30 GLENBERVIE— GLENCAIRN. GLENBERVIE. Barony p.] Sylvestku Douglas, only suit, s. and h. of John D. of I 1 800 Fcchil, co. Aberdeen, by Margaret, da. und coheir of James Gordon, L ' of the same, b. 24 May 17-13 ; ed. at the Univ. of Aberdeen and .„,,., subsequently at that of Ley den where he graduated, 20 Feb. 1706; I c -o. commenced the study of medicine;*) but relinquished it for the law ; Student of Line. Inn, 1771 ; Barrister, 1776, becoming of con- siderable note as a reporter of Lord Mansfield's decisions at the King's Bench; King's Counsel, 1793; Bencher, 1793. and Treasurer of Line. Inn, 1799. From 1794 to 1795 he was Chief Sec. of Ireland ; P.C. [I. and G.B], 1794. He was M.J for Canice [I.], 1794 ; forFowey [O.B.], 179". ; forMidhurst, 1796-1800 ; for Plympton, 1801, and for Hastings, 1S02 to 1S06; meantime he was on the Board of Control, 1795 to lSOti, and on the Board of the Treasury, 1797 to 1S00, resigning this last post on being made Gov. of the Cape of Good Hope, where, however, he never went. He was, 29 Nov. 1800,(") a: BARON GLENBERVIE, co. Kincardine [I.]; Joint Paymaster Gen., 1801-03; Vice Pres. of the Board of Trade, 1801-04 ; Surveyor Gen. of Woods and Forests, 1S03 and 1807: First Commissioner, 1810-14. He 711., 25 Sep. 1789, at the house of her father (then Lord North the celebrated [1770-82] Prime Minister) in Grosvenor street, St Geo. Han. sq., Catherine Anne, da. of Frederick (Noiith), 2d Kahl ok Guilkoiid, by Anne, da. and h. of George SPEKK. She, who was b. 10 Feb. 1760, d. 6 Feb. 1817. He d. B.p.m.8.,(°) 2 May 1S23, in his 80th year, at Cheltenham, when his peerage became txtintt.{ d ) Will pr. 1823. GLENCAIRN.(') Earldom [S.] 1. Alexander Cunningham, of Kilmaurs, co. Ayr, s. I 1488 aiu ' ' l ' °' ^" K° ue, ' t of the same, by Anne, da. of Sir John MoNTCio.MEltllo, of Ardrossan, was cr. a Lord of Pari. [S.] in or before 1409 as LOUD KILMAURS [S.] under which designation he sat in Pari. [S ], 21 Nov. 1469. He was a:, 28 May 1488, by James III. (in whose cause some two weeks later he was slaiu at Sauchieburn) EARL OF GLENCAIRN [S.] followed by a grant of land to " him and his heirs."(0 He m. Margaret, da. of Adam (Hepburn J, 2d Lord Hales [S.J by Helen, da. of Alexander (Home), 1st Loud Homk [S.] He d„ as afsd., 11 June 1488. II. 1488, ;?, Robert (Cunningham), Earl of Glencairn, &c. T t n i V$-]t 8 ant ' h., w '>° apparently was dc jvrc entitled to the Earldom junetouci. j- g ^ n Jm]ej &0 , tUe gai(1 EnrJdMn wa3 (;l few raont i 13 ] att; r) annulled by act of Pari. [S.], 17 Oct. 1488,(6) and he was henceforth known as Loud Kilmauhs [S.] He m. before 19 July 1476, Christian, widow of John Seton, Master of Seton, 1st da. of John (Lindsay), 1st Lord Lindsay of the Byres [S.] He d. about 1490. His widow living 1491-92. ( tt ) This gave rise to Sheridan's well known pasquinade, beginning — " Glenbervie, Glenbervie, What's good for the scurvy ? For ne'er be your old hade forgot." (*>) He was one of nine commoners raised to the peerage on the same day, being the last creations before the Union [I.] See a list of these in vol. i, p. 166, note " a," 8116 " Ashtown." ( c ) His only son, the Hon. Frederick-Sylvester-North Douglas, M.P. for Banbury, 1812-19, d. v.p. and s.p., 21 Oct. 1S19, aged 28. ( d ) It was used in 1825 as one of extinctions required (under the act of Union) for the creation of the Barony of Bloomfield. (") Glencairn is a parish in the western part of Nithsdale, co. Dumfries. ( f ) See Maidment's "Collectanea Genealoyica " (1883), pp. 101-104. (s) Thisis generally called "the Kescissory Act," and annulled all creations by the late King, since 2 Feb. (1487/8), proceeding. This appears to have comprised but two peerage dignities, viz. (1) this Earldom of Glencairn and (2) the Dukedom of Mont- rose, granted 18 May 1488, to David (Lindsay), 5th Etui of Crawford.
