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CROMARTIE or CROMARTY 547 raised 2 battalions of Highlanders, and became Col. of the 73rd (») Foot in 1777, serving in the East Indies against Hyder Ali in 1779. M.P. (Tory) for Ross-shire 1780-84; IVIajor Gen. in the army, 1782. In 1784 the family estates (on payment of a charge of ;/; 19,000 thereon) were restored to him by act of Pari. He m., 4 June 1786, at Putachie, Margery, ist da. of James (Forbes), i6th Lord Forbes [S.], by Catherine, da. of Sir Robert Innes, Bart. [S.]. He d. s.p., at Edinburgh, 2 Apr. 1789, in his 62nd year, and was bur. in the Canongate churchyard. M. !.() His widow m., II Mar. 1794, at St. Marylebone, John (Murray), 4th Duke of Atholl [S.], who ^.29 Sep. 1830. She d. s.p., 3 Oct. 1842, at Dunkeld, aged 80.] EARLDOM. I. Anne Hay-Mackenzie, only da. and h. of John HAY-M.,of Newhall and Cromarty, by Anne, 3rd da. of Sir IV. 1 86 1. James Gibson-Craig, ist Bart., which John was s. and h. of Edward Hay-M., s. and h. of Edward Hay, of Newhall, by Maria, da. and h. of line of George (Murray), 6th Lord Elibank [S.], and Isabel, his wife, ist da. and, in 1789, heir of line of George (Mackenzie), 3rd Earl of Cromarty [S.], being, in 1796, inheritrix of the estates of that family. She was b. 21 Apr. 1829; sue. her father 9 July following. She tn., 20 June 1849, ^t Cliefden House, Taplow, Bucks, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, styled Marquess OF Stafford, who succeeded his father as 3rd Duke of Sutherland, i^c, on 2 8 Feb. 1 8 6 1 . On 2 1 Oct. 1 8 6 1 , she was cr. BARONESS MACLEOD OF CASTLE LEOD, co. Cromartie, BARONESS CASTLEHAVEN of Castlehaven, co. Cromartie, VISCOUNTESS TARBAI of Tarbat, co. Cromartie, and COUNTESS OF CROMARTIE,(^) for her life, with rem. of the said dignities (of Baron, Baron, Viscount, and Earl) to Francis Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, her 2nd surv. son and the heirs male of his body, rem. to each other of her younger sons in like manner, in priority of (^) Re-numbered as the 71st Foot in 1782. V.G. C") The Cromarty estates devolved on his cousin and h. male, Kenneth Mac- kenzie (who, but for the attainder, would have been 5th Earl of Cromarty), who was 2nd and yst. but only surv. s. and h. of the Hon. Roderick Mackenzie, 2nd s. of John, 2nd Earl of Cromarty abovenamed. He d. s.p.m., in Orchard Str., Midx., 4, and was bur. 10 Nov. 1796, at Greenwich, when the male issue of the ist Earl became extinct, and probably the peerage also, unless held to devolve on the heirs of entail. See ante, p. 545, note "a." The estates then (1796) devolved on the heir of line, viz. Isabel, Baroness Elibank [S.], widow of George (Murray), 6th Lord Elibank, eldest da. of George, the 3rd Earl of Cromarty. She d. s.p.m., 28 Dec. 1801, in her 77th year. Her eldest da., Maria, m. 3 May 1 790, Edward Hay, of Newfhall, who took the name of Mackenzie, and whose only s. and h., John Hay-Mackenzie, of Newhall and Cromarty, d. 9 July 1849, leaving an only da. and h., Anne, Duchess of Sutherland, cr. Countess of Cromartie in 1 86 1, as in the text. (<=) So spelt, though the Scottish Peerage of 1 703 was spelt Cromarty.