Sir John Sandilands, 4th Lord Torphichen

Biographical Summary

"John, fourth Lord Torphichen, graduated M.A. Edinburgh in 1615, and was served heir of his brother, 30 May 1622. His presence was commanded at a Convention of the Estates held at Edinburgh 27 October 1625, and on 13 November 1627 he received a peremptory order from the Privy Council to produce a list of all the fencible persons in the parish of Calder. 3 Again, on 25 July 1629, Lord Torphichen was charged to apprehend all Jesuits and all other persons found going on pilgrimages to chapels and wells. On the resumption by the King in the year 1633 of the superiority of all church lands, he felt apprehensive that his rights as the successor of a religious order might be prejudiced. After petitioning Parliament, he was called upon to show in what respect the superiorities of the lordship of Torphichen differed from those of other erections, and why they should not be comprehended under the Act of Annexation. He obtained, however, an award of His Majesty, following a resolution of the Privy Council, which was to have the force of an Act of Parliament, that the resumption should be held in no degree to encroach upon the superiorities of the barony of Torphichen within that 'meane portione thereof quharin does subsist the title and dignity of Lords of Parliament, and to quhilk the title of Lord of Parliament is annexit.' He died in the month of July 1637. He married (contract dated 28 February 1624), Isabel, daughter of Sir Walter Dundas of Dundas, by whom he had issue :

• John, fifth Lord Torphichen.
• Walter, sixth Lord Torphichen.
• William of Couston, co. Linlithgow, baptized 13 May 1630, married Mary Eastoun. Their eldest son Walter sued his mother for aliment. Another son, William, executed an entail of Couston 28 February 1704.
• Anna, baptized 27 March 1627.
• Isabel, baptized 14 June 1631, married 24 April 1666, to Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn.
• Katherine, baptized 14 August 1632.
• Margaret, baptized 31 December 1633, married to Thomas Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks, and had issue.
• A son or daughter, baptized 8 January 1635.
• Janet, baptized 14 February 1636."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. VIII, page 392

• Lord Torphichen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Torphichen Preceptory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  ---

JOHN SANDILANDS lord Torphichen

The Scots Peerage etc. Volume VIII (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911), pp. 390-93