JOHNSTON, William (1664-1721) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 17 Feb. 1664, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of James Johnston, 2nd earl of Hartfell [S] and 1st earl of Annandale and Hartfell, and Henrietta, da. of William Douglas, 1st mq. of Douglas [S]. educ. Glasgow g.s. 1674; Glasgow Univ. 1677; m. (1) 2 Jan. 1682, Sophia (d.1716), da. and h. of John Fairholm of Craigiehall, Linlithgow, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 20 Nov. 1718, Charlotte van Lore (d.1762), da. of John Vanden Bempde of Hackness Hall, nr. Scarborough, Yorks. and Pall Mall, Westminster, 2s. KT 1704. d. 14 Jan. 1721; Douglas, Scots Peerage, i. 264–5. will, pr. 11 Aug. 1721. TNA, PROB 11/582.

Offices Held

Commr. conventicles [S] 1684, auditing treasury accts. [S] 1695, 1696; treasury [S] 1696 – aft.Feb. 1705, visitation of univs. [S] 1697, trade [S] 1698, auditing adm. accts. [S] 1698, union with Eng. 1702; PC [S] 1688, 1689 – July 1690, aft. Dec. 1690–1708. extraordinary ld. of session 1693 – d.; ld. pres. of council [S] 1693 – 95, 1702 – 04, 1705 – 06; pres. of parl. [S] 1695; ld. high commr. Gen. Assembly Ch. of Scotland 1701, 1705, 1711; kpr. privy seal [S] May-Dec. 1702, 1715 – d.; jt. sec. of state [S] Mar. – Sept. 1705; PC 1711 – d.; kpr. great seal [S] 1714–16. Douglas, 265; CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 109; CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 44; CSP Dom. 1691–2, p. 186; CSP Dom. 1694–5, p. 445; CSP Dom. 1696, pp. 32, 63, 120, 168; CSP Dom. 1697, p. 538; CSP Dom. 1698, pp. 405, 432; CSP Dom. 1702–3, pp. 456, 479, 571; CTB, xxii. 119; HMC Hope-Johnstone, 44; Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 223; HMC Hamilton ii. 162; HMC Laing, ii. 101; London Gazette, 19–21 Apr. 1711, 21–25 Sept., 16–19 Oct. 1714.

Capt., Visct. Dundee’s horse Oct. – Nov. 1688, indep. tp. of horse [S], 1689.

Stewart (hered.) Annandale 1672 – d.; burgess, Edinburgh 1693; constable and gov. Lochmaben castle by 1701; provost, Annan by 1701; ld. lt. Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Peebles. 1715. Scot. Rec. Soc. lix. 35; Annandale mss at Raehills, bdle. 822.

Parlimentarian

JOHNSTON, William (1664-1721)

Associated with: Craigiehall; Lochwood Castle, Lochmaben, Dumfries.

Likenesses

mezzotint by J. Smith, aft. Sir G. Kneller, 1703, British Museum P,8.71.

Author

Townend, Graham

Hayton, David

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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