DUNKELD, Lord,
a title in the Scottish peerage, now extinct, conferred on 15th
May 1645, on Sir James Galloway of Carnbie in Fife, master of requests
to James the Sixth and Charles the First, and a privy councillor. He was
the son of Patrick Galloway, minister first at Perth and afterwards at
Edinburgh, where he died in 1624. His mother was Mary, daughter of Mr.
James Lawson, also a minister of Edinburgh. He was served heir to his
father 10th October 1634, and in 1640 was conjunct secretary
of state with William earl of Stirling. His son. Thomas, second Lord
Dunkeld, was served heir to his father May 3, 1662. By his wife,
Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Thomson of Duddingston, baronet, he had
James, third lord, two other sons, and five daughters. James, third
lord, was an officer in the army. In 1689 he joined the viscount of
Dundee, and was at the battle of Killiecrankie, for which he was
outlawed and forfeited. He retired to the court of St. Germains, and was
afterwards a colonel in the French service. He was killed in battle,
leaving a son James, who assumed the title of Lord Dunkeld, and was an
officer in the French service, in which he rose to the rank of
lieutenant-general; and a daughter, the Hon. Mary Galloway, who entered
into the nunnery of Val de Grace in France.
