Person Page - 1744

     Sir Walter Seton of Touch married Elizabeth Erskine before 1545.²

     Sir John Bellenden married Janet Seton of Touch, daughter of Sir Walter Seton of Touch and Elizabeth Erskine,
; her 1st husband.¹
Sir John Bellenden died before 1580; date of death based on 1580 marriage to John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes.¹

     William Forbes of Fodderbirse was born between 2 March 1543 and 1544.¹
      ; had issue.¹

     Arthur Forbes of Logie was born on 3 April 1550.¹
Arthur Forbes of Logie died in 1574; killed.¹

     James Forbes of Lethenty married Margaret Forbes, daughter of William Forbes of Pitsligo.¹
James Forbes of Lethenty was born on 16 July 1551.¹
      ; James, of Lethenty; b 16 July 1551; m Margaret, er dau and coheir of William Forbes of Pitsligo (see FORBES, Bt, of Newe), and had issue.¹

     Robert Forbes married Agnes Forbes, daughter of William Forbes of Corse,
; had issue.¹ Robert Forbes was born between 1 January 1555 and 1556.¹
      ; Robert, Commendator Monymusk; b 1 Jan 1555/6; m Agnes, dau of William Forbes of Corse, and had issue.¹

     Jean Forbes married James Ogilvy 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, son of James Ogilvy Master of Ogilvy and Katherine Campbell.^2,1

     James Ogilvy 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie married Jean Forbes, daughter of William Forbes 7th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth Keith of Innerugie.^1,2

James Ogilvy 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie died in 1606.²
      ; JAMES, 5th Ld Ogilvy; m Jean, est dau of William, 7th Ld Forbes (see that title), and d 1606, when he was s by his est son.² He was 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie.²

     Elizabeth Forbes married Henry Sinclair 5th Lord Sinclair, son of William Sinclair 4th Lord Sinclair and Lady Elizabeth Keith,
; his 2nd wife.¹

     Henry Sinclair 5th Lord Sinclair married Janet Lindsay, daughter of Patrick Lindsay PC, 6th Lord Lindsay of the Byres and Euphemia Douglas,
; his 1st wife.² Henry Sinclair 5th Lord Sinclair married Elizabeth Forbes, daughter of William Forbes 7th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth Keith of Innerugie,
; his 2nd wife.¹
Henry Sinclair 5th Lord Sinclair died in 1601.²
      ; HENRY, 5th Ld Sinclair; m 1st, Janet, dau of 6th Ld Lindsay, of the Byres (see LINDSAY, E), and had issue. He m 2nd, Elizabeth, dau of 7th Ld Forbes (see that title), and by her, had, with other issue. Ld Sinclair d 1601, and was s by his grandson.² He was 5th Lord Sinclair.¹

     Janet Lindsay married Henry Sinclair 5th Lord Sinclair, son of William Sinclair 4th Lord Sinclair and Lady Elizabeth Keith,
; his 1st wife.¹
      ; Janet, dau of 6th Ld Lindsay, of the Byres (see LINDSAY, E.)¹

     James Sinclair Master of Sinclair witnessed the marriage of James Sinclair Master of Sinclair. He married Lady Isabella Leslie, daughter of George Leslie 4th Earl of Rothes.¹

      ; Children of James (Master of Sinclair) and Isabella Leslie:
1b HENRY, 6th Ld.
2b JAMES, 7th Ld.
3b PATRICK, 8th Ld.
1b Margaret; m William, Ld Berriedale (see CAITHNESS, E).¹


; JAMES, Master of Sinclair; m Lady Isabella Leslie, dau of 4th Earl of Rothes (see that title), and had issue.¹

     Lady Isabella Leslie married James Sinclair Master of Sinclair, son of Henry Sinclair 5th Lord Sinclair and Janet Lindsay.¹

      ; Patrick, ancestor, of the family of Sinclair of Balgreggie, which became extinct in the male line on the death of John Sinclair, of Balgreggie, 1710, and is represented by Aytoun of Inchdairney (see BURKE's L.G. 1900 edn).¹

     Elizabeth Sinclair married Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, 1st Baronet, son of Colin Campbell 6th of Glenorchy and Katherine Ruthven, circa October 1597
; contract 20 Oct 1597.^2,3
Elizabeth Sinclair died in October 1654.³
      ; Elizabeth; m Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy (see ARGYLL, D.)¹

     Anna Campbell married John Campbell of Ardkinglas circa March 1586
; contract 29 March 1586.¹
Anna Campbell died in October 1589.¹

     Christian Forbes married George Johnston of that Ilk and Caskieben
; had issue.^3,2 Christian Forbes was born on 24 June 1547.²
Christian Forbes died in 1622.²
      ; per Hoskins: [quote]The Scots Peerage, vol. 4, pp.56-7, sub Forbes, says that Christian,
dau. of the 7th Lord Forbes, was "born 24 June 1547, married to George
Johnston of Caskieben, and was mother, with twelve other children, to
Dr. Arthur Johnston, physician in ordinary to Charles, I well known
for
his poetical productions. She died in 1622."
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Nicola Royan, 'Johnston, Arthur (c.1579-1641)', Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [accessed 20 Dec 2008]

