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b. 25 July 1617, 1st s. of David Brodie of that ilk and Katherine, da. of Thomas Dunbar of Grange. educ. in England, 1628-32; St Andrews Univ. and King’s Coll. Aberdeen, 1632-3. m. 28 Oct. 1636, Elizabeth (d. 12 Aug. 1640), da. of Sir Robert Innes of that ilk, wid. of John Urquhart of Craigston, 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 22 Sept. 1632. d. 17 Apr. 1680.Brodie Diary, pp. xv-xvii, lix, 137; Fasti Aberdonenses ed. C. Innes (Aberdeen, 1854), 461.
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Local: j.p. Aberdeenshire Dec. 1636 – ?51, by July 1656–?1660.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 68; Brodie Diary, 183; Oxford DNB. Commr. signing of king’s covenant, Elgin and Forres 24 Sept. 1638; apprehending Jesuits, Banff, Elgin, Forres and Nairn 5 July 1642.Regs. P.C. Scot. 1638–43, pp. 77, 289. assessment, Elginshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 839; A. and O.

Scottish: commr. Elgin and Forres shires, convention of estates, 1643 – 44; Scottish Parl. 1645 – 47, 1649–50. Member, cttee. of estates, 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649;Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 68. gen. assembly, 1643–51;Brodie Diary, p. xxi. cttee. for dispatches, Jan.-Aug. 1649.Government of Scotland under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 94, 104. Ordinary ld. of session, 26 June 1649-May 1652. Commr. to attend Charles Stuart in Holland, 1649, 1650.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 68. Apptd. (but refused) commry.-gen. and collector-gen. 15 Oct. 1650.Scotland under the Covenanters ed. Stevenson, 193. Commr. approbation of ministers, Aberdeenshire and Moray provinces 8 Aug. 1654.Nicoll, Diary, 167. Judge, high ct. of justice, 3 Dec. 1658-May 1660.Brodie Diary, p. xxxiii.

Civic: burgess, Edinburgh 27 Dec. 1648.Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses ed. C.B.B. Watson (Edinburgh, 1929), 71.

Military: col. of horse and ft. 1649.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 68.

: of Brodie, Elginshire.
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Commons 1640-1660
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BRODIE, Alexander (1617-80), of Brodie, Elginshire.

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centred on Brodie Castle, Elginshire, which was erected into a free barony by Scottish Parliament in 1646 (confirmed 1647).Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 68. Estate ravaged by marquess of Montrose in 1645, and in 1659 described as still in ‘a very low condition’.Ancram Corresp. ii. 427.
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