Chapter V: SIR JOHN WILLIAM PITT MUIR-MACKENZIE, second Baronet and

fifth of Delvine. He married Sophia Matilda, fifth daughter of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, County Clackmannan, with issue -

1. Alexander, his heir and successor.

2. Robert-Smythe, late Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A. He was born on the 27th of November, 1842, and married on the 17th of October, 1872, Anne-Elizabeth-Augusta, daughter of Captain Charles Kinnaird Johnstone Gordon of Craig, Aberdeenshire, with issue - Robert Cecil, born in 1876, and Georgina Sophia.

3. Cecil Cholmeley, Lieutenant Royal Engineers. He was born in 1843 and died on the 2nd of November, 1863, unmarried.

4. Kenneth Augustus, M.A., C.B., bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Q.C., barrister-at-law. He was born in 1845, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor since 1880, and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery since 1884. He married in 1874 Amy, daughter of William Graham, M.P., for Glasgow, with issue - William Montague, and three daughters.

5. Montague Johnstone, barrister, late Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, Recorder of Sandwich. He was born in 1847, and married in 1888, the Hon. Sarah Napier Bruce, daughter of Lord Aberdare, with issue - a daughter, Enid.

6. John William Pitt, Magistrate Indian Civil Service. He was born in 1855, and married on the 2nd of August, 1876, Fanny Louisa, second daughter of Lieutenant-General Montague Cholmeley Johnstone, with issue - two sons and two daughters.

7. Georgina Mary, who on the 24th of November, 1871, married Sir Charles Sebright, K.C.M.G., and died on the 24th of January, 1874.

8. Lucy Jane Eleanora, who on the 20th of October, 1859, married Bentley, youngest son of William Murray of Monkland, with issue. She died in 1874.

9. Susan Anne Eliza, unmarried.

Sir John died on the 1st of February, 1855, when he was succeeded by his eldest son,

VI. SIR ALEXANDER MUIR-MACKENZIE, third and present Baronet of Delvine. He was Captain in the 78th Highlanders and subsequently Major in the Highland Borderers Infantry Militia. He was born on the 26th of July, 1840, and on the 21st of February, 1871, married Frances Rose, sixth daughter of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, Seventh Baronet of Moncrieffe, without issue.

THE MACKENZIES OF GRUINARD.

I. JOHN MACKENZIE, first of this family, was a natural son of George, second Earl of Seaforth. He has a charter of Little Gruinard and other lands in 1669, in which he is described as then "of Meikle Gruinard." He married before 1655, Christian, daughter of Donald Mackenzie, III. of Loggie (sasine in that year as his wife), with issue -

1. George, his heir, whom his mother describes in a sasine, dated 10th August, 1685, as "George Mackenzie, my eldest lawful son."

2. Kenneth, who married Frances Herbert, daughter of William, Marquis of Powis, and widow of Kenneth, fourth Earl of Seaforth, without issue.

3. John, a doctor in Inverness five other sons and eight daughters, all married, several of them with issue.

John was succeeded by his eldest son,