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Capt. Francis Semple, 9th Lord Sempill
b.Abt 1685
d.Aug 1716
Facts and Events
Francis Semple, 9th Lord Sempill
- The Scots Peerage by Paul, James
- Page 560, 561 – Francis, ninth Lord Sempill, the eldest son, born about 1685, succeeded his mother, was a young nobleman of eminent parts, and took his seat in Parliament 14 May 1703. Next day he subscribed the formula subjoined to the Act of Parliament 1700, for preventing the growth of popery. He continued in Parliament until 1706, and was also a Commissioner of Supply in 1704. Notwithstanding very considerable offers if he would comply with the measures of the Court in relation to the Union, he gave that treaty all the opposition in his power, voting against every article, and saying, that though the Union was attended with no other inconvenience than making the Peers elective, he wondered very much how any of that rank could be for it; being all Peers by right of inheritance, their being made elective he took to be a divesting them of their Peerage, because, not being sure of being always chosen to every Parliament of Great Britain, they consequently must lose, when left out, the benefit of sitting in Parliament, which was ever deemed an inseparable right of the Peerage. He was appointed captain in Lord Carmichael’s Regiment of Dragoons 16 April 1711. He died, unmarried, in August 1716, and was buried, on the 4 of that month, at Holyrood.
- The Peerage by Lundy, Darryl - Francis Sempill was Commissioner of Supply in Captain Lord Carmichael's Regiment of Dragoons 1711 and Grant's Foot Regiment 1715 in 1704.
- December 22, 1713, serving half-pay in the Regiment of Dragoons commanded by Brig.-Gen. James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford was Lt. Col. Robert Pollock, Francis Semple, 9th Lord Sempill,
- The Peerage by Lundy, Darryl - Has Francis Semple, ninth Lord Sempill as Francis Semple, tenth Lord Sempill. Contradicting The Scots Peerage by Paul, James - Has Francis Semple, ninth Lord Sempill.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ‘Peerage of Scotland’ containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
Vol. 7.
Page 560, 561 – Francis, ninth Lord Sempill, the eldest son, born about 1685, succeeded his mother, was a young nobleman of eminent parts, and took his seat in Parliament 14 May 1703. Next day he subscribed the formula subjoined to the Act of Parliament 1700, for preventing the growth of popery. He continued in Parliament until 1706, and was also a Commissioner of Supply in 1704. Notwithstanding very considerable offers if he would comply with the measures of the Court in relation to the Union, he gave that treaty all the opposition in his power, voting against every article, and saying, that though the Union was attended with no other inconvenience than making the Peers elective, he wondered very much how any of that rank could be for it; being all Peers by right of inheritance, their being made elective he took to be a divesting them of their Peerage, because, not being sure of being always chosen to every Parliament of Great Britain, they consequently must lose, when left out, the benefit of sitting in Parliament, which was ever deemed an inseparable right of the Peerage. He was appointed captain in Lord Carmichael’s Regiment of Dragoons 16 April 1711. He died, unmarried, in August 1716, and was buried, on the 4 of that month, at Holyrood.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Francis Sempill, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
Disambiguation
The Peerage by Lundy, Darryl - Has Francis Semple, ninth Lord Sempill as Francis Semple, tenth Lord Sempill. Contradicting The Scots Peerage by Paul, James - Has Francis Semple, ninth Lord Sempill.
- Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
- Maxwell, Herbert. Official Guide To The Abbey-Church, Palace, and Environs of Holyroodhouse: With A Historical Sketch. (Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1908)
Page 54.
Francis, 10th Lord Sempill, was interred 4th August 1716, and lies 8 feet from wall of 4th window N.E. end of Chapel, betwist 3rd and 4th Pillars.
John, 11th Lord Sempill, interred on the South side of his brother, 20th January 1727.
Beneath this stone lie the remains of the Honourable Marion Sempill, daughter of Major-General the Right Honourable Hugh, 12th Lord Sempill, and of Sarah Gaskell his wife who died 14th and interred 19th May 1796.
The Honourable Jane Sempill, died 6th, and was buried on the South side of her sister, the above Marion Sempill, the 10th of July 1800.
The Honourable Rebecca Sempill, died 16th, and was buried between the broken pillars in the centre of the Chapel Southward of Her two Sisters, the aforesaid Marion and Jane, on the 21st Sept. 1811.
Hon. Sarah Sempill, daughter of Hugh, fourteenth Lord Sempill, died 1866.
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