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HERA 
EARLS OF SCOTLAND. 
CRAUFURD (GEORGE-LINDSEY), Earl of 
CRAUFURD and LINDSEY, Vifcount and Baron 
Garnock, Baron Craufurd and Spinzy ; Lord Lieute¬ 
nant of Fifelhire, and a Major-general in the Army j 
born in 1758 ; fucceeded his father, the late earl, June 
25, 1781. 
Sir David Lindfey, of Glenelk, fon of fir Alexander, 
who, by Robert III. king of Scotland, was created earl 
of Craufurd in 1399, married Jane, daughter of king 
Robert II. by which princefs he had iflue, Elizabeth, 
married to. fir William Keith, and was mother of Wil¬ 
liam, created earl marflial, front whom fiefcended John, 
created vifcouht Garnock, who was, by queen Anne, in 
1703, created vifcount Mount Craufurd, which he after¬ 
wards changed to the title of Garnock; and, dying in 
1709, left iffhe, by Margaret Stuart, daughter of Janies 
earl of Bute, five fons and three daughters; Patrick, 
the eldeft, married Mifs Hume, and had iflue, Patrick, 
the next vifcount; who was fucceeded by George, the 
late vifcount. John Lindfey-, feventeenth earl of Crau¬ 
furd, dying without iflue in 1749, having fucceeded alio 
to the title of earl of Craufurd, took the furnameof 
Craufurd. His lordlhip married, December 26, 1755, 
Jane, eldeft daughter of Rpbert Hamilton, efquire ; by 
which lady, who died May 5, 1794, he had iflue three 
fons and two daughters: George, his fucceffor; Robert; 
Bute; Jane, married, Odtober 16, 1770, Archibald, 
twelfth earl of Eglintoun, and died in January 1778 ; 
Mary. His lordfltip died June 25, 1781, and was fuc¬ 
ceeded by his fon, George, the prefent and nineteenth 
earl.—The prefumptive heir is Robert, brother to the 
prefent earl. 
Creations. —Earl of Craufurd, in the county of 
Lanark, 1399; Baron of Spinzy, 1590 ; Earl of Lindfey, 
in the county aforefaid, 1633 ; Baron and Vifcount Gar¬ 
nock, April 20, 1703. 
Motto. —Indure furth. 
HAY-CARR (WILLIAM), Earl of ERROL, Ba¬ 
ron Hay, of Slanes, Hereditary Lord High Conftable 
and Knight Marflial of Scotland ; born March'12, 1772 ; 
fucceeded his brother, the late earl, June 14, 1798 ; 
married, June 7, 1792, Mifs Jane Bell; by which lady 
he had iflue one daughter. He married, fecondly, July 
27, 1796, Alicia Elliot, third daughter of Samuel El¬ 
liot, efq. of Antigua, and has iflue a daughter, born 
February 23, 1800. 
Both ancient and modern hiftorians agree, that this 
noble family had its rife, anno 980, in the reign of Ken¬ 
neth III. king of Scotland, when the Danes invaded 
Britain, and ravaged the country from Montrofe, where 
they landed, to Long Carty, near Perth, where Kenneth 
attacked them, and was routed; but John d,e Luz and 
his two fons, who wer.e ploughing near the fpot, per¬ 
ceiving their countrymen flying before the enemy, who 
were purfuing in a diforderly carelefs manner, they 
made a (land with their plough-gear in a narrow pafs, 
rebuking, at the fame time, the fliameful flight of the 
Scots, and induced them to rally; whereupon they 
turned furioufly upon the Danes, fuccoured their king, 
who was in imminent danger, and completely defeated 
the enemy. King Kenneth, for this lingular inftance of 
courage and valour in John de Luz, advanced him into 
the firft rank of his knights, and changed his name to 
Hay; afligning him armorial bearings which fiiould for 
ever record the glory of the victory; and bellowing 
upon him a tra<5f of country fufficient to fupport his 
new dignity. Hence the two hufbandmen, as fupporters 
to the arms of this family, with plough-hames on the 
fhoulder, &c. as Ihown in the annexed Engraving, and 
explained in p. 412, in the. introductory part of this 
treatife. 
