98 SEAFORTH V. 1701, 5. VFlULUm (Mackenzie), Earf. of Seaforth [1G23], I to and Lord Mackenzie of Eistam. [1609], in the peerage of Sc.it- 17IG. land, 1st s. and h., probably sti/lrd v.p. [.nun Mackenzie till he I tve. to the pea-age [S. J, M above, in Jutt 1701. He atlended lit the I head nf above 3,000 men the meeting in 171 5 lit Hraemar, em present :it Sherill'mnir. after which he was made Lieut. Gen. oi the Northern Counties, on behalf ot "The Pretender." He was accordingly attainted 7 May 17 Hi. whereby all his honour.':, as well as his estates, were lorftited.' 1 ) He took part in the expedi- tion to the Western Highlands aud was severely wounded at the battle of Glenshiels, 10 June 1719. In 1725 he made arrangements with his followers for their paying their future rent to the Government, and was, 12 July 1726, His- charged from the penalties nf execution or imprisonment, being by act, 1738, further restored to personal immunities. He m. 22 April 1715, Mary, da. anil h. of Nicholas Kennet, of Coxhow, CO, Northumberland. She d. at Paris Aug. 1739. He d. in the Island of Lewes, 8 Jan. 1740, aud was bur. in the chapel of Ui there. Kenneth Mackenzie, styled Lord Fortrose, ( b ) 1st s. ami h., h. about 1718, who but for the attainder of his father would have been after Jan. 1710 the 0th Earl of Seaforth, &c. [S.] He zealously supported the Government during the insurrection of 1745. He was M.P. for Inverness, 1741, and fur Koss-sliire, 1747 and 1754. He m. 11 Sep. 1741, Mary, 1st da. of Alexander (Stkwaiit), 6th EaBL of G.u.low.w [Sj, by his first wife, Anne, da. nf William (Keith), KabI Mauischal [S.J She </. 10 and was bur. 18 April 1751, at Kensington. M.I. He d. in Grosveuor square, 18, and was bur. 22 Oct. 1781, in Westni. Abbey, aged 43. Will in which he styles himself us "of Seaforth, co. Scotland, Ksij., commonly called Lord Fortrose,"( b ) dat. 3 June to 4 July, aud pr. 27 Oct. 1701. Earldom [I.] f. Kenneth Mackenzie, only s. and h. of tlm above, I. 1771 *• at E <l in hurgh, 15 Jan. 1711, would but for the attainder of I t() ' his grandfather have been after h[-, father's death, IS Oct. 1761, ,»,, 7th Earl of Seaforth, Sic. [S.] He was cr. 18 Nov. 1766, y 1 ' f51 ' BARON AHDELVE and VISCOUNT FORTKOSK, both in co. | Wicklow [I.], and subsequently 3 Dec. 1771, KARL OF SKA- FORTH [I.](<s) He raised a reg. of Highlanders (the 7Sth Foot) in 1771. He m. 7 Oct. 1765, at St. Martin's in the fields, Caroline, 1st da. of William (Stan- BOPB), 2d Kaui. of HaRKINOTOU, by Caroline, da. of Charles (FiTzrtuv), Duke OP I Ghakto.n. She, who was b. 11 March 1740/7, d. of consumption. 2 Feb. 1767, and was bur. 14th at Kensington (as ViscounteBS Fortrose), aged 20. ( a ) He d. B.p.m.(«) on his passage (with his regiment) to the East Indies, Aug. 1781, aged I 37, when all his honours became cxlinct.{<) Will pr. May 1785. (") See vol. iii, p. 192, note "a," sub " Duffus," for a list of the 19 Scotch Peerages forfeited thro' the Kiaing of 1715. ( b l It is not known why the style of "Fortrose" was assumed instead of that of "Mackenzie" or " Kintail." There was apparently neither a Viseountcy nor a Barony of the name of Fortrose, or Mackenzie of Fortrose, vested in his father. ( c ) This is one of the not uncommon instances of an Irish peerage of the same name as a previously existing Scotch one being conferred, it being impossible after the Union £».], to create a peerage of Scotland. ( d ) " Her intellects were good, her person beautiful, and accomplishments suitable to her high birth, aud endowed with an uncommon goodness of heart," writes (not perhaps very grammatically) Collins in his vol. iv, p. 288, sub " Harring- ton " ( e ) Caroline, his only da. and h., b. in London 7 July 1700, m. Count Melfort. ( f ) In the "Ann. Reg." of 1779 the death is recorded under Dec. 1770 of " The Rt. Hon. Laily Seaforth." Query if this was a second wife of this Earl ?
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