Dugall Stewart of Blairhall, Senator of the College of Justice

DUGALL STEWART OF BLAIRHALL

Advocate: Senator of the College of Justice, where he sat as Lord Blairhall

Marriage

Married Mary Bruce on 10 March 1700. The Scots Peerage II: 297

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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21 May 1706: Letter to the Earl of Mar from Dougal Steuart [Stewart] of Blair Hall [Blairhall], waiting for his allowance as one of the parliamentary committee on public accounts. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Erskine Family, Earls of Mar and Kellie, reference GD124/15/405

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12 February 1708-09: Correspondence. Dugall Stewart, later lord Blairhall, London, to [?Glenorchy] . . . . . Little progress made in the Scotch controverted elections; writer's efforts in the matter; nothing yet moved in relation to recipient's superiorities or heritable jurisdictions; results of the peers' election. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Campbell Family, Earls of Breadalbane (Breadalbane Muniments), reference GD112/39/225/12

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27 April 1710: Letter Book. Breadalbane to Dougal Stewart, lord Blairhall. Riot committed by Sinclair of Stemster against Breadalbane's tenants in Caithness; wishes justice. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Campbell Family, Earls of Breadalbane (Breadalbane Muniments), reference GD112/41/3

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5 May 1710: Correspondence. Dugall Stewart, lord Blairhall, Inverness, to [Breadalbane]. The Caithness jurisdictions; civil right to be determined before lords of session first; explains that recipient's depute [Monzievaird] would have been imprisoned if it had not been for writer's efforts on his behalf; this 'woud have been a tash upon your Lordships depute, and too much have gratified your unfriends'. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Campbell Family, Earls of Breadalbane (Breadalbane Muniments), reference GD112/39/240/9

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23 October 1713: Instrument of sasine in favour of Mrs Mary Bruce, relict of the deceased Mr Dougall Stewart of Blairhall one of the Senators of the College of Justice in liferent during all the days of her life in case she should survive her said husband, in an annuity of £900 Scots payable furth of the lands and milns of Newmilns part of the lands and Barony of Blairhall lying in the Regality of Culross and Shire of Perth. Recorded in the General Register of Sasines 23 Oct 1713. National Records of Scotland, Register House charters, 3rd or Extractor's series, reference RH8/148

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume II. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1905), 602 pp.

Biographical Summary

"Second son of Sir Dugald Stewart of Bute, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Ruthven of Dunglas, was admitted an advocate on the 30th Nov. 1694. He represented the burgh of Rothsay in Parliament, from 1703 to 1707, and opposed the Union. He was chosen to represent the counties of Perth and Bute in Parliament at the general election in 1708; a petition was presented against his return for Perth, but he sat for both counties till his elevation to the bench in the Court of Session, which took place in 1709, when his uncle Sir Robert Stewart of Tillicutrie, resigned his offices in his favour; and he took his seat as an Ordinary Lord, and also as a Lord of Justiciary, on the 7th of June that year......He died at Blairhall on the 16th of June 1712, leaving, says Douglas a high character for honour integrity and ability. His Lordship is supposed to have had the chief hand in the composition of the Memoirs commonly ascribed to Lockhart of Carnwath. His coadjutors are said to have been Mr Lockhart and his chaplain, Mr Gullan, Mr Houston, and Mr Dundas of Arniston." An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice: From Its Institution in MDXXXII; by George Brunton, David Haig; 1832; pp. 487-8