A verbatim report of the Mordaunt divorce case.

Date:
1875
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Credit: A verbatim report of the Mordaunt divorce case. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    brother (Harry), and eldest son of Henry Moncreiffe, Esq., by Barbara, daughter of Harry Herbert, Esq., of Cardiff. Sir Thomas married Mar- garet, daughter of David Smith, Esq., of Methven, by whom he had two sons—Sir Thomas, his heir, and David, who settled at Moredun, and was one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland. By the same lady he had also three daughters, one of whom died unmarried. Margaret, the eldest, married Lieutenant-General Gordon, of Auchintoul; and Janet, the third daughter, the Hon. Captain Charles Barclay, of Maitland, uncle to the eighth Earl of Lauderdale. Sir Thomas died in 1738, and was succeeded by his eldest son. Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, the third baronet, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir William Murray, of Auchertyre, Bart., by whom he had two sons—Sir William, his heir, and Patrick, an officer in the army. He died in 1739, and was succeeded by his eldest son. Sir William Moncreiffe, who married Clara Guthrie, of the Craigo family of that name, in the county of Angus, by whom he had one son, Thomas, who succeeded him, and one daughter, who was married to Cunningham, Esq., of Bonington, iri the county of Mid Lothian. Sir Thomas, who succeeded his father, married, in 1786, Lady Elizabeth Ramsay, eldest daughter of George, eighth Earl of Dalhousie, by whom he had one son and one daughter. Her ladyship died June 3rd, 1848. Sir Thomas died March 25th, 1818, and was succeeded by his son David. The daughter, Georgina, married March 5th, 1818, George Augustus, the late Earl of Bradford, by whom she had issue. Sir David, sixth baronet, was born December, 31st 1788, and married, 12th January, 1819, Helen, the second daughter of HCneas Mackay, Esq., of Scotstown, by whom (who married, secondly, 30th October, 1849, George Augustus, the present Earl of Bradford) ho had issue Thomas, the present baronet; William iEneas, born 1825 ; Helen, married 22nd March, to Edmund Wright, Esq., of Halston Hall, Shropshire, by whom she has issue ; and Elizabeth. Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, of Moncreiffe, county of Perth, the pre- sent baronet, was born Jan. 9th, 1822, and succceeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, November 20th, 1830. He married on the 2nd May, 1843, Lady Louisa Hay, eldest daughter of the tenth Earl of Kinnoull, by whom he has had issue—1st, David Maule, born 12th December, 1854, died April 25th, 1857; and Robert Drummond, born November 3, 1855; 3rd, Thomas George Harry, born 9th October, 1860;