Right Honourable Sir William Calderwood of Polton, Lord Polton

RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM CALDERWOOD OF POLTON

Advocate (1687) Depute Sheriff for County of Edinburgh(1690) Senator of the College of Justice (1711)

Sir William Calderwood of Polton is the son of Alexander Calderwood and his wife Janet Moffat. He was born before 23 December 1660, the date upon which his baptism was registered at Dalkeith in Midlothian, Scotland. [National Records of Scotland, Dalkeith Baptisms, reference OPR.638/1]

Evidence from the Laing Charters

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23 March 1705: Laing Charters: 3019

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7 August 1707: Laing Charters: 3035

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7 October 1707: Laing Charters: 3037

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13 November 1710: Laing Charters: 3058

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28 January 1717: Laing Charters: 3081

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1 April 1719: Laing Charters: 3087

Genealogy

1. An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice: From Its Institution in MDXXII. By George Brunton (Thomas Clark, Edinburgh, MDCCCXXXII), p. 492
2. Darryl Lundy's Peerage
3. Stirnet: Calderwood 1

Biographical Summary

"CALDERWOOD, Sir WILLIAM, Lord Polton (1660?–1733), lord of session, was the son of Alexander Calderwood, baillie of Dalkeith, and was admitted advocate at the Scottish bar in July 1687. After the revolution he was made deputy-sheriff of the county of Edinburgh, and some time before 1707 received the honour of knighthood. He was appointed to succeed Sir William Anstruther of Anstruther as an ordinary lord in 1711, under the title of Lord Polton. He was at the same time nominated a lord of justiciary. He died on 7 Aug. 1733, in his seventy-third year."

SOURCE: 'Calderwood, William (DNB00)', Wikisource, The Free Library, 19 June 2012, 07:44 UTC, <http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Calderwood,_William_(DNB...> [accessed 22 August 2012]

Note

Mentioned in A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours, Volume 1 in relation to his grand daughters wedding to a Durham.