Alexander Livingston, 2nd Earl of Linlithgow

Biographical Summary

"Alexander, second Earl of Linlithgow, had been appointed in his father's lifetime an Extraordinary Lord of Session, 13 January 1610, and was admitted a member of the Privy Council 17 February 1624...

...He married, first (contract dated at Huntly and Callendar 29 April and 4 May 1611), Elizabeth Gordon, second daughter of George, Marquess of Huntly. This cost the minister of Slamannan, who married them, the penalty of deposition. She died in childbed in July 1616...

...He married, secondly (contract 16 and 17 October 1620), Mary Douglas, eldest daughter of William, tenth Earl of Angus."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. V, page 446