See also
| Husband: | John + GRAHAM (1573-1626) | |
| Wife: | Margaret + RUTHVEN (1577-1618) | |
| Children: | Margaret GRAHAM (c. 1594- ) | |
| Beatrix GRAHAM (c. 1595- ) | ||
| Dorothea GRAHAM (c. 1610- ) | ||
| James + GRAHAM (1612-1650) | ||
| Lilias GRAHAM (c. 1614- ) | ||
| Katherine GRAHAM ( - ) | ||
| Marriage | 12 Dec 1593 | Perth, Perthshire, Scotland |
John + GRAHAM
| Name: | John + GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | John + GRAHAM (1547-1608) | |
| Mother: | Jean + DRUMMOND (1548- ) | |
| Birth | 1573 | Kincadine, Fife, Scotland |
| Occupation | 4th Earl of Montrose | |
| Title | Earl of Montrose | |
| Title | 1625 (age 51-52) | President of the Privy Council1 |
| The Privy Council of Scotland was a body that advised the King. In the range of its functions the council was often more important than the Estates in the running the country. Its registers include a wide range of material on the political, administrative, economic and social affairs of Scotland. The council supervised the administration of the law, regulated trade and shipping, took emergency measures against the plague, granted licences to travel, administered oaths of allegiance, banished beggars and Gypsies, dealt with witches, recusants, Covenanters and Jacobites and tackled the problem of lawlessness in the Highlands and the Borders. Like the Parliament, the Council was a development of the King's Council. The King's Council, or curia regis, was the court of the monarch surrounded by his royal officers and others upon whom he relied for advice. It is known to have existed in the thirteenth century, if not earlier, but has left little trace of its activities. By the later fifteenth century the council had advisory, executive and judicial functions though surviving records are mainly confined to the last. It is at this period that the 'secret' or privy council makes its formal appearance when, in February 1490, parliament elected 2 bishops, an abbot or prior, 6 barons and 8 royal officers to form the king's council for the ostensioun and forthputting of the King's authorite in the administracioun of justice. The Lords of Secret Council, as they were known, were part of the general body of Lords of Council, like the Lords of Session and Lords Auditors of Exchequer. After 1532 much of the judicial business was transferred to the newly founded College of Justice, the later Court of Session. The council met regularly and was particularly active during periods of a monarch's minority. A separate register of the privy council appears in 1545 and probably marks the point at which the secret council split off from its parent body. After 1603 James VI was able to boast to the English Parliament that he governed Scotland with my pen. The council received his written instructions and executed his will.[1] This style of government, continued by his grandsons Charles II and James VII, was disrupted during the reign of Charles I, the Covenanters and the Cromwellian occupation. There are gaps in the register during the upheavals of 1638–41 when the council was largely displaced by an alternative administration set up by the Covenanters and during the Cromwellian period, the council ceased to act at all. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Charles II nominated his own privy councillors and set up a council in London through which he directed affairs in Edinburgh, a situation that continued after the Glorious Revolution of 1688–9. The council survived the Act of Union but for one year only. It was abolished on 1 May 1708. Until 1707, The Privy Council met in what is now the West Drawing Room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. It was called the Council Chamber in the 17th century. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (1545–1689) was edited and published between 1877 and 1970 by John Hill Burton, David Masson, Peter Hume Brown and Henry Macleod Paton. |
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| Death | 14 Nov 1626 (age 52-53) | Montrose, Angus, Scotland |
| Name: | Margaret + RUTHVEN | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1577 | Gowrir, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Death | 15 Apr 1618 (age 40-41) | Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Name: | Margaret GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1594 (est) | |
| Name: | Beatrix GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1595 (est) | |
| Name: | Dorothea GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1610 (est) | |
James + GRAHAM
| Name: | James + GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Magdalene + CARNEGIE (1610-1657) | |
| Birth | 25 Oct 1612 | Perth, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | First Marquise of Montrose | |
| Title | Marquis of Montrose | |
| Death | 21 May 1650 (age 37) | Edinburgh, Mithlothian, Scotland |
| Burial | Saint Giles Cathedral2 | |
| Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| Name: | Lilias GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1614 (est) | |
| Name: | Katherine GRAHAM | |
| Sex: | Female | |
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose was Earl of Montrose from 1608 to the 1620s.
He was for a time Lord President of the Privy Council of Scotland.
He married Lady Margaret Ruthven, daughter of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie and Dorothea née Stewart. They had:
James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose, later 1st Marquess of Montrose.
Lilias Graham, married Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, 1st Baronet.
