Reverend Laurence Lockhart of Milton-Lockhart, Minister of the Gospel at Inchinnan

Biographical Summary

Laurence Lockhart of Milton-Lockhart and Germiston, born 29th Dec. 1795, third son of John L., D.D., min. of Blackfriars' Parish, Glasgow, brother of John Gibson L., biographer of Sir Walter Scott; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 2nd Jan. 1822 ; pres. by Archibald Campbell of Blythswood 13th April, and ord. 13th Aug. 1822; D.D. (Glasgow, 1st May 1849); dem. 18th Oct. 1860; died 16th April 1876. He marr.

(1) 16th Sept. 1825, Louisa (died 16th Nov. 1847), only daugh. of David Blair, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue —

• John Somerville, born 9th Oct. 1826, died at Madeira, 28th Feb. 1848 ;
• Janet Margaret, born 22nd Feb. 1828, died 17th Feb. 1847 ;
• Major-Gen. David Blair of Milton-Lockhart, born 19th Aug. 1829, died s.p. 14th Jan. 1906 ;
• Lieut. -Col. Laurence William Maxwell, M.A. (Cantab.), served in the Crimean War ; Times correspondent in Franco-Prussian War in 1870 ; novelist, author of Fair to See ; Doubles and Quits, etc., born 9th April 1831, died at Mentone, 23rd March 1882 ;
• Elizabeth Catherine, born 5th Jan. 1833, died unmarried 1898 ;
• Louisa Matilda, born 31st July 1834 (marr. 9th Oct. 1863, Thomas Rudd) ;
• Violet Sophia, born 3rd Dec. 1836 (marr. 1860, Thomas Maxwell, M.D., Bengal Army), died 8th Feb. 1914 ;
• Mary Veronica, born 17th Feb. 1839, died 17th April 1848;
• General Sir William Stephen Alexander, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., Commander-in-Chief of the army in India, 1895-1900, born 2nd Sept. 1841, died 18th March 1900 ;
• Robert Thomas, born 19th Jan. 1846, died 25th Dec. 1855

(2) 5th Feb. 1849, Marion (died 22nd April 1902), eldest daugh. of William Maxwell of Dargavel, and had issue—

• Mary Nina Maxwell, born 18th April 1850, died 28th March 1854 ;
• James Somerville, born 18th Oct. 1851 ;
• Alexander Francis Maxwell, born 12th July 1854 ;
• Walter Somerville, born 12th Aug. 1856, merchant, Rangoon, afterwards Johannesburg.

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 145

Other References

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol II. page 980