350 The Swintons of that Ilk, by A. Campbell Swinton. 



marled, and completely inclosed has whole estate."* Some of his 

 high double hedges still exist, to the dislike equally of farmers 

 and foxhunters. He married Mary, daughter of the Rev. 

 Samuel Semple, minister of Liberton, by his wife Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony. Of this 

 marriage there were six sons and six daughters. Anne, the 

 second daughter, married Eobert Hepburne of Baads, and was 

 the ancestress of the Hepburnes of Clerkington, and the Mitchel- 

 sons of Middleton. Katherine, the youngest daughter, married 

 Walter Ferguson, Writer in Edinburgh. He was owner of 

 portions of the land on which the new Town of Edinburgh was 

 built, and his wife's name is preserved in Catherine Street and 

 Swinton Eow. Of the sons of John Swinton and Mary Semple, 

 Pringle, the youngest, did not survive infancy. Eobert, the 

 third, and Francis, the fifth, died in the service of the East 

 India Company. Samuel, the second, captain E.N., married 

 Felicite Jeanne le Febre, daughter of an officer in the French 

 guards, killed fighting on the steps of the palace of Versailles, 

 early in the Eevolution. Their second son, Samuel Swinton of 

 the East India Company's Civil Service, purchased from his 

 cousin in 1829, the family estate. After being life-rented for 

 some years by his widow, it devolved, by the deaths of her three 

 brothers, on his eldest daughter Anne Elizabeth, widow of her, 

 cousin George Swinton, and now, in her own right, Mrs Swinton 

 of Swinton. The fourth son of John Swinton and Mary Semple 

 was Archibald Swinton of Kimmerghame, who served with 

 distinction in India as aid-de-camp to Lord Olive. He married 

 Henrietta, daughter of James Campbell of Blythswood. Their 

 eldest son, John Swinton, at one time of Broadmeadows, assum- 

 ed in 1850 the additional surname of Campbell, on succeeding in 

 the estate of Kimmerghame his aunt Miss Mary Campbell, by 

 whom that estate, which had been sold by his father in 1803, 

 was re-purchased in 1846. 



XXIV. John Swinton of Swinton, the eldest son of John 

 Swinton and Mary Semple, was admitted a member of the 

 Faculty of Advocates in 1743, and after having been for many 

 years Sheriff of Perthshire, was raised to the Bench, as Lord 

 Swinton in 1782. It is said of him by an excellent judge of 



* Bruce' s Appendix to General View of the Agriculture of the County of 

 Berwick, by Alexander Lowe, 1794. 



