Graham family, Dukes of Montrose

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Date:	1100-2000
History:	The Graham family was an important landowner in medieval Scotland and by the 16th century owned estates in Perthshire (Abernethy, Callander, Kincardine etc.), Stirlingshire (Dundaff, Mugdock etc.) and elsewhere, including East Kilpatrick (Dunbartonshire) and Montrose (Forfarshire). Patrick Graham was created Lord Graham in 1445 and his grandson William, Earl of Montrose in 1503. The estates were forfeited on the execution of the 1st Marquess of Montrose in 1650, but restored in 1660 to the 2nd Marquess, who, however, was obliged to sell his Forfarshire property. In 1680 the 3rd Marquess bought Buchanan (Stirlingshire). The 4th Marquess (1682-1742), created Duke of Montrose in 1707, inherited Braco (Perthshire) from Sir James Graham in 1689 and the estates of the 2nd Earl of Airth and Monteith, including Aberfoyle (Perthshire) and Drymen (Stirlingshire) in 1694. In 1703 the 1st Duke bought the Lennox and Darnley estates in Dunbartonshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire and Stirlingshire, formerly held by Frances Stuart, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond. He also acquired the forfeited lands of Rob Roy near Loch Lomond (Stirlingshire). The 2nd Duke (1712-90) sold the lordships of Darnley (Renfrewshire) and Kincardine (Perthshire) but bought extensively in Stirlingshire. Together with the Lennox and Monteith estates a quantity of family papers of the Stuart Dukes of Lennox and the Graham Earls of Airth and Menteith passed to the 1st Duke of Montrose. Other Menteith papers entered the possession of the 2nd Earl of Airth and Menteith’s executor, Sir James Graham of Gartmore (Perthshire) and his descendants. Estates in 1883: 68,565 acres in Stirlingshire; 32,294 acres in Perthshire; and 2,588 acres in Dunbartonshire, worth £24,872 a year.
Places:	Aberfoyle, Perthshire Abernethy, Perthshire Aberuthven, Perthshire Bath, Somerset Braco, Perthshire Buchanan, Stirlingshire Callander, Perthshire Cowal, Argyllshire Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty Darnley, Renfrewshire Dirleton, East Lothian Drymen, Stirlingshire Dundaff, Stirlingshire East Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire Glasgow, Lanarkshire Linlithgow, West Lothian Mugdock Castle, Stirlingshire Partick, Lanarkshire
Sources of authority:	Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996, pp. 69-70.
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F88558 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F8763 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	12th cent-20th cent: Dunbartonshire (East Kilpatrick, etc), Perthshire (Abernethy, Callander, etc) and Stirlingshire (Buchanan, Mugdock Castle, etc) writs, legal and financial papers, estate rentals, accounts, corresp and papers, household papers and Graham family papers 12th-20th cent, with misc writs and papers for Argyllshire and East and West Lothian 15th-18th cent (incl Linlithgow lordship accounts 1715-34), rentals of Partick (Lanarkshire) late 16th cent, Glasgow lordship 1639-40 and Cromarty barony 1681, misc Edinburgh, Glasgow and London household records 16th-19th cent, Bath household accounts 1719, etc	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD220	NRA 32572 Graham See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [43a]
2	17th cent: Perthshire (Aberfoyle, etc) and Stirlingshire (Drymen, etc) estate papers of the predecessor 2nd Earl of Airth and Menteith	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.7055
3	1678-1702: Graham family rentals and tutory accounts	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD236/2/55	NRA 32486 Dundas See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [43b]