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208 DUNDEE. DUNDEE. Earldom [S.] John (Scrimgeour), 3d Viscount Dudhope fS.], was r ](•(•■! at the Restoration, cr. in 1661 EARL OF DUNDEE, VISCOUNT ' OF DUDHOPE, LORD SCRIMGEOUR AND INNERKEITHINO . -pq [S.], but the limitations of these dignities are not known. He d. s.p. 10 Oci. at Dudhope 23 June 166S, since which time all his honours, if not extinct, have remained dormant. See fuller particulars under t ' Dudhope " Viscountcy [S.], cr. 1641, sub the 3d Viscount. Viscountcy [S.] 1. John Graham of Clavorhouse, s. and h. of Sir j ] gsg William G. of the same, by Jean, 4th da. of John (Carnegie), 1st Earl op Nouthesk [S.], was educated at the Univ. of St Andrews ; served in the army of France, but subsequently (1672) in that of Holland, distinguishing himself at the battle of Seneff, Aug. 1674. By Charles II. he was made Capt. of one of the troops of Horse raised against the Nonconformists, in which capacity he obtained the name of " Bloody Clavers." Sheriff of Wigton, 16S2, having, in 1684, a grant of the Castle of Dudhope and constabulary of Dundee. P.C. both to Charles II and James II ; Major Gen. in the Army, 1688, being, 12 Nov. 1688,(») cr. VISCOUNT OF DUN- DEE(>>) AND LORD GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE [S.], with rem. to the heirs male of his body, whom failing, to his other heirs male. ( c ) He was then with the King in Loudon, and endeavoured to dissuade him from retreating thence, offering himself to drive out the Dutch forces. In Jan. 1688/9 he was at the Edinburgh convention. He called a pari, at Stirling for King James, and, raising the clans, defeated King William's General (Mackay), who lost above 2,000 men, 17 June 1689, at the pass of Killiecrankie, but was himself mortally wounded in that action, aud died a few hours later. He was bur. in the church of Blair. With him perished the Stuart cause in Scot- land.^) He had m., in 1684, Jean, 3rd da. of William Cochrane, styled Lord Cochrane, (s. and h. ap. of William, 1st Earl op Dpndonald [S.]), by Catharine da. of John (Kennedy), 6th Earl op Cabsiltjs [S.] She survived him and m. (as his 1st wife) William (Livingston) 3rd Viscount Kilsyth [S.] (who was b. 1650, sue. 1708, attainted 1715, and d. 1733), and is said to have been killed by a fall of a house in Holland, and to have been bur. at Kilsyth. II. 1689. 2. James (Graham), Viscount op Dundee, &c. [S.] only s. and h. He d. an infant Dec. 1689. III, 1689, 3. David (Graham), Viscount op Dundee and Lord to Graham of Clavkrhousp, [S], uncle and h. being only br. of the Isl 1690. Viscount, and, as heir male, entitled to the succession. He was at the battle of Killiecrankie with his said brother, against whom, on 13 June 1690, "a decreet of forfaulture was pronounced by the description of John, late Viscount of Dundee," whereby all his honours became forfeited. In 1692 he joined the court of the deposed King, James II, at St. Germain, by whom he was, in 1708, made K.T. He d s.p. 1700. (") He was one of the six persons on whom a hereditary Scotch Peerage was con- ferred by James II. These were (1) Hon. John Drummond, cr. Viscount Melfort, 1685 and subsequently, 1686, Earl of Melfort ; (2) Sir George Mackenzie, cr. Viscount Tarbat ; (3) Hon. Robert Spencer, cr. Viscount Teviot ; (4) Lord Charles Murray, cr. Earl of Dunmore ; (5) Hon. William Drummond, cr. Viscount Strathallan ; and (6) John Graham, cr. Viscount Dundee. See as to English peerages conferred by that monarch, p. 78, note " a," sub " Derwentwater " ; and as to Irish Peerages so conferred see vol. iv, under " Galway," Viscountcy [I], cr. 1687. ( b ) He was descended from John Graham of Balargus, co. Forfar, by Matilda, his wife, da. of Sir James Scrimgeour, Constable of Dundee, which James was ancestor of the Viscounts Dudhope [S.] and of the Earl of Dundee [S.j of that family. (°) See p. 179, note " b," sub "Dudhope," as to a saying of his having been two years before {viz. in 1686) cr. Lord Dudhope [S.] ( d ) " Undauntedly brave, and steadily faithful to his Prince, he sacrificed himself in the cause of James when he was deserted by all the world."