David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss

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About David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss

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David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss (6 September 1610 – July 1679) was an army officer.

Only son of John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss and Jean Gray (d. 1640), daughter of Lord Gray.

As Lord Elcho, a title he held between 1633 and 1649, he commanded a regiment of Fife infantry in the Scottish army which reached Newcastle upon Tyne in August 1640. On 1 September 1644, at the head of about 6000 men, he was routed by Montrose at Tippermuir, and in August 1645, as supernumerary commander to Lieutenant-General William Baillie, again suffered defeat by Montrose's forces at Kilsyth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippermuir

He married three times:

(July 1625) Anna (d. 1649), daughter of Robert Balfour, 2nd Lord Balfour of Burleigh;

(April 1650) Helenor (d. 1652), daughter of John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown;
(13 January 1653) Margaret (d. 1688), daughter of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes, and widow of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch; one daughter, Margaret, the only child to outlive her father.
He died in 1679 at Wemyss Castle in Fife, whose estate he had done much to develop.

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David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss's Timeline

1610
September 6, 1610
Wemyss, Firthof Fourth, Fifeshire, Norther Scotland
1629
June 19, 1629
Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
1638
February 7, 1638
Wemyss, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1639
August 1, 1639
Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
August 1, 1639
Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1641
January 1641
Burntisland, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1656
May 23, 1656
West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
1659
January 1, 1659
West Wemyss, Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland
1679
July 6, 1679
Age 68
Wemyss Castle, Fifeshire, Scotland