Sir John Gilmour of Craigmiller, Lord President of the Court of Session

SIR JOHN GILMOUR OF CRAIGMILLER knight

Lord President of the Court of Session

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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1 August 1632: Discharge by Sir John Gilmour and Margaret Ainslie his wife to James Ainslie her father and Isobell Lowie sone his wife. of the sum of £9364- 6-8. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/2/531

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28 October 1659: A minute of Contract of Marriage between Sir John Gilmour and Margaret Cockburne, sister german to Sir Archibald Cockburne. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/2/605

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17 September 1664: Discharge by Sir John Gilmour, to Mr John Maitland, for 600 merks due to his brother, german. Mr Robert Gilmour, as part of the joynture of Elizabeth Sauctserffe, relict of the said Robert. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/2/675

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20 March 1669: Covenant between Sir John Nicolsonne of Leswaid Bart, and Dame Janet Gilmour his spouse, daughter of Sir John Gilmour of Craigmillar. Dated at Craigmillar. [https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx...

Biographical Summary by Wikipedia

"Sir John Gilmour of Craigmillar (1605 – 14 August 1671) was a Scottish judge, who served as Lord President of the Court of Session from 1661 to 1670. He was the son of John Gilmour, Writer to the Signet, and became an advocate on 12 December 1628...

...In 1641 he was appointed by Parliament to act for the Royalist Earl of Montrose, who was charged with intrigues against the Marquis of Argyll. Gilmour subsequently became associated with the Royalist party, and following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, he was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session by the King, on 13 February 1661. The Court of Session, the supreme civil court in Scotland, had not sat for the eleven years of the Interregnum, but resumed in June that year. The same year, Gilmour was appointed a privy counsellor, and was elected to the Parliament of Scotland, representing Edinburgh, and acting as a Lord of the Articles. Although a Royalist, he was a moderate. He sided with Lauderdale, the King's chief minister in Scotland, against the Earl of Middleton, who wished to reintroduce Episcopacy into Scotland. After the failed uprising of the Covenanters at Rullion Green in 1666, he refused to vote for the execution of the captured rebels...

...In 1660, Gilmour purchased the adjacent estates of The Inch and Craigmillar, to the south-east of Edinburgh, and renovated part of Craigmillar Castle as his home. He resigned as Lord President on 22 December 1670, and died the following year. His son, Sir Alexander Gilmour of Craigmillar, was created a baronet in 1678."

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'John Gilmour of Craigmillar', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 23 January 2012, 12:31 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Gilmour_of_Craigmill...> [accessed 18 September 2012]

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SIR JOHN GILMOUR

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

8 October 1661: Marriage contract between Sir John Nicolsone, of Leswade Knight, Bart. and Mistress Jonet Gilmour, 2nd daughter of Sir John Gilmour. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/1/666