Robert MakGill, 2nd Viscount of Oxfurd

Biographical Summary

"Robert Makgill, second Viscount of Oxfuird and Lord Makgill of Cousland, was born 20 May 1651. He was served heir of tailzie and provision of his brother Patrick in lands in the counties of Berwick, Edinburgh, Haddington, and Linlithgow, 28 February 1656, and of his father 29 July 1663. He married, first, when only fifteen (contract dated 26 and 27 June 1666), Henrietta Livingston, only daughter of George, third Earl of Linlithgow, by Elizabeth Maule, daughter of the first Earl of Panmure. Lord Oxfuird went abroad in the autumn of this year and visited various places, returning in the year 1671, when there appears to have been a second marriage ceremony.' Lord Oxfuird succeeded his father in a large estate, but before his death he had got rid of most of it. James, Duke of York, afterwards James VII., and Princess Anne, when they were in Scotland, used to stay at times at Oxenfoord. In July 1689 Lord Oxfuird with others, including the Duke of Gordon and the Earl of Home, was arrested for being concerned in a plot against the Government and Estates of Parliament, but when the matter was examined it was found not to be of much importance, embracing nothing beyond some arrangements about the avowedly hostile force under Olaverhouse. By his first marriage with Henrietta Livingston, who died in Paris about the end of October 1683, Lord Oxfuird had issue :

• George, Master of Oxfuird, baptized 21 January 1676, had sasine of Oranstoun Magill 9 November 1698. He served in the Army, and died, unmarried, in Flanders August or September 1701. His father was served heir to him 7 December 1705.
• Christian, baptized 16 March 1677, was served heir to her father, Robert, second Viscount of Oxfuird, 25 February 1706. She assumed the title of Viscountess of Oxfuird. She was married to William Maitland, sixth son of Charles, third Earl of Lauderdale, and dying 1707, left issue.
• Elisabeth, baptized 20 May 1678.
• Marie, baptized 29 June 1679, died before August 1686.
• Henrietta. She succeeded Robert, son of Christian, in the estate of Oxfuird, and assumed the title of Viscountess of Oxfuird. She married James Hamilton of Orbiston, but had no issue, and died at Balmanno, co. Perth, 11 October 1758.

Lord Oxfuird married, secondly (contract dated 26 December 1684), Jean Ramsay, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Dalhousie, and widow of George, tenth Lord Ross, whom she had married in 1665, but by her, who died in November 1696, had no issue. On 30 July 1703 Lord Oxfuird entailed his lands and barony of Cranston-Macgill on Colonel George Makgill, his brother, and the heirs-male of his body, whom failing, on Christian Makgill, his own eldest daughter, spouse of William Maitland, brother-german of the Earl of Lauderdale, whom failing, on Henrietta Makgill, his second daughter, spouse of James Hamilton, younger of Orbiston, whom failing, on James Hamilton of Falahill, whom failing, on Colonel Thomas Hamilton, his brother-german, whom failing, on Colonel John Hamilton, their brother-german, and on the heirs-male of the body of each heir in succession, whom failing, on the granter's own nearest heirs and assignees. He died in December 1705, and was buried at Cranstoun, when the title became dormant or extinct."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. VI, page 599

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ROBERT, VISCOUNT OF OXFURD