Border Memories Or Sketches of Prominent Men And Women of the Border
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That w^as in 1713. Latterly, however, he had been restored, and held a high command in Scotland, but returning to Lon- don, died there in 1722. His funeral obsequies were per- formed with great pomp, and his burial place was in West- minster Abbey. He married his cousin. Lady Jane Campbell, from a principle of honour, feeling for the forlorn and poverty- stricken state of the Argyll family, owing to the forfeiture of the Ninth Earl (who was beheaded, as his father had been also), which the Marq...uis of Lothian thought undeserved. They had five children — one son, William, and four daughters. THE KER FAMILY. 129 All the latter married well, but there is no feature calling for special notice respecting their marriages, and I pass to their only brother William, after giving a rather curious extract from JMackay's "Memoirs, " on the character of William the Second Marquis of Lothian. " He hath abundance of fire, and may prove himself a man of business when he applies himself that way ; laughs at all revealed religion, yet sets up for a pillar of Presbytery, and proves the truest card in the pack, being very zealous, though not devout.
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