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About David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wemyss,_2nd_Earl_of_Wemyss
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.
David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss's Timeline
1610 |
September 6, 1610
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Wemyss, Firthof Fourth, Fifeshire, Norther Scotland
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1629 |
June 19, 1629
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Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
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1638 |
February 7, 1638
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Wemyss, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1639 |
August 1, 1639
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Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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August 1, 1639
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Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1641 |
January 1641
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Burntisland, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1656 |
May 23, 1656
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West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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1659 |
January 1, 1659
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West Wemyss, Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland
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1679 |
July 6, 1679
Age 68
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Wemyss Castle, Fifeshire, Scotland
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