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See also:LOCKHART, QEORGE (1673-1731) , of Carnwath, Scottish writer and politician, was a member of a See also:Lanarkshire See also:family tracing descent from See also:Sir See also:Simon Locard (the name being originally territorial, de See also:Loch Ard), who is said to have accompanied Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Douglas on his expedition to the Easf with the See also:heart of See also:Bruce, which relic, according to See also:Froissart, Locard brought See also:home from See also:Spain when Douglas See also:fell in See also:battle against the See also:Moors, and buried in See also:Melrose See also:Abbey; this incident was the origin of the " See also:man's heart within a fetterlock " See also:borne on the Lockhart See also:shield, which in turn perhaps led to the altered spelling of the surname. See also:George Lockhart's grandfather was Sir James Lockhart of See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee (d. 1674), a See also:lord of the See also:court of session with the See also:title of Lord Lee, who commanded a See also:regiment at the battle of See also:Preston. Lord Lee's eldest son, Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Lockhart of Lee (1621-1675), after fighting on the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:side in the See also:Civil See also:War, attached himself to See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, whose niece he married, and by whom he was appointed See also:commissioner for the See also:administration of See also:justice in See also:Scotland• in 1652, and See also:English See also:ambassador at the See also:French court in 1656, where he greatly distinguished himself by his successful See also:diplomacy. Lord Lee's second son, Sir George Lockhart (c. 163o-1689), was lord-See also:advocate in Cromwell's See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and was celebrated for his persuasive eloquence; in 1674, when he was disbarred for alleged disrespect to the court of session in advising an See also:appeal to See also:parliament, fifty barristers showed their sympathy for him by withdrawing from practice. Lockhart was readmitted in 1676, and became the leading advocate in See also:political trials, in which he usually appeared for the See also:defence. He was appointed lord-See also:president of the court of session in 1685; and was shot in the streets of See also:Edinburgh on the 31st of See also:March. 1689 by See also:John Chiesley, against whom the lord-president had adjudicated a cause. Sir George Lockhart See also:purchased the extensive estates of the earls of Carnwath in Lanarkshire, which were inherited by his eldest son, George, whose See also:mother was See also:Philadelphia, daughter of Lord See also:Wharton.
George Lockhart, who was member for the See also:city of Edinburgh in the Scottish parliament, was appointed a commissioner for arranging the See also:union with See also:England in 1705. After the union he continued to represent Edinburgh, and later the Wigton burghs. His sympathies were with the See also:Jacobites, whom he kept informed of. all the negotiations for the union; in 1713 he took .See also:part in an abortive See also:movement aiming at the See also:repeal of the union. He was deeply implicated in the rising of 1715, the preparations for which he assisted at Carnwath and at, See also:Dryden,
his Edinburgh See also:residence. He was imprisoned in Edinburgh 1823 were published separately. In 1818 the brilliant and See also:castle, but probably, through the favour of the See also:duke of See also:Argyll,
he was released without being brought to trial; but his See also:brother See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip was taken prisoner at the battle of Preston and condemned to be shot, the See also:sentence being executed on the 2nd of See also:December 1715. After his liberation Lockhart became a See also:secret See also:agent of the Pretender; but his See also:correspondence with the See also:prince fell into the hands of the See also:government in 1727, compelling him to go into concealment at See also:Durham until he was able to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape abroad. Argyll's See also:influence was again exerted in Lockhart's behalf, and in 1728 he was permitted to return to Scotland, where he lived in retirement till his See also:death in a See also:duel on the 17th of December 1731. Lockhart was the author of See also:Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, dealing with the reign of See also:Queen See also:Anne till the union with England, first published in 1714. These Memoirs, together with Lockhart's correspondence with the Pretender, and one or two papers of See also:minor importance, were published in two volumes in 1817, forming the well-known " Lockhart Papers," which are a valuable authority for the See also:history of the Jacobites.
Lockhart married Eupheme See also:Montgomerie, daughter of See also:Alexander, 0th See also:earl of See also:Eglinton, by whom he had a large family. His See also:grandson James, who assumed his mother's name of See also:Wishart in addition to that of Lockhart, was in the See also:Austrian service during the Seven Years' War, and was created a See also:baron and See also:count of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire. He succeeded to the estates of Lee as well as of Carnwath, both of which properties passed, on the death of his son See also:Charles without issue in 1802, to his See also:nephew Alexander, who was created a See also:baronet in 18o6.
See The Lockhart Papers (2 vols., See also:London, 1817) ; See also:Andrew See also:Lang, History of Scotland (4 vols., London, 1900). For the See also:story of Sir Simon Lockhart's adventures with the heart of the Bruce, see Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott's The See also:Talisman. (R. J.
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