Family of John + GRAHAM and Jean + DRUMMOND

Husband:	John + GRAHAM (1547-1608)
Wife:	Jean + DRUMMOND (1548- )
Children:	John + GRAHAM (1573-1626)
Marriage	24 Aug 1563	Montrose, Angus, Scotland

Husband: John + GRAHAM

Name:	John + GRAHAM
Sex:	Male
Father:	Robert + GRAHAM (1522-1547)
Mother:	Margaret + FLEMING (c. 1525-1586)
Birth	10 Sep 1547	Montrose, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Title		Earl of Montose
Occupation		Third Earl of Montrose
Death	9 Nov 1608 (age 61)	Forfor, Angusshire, Scotland¹

Wife: Jean + DRUMMOND

Jean + DRUMMOND

Name:	Jean + DRUMMOND
Sex:	Female
Father:	David + DRUMMOND (1522-1571)
Mother:	Lilias + RUTHVEN (1526-1579)
Birth	1548	Machany, Perthshire, Scotland
Death		Scotland

Child 1: John + GRAHAM

John + GRAHAM

Name:	John + GRAHAM
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Margaret + RUTHVEN (1577-1618)
Birth	1573	Kincadine, Fife, Scotland
Occupation		4th Earl of Montrose
Title		Earl of Montrose
Title	1625 (age 51-52)	President of the Privy Council²
	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.
Death	14 Nov 1626 (age 52-53)	Montrose, Angus, Scotland

Note on Husband: John + GRAHAM

born

1547

mar.

after 24 Aug 1563 his second cousin Hon Jean Drummond (d. Mar 1567/8), 1st dau. of David [Drummond], 2nd Lord Drummond, by his second wife Hon Lilias Ruthven, 2nd dau. of William [Ruthven], 2nd Lord Ruthven

children

1. Hon John Graham, later 4th Earl of Montrose

2. Hon Sir William Graham of Braco, 1st Bt. cr. a Baronet of Nova Scotia 28 Sep 1625 (d. bef. 23 Jan 1636), mar. (1) Lady Mary Keith, dau. of Hon William Keith, styled Lord Keith, and (2) after 1609 Mary Cunningham (widow of John Cunningham of Cunninghamhead), dau. of Sir James Edmonstone of Duntreath, and had issue by his second wife

3. Hon Sir Robert Graham of Scotston (dsp. 1617), mar. Hon Anne Lindsay, 1st dau. of Alexander [Lindsay], 1st Lord Spynie, by his wife Hon Jean Lyon, 2nd dau. of John [Lyon], 8th Lord Glamis

1. Lady Lilias Graham, mar. after 13 Jan 1585/6 John [Fleming], 1st Earl of Wigtown, and had issue

died 9 Nov 1608

suc. by son

note Privy Councillor [S] 1569, 1571 and 1577/8; Lieutenant General of the Borders 1581; an Extraordinary Lord of Session 1584-86 and 1591-96; Lord High Treasurer of Scotland 1584-85; Lord High Chancellor of Scotland 1598/9-1605; Viceroy of Scotland "Supremus regni Scotiae procurator" 1604³

Sources

1	Sidney Lee, "Dictionary of National Biography" (Smith, Elder and Co,. 1885-1900 London).

2	"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.

"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.