Elizabeth Graham
Margaret Graham married Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier of Merchistoun.
Dorothea Graham married Sir James Rollo, Younger of Duncrub.
Katherine Graham
Beatrix Graham married David Drummond, 3rd Lord Maderty.
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John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose was born in 1573.2 He was the son of John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose and Jean Drummond.1 A contract for the marriage of John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose and Lady Margaret Ruthven was signed on 12 December 1593.1 He died on 14 November 1626.1
He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Scotland] in 1604.1 He succeeded to the title of 6th Lord Graham [S., 1403] on 9 November 1608.1 He succeeded to the title of 4th Earl of Montrose [S., 1503] on 9 November 1608.1 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Stirlingshire in 1610.1 He was a Commissioner of Treasury [Scotland] in 1625.1 He was President of the Privy Council [Scotland] between March 1626 and November 1626.1
Children of John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose and Lady Margaret Ruthven
Lady Margaret Graham+3 d. 1626
Lady Lilias Graham+4
Lady Beatrix Graham1
Lady Katherine Graham1
Lady Dorothea Graham+1 d. 16 May 1638
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose+1 b. 1612, d. 21 May 1650
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Lord President of the Privy Council
The President of the Privy Council was one of the Great Officers of State in Scotland. The Lord Chancellor presided over the Council ex officio, but in 1610 James VI decreed that the President of the College of Justice should preside in the Chancellor's absence, and by 1619 the additional title of President of the Privy Council had been added. The two presidencies were separated in 1626 as part of Charles I's reoganisation of the Privy Council and Court of Session. The Lord President of the Council was accorded precedence as one of the King's chief officers in 1661, but appeared in Parliament only intermittently.
1625 John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose
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John Graham 4th Earl of Montrose
Born: 1573
Marriage: Lady Margaret Ruthven on 12 Dec 1593
Died: 14 Nov 1626 at age 53
General Notes:
[ The website, http://www.thepeerage.com/p2815.htm#i28149 while very helpful, often is incomplete. It does not for example, list all of the 4th Earl of Montrose's children, nor those of his son, the 1st Marquis... therefore I can not presume they are an authority, in these regards, on anyone's offspring, notes compiler, Colleen Cahoon. ]
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Pg. 7 from Mark Napier's 'Life of Montrose' :
"In the Parliaments held at Perth in 1604 and 1606, when the nobility rode in state, Lord Graham carried the Great Seal, while Morton carried the Sword, Angus the Crown, and Argyle the Sceptre.
In 1616, after he had succeeded to the Earldom, he himself represented his Sovereign, by special commission, at a great convention held in Aberdeen on the affairs of the Kirk, and the popish delinquencies of the Marquis of Huntly.
This was the last occassion upon which John, fourth Earl of Montrose, the father of the great Marquis, (of Montrose) was conspicuous in public.
After the death of his Countess, (Margaret Ruthven) he lived the retired life of a country gentleman, devoted to his children, and to his household affairs ; and boviously very domestic in all his habits.
That he had ever drawn the sword at all, is only known from the brief record of Robert Birrell, respecting the family feud already noted.
That he still wore one (sword) in his retirement, we learn from this item in his expenditure, ---' For dressing my Lord's sword at Brechin, 20 shillings, '--- Scots of course.
His two eldest daughters, Lilias and Margaret, were married within two years after the death of their mother. Three younger unmarried daughters, Dorothea, Katherine, and Beatrix, were still under their widowed father's care.
Montrose, as we have said, was the only son. During the life of his father, he is invariably styled, (referred to) in the domestic accounts, ' the Lord James.' He had not yet acquired the name and style bestowed upon him by the convenanting ministers of the gospel, --'That excommunicated traitor, bloody butcher, and viperous brood of Satan, James Graham.' "
Pg. of the same source:
" The monotonous and innocent country life of this thrifty nobleman, affords a striking contrast to the stormy and tragical fate of his immediate successor (his son James, the Marquis of Montrose).
He was possessed of various great baronies, in the counties of Perth, Stirling, Dumbarton, and Forfar; and noble castles of feudal strength, all destined, in the next generation, to be the prey of " the Troubles."
The factor's books indicate overflowing granaries, and wide spread domains.
One book records ' ...the corn-yards of Kincardine, Old Montrose, and Maritoun; ' and the crops teinds, and feudal duties ' of all the baronies, Oldmarok, and Easter Mugdock, Dundaff, Bairdrell, Kincardine, Fosswell, Aberuthvenn, the Holiland, Old Montrose, Maritoun and Fullerton.'
