James Seton, 4th Earl of Dunfermline (died 26 December 1694) was a Scottish peer.

Seton a younger son of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline

Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline

Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline PC , styled Lord Fyvie until 1622, was a Scottish peer.Seton the son of Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline and Margaret, daughter of James Hay, 7th Lord Hay of Yester and Lady Margaret Kerr...

, and succeeded to the title at the death of his brother, Alexander Seton, 3rd Earl of Dunfermline

Alexander Seton, 3rd Earl of Dunfermline

Alexander Seton, 3rd Earl of Dunfermline was an Earl in the Peerage of Scotland. He succeeded his father, Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, in 1672. Alexander was a younger son, but his older brother Charles had predeceased his father shortly before, in a naval battle of the Third...

, at some point in 1677. He married Lady Jean Gordon, daughter of Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Huntly

Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Huntly

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 and Mary Grant, about 6 July 1682.

Like his father, James was a Jacobite

Jacobitism

Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...

, and he joined Viscount Dundee with a troop of horse at the Battle of Killiecrankie

Battle of Killiecrankie

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 in 1689. The next year, he was outlawed and forfeited his estates and title. He then joined the deposed James VII

James II of England

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 at St. Germains

Saint-Germain-en-Laye

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, who conferred on him the Order of the Thistle

Order of the Thistle

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...

. In 1694 James Seton died with no issue, thereby ending the earldom of Dunfermline.