BORTHWICK, John 10th Lord Borthwick ¹

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John married Elizabeth KER, daughter of William KER 3rd Earl of Lothian and Lord Ker of Newbattle (Crown grant) and Anne KER Countess of Lothian,, on 23 August 1649.¹ (Elizabeth KER was born on 6 September 1633 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lord Borthwick married, 23 August 1649, Elizabeth Kerr (born 6 September 1633), second daugliter of William, third Earl of Lothian and, dying .... without surviving issue, he was succeeded in what remained of the family property by his sister's son, John Dundas of Harvieston.

On the death of John, tenth Lord Borthwick, all the male issue of William, the fourth Lord, became extinct, and the Peerage of right descended to Major William Borthwick of Johnstonburn, the head of the Soltray branch, and the then heir-male of tlie body of Alexander of Nenthorn, a younger son of William, the third Lord Borthwick. Neither he nor his son. Colonel William Borthwick of Johnstonburn, 'would ever be prevailed on to take the title : their maxim was that a title without a suitable fortune was not eligible.' Upon the death of the Colonel, followed immediately by that of Captain Henry Borthwick of Pilmuir, the succession opened, in 1706, to the latter's elder son, William Borthwick of Pilmuir, on whose decease the right devolved upon his brother, Henry, fifteenth Lord Borthwick, and eleventh in possession of the dignity."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) ¹