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James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater

James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater

Male 1663 - 1730  (67 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of FindlaterJames Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater was born on 11 Jul 1663 (son of James Ogilvy and Anne Montgomerie); died on 15 Aug 1730; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.

    Notes:

    James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield, KT, PC (11 July 1664 – 19 August 1730) was a Scottish politician.

    Findlater was the son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater, and Lady Anne Montgomerie. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1685, and was a Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for Banffshire from 1681 to 1682 and from 1689 to 1695. Findlater was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1693, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1702 to 1704 and from 1705 to 1708, Secretary of State from 1696 to 1702 and joint secretary from 1704 to 1705.

    Findlater was created Viscount Seafield in 1698 and Earl of Seafield in 1701. He was a Commissioner for the Union from 1702 and an active promoter of the Union from 1706. He served as first Lord Chief Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer, established by the Act of Union. By 1713 his views on Union had changed and he moved for its repeal. He served as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland from 1713 to 1714 and sat in the British House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1707 to 1710, from 1712 to 1715 and from 1722 to 1730. Findlater was admitted to the Privy Council of Great Britain in 1707 and was appointed Lord Chief Baron in the Court of Exchequer in 1707. In 1711 he succeeded his father as fourth Earl of Findlater.

    Lord Findlater married Anne Dunbar, daughter of Sir William Dunbar, 1st Baronet, in 1687. He died in August 1730, aged 66, and was succeeded by his son James Ogilvy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ogilvy,_4th_Earl_of_Findlater

    James married Anne Dunbar in 1687. Anne (daughter of William Dunbar and Janet Brodie) was born in 1672 in Banffshire, Scotland; died on 14 Aug 1708 in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland; was buried in Cullen, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. James Ogilvy, Earl of Findlater was born about 1689 in Findlater, Banff, Scotland; died on 9 Jul 1764 in Cullen House, Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James Ogilvy (son of Patrick Ogilvy and Elizabeth Ogilvy); died in 1711; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.

    James married Anne Montgomerie about 1658. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Anne Montgomerie (daughter of Hugh Montgomerie and Anne Hamilton).
    Children:
    1. 1. James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater was born on 11 Jul 1663; died on 15 Aug 1730; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Patrick Ogilvy was born in Perthshire, Scotland (son of Patrick Ogilvy and Anne Campbell); died in May 1659; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.

    Patrick married Elizabeth Ogilvy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Elizabeth Ogilvy
    Children:
    1. 2. James Ogilvy died in 1711; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.

  3. 6.  Hugh Montgomerie was born on 30 Mar 1613; was christened on 18 Apr 1613 (son of Earl of Eglinton Alexander Seton Montgomerie); died in Feb 1668 in Scotland.

    Hugh married Anne Hamilton on 13 Apr 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Anne Hamilton
    Children:
    1. 3. Anne Montgomerie


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Patrick Ogilvy was born in Perthshire, Scotland (son of "the younger" Patrick Ogilvy and Margaret Halyburton); died in Mar 1651.

    Patrick married Anne Campbell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Anne Campbell
    Children:
    1. 4. Patrick Ogilvy was born in Perthshire, Scotland; died in May 1659; was buried in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland.

  3. 12.  Earl of Eglinton Alexander Seton Montgomerie was born in 1587/88 in Foulstruther (son of Lord Robert Seton Montgomerie,, Earl of Winton and Margaret Montgomerie); died on 7 Jan 1660/61 in Scotland; was buried on 14 Feb 1660/61 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland.
    Children:
    1. 6. Hugh Montgomerie was born on 30 Mar 1613; was christened on 18 Apr 1613; died in Feb 1668 in Scotland.