He married, on 31 August 1418, Elizabeth Wemyss, the eldest daughter of Sir John Wemyss of Wemyss and Reres, with whom it was stipulated he should receive as dowry a £30 land in Strathardle, Perthshire.
Born Walter Scott of Highchesters, he married his kinswoman Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch, daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Leslie, on 9 February 1659 in Wemyss, Fife.
Wendy Scott (1948, Wemyss, Scotland - October 14, 1999, London) was considered one of the most notable cases of Münchausen syndrome on record, in part because of the severity of her condition and in part because she is a rare case of complete recovery from the syndrome, which many doctors consider untreatable.
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He was the second son and youngest child of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus and 1st Earl of Ormond, by his second wife, Jean Wemyss, the daughter of David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss and the Hon.
At that ceremony he officiated as high chamberlain, and in the following April he was created Earl of Ormond in the Peerage of Scotland, (the subsidiary title of this earldom was Lord Bothwell and Hartside), with remainder to the heirs male of his second marriage with Lady Jane Wemyss, eldest daughter of David, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, his first wife having died 16 August 1646, in her thirty-second year.
Stuart left Grampian in the mid-nineties to become a presenter of Scottish Television's children's magazine show Wemyss Bay 902101 before joining BBC Scotland as an announcer and transmission director.
Castle Wemyss became a fashionable destination for many well-known visitors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Trollope, General Sherman, Henry Morton Stanley, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Emperor Haile Selassie and members of the British Royal Family.
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It is reputed that Trollope wrote part of Barchester Towers whilst at Wemyss Bay, and that 'Portray Castle' in The Eustace Diamonds was based on Castle Wemyss.
Sir James Colville, third of Easter Wemyss was a distinguished soldier who fought in France for the Prince of Navarre, later Henry IV of France.
The Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway was a railway owned by the Caledonian Railway, providing services between Greenock and Wemyss Bay.
The Act was criticised by Lord Wemyss and his Liberty and Property Defence League as "class legislation" and Wemyss asked whether the government would now house the police and Foreign Office clerks.
James Weams (1851–1911), aka James Wemyss, Durham comedian and singer/songwriter
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James Wemyss, Lord Burntisland (d. 1682), husband of Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss
Wemyss later supported the Scottish parliament against Charles I in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and died in 1649.
Wemyss Castle (pronounced wi:ms) is situated on the cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland.
The pottery took its name from the Wemyss family, titled incumbents of Wemyss Castle on the east coast of Fife, who were early and enthusiastic patrons of Nekola and Heron's ceramic creations.