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He was succeeded by his daughter, Margaret, his only child. She married Robert Arnot, who assumed the surname of
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His grandson, the fifth Lord, was tried and convicted of the murder of schoolmaster Henry
Stenhouse at Inverkeithing in 1709. He was sentenced to death in 1710 but escaped to freedom by dressing in his sister's clothes. He was primarily known as
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