BUCHAN-HEPBURN, Creation 1815, of Smeaton-Hepburn, Haddingtonshire.
Sir Thomas Buchan Hepburn, 3rd Baronet; born Sept. 30th, 1804; s. his father Sir John Buchan-Hepburn, 1833; ed. At Edinburgh and Camb. Univs.; Advocate Scotland 1827; unsuccessfully contested Haddington Burghs 1837; sat as M.P. for Haddingtonshire (C) 1838-47; was Capt. 5th E. Lothian Rifle Vol. 1860-63; is a D.L. and a J.P. for co. Haddington: married 1835, Helen Little, daughter of the late Archibald Little, Esq., of Shabden Park, Surrey, and had issue.
Arms – Quarterly: 1st and 4th, gules, on a chevron argent a rose between two lions rampant of the first, Hepburn; 2nd, argent, three lions’ heads erased gules, Buchan; 3rd, argent an anchor in bend azure, on a chief of the last three cranes Or, Beck.
Crests – 1st, a horse argent, furnished gules, tied to a yew tree proper, over it the motto “Keep traist”; 2nd, the sun in the dexter chief with a sunflower in full blow open to it, proper, over it the motto “Non inferiora secutus” (Not having followed mean pursuits).
Supporters – Dexter, a lion, gules; sinister, a heron with a snake in its beak, proper.
Seats – Smeaton-Hepburn, Prestonkirk; Letham House, Haddingtonshire, N.B.
Club – Carlton.
Son living – ARCHIBALD, b. March 12, 1852; ed. At Glenalmond, and at Trin. Coll., Camb. (B.A. 1875); Bar. Inner Temple 1877: married 1890 Edith Agnes Karslake, daughter of the late Edward Kent Karslake, Esq., Q.C., and has issue living, a son, b. 1892. Residence, Smeaton-Hepburn, Prestonkirk. Clubs, Junior Carlton, Pratt’s, Hurlingham, Lyric.
Daughter living – Agnes: m. 1869, James McDouall, Esq., of Logan, and has issue living, Andrew Kenneth, b. 1870, - Nigel Douglas, b. 1872, - Helen Ethel. Residences, Genoch-Dunragit, N.B. ; Logan, Stranraer, N.B. – Mary Turner. ____Emily.
Sister living – Mary Julian, b. 1802.
Collateral Branch living.
Issue of the late John Buchan-Hepburn, Esq., 2nd son of the 2nd baronet, b. 1806, d. 1874 : married 1837, Margaret Sophia Swinton, who died 1873, daughter of Archibald Henry Swinton, Esq., of Warsash, Hants:
John. B. 1840 : formerly Captain 6th Dragoon Guards : married 1888, Mary Caroline Fischer, el. Daughter of Lieut.-Gen. John Frederick Fischer, R.E.___William, b. 1847.___Roger, b. 1852.___Samuel Swinton, b. 1853.___Walton Scott, b. 1856.___Louisa : married 1866, Maj.-Gen. Thomas Ignatius Maria Hog, R.A.___Mary Turner : m. 1866, William Waller Hooper, Esq.___Harriet, married 1881, Edward A. A. Ranken, Esq. Residence,
This family is descended form the old Earls of Buchan. The 1st baronet, a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland 1800-14, assumed in 1764 the additional and principal surname of Hepburn.