James Galloway, 1st Lord Dunkeld

Biographical Summary

"Mr. JAMES GALLOWAY (afterwards first Lord Dunkeld), only surviving son, was appointed Master of Requests 3 March 1627, having previously officiated in that capacity. On 23 June 1628 he and one Nathaniel Udwart had a grant of the monopoly of casting iron ordnance in Scotland for twenty-one years. He was knighted before 22 February 1631, on which date he and Udwart had a grant for thirty-one years of another monopoly for producing salt by a new process of evaporation discovered by the latter. He was admitted Privy Councillor 5 August 1630, on a royal warrant dated 5 May 1628, and his name appears again in the commission constituting a new Council, dated 27 March 1631. He was nominated member of a commission for the valuation of teinds 28 June 1633. On 10 October 1634 he was served heir-general to his father. He was one of the Commissioners of Exchequer, and served on the commission for prosecuting persons accused of harbouring Jesuits. On 26 March 1640 he was appointed Auricularius (secretary or amanuensis) to the King in Scotland, and in a charter dated 20 June 1641, appointing him Master of Minerals in Scotland, he is styled Secretarius. On 22 July 1642 William, Earl of Lanark (afterwards second Duke of Hamilton), having petitioned Parliament, and proved that the office of Secretary of State for Scotland had been conferred on him in the previous year, Sir James was prohibited from assuming the title, or performing the functions, of that office. On 21 October 1641 he had a grant of the right of nominating clerks, procurators-fiscal, and other ministerial officers of the Commissary Courts, patronage which had devolved on the Crown in consequence of the suppression of the Episcopate. He was appointed Master of Bequests in vitam aut culpam 16 November 1641. He approved himself a most faithful servant to King Charles I. in the times of his greatest exigency, and was raised to the Peerage by the title of LORD DUNKELD, with remainder to the heirs-male of his body, 15 May 1645. He died at Westminster 13 in the month of November 1660, and was buried at St. Margaret's Church 2 December.

He is said to have married a daughter of Sir Robert Norter, Knight, and to have had by her a son."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. III, page 377