148 List of Paintings at Nishet House. 



1814. Lord Sinclair died 30th Sept. 1863, aged 95. Their son James was 

 13th Lord Sinclair, and died 24th Oct. 1880; being succeeded by the 

 present Lord, Charles William St. Clair, born 8th Sept. 1831. Matthew 

 St. Clair of the Herdmanston family, who died 1728, married Margaret, 

 daughter of Sir Thomas Carre of Cavers, and had two sons, one of whom, 

 Charles, 10th Lord, de jure, who died in 1775, married Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Sir Andrew Hume of Kimmerghame (Lord Kimmergh.ame). It was their 

 son Andrew, 11th Lord, de jure, who married 28th Dec. 1763, Blizabetli 

 Rutherford of Edgerston, Rox. These were the parents of Chailes, 12th 

 Baron. John, Master of Sinclair, son of Henry, 8th Lord, joined the 

 Rebellion of 1715, and was attainted; James, 9th; Charles, 10th; and 

 Andrew, 11th Lords, de jure, did not assume the title. — See Barlce's and 

 Foster's Peerages. 



No. 3. — Lady Ker, mother of Lord Somerset, a friend of Queen Mary. 



No. 4. — Sir Thomas Ker. 



No. 5. — Lord Kimmerghame's children — Patrick, John, Mrs Waite, Mrs 

 Clair of Herdmanston, Mrs Carre of Nisbet, Mrs Wauchope of Niddry. 

 Sir Andrew Hume of Kimmerghame was 2nd son of Patrick Hume of 

 Polwart, and Grizel, daughter of Sir Thomas Ker of Cavers ; advocate 25th 

 July 1696 ; sheriff-depute of the county of Berwick ; about 1704 general 

 collector of tonnage on foreign vessels ; M.P. for burgh of Kirkcudbright 

 from 1700-2, 1702-7; supported the Union, and sat in first Parliament of 

 Great Britain, 1707-8. He succeeded his brother, Sir Alexander [Hume] 

 Campbell of Cessnock, afterwards 2nd Earl of Marchmont ; as an ordinary 

 Lord of Session, 23rd Nov. 1714. He died 16th March 1730. He married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of John Douglas, Esq. — Haig's Hist, of Senators of 

 the Court of Justice, p. 495 ; Foster's Members of Parliament, Scotland, p. 

 181. Foster says " He had a son and two daughters." 



Nos. 6 and 7. — General and Mrs Carre of Nisbet. 



No. 9 (sic.)— Mrs St. Clair of Herdmanston (Elizabeth Rutherford.) 



No. 10. —Mrs Carre, Lord Kimmerghame's daughter. 



No. 11. — Lord Somerset, son of Sir Thomas and Lady Ker. He was 

 Robert, the youngest son by Sir Thomas's second marriage, his mother 

 being Janet, sister of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch. He was the well- 

 known favourite of James VI. Somerset's only daughter, Lady Anne 

 Carre (for this was the orthography he adopted, and was followed in by 

 his kin) married the 5th Earl of Bedford, afterwards created Duke of 

 Bedford. He died in or near London in 1645, and was buried in Covent 

 Garden. Mr W. Riddell Carre, in his Border Memories, pp. 128-9, says : 

 " In the Exhibition of Pictures in 1866, there was a portrait of Robert 

 Carre, lent by the Duke of Devonshire, whose ancestor no doubt bought it 

 with Chiswick House, which belonged to Somerset, and which he sold in 

 order to provide a suitable fortune for his daughter Anne." 



No. 12. — Lord Marchmont. 



No. 13.— Lord Nisbet. 



" George Carre of Nisbet, eldest son of John Carre of Cavers, passed as 

 advocate 9th January 1725, obtained a charter of the lands and barony of 



