Thomas Aikman

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"The Aikmans of Lordburn were prominent in the affairs of Arbroath for many generations before John Aikman (1613-93) bought the Cairney estate on the outskirts of the town. This seems to have had a very modest house (later divided into cottages and demolished in the 19th century), but lands stretching out into St. Vigeans parish. His son, William Aikman (d. 1699) was sheriff of Forfarshire and married a daughter of John Clerk of Penicuik. Their son, William Aikman (1682-1731), although intended for a legal or mercantile career, instead sold his parental estate in 1707 to fund artistic training in Italy, and became one of the the leading British portrait painters of his day, based latterly in London.
The brother of William Aikman (d. 1699) was Thomas Aikman, who pursued a successful legal career and became Keeper of the Records of Scotland. In 1704 he bought the estate of Ross House (alias The Ross) and Broomelton near Hamilton in Lanarkshire; the main house on this estate seems to have been the farmhouse at Broomelton until a new house was built at The Ross by John Forbes Aikman. "