i86 COMPLETE PEERAGE arcedekne Army, but retired in 1830. He m., 5 June 1837, at Cortachy afsd., his 1st cousin, Jean Graham Drummond, ist da. of his maternal uncle, David (Ogilvy), the restored Earl of Airlie [S.], by his ist wife, Clementina, only da. and h. of Gavin Drummond. He ^. 26 May 1891, aged 85. Personalty ;£ 18,448. She, who was /?. 27 Feb. 18 18, d. 4 Mar. 1902, at Arbuthnott House, aged 84. X. 1891. 10. John (Arbuthnott), Viscount Arbuthnott, ^c, [S.], 1st s. and h. ; i>. 20 July 1843 > sometime Lieut. 49th Foot. He m., 20 Apr. 1871, at Inchmartine House, near Inchture, CO. Perth, Anna Harriett, only da. ot Edmund Allen. She d. 23 Apr. 1892. He d. s.p., 30 Nov. 1895, at Arbuthnott House, aged 52. Will pr. at ^^49,308 personalty. XI. 1895. II. David (Arbuthnott), Viscount Arbuthnott and Baron Inverberie [S. 1641], br. and h. ; />. 29 Jan. 1845 > unm. in 1909. Imbecile from his boyhood. (") Fami/y Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about 13,500 acres in CO. Kincardine, worth about £ 1 3,000 a year. Principal Residence. — Arbuth- nott House, near Fordoun, co. Kincardine. ARCEDEKNE(^) BARONY I. Sir Thomas l'Arcedekne, (") of Ruan Lanihorne, BY WRIT. Cornwall, s. and h. of Otes I'A. (d. 1289-90), by Amice, J his wife, was Governor of Tintagel Castle 1 3 1 2, and Sheriff •^ of Cornwall, Mich. 13 13-14. He was sum. to Pari. 15 May (1321) 14 Edw. II to 13 Sep. (1324) 18 Edw. II, ■^■^ ' by writs directed Thome Lercedekne, whereby he may be held to have become LORD ARCEDEKNE. He w., istly, Alice, 3rd da. of Thomas de la Roche, {^) of Roch Castle, co. Pembroke. (') His next br. and h. presumptive, Hugh, sometime Lieut. 8 ist Foot, b. 10 Sep. 1847, d. unm. 17 July 1906, at Arbuthnott House, co. Kincardine, aged 58. V.G. C') The re-writing of this article has been most kindly undertaken by G.W. Watson. The continental family of Archdeacon emigrated from Ireland to Bruges in comparatively recent times, and are descendants of the Cornish folk, — not ancestors, as M. A. Lower, in Family Names, suggests. V.G. C^) The arms of Sir Thomas Arcedekne were Silver with three cheverons sable, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C) A pedigree of this family of Roch, in Dwnn's Visitations, vol. i, p. 164, from George Owen's records, states that Alissia, 3rd da. (but not coh.) of Tomas le Roech, m. Tomas le Archdecon, and was mother of his s., John. But in Grandisson's Register (ed. Hingeston-Randolph, p. 855), a document, dated 14 Nov. 1337, mentions " unam marcam pro obitu Domine Matiilidis Lercedeakne matris dicti Domini Johannis Lercedekne et ejusdem Johannis cum ab hac luce migraverint. "
