KEITH, George 9t Earl Marischal, Jacobite 1715 1
- Born: 1694 1
- Died: 28 May 1778 1
User ID: H949.
General Notes:
"For his part in the rising (of 1715) the Earl Marischal was attainted for high treason, his estates, entered officially as being worth at the sale in 1720 £2998, 4s. 4d. per annum, were forfeited, and the title and office of Marischal were confiscated." (page 63)
"On 29 May (1759) of the same year he was granted a free pardon by King George II., and in the warning transmitted by him to Pitt from Madrid of the family compact between King Carlos and Louis XV. he paid tribute to the generosity with which the King had re-admitted him as a citizen of his native country. In 1760 an Act was passed permitting him to inherit, notwithstanding his attainder any title or estate which might descend to him, and in the following year, on the death of William, fourth Earl of Kintore, he succeeded to the title and estates. He declined, however, to take the title, and was never generally designed as Earl of Kintore." (pages 63 and 64)
"The estate of Kintore, with the old castle of Hallforest and Keith-hall, with the title of Earl of Kintore, devolved on Lord Falconer of Halkertoun as heir of entail, upon the death of the tenth (listed on this website as ninth) Earl Marischal, the remainder of his property being divided among his grandnephews, John, eleventh Lord Elphinstone, and his brothers the Hon. William Elphinstone and the Hon. George Keith Elphinstone." (page 64)
from Scots Peerage (vol 6) 1
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