William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale

William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale

Family crest of William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale

William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale , KT , PC ( February 17, 1664 - January 14, 1721 in Bath , Somerset ) was a Scottish peer and politician .

Life

Earl, Jacobite and President of the Privy Council

He was the third child and second eldest son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and his wife ady Henrietta Douglas. Since his older brother James Johnstone, Lord Johnstone, had already died in 1662 as a two-year-old, he inherited the title of 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell , along with the associated subordinate title of 2nd Viscount of, when his father died on July 17, 1672 at the age of eight Annand and 2nd Lord Johnston of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evandale . He also took over from him the hereditary offices of Hereditary Steward of Annandale and Hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Palace . He graduated from the University of Glasgow and was first as a friend of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, an opponent and later a supporter of James II , who was King of England from 1685 to 1689 and at the same time under the name of James VII King from Scotland from the House of Stuart . In the Scottish uprising of 1689 he commanded two anti- Jacobite cavalry units against Bonnie Dundee .

In the course of the Glorious Revolution he was from Wilhelm III. of Orange , who from 1689 to 1702 in personal union King of England, King of Scotland and King of Ireland was in 1690 as a member of the Secret Privy Council of Scotland (Privy Council of Scotland) appointed and served from 1693 to 1695 for the first time as president of the Privy Privy Council (President of the Council) . In addition, between 1693 and his death in 1721 he held the office of extraordinary judge at the Supreme Civil Court of Scotland (Extraordinary Lord of Session) . In 1695 he was briefly President of the Parliament of Scotland and then from 1696 to 1705 one of the treasurers of Scotland (Lord Treasurer) . In 1701 he was first Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .

Marquess, Opponent of the Act of Union and Representative Peer

On June 24, 1701 he was also raised in the Peerage of Scotland to Marquess of Annandale . Together with the Marquessate he was given the subordinate titles Earl of Hartfell , Viscount of Annand and Lord Johnston of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale and Evandale . He then held the post of President of the Council again as the successor to George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville from 1702 until his replacement by James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose . At the same time he was from 6 May to 15 December 1702 Lord Seal Keeper of Scotland (Lord Privy Seal) . On February 7, 1704 was Knight of the Order of the Thistle (Knight of the Order of the Thistle) . In 1705 he held the position of Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the second time . At the same time he acted between March 9 and September 29, 1705 as Principal Secretary of State of Scotland .

Despite his opposition to the Act of Union 1707 and the resulting unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain , in 1708 he was elected representative of the Scottish nobility Representative Peer in the British House of Lords , to which he belonged until 1713. In 1711 he served for the third time as Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. On 19 April 1711 he was also a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . He was also between 1714 as the successor to James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and his replacement by James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose in 1716 keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland) . In addition, he was Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries , Kirkcudbright and Peebles between 1715 and 1721 and again from 1715 to 1721 Lord Seal Keeper of Scotland. In addition, from 1715 until his death in 1721 he was again a member of the House of Lords as a representative peer.

Marriages and offspring

Johnstone was married twice. His first marriage to Sophia Fairholm on January 2, 1682 in Edinburgh resulted in two daughters and three sons. He was married to Sophia Fairholm until her death on December 13, 1716. His eldest daughter, Henrietta Johnstone, was the wife of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun , while the second daughter, Mary Johnstone, died as a toddler. His eldest son James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale was briefly a member of the House of Commons in 1708 and inherited after his death in 1721 the title of 2nd Marquess of Annandale and the associated subordinate titles of nobility. His second son John Johnstone died at the age of six, while his third son from his first marriage, William Johnstone, was fatally injured in a duel in 1721 at the age of 25.

On November 20, 1718 Johnstone married Charlotte van Lore van den Bempdé in the London Fleet Chapel without the consent of her father. From this marriage two other sons were born. On the death of his unmarried and childless half-brother in 1730, George van den Bempdé-Johnstone inherited the title of 3rd Marquess of Annandale and the subordinate title. His second son from his second marriage, John Johnstone, died unmarried in 1742 at the age of 21.

After his death he was buried in Johnstone, Scotland. He left behind an extensive property to which, among other Johnstone Bridge was one where the 3rd Marquess of Annandale 1786 the mansion Raehills House was built.

Web links

• Entry on cracroftspeerage.co.uk
• Entry on cracroftspeerage.co.uk
• Entry in leighrayment.com
• Sir William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 15, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
James Johnstone	Earl of Annandale and Hartfell 1672-1721	James Johnstone
New title created	Marquess of Annandale 1701-1721	James Johnstone