From the same unquestionable source we derive the information, that he had many oxen for his ploughs, consumed many puncheous of wine, and tobacco and tobacco-pipes to a great extent.
It is recorded of the heroic Marquis (John's son) by a contemporrary chronicler, that he could not endure the smell of tobacco, and that the convenanting clergy, taking advantage of this defect in his constitution, nearly smoked him to death in prison before they hanged him.
He had inherited no such weakness from his father.
(page 9)... In a word, his household accounts are bristling with tobacco-pipes, and redolent of the weed, --- all expressly ' for his Lordship'.
The smaller articles which compete with the above in the records of his domestic expenditure, are golf-balls and bowstrings.
... He wore black breeches; for there is an item of twenty-three shillings and sixpence for 'linen for my Lord's black breiks.'
He sometimes wrote, as seven shillings goes 'for ane pig full of ink to my Lord.'
He occasionally read, for six shillings is bestowed upon 'the minister's man that brought books to my Lord at command.'
And that he was particular about his malt, may be inferred from the fact, that he paid twenty-three shillings 'for ane white-wine puncheon to put March ale in.'
His table was largely supplied with the abundant game of his domains, -- from deer to conies--- from capercailzies to plovers; and four pounds at a time are expended ' for powder and lead to my Lord's gunner.'
Robert and Laurence Graham were his principal factors;
Margaret Stirling one of his housekeepers.
Harry Blackwood was his master of horse.
Duncan Kay was one of several purveyors of wine.
John Marshall supplied him with tobacco-pipes.
Alexander Madden was his carpenter and blacksmith.
Humphry Wilson his shoe-maker.
James Mylne made his bows;
Patrick Lystsone his golf-balls; and
Thomas Smythe at Aberuthven, shod all the horses when the family were inhabiting the castle at Kincardine.
To the simple records of that anvil, which was kept con- (page 10) -stantly ringing with the shoeing of horses from the neighbouring castle of Kincardine, is due the merit of affording authentic indications of the infant chivalry of Montrose (the Marquis).
There yet exists the blacksmith's account, dated 29th September 1620, containing an item ' for twa gang of shoon to Lord James's two naigs." At this time he had about completed his eighth year. The blacksmith's accounts are continiued throughout successive years in the same style; and the constant shoeing of Lord James's horses indicate that he rode often, and rode hard, as undoubtedly he did for all the rest of his life.
Harry Blackwood had enough on his hands in this department. There was a ' white horse of my Lord James's, ' familiar with the smithy of the barony. Also 'the horse that Mr. James Graham rode on,'-- this personage being 'the domestic servitour' of the young Lord.
The anvil at Aberuthven was peretually visited by the gray mare, the gray courser, the gray hackney, the brown horse, the sorrel naig, the pockmanty naig, and some illustrious animal of 'my Lord's' always designated by the name of Gray Oliphant.
That this was a haunt of the young Lord's is the less to be doubted, since we find the family Cyclops charging six shillings 'for dressing of Lord James's fensing swords,' in the year 1624, when he was just twelve years of age.
The imagination is fond to picture the retired Earl, who thirty years before had endeavoured to pink the knight of Calder at the Salt Trone of Edinburgh, instructing in all the cunning of fence that son who, some twenty years later, was to strike the dishonoured claymore from the hand of the fearful Argyle. At the period of dressing his foils, the same sum is disbursed 'to James Myln, for mending my Lord James's bow.'
...We find him (Earl John) there (Castle Kincardine) in the previous month of (page 11) February, along with his son-in-law, Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, and his kinsmen, Patrick Graham of Inchbrakie, and John Graham of Killearn.
In the month of March he takes his horse for his place of Old Montrose, purchasing by the way tobacco, tobacco pipes, golf-balls, and bowstrings. His sword is dressed at Brechin.
From Old Montrose he proceeds to his ancient feudal hold of Mugdock in Stirlingshire; and sends, as we have seen, for his youngest daughter, ' the bairn Beatrix,' who had been left at Kincardine.
Railways being then undreamt of, we may picture the little lady when transported from Strathearn to Strathblane, perched on a pillion behind Harry Blackwood, upon Gray Oliphant, accompanied with the 'pockmanty naig,' and Robert Taylor with the precious tapestry (mentioned earlier in the transcript as ordered to be delivered along with Beatrix) .
At this time she has just completed her tenth year. We shall hear of her again, and of Kincardine, and Mugdock, and Old Montrose, in ' the Troubles.'
