HERON, Patrick (c.1672-1761), of Heron, Kirroughtrie, Kirkcudbright.

Constituency	Dates
Kirkcudbright Stewartry	1734

Family and Education

b. c. 1672, s. of Andrew Heron of Kirroughtrie by Jean, da. of John Dunbar of Machermore. m. (1) Margaret, da. of — Stewart, provost of Wigtown; (2) Jane, da. of — Graham of Ingliston, provost of Dumfries, 2s. 1da., (3) 1721, Isabel, da. of — Neilson of Dumfries, merchant, wid. of Thomas Maxwell of Cuil, Buittle, Kirkcudbright, s.p.

Address

Main residence: Heron, Kirroughtrie, Kirkcudbright.

biography text

Patrick Heron’s family had been at Kirroughtrie since the early fifteenth century. A well-known cattle breeder and agriculturalist, he made money in the cattle trade, considerably enlarging the family estates.1P. H. M’Kerlie, Hist. Lands and Owners in Galloway, 425-6. During the 1715 rising he joined Lord Lovat to fight the rebels in Galloway, but ran away at the first encounter.2Murray of Broughton, Memorials (Sc. Hist. Soc. xxvii), 317-18. Returned for Kirkcudbright Stewartry in 1727, he voted consistently with the Administration He died 22 Oct. 1761, three weeks after his only surviving son.

Author

P.W.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. P. H. M’Kerlie, Hist. Lands and Owners in Galloway, 425-6.
2. Murray of Broughton, Memorials (Sc. Hist. Soc. xxvii), 317-18.