George Winram, Lord Liberton
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Born | George Winram 1604 |
Died | 1650 |
George Winram (occasionally Windrahame), Lord Liberton (1604–1650) was a 17th-century Scottish judge, politician, soldier and Senator of the College of Justice.
Life
He was born in or near
George studied law at
In 1639 he had the unenviable task of delivering the formal papers from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland regarding their ban on Episcopalianism in Scotland (which they had voted in 1638). This was certainly unpopular as this was the "religion of choice" of the English living in Scotland due to its Anglican views.[3]
From June 1643 to June 1644 he was assistant commissioner to
In June 1649 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice under the title of Lord Liberton.[5]
In October 1649 he visited the king in exile at Brussels and on the isle of Jersey in November. In February 1650 he arrived at Leith with letters from the king to both the Scottish Parliament and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.[6]
In the spring of 1650 he was one of the Scots present at the Treaty of Breda.[7][8][9]
He met a tragic end. He fought against Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650, leading a regiment as their Colonel, and was mortally wounded on the battlefield. He died of infection eight days later on 11 September 1650.[10]
His estates were confiscated by the State due to his Royalist support and Liberton House was sold to William Little (grandson of his namesake the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who had previously owned the house). From Little it passed to the Gilmour family (in or before 1686) and remained in their ownership until 1945 when the Edinburgh Corporation acquired the house and estate in lieu of debts.[11]
Both Inch House and Liberton House survive.
Family
Around 1629 he married Agnes Hamilton (d.1636). They had two daughters, Catherine and Ann (d.1690). Following Agnes's death he married Janet Johnston, daughter of
References
- ^ "Inch House - A Brief History - South Edinburgh Net :: South Edinburgh's Community Network". Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "Cynthia Adele Victoria Fitzclarence b. 1887 d. Yes, date unknown: Douglas Family History". www.douglashistory.co.uk.
- ^ a b c Carlyle 1886.
- ^ History of Parliament: George Winram
- ^ An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice
- ^ Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.6 p.338
- ^ "George Winram, Lord Libbertoun". geni_family_tree.
- ^ The History of England - David Hume
- ^ Livingstone 1845.
- ^ "Google Sites". accounts.google.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ Sweet, Andy. "Liberton House | Castle in Edinburgh parish, Midlothian | Stravaiging around Scotland". www.stravaiging.com.
Sources
- Baillie, Robert (1841). Laing, David (ed.). The letters and journals of Robert Baillie ... M.DC.XXXVII.-M.DC.LXII. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: R. Ogle.
- Baillie, Robert (1841b). Laing, David (ed.). The letters and journals of Robert Baillie ... M.DC.XXXVII.-M.DC.LXII. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: R. Ogle.
- Baillie, Robert (1842). Laing, David (ed.). The letters and journals of Robert Baillie ... M.DC.XXXVII.-M.DC.LXII. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: R. Ogle.
- Carlyle, Edward Irving (1886). "Campbell, John (1598-1663)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 199–200. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Winram, George". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 1424. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Livingstone, John (1845). Tweedie, William King (ed.). Select biographies. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: Printed for the Wodrow Society. pp. 169-181.
- Mitchell, Alexander F.; Christie, James, eds. (1892). The records of the commissions of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland holden in Edinburgh in the years 1646-1647. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society. pp. 611 et passim.
- Mitchell, Alexander F.; Christie, James, eds. (1896). The records of the commissions of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland holden in Edinburgh in the years 1648-1649. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society. pp. 354fn et passim.
- Stevenson, David (2004). "Winram [Windrahame], George, of Liberton, Lord Liberton". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29749. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Further reading
- Brunton and Haig's Senators of the College of Justice, 1832, pp. 341–2
- Balfour's Annales of Scotland, 1825, vols. iii. and iv.
- Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. vi. passim
- Letters and Papers illustrating the Relations between Charles II and Scotland in 1650, ed. Gardiner (Scottish Hist. Soc.)
- Baillie's Letters and Papers (Bannatyne Club), index
- Clarendon State Papers, 1773, vol. ii. App.
- Masson's Life of Milton, iv. 180
- Carlyle's Works, xv. 198, 230
- Foster's Scottish Members of Parliament
- Records of the General Assemblies of 1646 and 1647 (Scottish Hist. Soc.), 1892 passim
- Hoskins's Charles II in the Channel Islands, 1854, ii. 358–62, 372
- Select Biographies (Wodrow Soc.), 1845, i. 169–81
- Cal. Clarendon State Papers, ii. 4, 32, 38, 39, 51, 57, 65, 66
- Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1650, p. 157