Johnston, Arthur (c.1579-1641), poet, was born at Caskieben,
Aberdeenshire, the fifth son of George Johnston of Caskieben (d. 1593)
and Christian (d. 1622), the daughter of William, seventh Lord Forbes
(d. 1622). The eldest of his five brothers, John, was sheriff of
Aberdeen in 1630, and the youngest, William, was, first, professor of
humanity and philosophy at Sedan, and then professor of mathematics in
Marischal College, Aberdeen. On the evidence in his Encomia urbium,
Arthur Johnston was educated at school in Kintore and thereafter at the
University of Aberdeen. It is not clear whether he attended King's
College or Marischal College; however, since he was later elected rector
of King's College, it seems likely that this had been his college of
education.

>From Aberdeen, Johnston went first to Casimir College in Heidelberg,
where he acted as a professor at a scholastic disputation in 1601. His
status in Heidelberg at this date means that his traditional birth year
of 1587 cannot be correct, and that it must be placed about 1579, a date
supported by the inscription on the portrait of Johnston belonging to
Marischal College. Johnston moved to Sedan, northern France, in 1603 at
the invitation of Henri de la Tour, the duc de Bouillon. The duc was the
uncle of the elector palatine, and it was probably through his
connections in that part of Germany that he heard of Johnston and his
compatriot, Walter Donaldson, who was invited to Sedan at the same time.
Later they were joined by Andrew Melville, in exile in Sedan from 1611
to 1622.

Johnston was first a regent of the third class at the college at Sedan,
and then regent of the second class and professor of logic and
metaphysics in 1604. In 1608 he presided at the delivery of a thesis,
dedicated to James VI and I. As well as being a writer of Latin verse,
Johnston was also a doctor, and he received his medical qualification
from Padua in 1610. After his qualification as MD, he was appointed as
professor of physic at Sedan in October 1610, following the promotion of
Donaldson to the post of principal. About this time he began to publish
Latin verse; among his first productions was a criticism on George
Eglishem MD, who had attacked George Buchanan's translations of the
Psalms. At first, Johnston published anonymously, although later he
acknowledged his authorship of these and other poems. Despite his talent
for composition, Sir Thomas Urquhart's assessment of Johnston's early
success-'[he] had been so sweetly imbued by the springs of Helicon that
before he won fully three and twenty years of age he was laureated poet
at Paris and that most deservedly'-however must be exaggerated
(Urquhart, 164).

Johnston's last years in Sedan were marred by a court case against a
miles of the region, called Hampté. The nature of the case is unclear,
but it seems from the poems that Johnston was hard pressed, until his
eventual victory (A. Johnston, Parerga, 1632, 13-18). Afterwards
Johnston returned to Scotland, accompanied by his first wife, Marie de
Cagniol or Kynuncle (d. 1624), who bore him thirteen children, of whom
six seem to have survived. His second wife was Barbara Gordon, who
outlived her husband, dying in 1650. Little is known for certain of any
of his children. Two by his first marriage were baptized in Sedan,
Daniel (b. 1606), and Françoise (b. 1608). Another daughter, Margaret,
was married to George Dalgarno in 1652, while a son of his second
marriage, William (b. 1636), became regent professor in King's College
in 1657 and then civilian in 1669.

Johnston became a burgess of Aberdeen in 1622, and appears in various
records in a locally important capacity, including acting as a witness
and as surety for relatives. In a poem he implied that he was appointed
medicus regius by James VI and I (Parerga, 43, 5-6), and he was
certainly using the title in 1625 in the publication of his elegy for
the king. After the publication of his Parerga and Epigrammata, both by
Edward Raban in Aberdeen in 1632, Johnston turned his attention to a
translation of the Song of Solomon, which he dedicated to Charles I, and
of the seven penitential psalms, which he dedicated to Laud. These works
were published in London in 1633, and Laud seems to have encouraged
Johnston to translate all the psalms, although whether he was motivated
by the quality of Johnston's verse or because Johnston was sympathetic
to episcopalianism is unclear. The full translation of the psalms was
published in 1637. In the same year Johnston demonstrated his interest
in Scottish Latin poetry other than his own, for he edited a collection
of Latin poetry written by his contemporary Scots, called the Delitiae
poetarum Scotorum, which was published at Amsterdam, again in 1637.

In the same year Johnston was also elected rector of King's College,
and became involved in the campaign to introduce a new constitution to
the university. The other Scottish universities had been reformed under
the influence of Andrew Melville several decades earlier; Aberdeen had
gained exemption from King James. Nevertheless, the desire for reform in
some quarters of the university remained strong, and Johnston supported
it. However, after an appeal was made to King Charles on behalf of the
mediciner, the canonist, and civilist, whose posts were forfeit under
the new plans, the matter was settled against Johnston's party.

