Robert Preston, Lord Preston

ROBERT PRESTON OF PRESTON alias GORTON

Senator of the College of Justice where he sat as Lord Preston

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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8 July 1662: Note of charter in favour of Mr. Robert Preston of Preston, in liferent, and John Preston, his son, in fee, of lands and barony of Preston alias Gorton. National Records of Scotland, Papers of Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian, reference GD18/1634

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20 August 1663: Copy Charter under Great Seal in favour of Mr Robert Prestoun [Preston] of Prestoun in liferent, and John Prestoun, his eldest son, in fee, of lands and barony of Prestoun alias Gourtowne [Gorton], with patronage of parish kirk of Lasswade, uniting same into free barony of Prestoun, and town of Prestoun into a burgh of barony. National Records of Scotland, Papers of Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian, reference GD18/586

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20 August 1663: Signature of the lands of Preston alias Gourtoun granted to John Preston and Robert Preston. National Records of Scotland, Register of Signatures, boxed series, reference SIG1/131/32

Biographical Summary

"Sir Robert Preston of Preston - Second son of Sir John Preston of Valleyfield, obtained a charter of the lands of Preston, in Mid Lothian, on the 20th August 1663. He was knighted, and admitted an Ordinary Lord on the 4th March 1672, in place of Sir John Scougall of Whitekirk, and died in October 1674, while on a visit to Valleyfield."

An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice: From Its Institution in MDXXXII; by George Brunton, David Haig; 1832; Page 401