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88 WBMYSS. Barony [U.K.] 1 and 6, " Francis CHARTBRia-WBHTSS-DouoLAB, Esq., I 1821 daimiog to be Kaul ov Wimybs and March/' wm cf, 17 July 1821,(«) Baron Wkuyss of WemyM.(^) <»• Fife. He was gntDdaoD Earldom [3.] ami h«ir of Fi-aucia Chartbris, known (1787-1808) a« Earl op VT lft9A Wemtss, &a [8.], beiug only a. and b. of Francia ChaBTIRXS, Yi. lOZD. tiifliiiy himaelf Lord Kix;uo (who d. v.p. 20 Jan. 1808), by Susan bis wife, both abovenamed. He waa h. 15 April 1772 ; was an officer in the army, being aide-de-camp to hia maternal grauduucle, Lord Adam Gordon, 1703-97. On the death of his fHtlier, 20 Jan. 1808, be Uyled himself Lord Eloho, till (a few months later), on the death of his paternal grandfather abovenamed, 24 Aug. 1808, he Uyled hiniAtOf Kaul ok Wbm yss, &c. f S ], and on the death. 23 Dfio. 1810, of hia distant cousin, William (I')oiiglas), 4th Duke of Queensboiry &c. [S ], he, aa heir male of the body of hia gt'eat-great-granHmother, Anne, first wife of David, Earl of Wemyss, and da. of William f Douglas), 1st Duke of Queensberry [SK**) inherited considerable estates in Pebbles-shire, including the Castle and Barony of Nied|)ath, and assumed the name of Charteru- Wanyu- DougUu, in lieu of that of CharUrii, On the grounds that the titles of Earl op March, Visoodnt Pkbblbs, liORD Douglas op NiBDPATH, Lyni and Munard [S.] were cr,, 20 April 1697, with an eitended limitation, (<') whereliy they would devolve on the heirs of such lauds, he, from 1810, itjfUd himself Karl op Wbmyss and March [S.], neither of such titles being, however, recognined (save as titles duimed by him) when he was raised to a Barony [U.K.] 17 July 1821, aa abovestated. By the reversal, in 1826,(*) of the attainder, in 1745, i»f his collateral anceHt(»r. David W'eniyss, gljffed Ix>rd Elcho, he, aa heir male of the body of the grantee, became EARL OF WKMYSS [S. 1633], LORD WEMYSS OF KLCKOrs. 16281 and LORD ELOHO AND METHEL [8. 1633]. He was L. Lieut, of Peebles shire. He m., 81 Aug. 1794, at iSdinbui^h, Margaret, 4th da. of Walter Campbbll, of Shawfield, by his first wife, Eleanor, da. of Robert KiRR, of Kewfteld, grandaon of Robert, lat Mabqubss op Lothian [S.] She d, 25 Jan. 1850, at Goaford House afsd. He d, there, 28 June 1853, in his 81st year. Will pr. Aug. 1858.(0 Karldom [S.] ^ VII. Barony [U.K.] II. 7 and B, Francis ( ^Vsm tbs-Chartkris-Douglah, formerly Chartkrjb), Eabl op Wbmyss, Ac [8.], posaibly , 1853. aI^ ^fLL OP March, &o. [S.], also Baron Wbmtss [U.K.], 1st s. and b. ; b. 14 Aug. 1795 ; was known aa Lord Elcho,(8) 1808-26, and was so styled from 1826 till he •ttCL to tke peerage [S. and U.K.], aa above, 28 June 1853. L. Lieut, of Peebles-shire, 1853-80 ; Lieut. Qen. of the Royal Archers (the Queen's Body Guard in Scotland) till his death. He m., 22 Ang. 1017, at the British Embassy, Paria, Louisa, 4th da. of Richard (Bingham), 2d Earl OP LuOAN (I.], by Elisabeth, da. and coheir of Henry (Bblaysb), 2d Earl Fauoon- bbrq OP Nbwborough. She, who waa b. 1 March 1798, cf. 16 April 1882, at Gosford House afsd., aged 84. He d» there 1 and ^as 5tir. 6 Jan. 1888, at Trinity Ghurch, Haddington, aged 87. {*) This was one of the coronation peerages of Geo. IV. See vol. ii, p. 351, note d." iti5 Oonyngham.^' (^) See p. 87, noU '* a," as to the etiaU of Wemyss. (0) The heir of line of the 1st Duke is not among the issue of the said Anne, whose issue male was preferred to the issue female of her brother, from whom descends the Duke of Buccleuch and Queenaberry [S.], being, consequently, such heir of line. (') The auUienticity of thia limitation (in right of which the Earldom of March, ko, wonld devolve on the family of Wemyss) is questionable. See vol v, p. 241, note " e," iub " March." (*) This is one of the seven Scotch peerages forfeited in the insurrection of 1745, and has (with two others, Strathallan and Lovat) been restored. See fuller particulara in vol. iii, p. 393, note "a," tub " Forbes of PiUligo." P) He supported the Oonservative party, but took little interest in politics. (lO His marriage, 22 Aug. 1817, is recorded aa " Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho/'