Johnston died in 1641 in Oxford, while visiting a daughter married to
an English clergyman. By then he had written and published a substantial
amount of Latin verse, mostly in elegiac couplets, but covering a wide
range of topics, from his early attack on Eglishem, to the Encomia on
Scottish burghs. His fame as a poet continued in the next centuries,
when his work was republished by Thomas Ruddiman. He was also judged by
Samuel Johnson as holding 'among the Latin poets of Scotland the next
place to the elegant Buchanan' (Johnson, 11). He was a good and fluent
poet, but his importance is enhanced by his publication of the work of
other Scottish poets as well as his own.

NICOLA ROYAN
Sources W. G. Geddes, 'Memoir of Arthur Johnston', Musa Latina
Aberdonensis, ed. W. G. Geddes, 2, New Spalding Club, 15 (1895) · W.
Benson, 'Life of Arthur Johnston', Arturi Jonstoni Psalmi Davidici
(1742) [trans. in Musa Latina Aberdonensis, 1, ed. W. G. Geddes, New Spalding Club, 9, (1892)] · W. Johnston, The bibliography and extant
portraits of Arthur Johnston M.D., physician to James VI and Charles I
(1895) · A. M. Munro, ed., 'Register of burgesses of guild and trade of
the burgh of Aberdeen, 1399-1631', The miscellany of the New Spalding
Club, 1, New Spalding Club, 6 (1890), 1-162 · P. J. Anderson, ed.,
Officers and graduates of University and King's College, Aberdeen,
MVD-MDCCCLX, New Spalding Club, 11 (1893) · R. S. Rait, The universities
of Aberdeen: a history (1895) · Reg. PCS, 1st ser., vols. 12-13 ·
Miscellaneous privy council papers · S. Johnson, A journey to the
western islands of Scotland, ed. J. D. Fleeman (1985) · T. Urquhart, The
jewel, ed. R. D. S. Jack and R. J. Lyall (1983)

Likenesses G. Jamesone, oils, 1621, U. Aberdeen · G. Jamesone, oils,
c.1629, U. Aberdeen [see illus.] · J. M. Rysbrack, terracotta bust,
1739, Scot. NPG · Vandergucht, engraving, 1740 (after bust by J. M.
Rysbrack), repro. in Arturi Jonstoni Psalmi Davidici [folio] · Vertue,
engraving, 1740 (after bust by J. M. Rysbrack), repro. in Arturi
Jonstoni Psalmi Davidici (1741) [quarto] · R. Cooper, line engraving,
1741 (after G. Jamesone), BM, NPG; repro. in Arturi Jonstoni Psalmi
Davidici (1741) · eleventh earl of Buchan, pencil and chalk drawing,
1794 (after G. Jamesone), Scot. NPG · J. Melvin, glass window (after G.
Jamesone, c.1629), U. Aberdeen · J. Wales, oils (after G. Jamesone),
Scot. NPG · J. Wales (after G. Jamesone, 1621), Scot. NPG · engraving,
repro. in A. Johnston, Poemata Omnia (Middelburg, 1642), frontispiece ·
engraving, repro. in W. Lauder, ed., Poetarum Scotorum musae sacre
(1739), frontispiece · photogravure photograph (after G. Jamesone,
c.1629), repro. in W. D. Geddes, ed., Musa Latina Aberdonensis, 1
(1892), frontispiece · photogravure photograph (after G. Jamesone,
1621), repro. in Geddes, ed., Musa Latina Aberdonensis (1895),
frontispiece

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; Christian; m George Johnston of that Ilk and Caskieben and had issue (see JOHNSON, Bt.)¹

     Isobel|Isabel Forbes was born on 16 October 1548.² She married Sir John Gordon 3rd of Pitlurg in 1567.^1,2,3

Isobel|Isabel Forbes died on 22 March 1622 at age 73.²
      ; van de Pas cites: 1. Burke's Landed Gentry , Reference: 914
2. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 165
3. The Scots Peerage 1904-1914, nine volumes , Paul, Sir James Balfour, Reference: 4:57.²

     Sir John Gordon 3rd of Pitlurg was born in September 1547.² He married Isobel|Isabel Forbes, daughter of William Forbes 7th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth Keith of Innerugie, in 1567.^1,3,2

Sir John Gordon 3rd of Pitlurg died on 16 September 1600.²
      ; van de Pas cites: 1. Burke's Landed Gentry , Reference: 914
2. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 165
3. The House of Gordon 1903, 2 volumes , Bulloch, John Malcom, Reference: 1:31
4. The Thanage of Fermartyn Aberdeen, 1864 , Temple, Rev. William, Reference: 310-311.²

     Catherine Forbes married (?) Barclay of Gartly.¹

     Margaret Forbes married George Sinclair of Mey.¹

     Anne Forbes married John Hamilton
; her 2nd husband.¹ Anne Forbes married Sir John Seton 1st of Barns, son of George Seton 5th Lord Seton and Isabel Hamilton, on 8 September 1588
; her 1st husband.^1,2