander, Master of
Elibank, afterwards eighth lord, with whose
descendants the property of Bachilton to-
gether with the name of Oliphant now
remains. Janet, Lady Elibank, was born
posthumously, in 1781, her father having
died in the March of that year after his
marriage on 3 Jan. in the same year to Janet
Morton. A sketch pedigree of the descend-
ants of John, called Lord Oliphant, will serve
to elucidate this somewhat complicated suc-
cession to the Bachilton property :
Second Marriage. =p Janet Morton, mar. 3 Jan,, 1781,
- John, s. his half-nephew,
John Harrison, and, 1797, was s. by his half -sister Margaret.
Janet=p Alexander,
8th Lord
Elibank.
Oliphant- Murrays,
Lords Elibank.
JOHN PARKES BUCHANAN.
W. CLARKE AND HIS PROJECTED WORK ON
NATURAL HISTORY. W. Clarke, the author
of ' The Boys' Own Book,' is the subject of a
short memoir in the ' Dictionary of National
Biography,' wherein it is stated that " for the
last three or four years of his life he devoted
himself to an elaborate work on natural his-
tory. This does not appear to have been
published." There are grave doubts whether
he ever wrote any such work, or pos-
sessed sufficient knowledge of the subject to
qualify him for the task. This conclusion
is forced upon the reader of the explanation
recorded in ' Glances Back througn Seventy
Years,' by H. Vizetelly (2 vols., 1893). He
states that " a comprehensive ' Natural His-
tory'" was projected, "the text of which,
after being prepared by a scientific naturalist
of repute, was to be popularized " by Clarke.
On the withdrawal of the former, it was
"settled that Clarke, assisted by certain
scientific confreres, should write the work
himself," ana he "continued to be paid his
customary salary for several [five] years, on
the presumption that he was steadily pro-
gressing with the text Some hundreds of
Harvey's drawings were engraved, and several thousand pounds had been expended upon the work." Clarke died suddenly, "and, on search being made among his papers for the ' Natural History ' manuscript, for which he had received about 1,200., there was grea,t
