i» A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF 
Albany by his wife Isobel, Countess of Lennox in her own right, and inherited the 
Buchanan estates from his grandfather; and (3) John Buchanan, who inherited = 
mother’s estate of Leny and so began the second line of Buchanan of Leny. Sir Walter’s 
son, Patrick Buchanan of Buchanan, whose charter of confirmation in the Buchanan 
estates is dated 1460, became owner of some portion of Strathyre in 1455, and in that 
year was a party, along with his cousin, Andrew Buchanan of Lony, to a mutual entail 
of their respective estates in favour of each other aad of their lineal descendants, pass- 
ing over their brothers on either side. For the next two centuries the writer can trace 
no matrimonial alliances betwaen the houses of Buchanan of Buchanan and Buchanan 
of Leny, but the ponultimate Buchanan of Buchanan, Sir George Buchanan, who 
died in 1651, had by his second wife a daughter, Janet Buchanan, who married 
Henry Buchanan of Leny. ; 
Henry Buchanan of Leny is stated to have died іп 1723. By his first wife he 
had six children: (1) John Buchanan, who died unmarried; (2) Colin Buchanan, 
who also died unmarried—he was served heir, on 23rd January, 1728, to his father 
Henry Buchanan of Leny, and to his brother, John Buchanan of Leny; (3) James 
Buchanan, who died without leaving descendants; (4) Robart Buchanan, who also 
died without leaving descendants—he was s»rvel heir to his brother Colin Buchanan 
of Leny on 14th September, 1734; (5) Elizaboth Buchanan, wife of Francis 
Buchanan of Атпргуог) who succeeded to the estate of Leny on 22nd March 
1740, but died leaving по issue; (6) Magaret Buchanan, who succeeded her sister 
Elizabeth in the estate of Leny and died unmarried. | 
By hissecond wife, Henry Buchanan of Leny had two sons, Henry Buchanan 
and John Buchanan’ both of whom died without issuc; and three daughters, (1) 
Lilias Buchanan, died without heir; (2) Jean Buchanan, who appears to have married 
but to have left no issue; (8) Katherine Buchanan, the lady who, as already stated, 
was the first wife of Thomas Buchanan. There were no children by this marriage, 
but, on the death of his wife's half-sister, Margaret Buchanan of Leny, Thomas 
Buchanan inherited the estate of Leny, and was thus the founder of the existing 
line of Buchanan of Leny, 
! Scottish Nation, i, 452, This is possibly a printer's mistake for 1728. 
* Francis Buchanan of Агаргуог, the husband of Elizabath Buchanan of Leny, was the representative of a 
family founded by John Buchanan, young-r son of Walter Buchanan of Buchanan, and grandson of the Patrick 
Buchanan of Buchanan who, in 1465, was a party to th» joint-entail of the estates of Strathyre and Leny. This 
Joha Buchanan, to whom the estate of Arapryor, formerly owned by one of tha Menzies, had been left by testa- 
mont, was tho well known ‘Kinz of Kippon, th» frienl of Jam»s V. His descendant, Francis Buchanan, 
husband of Elizabeth Buchanan of Leny, accepted a commission as Major in the Duke of Perth’s rebel cavalry 
and was beheaded at Carlisle in 1746. As relics of this gentleman there still are preserved at. Leny one of the 
gloves worn by him at his execation and part of his commission signed by Prince Charles? Secretary. The house 
borne by the subject of our sketch was bestowed in commemoration of his unfortunate kinsman. It may be remarked 
here that the subject of our sketch was not the first of his name to enter the Indian Medical Service; a Francis 
Bachanan, м.р., was appointed Assistant Surgeon on Ist July, 1738, and resigned the services on 16th July, 1769. 
dX 1 est son of the first 
s is father; and as the Index to Servic irs 
in Scotland shows that Henry’s second son, Colin, succeeded to the estate of Leny in 1728, it 2 Mas cord 
must have succeeded his father immediately and that, although he was at the same time served heir to his elder 
brother John, this brother never was in poss. ssion of Leny. This being the cas2, the date of the death of Henry 
Buchanan should be 1728 and not, as has elsewhere been stated, 1723. 
