Family and Education
b. c. 1705, 3rd s. of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, 2nd Bt. of Closeburn, Dumfries by his 2nd w. Isabel, da. of Sir William Lockhart, 1st Bt., of Carstairs, Lanark. educ. Leyden 1726, adv. 1728. m. 21 Dec. 1746, Jean, da. of Charles Areskine of Alva, Clackmannan, and Tinwald, Dumfries, Lord Tinwald S.C.J., and lord justice clerk, 1s.
Offices Held
Professor of public law, Edinburgh 1734 – 35; principal clerk of court of session 1738 – d.; sheriff, Dumfries 1747.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Lochmaben, Dumfries.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Web Title
KIRKPATRICK, William (c.1705-78)
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Estates
Oxford 1644
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