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About Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness
Biographical Summary
"Alexander, ninth Earl of Caithness, succeeded his father in 1705, took the oaths and his seat in Parliament 17 December 1706, while the Treaty of Union was before the House, and voted against all the articles of that Treaty, discussed subsequent to that date. His lordship possessed the title of Caithness sixty years, outliving every peer who had sat in the Scottish Parliament, and died at Hemer in Caithness, 9 December 1765, in the eighty-first year of his age. He married, at Durham, 15 February 1738, Margaret, second daughter of Archibald Primrose, first Earl of Rosebery, by Dorothea, daughter and heir of Everingham Cressy, Esquire of Birkin, co. York, and by her, who died at Hermitage, near Leith, 7 October 1785, had one child :
- Dorothea, born 4 April 1739, married, at Edinburgh, 5 June 1759, to James, second Earl Fife, without issue.
Alexander, ninth Earl of Caithness, devised his own estate, and also Murkle, to which he had succeeded on his brother's death, to himself and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, to his brother Francis and the heirs-male of his body; whom failing, to the second and younger sons successively of his daughter Dorothea ; whom failing, to George Sinclair of Woodhall, one of the Lords of Session, and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, to the said Lord Woodhall, and his nearest lawful heir-male of line whomsoever ; whom failing, to his own nearest heirs and assignees whomsoever. A competition arose for his landed property, betwixt the Countess Fife and Sir John Sinclair of Stevenson, nearest heir-male of line of Lord Woodhall. The Court of Session preferred Sir John Sinclair, 24 June 1766, and their judgment was, on appeal, affirmed by the House of Lords, 6 April 1767.
The earldom of Caithness devolved on William Sinclair of Ratter."
SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. II, page 346
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Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness's Timeline
| 1670 |
1670
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Caithness, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1705 |
12, 1705
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Sutherlandshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1739 |
April 4, 1739
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Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1765 |
December 9, 1765
Age 95
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Haimer Castle, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
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