the London banking-house; died 1740; and William, Viscount Strathallan, who was killed fighting for Prince Charles at Culloden, 1746.]

Lent by EARL OF KINNOULL

353A SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., Sheriff of Lanarkshire, of Possil House, Glasgow. (See No. 250, North Gallery.) Painted by Sir John Watson Gordon.

Lent by SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, BART.

354 JAMES OGILVIE] 1ST EARL OF SEAFIELD, 4TH EARL OF FINDLATER. (See Nos. 135 and 318.)

After Kneller (or a replica by him).

Lent by ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURgh.

355A JAMES KING] LORD EYTHIN. Born about 1589; son of James King of Barracht (Barra), Aberdeenshire; learned war under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, winning the highest reputation and rising to be major-general, 1632; served along with Prince Rupert at Munster, 1638, and partially retrieved disaster caused by the Prince's impetuosity. Recalled by Charles I. on the outbreak of the great Rebellion; made lieutenantgeneral under the Duke of Newcastle owing to the Duke's inexperience with real command; and created a peer of Scotland as Lord Eythin (so the English spelled the name of the Scottish river Ythan, which was the title intended; it is a case of a title taken from a river like that of Lord Kelvin). Forfeited by Scots Parliament, 1644; at Marston Moor he opposed Prince Rupert's plan of battle, no doubt wisely, which, however, rescinded the forfeiture, 1647, when it saw the peril of the monarchy. Appointed by Charles II. lieutenant-general to Montrose, 1650, but engaged in Sweden furthering the Stuart's interest; died at Stockholm, 1654. He left no issue, but the family, still of note in Aberdeenshire, produced another very distinguished man in the person of William King, one of the greatest of the Archbishops of Dublin (1650-1729).

The costume in this fine portrait is given in much detail, and is of special interest as a link between the fashion of James VI. and that of Charles I.

Lent by COL. ALEX. J. KING.

356 REV. DR. WILLIAM GUILD. Born at Aberdeen, 1586; son of Matthew Guild, a rich armourer of that city, and a stout upholder of the ancient sports suppressed by the Reformers; educated at Marischal College; ordained minister of King Edward, 1608; married Katherine Rolland of Disblair; protested for the liberties of the Church, 1617; made acquaintance of Bishop Andrewes to whom he dedicated his work on the types "Moses unveiled"; chaplain to Charles I., and one of the first in Scotland to receive degree of D.D.; minister of Aberdeen, 1631. Himself in Presbyterian orders, he had accepted Episcopacy and joined the "Aberdeen

Doctors" in defending it, and the Perth Articles, 1635-7; member of Glasgow Assembly 1638, and concussed by fear of losing his goods into accepting National Covenant but "reserved his duty to the King"; fled to Holland, but returned and complied, 1640; made Principal of King's College on expulsion of the Aberdeen Doctors, and compelled to "purge" the chapel of ornaments which the Reformers had left; greeted Charles II. with a bason full of gold pieces; deprived for lack of covenanting zeal, 1651; died 1657. Guild is gratefully remembered in Aberdeen for his public munificence; he purchased the buildings of the Red Friars' (Trinity Friars) convent, and turned them into a Trades Hospital which he amply endowed.

Painted by Jameson.

Lent by INCORPORATED TRADES OF ABERDEEN. 356A REV. PATRICK BELL, LL.D. Inventor of the reaping machine. Born at Mid-Loch, 1799, a farm in the parish of Auchterhouse, N.w. of Dundee. In 1827, whilst a divinity student at St. Andrews, successfully constructed a machine, having for its object the lessening of the labour of harvesting. [Dr. Bell's invention was in some respects anticipated fifteen years by John Common of Denwick.] Ordained, 1843, minister of Carmylie, Arbroath, which living he held until his death, in 1869. (Catalogued also in Domestic Section, q.v.) Painted by Patrick Allan Fraser, H.R.S.A.

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Lent by TRUSTEES TO THE LATE ALLAN FRASER. SIR ALEXANDER LIVINGSTONE, Bart., of West Quarter; served under Wolfe at the taking of Quebec, 1759.

Lent by MRS. LAWRENCE TIMPSON.

ALEXANDER [HUME] 2ND EARL OF MARCHMONT (?). Third son of Patrick, 1st Earl of Marchmont (see No. 116) by his wife, Grizzel Ker (see No. 115); called to the Scottish bar, 1696; knighted and (having married, 1697, Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir George Campbell of Cessnock, Ayrshire) had the style of Sir Alexander Campbell of Cessnock; M.P. for Berwick and a lord of session, 1704; commissioner of exchequer and privy councillor; supported the Union, 1707; at the rising of '15 raised 400 men of the Berwickshire militia to join the Duke of Argyll; envoy-extraordinary to the courts of Denmark and Prussia, 1716; ambassador at the congress of Cambray, 1721; succeeded his father, 1724; opposed Sir Robert Walpole, 1733, and dismissed from his office of lord-register; died 1740.

[Or the portrait may be that of his father, the Chancellor in his younger days; but the costume seems better to suit the 2nd Earl.]

Lent by SIR JOHN HUME CAMPBELL, Bart.

359 JAMES [LIVINGSTONE], 1ST EARL OF CALLENDAR. Third son of Alexander [Livingstone], 3rd Earl of Linlithgow;