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in favour of John Goldie of Craigmuie® and others as trustees 
for his creditors, which was dated the 2nd January and regis- 
tered in the Sheriff Court Books of Dumfries, the 26th Sep- 
tember, 1751. The property was put up to auction at Dumfries 
the 22nd October, 1751, and it was on this occasion that the 
inventory of its title deeds, so often referred to, was made and 
signed by Mr Goldie for the use of the purchaser. 
This purchaser, as a ‘* docquete ’’ at the end of the inven- 
tory shows, was Robert Herries, the next younger brother of 
William Herries,’ the seller. He was born about 1710, and 
began life as a merchant at Dumfries, being admitted a bur- 
gess there the 1st February, 1731. In 1738 he was on the 
Jury (see Crockett’s Scott Originals, p. 410) at the trial at 
9 Some time Commissary of Dumfries (see ‘ Goldie-Scot,’’ 
Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1914). 
10 William Herries died at Rosebank, a house on the Halldykes 
property, on 24th September, 1777, and was buried in the Old Kirk- 
yard of Dryfesdale with his first wife, Katherine, daughter of John 
Henderson of Broadholm, in Annandale (for her family see 
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th Series, i., p. 173). Their 
eldest son, Sir Robert Herries, a London banker, knighted in 1774, 
was M.P. for the Dumfries Burghs from 1780 to 1784, and died in 
1815. His second wife, a daughter of the Rev. F. H. Foote, of 
Charlton Place, near Canterbury, by a sister of Sir Horace Mann, 
the friend of Horace Walpole, was well known as a “ blue-stocking ”’ 
hostess in London. Sir Robert’s next younger brother, Charles 
Herries, was known to contemporary Londoners as Colonel of the 
Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, which num- 
bered among its privates a Prime Minister (Spencer Perceval) and 
other statesmen and distinguished persons. On his death in 1819 
the regiment gave Colonel Herries a military funeral in Westminster 
Abbey, and placed a monument to his memory there. His eldest 
son, the Right Hon. John Charles Herries, the Tory statesman, died 
in 1855, and his eldest son, Sir Charles Herries, Chairman of the 
Inland Revenue Board, in 1883. The Right Hon. J. C. Herries had 
a brother, General Sir William Herries, who died in 1857, and the 
present lineal male heir of William Herries and his wife, Katherine 
Henderson, is Sir William’s grandson, William Herbert Herries, 
eldest son of Herbert Crompton Herries, and brother of the present 
writer. He has sat in the New Zealand House of Representatives 
since 1896, and was Minister for Railways and Native Affairs in 
the Cabinet formed by the Right Hon. F. W. Massey in 1912, which 
offices he continues to hold in the Coalition Cabinet formed by the 
same Prime Minister for war purposes in 1915. 
