Walter Scott (abt. 1565 - 1611)

Born about 1565 in Scotland

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Died 15 Dec 1611 at about age 46 in Branxholme, Roxburghshire, Scotland

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Walter Scott ... 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

Walter Scott was invested as a Knight in 1590

Sir Walter Scott was Warden of the West Marches with a reputation for leading border raids through the "debatable land" between England and Scotland.

In 1597, Sir Walter Scott was made a hostage of English for an attack on Carlisle Castle. He had led a successful expedition to rescue Kinmont Willie, gathering "a posse of suitable horsemen, composed of Armstrongs, Bells, Grahams and others The Warden, the Duke of Buccleuch, rode through the night in dreadful weather across the Border into England, fording the Eden which was in spate due to the heavy rain, and reached Carlisle Castle unseen." ^[1] This story is told in the traditional border ballad Kinmont Willie "“He has call’d him forty marchmen, I trow they were of his ain name, Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, call’d The laird of Stobs, I mean the same." [1]

Following the union of Scotland and England with the accession of King James VI to the English throne, Sir Walter Scott was made Keeper of Liddesdale and was active in policing the border country

He led mercenary troops during the war in the Netherlands.

He was created 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch in 1605

He was invested as a Privy Counselor [Scotland] in 1610

Sir Walter Scott was buried at Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland

the children of Sir Walter Scott and Mary Kerr [2]

Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch

Margaret Scott 1st married first James Ross, 6th Lord Ross; 2nd married second Sir Alexander Seton of Foulstruther, later Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton

Elizabeth Scott who married John Cranstoun, later 2nd Lord Cranstoun

Jean Scott (note: there is some discussion about the exact identity of Jean Scott who married Robert Elliot)

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1. ↑ Kinmont Willie http://www.borderreivers.co.uk/Border%20People/kinmont.htm

• Rob Macpherson, ‘Scott, Walter, of Buccleuch, first Lord Scott of Buccleuch (1565?–1611)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 Sept 2017

• The Peerage: Sir Walter Scott

• Wikipedia: Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

• Wikidata: Item Q3061347, en:Wikipedia

• Kinmont Willie http://www.borderreivers.co.uk/Border%20People/kinmont.htm