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4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE JOHN (c. 16...

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 491 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUESS OF See also:TWEEDDALE See also:JOHN (c. 1695-1762)  , eldest son of the 3rd See also:marquess, was See also:chief secretary of See also:state for See also:Scot-See also:land from 1742 to 1746 and extraordinary See also:lord of session from 1721 until his See also:death . In six parliaments he was a representative peer for See also:Scotland; he was for a See also:time keeper of the See also:king's signet, and in 1761 he was made lord-See also:justice-See also:general . He died on the 9th of See also:December 1762 . His See also:brother, Lord See also:CHARLES See also:HAY (d . 1760), was the soldier who displayed See also:great coolness when suddenly brought See also:face to face with some See also:French troops at See also:Fontenoy, requesting the enemy, so See also:Voltaire's See also:account runs, to See also:fire first . The See also:family of the 4th marquess became See also:extinct when See also:GEORGE, the 5th marquess, died on the 4th of See also:October 1770; and GEORGE, a son of the 3rd marquess, succeeded to the See also:title . When he died unmarried on the 16th of See also:November 1787 the marquessate passed to a kinsman, GEORGE (1733-1804), a descendant of the 2nd marquess, who became 7th marquess .

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