Person:John Semple (30)

John Semple, fourth of Eliotstoun

• Douglas, Robert, Sir, 1694-1770. The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates. Pages 616 to 620. (Online Source) – Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Text Creation Partnership [1]

VII. JOHN SEMPLE, fourth lord of Eliotstoun, was a man of great parts, and employed in several negotiations of state, which he managed with dexterity and honour.

In a charter of Robert Duke of Albany, governor of Scotland, to Dougal MacDougal, of the lands of Yester, John Semple, lord of Eliotstoun, is a witness, anno 1409.

He was one of the Scotch commissioners, appointed to treat with the English in 1421, was very active in negotiating the liberty of King James I. and waited upon his majesty at Durham, when he was returning home.

He died before the year 1440, leaving issue a son,

VIII. Sir ROBERT SEMPLE

1.   Semple, William Alexander. Genealogical History of the Family Semple: From 1214 to 1888. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1888)
   Page 8, 9.

   John Semple of Elliestoun, who was employed in several negotiations of state, and in 1421 was one of the Scots’ commissioners appointed to treat with the English for the liberation of James I. He waited upon His Majesty at Durham, December 18, 1423, on his return to his own dominions. He was knighted by that king about 1430. He sat in the Parliament which met at Stirling, 1440, and in that at Edinburgh in 1441.

2.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family
   Hereditary Sempill Lords of the Lands of Elliston & Clan Sempill .