William Hay, the defcendant of this family, was, by 
James II. in recompence of faithful fervices, created 
L D R Y. 
earl of Errol ; and died at Slanes in 1470. He married 
Beatrix, daughter of William Douglas, lord Dalkeith, 
and by her had Nicol, his fucceffor; William; and Gil¬ 
bert. Elizabeth, married, firft, Patrick Gray; and, fe¬ 
condly, George earl of Huntley. Margaret, married fir 
Alexander Fraler, anceftor of lord Saltoun;. from whom 
defcended lady Mary Hay, filter to Char.les, thirteenth 
earl of Errol, who fucceeded to the title, and married 
Alexander Falconer, a younger fon of fir David Falco¬ 
ner, lord prefident of the court of fellion in 1682, bro¬ 
ther to.lord Halkertoun, wlio, on his marriage with the 
countefs of Errol, took the name of Hay; but dying in 
1738, without iflue, the* title devolved on James, the 
fourteenth earl of Errol, who was the eldeft fon of Wil¬ 
liam earl of Kilmarnock, by lady Anne Livlngfton, 
daughter and heir of James earl of Linlithgow and Cal¬ 
lander, by lady Margaret Hay, fecond daughter of 
John twelfth earl of Errol; on the death of vvhofe 
eldeft After, Mary, countefs of Errol in her own right,- 
in 1758, her grand nephew, at that time known by the 
title of James lord Boyd, as eldeft fon of the earl of 
Kilmarnock, fucceeding to the earldom and eftate of 
Errol, united in his own perfon the four earldoms of 
Errol, Kilmarnock, Linlithgow, and Callander, as well 
as,the ancient dignity of lord high conftable of Scot¬ 
land, which had been referred to them by the articles 
of the union of the two kingdoms, as well as by the a6t 
of parliament abolilhing the heritable jurifdiclions of 
Scotland, in 1749. 
James lord Boyd, and fixteenth earl of Errol, fuc¬ 
ceeded on the death of Anne countefs of Kilmarnock, 
and fifteenth earl ; married, in Odtober 1749, Rebecca, 
daughter of Alexander Lockhart, efq. by which lady, 
who died May 1, 1761, he had iflue one daughter, Mary- 
Elizabeth, married to the reverend George Moore, fon 
of the late archbifliop of Canterbury. He married, fe¬ 
condly, Augufl 3, 1762, Ifabella, daughter of fir Wil¬ 
liam Carr, bart. ofEtall, in Northumberland, by whom 
he had iflue three fons and nine daughters, viz. Char¬ 
lotte, married to the reverend William Holwell; Isa¬ 
bel la-Anne,* who. died 1111793 ; Augufta; George, the 
late earl; Harriet-Jane; Margaret, married to Charles 
Cameron, efq. Maria-Elizabeth; William Hay-Carr, 
the prefent earl ; Frances, who died in Auguft' 1806 ; 
Fleminia ; Jemima ; and James. His lordfliip died June 
3, 1778, and was fucceeded by George, nineteenth earl; 
who married, January 25,1790, Elizabeth-Jemima Blake, 
fecond daughter of Jofeph Blake, efq. of Ardfrey, in the 
county of Galway ; and dying, without iffue, June 14, 
1798, was fucceeded by his next brother, William, the 
prefent and twentieth earl.—The. prefumptive heir is 
James, his lordfliip’s brother. 
Creations. —Baron Hay, of Slanes, and Earl of 
Errol, March 17, 1452. 
Motto. — Serva jugum. —“ Adhere to the yoke.” 
SINCLAIR (JAMES), Earl of CAITHNESS, and 
Lord Berriedale, "Lord Lieutenant of Caithnefs-fliire ; 
married, in 1784, Jane, daughter of-Campbell, of 
Barcaldine, efquire; and has iffue, Alexander lord Ber¬ 
riedale, heir apparent, born February 25, 1800; a fon, 
born September 1801 ; and other iffue, of whom lady 
Helen died in October 1803 ; and lady Janet, the eldeft 
daughter, married, May 10, 1IS05, James Buchanan, of 
Ardenconnel, efquire. 
His lordlhip’s father, William, the tenth earl, de¬ 
fcended from John, grandfon of the fourth earl, and 
fucceeded in 1767. He married Barbara, daughter of 
Mr. Sinclair; by which lady, \yho died in 1793, he had. 
iffue two fons, William and John ; William died at New 
York, in December 1776; and a daughter, Janet, mar¬ 
ried, on July 31, 1784, to James Traill, efq. His lord- 
Ihip died in November 1799, when he was fucceeded by 
his only furviving fon, John, the late lord, who died, 
unmarried, April 5, 1789; and was fucceeded by John, 
