Rev George Robinson-Douglas
The family of Robinson-Douglas of Orchardton (an estate near
Castle
Douglas, in the parish of Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire) descends in the
Robinson line from James Robertson of Crabsland (1668-1758),
Kincardineshire, who was provost of Bervie. His second surviving son,
William Robertson or Robinson (1711-1771) settled at Banff. His second
son, George Robinson of Gask, Aberdeenshire, and Clermiston, Midlothian,
(1758-1825) was Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer from 1815 to 1825. One of
his sons, William Rose Robinson of Clermiston (1781-1834) was an
advocate and sheriff of Lanark. He married Mary Douglas (d. 1864),
daughter and co-heir of James Douglas of Orchardton.
The Douglas
family acquired Orchardton from the Maxwells. The last Maxwell to own
the estate was Sir Robert Maxwell (died 1786), who seems to have been
ruined financially by the collapse of the bank
Douglas, Heron & Co. Orchardton was bought by James Douglas, a London merchant. Of his four
children, his only son, William Douglas, died without issue, and
Orchardton passed to his eldest sister, Sara Douglas, who married Lt Col
Christopher Maxwell. They had no issue. On her death in 1874, Orchardton
passed to her nephew.
The eldest son of William and Mary
Robinson, Rev George Robinson-Douglas of Clermiston,
Almorness and
Orchardton (1813-1878), succeeded his father at Clermiston in 1834, his
mother at Almorness in 1864 and his aunt at Orchardton in 1874, when he
took the additional name of Douglas.
He entered the Church of
England, and for some time was rector of Bisley,
Surrey. He married, in 1849, Jane Eleanor, only daughter of the late
Boyd Miller of Colliers Wood, Surrey, and has issue- William, born in
1851, with others whose names we have not got. Mrs Robinson died at Rome
in 1874.
His eldest son, William Douglas
Robinson-Douglas of Orchardton and Almorness (1851-1921) had no
surviving children by his two marriages, and on his death his estates
passed to his second wife, Constance Robinson-Douglas, who married
secondly in 1926 William Jardine Herries Maxwell of Munches (died 1933),
but retained for herself only the surname Douglas in addition that of
Herries Maxwell. She died on 4 June 1941.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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