[Note from compiler, Colleen Cahoon... I am not certain, but it appears that the above is stating that in the year of John's death, 1626, his youngest daughter, Beatrix, had just completed her tenth year. That would have her born in 1616 and Catherine between her and James (Montrose) born in 1612, so Catherine was probably born about 1614.]
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Notice that the note below from the PEERAGE does not mention daughter Catherine/Katherine... even though this same source... thepeerage.com... did note very briefly that charges were brought against John's son-in-law John Colquhoun, husband of his daughter, Lilias, for the crime of abducting her younger sister, Katherine/Catherine... yet below we do not see that daughter... ?
(Page 25)... The ceremony of the old Earl's interment beside his Countess, in the ancient family vault at Aberuthven, is not detailed, but it must needs have been solemn and stately, since it took nineteen days to accomplish it.
Among the friends assembled with the youth heir (Montrose who have been home two days prior to his ailing father's death,) were, John Earl of Wigton, Montrose's cousin-german, his mother being Lady Lilias Graham,, the only sister of the departed Earl : Lord Napier, Montrose's brother-in-law ; His other brother-in-law, Sir John Colquhoun of Luss : Sir William Graham of Braco, only brother to the deceased Earl : Sir Robert Graham of Morphie : Sir William Graham of Claverhouse, (great-grandfather of Dundee) : David Graham of Fintrie : John Graham of Orehill : Patrick Graham of Inchbrakie : and John Graham of Balgowan, -- all these Grahams representing distinguished branches of the House (of Graham).
These were noblemen and gentlemen whom the young chief of the Grahams immediately assumed as his curators. That they were all together in the castle of Kincardine, and were the friends to whom the Dyet of the burial refers, is proved by their signatures attached to precepts relating to the minor's affairs, of that date.
If they mourned, they did not fast. If they grieved, the grief was not dry. The peaceful death, and most social burial of hte father, contrasts so strangely with the stormy and fearful exist of the son, only twenty-four years thereafter, that we cannot forbear pausing on the scene.
(An interesting accounting of the table fare is presented.)... Whatever may have happened before, we may venture to say, that so rich a bill of fare has never been produced in Scotland, in these degenerate days, upon any one occassion either of mourning or feasting. The records of the pantry, the wine cellar, the ale cellar, the larder, and the 'pettie larder' --which last was composed of cheese, butter, eggs, candles, herrings, spices, and confectioner, are all minutely kept; and the great abundance and variety considered, we are not surprised to find that it took eight weeks to "accomplish" this lordly consignment of earth to earth, and the subsequent 'salttling of my Lor's affairs."
The 'claret wine' and the 'white wine' is reckoned by puncheons; and there could hardly have been a single tear for every bucket of 'Easter Ale' with which the stately castle of Kincardine appears to have been inundated, when the last Earl of Montrose who bore that title at his decease, was gathered to his fathers in the mausoluem of Aberuthven.
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John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose was born in 1573.
He was the son of John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose and Jean Drummond <p2816.htm>.
He married Lady Margaret Ruthven, daughter of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie <p10923.htm> and Dorothea Stewart <p10923.htm>, on 12 December 1593.
He died on 14 November 1626.
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose gained the title of 4th Earl of Montrose.
Child of John Graham, 4th Earl of MontroseLady Lilias Graham <p24573.htm>+1
Children of John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose and Lady Margaret Ruthven <p2815.htm>Lady Margaret Graham <p20447.htm>2 d. 1626
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose <p2815.htm>+ b. 1612, d. 1650
Citations1. [S37 <s1.htm>] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003). Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S37 <s1.htm>] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 690.
John married Lady Margaret Ruthven, daughter of Fourth Lord William Ruthven 1st Earl of Gowrie and Dorothea Stewart, on 12 Dec 1593. (Lady Margaret Ruthven was born in 1577 in Perth, Scotland and died on 15 Apr 1618 in Perth, Scotland.)3
| 1 | "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th Edition" (Crans, Switzerland). Text From Source: Lord President of the Privy Council The President of the Privy Council was one of the Great Officers of State in Scotland. The Lord Chancellor presided over the Council ex officio, but in 1610 James VI decreed that the President of the College of Justice should preside in the Chancellor's absence, and by 1619 the additional title of President of the Privy Council had been added. The two presidencies were separated in 1626 as part of Charles I's reoganisation of the Privy Council and Court of Session. The Lord President of the Council was accorded precedence as one of the King's chief officers in 1661, but appeared in Parliament only intermittently. |
| 2 | "Find a Grave". Inscription: Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just. Lines written on the Window of his Jail the Night before his Execution. |
| 3 | "Wikipedia". |