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unusual facts about George Seton, Lord Seton



Adam de Colone

A record of payments in 1628 by George Seton, 3rd Earl of Winton for portraits is preserved;Item gevine to Adame the painter for my Lord Errol, my Lady Hay, and James Maxwells portraits, 86 lib.

Earl of Dunfermline

It was created in 1605 for Alexander Seton, 1st Lord Fyvie, fourth son of George Seton, 7th Lord Seton (see Earl of Winton for earlier history of the family).

George Seton, 4th Earl of Winton

An interesting letter written to Mr. Hewer from Edinburgh, on Monday 8 May 1682, on this disaster is found in the correspondence of Samuel Pepys who was also with the Duke of York.

Lord Winton was accomplished in the knowledge of arms, and gave proof of his skill and gallantry serving with the French army at the siege of Besançon in 1660.

George Seton, 6th Lord Seton

When George came of age she joined the Convent of St Catherine at Sciennes in Edinburgh.

George Seton, Lord Seton

Seton suffered great hardships at the hands of the rebels during the English Civil War, and his father had to sell family estates long held in Linlithgowshire, that of Niddry Castle and one at Winchburgh, to rescue him from imprisonment.

Seton showed great military abilities and was firmly attached to the Royalist cause.


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