James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray KT

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...

 (1708 – 5 July 1767) was the son of Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray

Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray

Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray was the son of Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray and his wife, Emilia Balfour. He married Jean Elphinstone, daughter of John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerinoch and Christiana Montgomerie. He succeeded to his brother Charles's titles when he died unmarried in...

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In 1734, he married Grace Lockhart, a granddaughter of the 9th Earl of Eglington

Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton

Alexander Seton Montgomerie was the ninth Earl of Eglinton in the Peerage of Scotland.Although from a traditionally Roman Catholic family, Eglinton became one of the first firmly Presbyterian nobles. During the English Civil War he was colonel of horse in the army supporting the English...

 and they had one child:

• Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray (1737–1810)

His first marriage lasted almost four years until the death of Grace in 1738 and on 24 April 1740, he married Margaret Wemyss, the eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Wemyss

David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss

David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss son of James Wemyss, Lord Burntisland and Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss .In his 41 years Earl Wemyss married three times:...

. They had two children:

• Lieutenant David Stuart (d. 1784)
• Lt.-Col. James Stuart (d. 1808)