GIBSON, Sir Alexander (1630-61), of Durie, Scoonie Parish, Fife.

Family and Education

b. 1630, s. and h. of Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie and Cecilia, da. of Thomas Fotheringham of Powrie, Fife. m. 10 June 1651, Marjory (d. 1667), da. of Andrew Murray, Lord Balvaird, 3 da. suc. fa. June 1656. d. 6 Aug. 1661.CB; Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 273-4; Diary of John Lamont ed. G.R. Kintoch (Edinburgh, 1830), 138.

Offices Held

Local: ?j.p. Fife 1656–7. 26 June 1657Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 312. Commr. assessment, Fife and Kinross, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.

Scottish: commr. to treat with English Parl. Feb. 1660; to attend Charles Stuart in Holland, Apr.-May 1660.Dow, Cromwellian Scot. 259, 263. Commr. Fife, Scottish Parl. Jan. 1661. PC, 13 July 1661. Ld. of articles, 1661. Commr. plantation of kirks, 1661; excise, 1661.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 274; Reg. PC Scot. 1661–4, pp. 1, 2.

Civic: burgess, Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1660.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1655–65, 217.

: of Durie, Scoonie Parish, Fife.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GIBSON, Sir Alexander (1630-61), of Durie, Scoonie Parish, Fife.

Will

testament confirmed 8 Aug. 1662.NRS, CC20/4/12.

Estates

at d. owned baronies of Durie and Largo, Fife;CB. Durie erected into a barony by grant of 7 Aug. 1656.Reg. Gt Seal Scot. 1652-9, pp. 235-8.

Oxford 1644

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