LOCKHART, John (d. 1693), of Castlehill, Lanarkshire.

Family and Education

3rd s. of Sir James Lockhart of Lee and Martha, da. of Sir George Douglas of Mordington, Berwickshire; bro. of George II* and William*. educ. Edinburgh Univ. MA 15 July 1650. m. Catherine Thomson of Gourlabanks, 1s. 1da. cr. Lord Castlehill 22 Nov. 1665. d. Oct. 1693.Young, Parliaments of Scot. 433-4; S.M. Lockhart, Seven Centuries: a Hist. of the Lockharts of Lee and Carnwath (privately published, 1976), appx.

Offices Held

Legal: faculty of advocates, Edinburgh, adm. 4 Jan. 1656, re-adm. 7 June 1662. Ld. of session, 22 Nov. 1665. Ld. of justiciary, 6 Feb. 1671–8, 1683–d.Faculty of Advocates in Scot. 1532–1943 ed. F.J. Grant (Edinburgh, 1944), 125; Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 434.

Scottish: commr. security of protector, Scotland 26 Nov. 1657; assessment, Lanarkshire 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O. Commry. Lanark, Renfrew and Dunbarton shires 5 Nov. 1658.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 4, no. 16. Dep. kpr. of signet, 15 Apr. 1660.NLS, Lockhart Charters A.1, folder 2, no. 10. PC, 1684. Commr. for Lanarkshire, Scottish Parl. 1693.Young, Parliaments of Scot. 433–4.

: Lanarkshire.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

LOCKHART, John (d. 1693), of Castlehill, Lanarkshire.

Will

pr. 10 Aug. 1696.NRS, CC8/8/80, ff. 194-5.

Estates

centred on Castlehill, Lanarkshire; held 1-year lease of 2,470 acres in co. Armagh, from 1 May 1657.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 681-2.

Oxford 1644

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