A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
ire of Clackmannan, b. 8th De-cember, 1795, m. 12th April, 1825, Anne, eldest daughter of the late WilliamMurray, esq. of Touchadam and Polmaise, in Stirlingshire. This gentleman, a captain in the Grenadier Guards, served in the Peninsula and atWaterloo. He succeeded his father in July, 1808 ; and,… … Robert de Brus, a noble Norman knight,the first on record of this great and patrioticfamily, attending the conqueror into Eng-land, was of such high estimation, that Wil-liam, after the victory at Hastings, commis-sioned him to subdue the northern parts ofEngland. He first possessed the manor…
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