Family and Education
b. 1620, 1st s. of Sir James Lockhart of Lee and Martha, da. of Sir George Douglas of Mordington, Berwickshire; bro. of George II* and John*. educ. Lanark sch.;S.M. Lockhart, Seven Centuries: a Hist. of the Lockharts of Lee and Carnwath (privately published, 1976), 32, 37. travelled abroad (Low Countries, Germany) c.1634-6.Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 37. m. (1) Oct. 1646, Anna, da. of Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston, Lanarkshire, 1s.;NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 4. (2) 22 Feb. 1655, Robina (b. 1634) da. of John Sewster of Wistow, Hunts. 5s. 2da.Hunts. RO, 2789/1/1, p. 3; NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 4; CSP Ven. 1655-6, p. 33n; Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 40, 50. kntd. May 1646, 10 Dec. 1656.Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 38; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 223. suc. fa. 1674. d. 20 May 1675.Young, Parliaments of Scot. 436.
Offices Held

Military: vol. Dutch army, c.1634. Capt. regt. of Capt. Hepburn, French army, c.1639–44.NLS, MS 2999, ff. 27–30; Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 37–8. Quartermaster of horse, regt. of William Hamilton*, earl of Lanark, Covenanter army bef. May 1645.Papers Rel. Army of the Covenant, 1643–7 ed. C.S. Terry (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1917), i. pp. lxv, 139. Col. of horse, Lanarkshire regt. 13 June 1646–8, 1650–2.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 2; Seven Centuries, 38–9. Gov. Dunkirk 1658–60.Firth and Davis, Regimental Hist. ii. 671.

Scottish: dep. Lanarkshire, tender of union, 1652. 18 May 1652Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 57. Commr. admin. justice,, July 1654, 13 Aug. 1657.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 174–5; Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 214n; NLS, MS 7032, f. 106v. Cllr. of state, Apr. 1655–9.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XXVII, f. 70v. Kpr. signet, 1656, 13 Apr. 1660.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, nos. 6, 9. Judge of exch. and ld. of session, 16 May 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 326. Commr. and bar. of exch. 13 Aug. 1657.NLS, MS 7032, f. 100v. PC, 1670–d.Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 46. Commr. Lanarkshire, Scottish Parl. 1672. Ld. of articles, 1672. Ld. justice-clerk, 1674–d.Young, Parliaments of Scot. 436.

Central: member, cttee. for the army, 27 July 1653.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Fife and Kinross 31 Dec. 1655; Lanarkshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657.Acts Parl. Scot. vi, part 2, 839–40; A. and O. J.p. Fife and Kinross, Lanarkshire 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 312–3.

Diplomatic: amb. France c.Feb. 1656–60, 1673.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 204.

: Lanarkshire.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, attrib. J.B. de Medina;Scottish NPG. oil on canvas, unknown;NT Scotland, Haddo House. oil on canvas, unknown;Scottish NPG. miniature, unknown, c.1655-65.NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

LOCKHART, Sir William (1620-75), of Lee, Lanarkshire.

Will
not found.
Estates
granted keepership of Falkland Palace and Stirling Castle, and lordship of Kelso, Selkirk Forest, c. July 1655;Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVII, unfol.: 23 July 1655; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 265; Lockhart, Seven Centuries, 40. granted sasine of lands of Douglas of Morton, 18 Oct. 1658.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 7.
Oxford 1644
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