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SEAEORTH. 99 Thomas Frederick AT ackbvzie-Humberston, cousin and h. male of the above, would after his iieat.li ill Aug. 17S1 have been, but for the attain- der. 8th Earl of Seaforth, ke. [S.l He was 1st s. and h. (if William Mm kkn/.ik, a Major in the army, by Mary, da. ami li. nf Matthew Hijmrkrstox, of Humber- stun, co. Lincoln, which William (who d at Stamford 12 March 1770), was only s. anil h. of Col. the Hon. Alexander MACKENZIE, 'id s. of Kenneth, 4th EaRL (if Skakiiktii. He, who hud taken the name of tlunxbenton after that of Mackenzie, was nil offieer in the army ; served in the repulse of the French attack on the Island of Jersey as also "in the Hast Indies. He d. there unm. 30 April. 17S3, in his 28th year (from wounds received in a Naval engagement with the Mahrattas having shortly before purchased the family estates from the heirs of the late Earl.(») Barony. 1. Francis Hi'mrerston Mackenzie, only br. and h. of I 1 707 l ' u ' :1 'iove, " June 1 751 ; would after his brother's death in April 17S3 ' have been, lint for the attainder, 9th Earl of Seaforth, kc. [S.] He was an officer in the army, becoming eventually (1S08) Lieut. Gen. «»«»• He was M.P. for co. Ross, 1780 and 1790 ; L. Lieut, of that county and Col. of the Ross-shire Militia, and was a: 26 Oct. 1797, LOUD SEAFORTH, BARON MACKENZIE OF KIN TAIL, co. Ross. He was Gov. of Harbadoes, ItSOO-Otj. (*') He m. 22 April 17S2, Mary, da. of the Very Rev. Baptist PlioiiV. D.D., Dean of Lichfield, by Mary, da. of the Kev. John Russell. He s.p.m.s.(c) 11 Jan. 1815, aged 60, at Edinburgh, when the Barony became extinct, as also the male issue of the 4th, and probably of all the preceding Ear!s v d ). Hif widow ti. in Charlotte square, Edinburgh, 27 Feb. 1829, aged 74. Will pr. April 1829. (") Wood's " Douglas." (>') It is stilted by the well-known Samuel Rogers (" Table Talk," p. 223), that "Lord Seaforth was born deaf and dumb," but this statement is, apparently, misapplied. ( c ) He had no less than four sons all of whom d. before him and unm , the survivor of whom, the Hon. William Frederick Mackenzie, was M.P. for co. Koss, 1812, and <(. 25 Aug. 1814, aged 23, at Warristowu House, co. Edinburgh. Of his six daughters the eldest inherited his estates. She in. firstly, 6 Nov. 1804, Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Rart., who d. s.p. 24 Dee. 1814, and secondly the Rt. Hon. James Alexander Stewart, who took the additional name of Mackenzie. It is to this lady that Sir Walter Scott alludes, in the last verse of his " Farewell to Mackenzie," "And thou, gentle Dame, who must bear, to thy grief, For thy clan and thy country, the cares of a Chief, Whom brief rolling moons in six changes have left Of thy hvsband and father and brethren bereft ; To thine ear of affection how sad is the hail That salutes thee THE HEIR OK THE LINE OF KlNTAIL." It may, however, be remarked that tho' she undoubtedly was the heir of the estates purchased by her uncle from the heirs of the Earl who d. in 1781, she was not " the heir of the line uf Kintail," which heir is among the descendants and representatives of the 1st Earl from whom she did not descend (see p. 97, note "a") while " the cares of a Chid " would (it is believed) have devolved on the heir male of the house of Mackenzie of Kintail. Cl With respect to the heir male of the first Earl it is remarked by Hewlett that "Lord Seaforth was the last descendant in the male line from Kenneth, the 4th Earl. The 3d Earl had a yr. s., John Mackenzie, of Aasint, and the 2d Earl had also a yr. s., Colin Mackenzie. The first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail had several younger suns. The heir in the male line from one- of the yr. sons, if any such exist, would now be the representative of the Seaforth family and entit led to the Peerage if the attainder were reversed. If there be no issue male of the first Lord in existence the representation of tho family must be sought in the heir male of a younger son of one of his ancestors."