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| Dates | 1660-1680s | ||
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| Place of Birth | Drummurchie, Ayreshire | ||
| Marriage | Margaret Ross, | ||
| Issue | Ten children | ||
| Place of birth | Source | J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage: A History of the Noble Families of Scotland, 9 vols (Edinburgh, 1904-1914), viii, 118-9; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
First Viscount of Stair. Educated at Mauchline Grammar School and University of Glasgow. Admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates (1648). Appointed secretary to the commissions for treating with Charles II (1649-50). Migrated to London at the Restoration to attend Charles II. Received knighthood and reappointed one of Lords of Session 1661. Created a baron (1664) and made a Privy Councillor (1671). Retired to Holland 1682 but returned to England with William of Orange in 1688. Died in Edinburgh (1695).
