Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie II

Sir Alexander Gibson, with a legal courtesy title Lord Durie held as his father did (died 1656) was a Scottish judge.

Life

The eldest son of

Second Bishops' War of 1640.^[1]

Gibson was, however, knighted 15 March 1641, and made

lord of session in 1646, when he took the title of Lord Durie.^[1]

In 1649 Gibson was deprived of his offices by the

act of classes, after joining the "engagement" with the king. The diarist John Lamont noted how Gibson and his wife were regarded as "malignants". He was one of the Scottish commissioners chosen to attend the English parliament in 1652 and 1654, and died in June 1656.^[1]

Family

Gibson was twice married; first to Marjory Hamilton, by whom he had one daughter; secondly to Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Fotheringham of Powrie, by whom he left Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, knt., commissioner to parliament in England for Fife and Kinross 1656–9, and for Fife 1659, who died at Durie 6 August 1661.[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1890). "Gibson, Alexander (d.1656)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1890). "Gibson, Alexander (d.1656)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[DNB-1] Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1890). "Gibson, Alexander (d.1656)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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