HERON, Patrick (c.1672-1761), of Heron, Kirroughtrie, Kirkcudbright.

Patrick Heron’s family had been at Kirroughtrie since the early fifteenth century. A well-known cattle breeder and agriculturalist, he made money in the cattle trade, considerably enlarging the family estates.P. H. M’Kerlie, Hist. Lands and Owners in Galloway, 425-6. During the 1715 rising he joined Lord Lovat to fight the rebels in Galloway, but ran away at the first encounter.Murray of Broughton, Memorials (Sc. Hist. Soc. xxvii), 317-18. Returned for Kirkcudbright Stewartry in 1727, he voted consistently with the Administration He died 22 Oct. 1761, three weeks after his only surviving son.