2. Elizabeth MONTOLIEU DE ST. HYPPOLITE, daughter of Sieur David Montolieu de St. HYPPOLITE, died on [Julian] 21 November 1677. She married Gideon MURRAY on [Julian] 30 June 1746 in London.

Revd. Gideon MURRAY, son of Alexander MURRAY 4th Lord Elibank (1677-1735) and Elizabeth STIRLING (bef1683-1756), was born on 5 February 1710 in Ballencrieff. He was a Priest. He died on [Julian] 21 June 1776 in Wandsworth. He and Elizabeth MONTOLIEU DE ST. HYPPOLITE had the following children:

3. Lord Alexander MURRAY, son of Revd. Gideon MURRAY and Elizabeth MONTOLIEU DE ST. HYPPOLITE, was born on [Julian] 24 April 1747. He was a Soldier, member of Parliament. He had the title '7th Baron Elibank'. He married Mary Clara MONTOLIEU on 20 April 1776. He married Catherine STEUART in 1804. He died on [Julian] 24 September 1864 in Portobello.

Died from injuries received acidentally from burns.

Alexander was commissioned in the third Foot Guards and was called out in 1768 to quell the Wilkes Riots. He was brought to trial but acquitted. He was MP for Peebles 1783-1784 and Lord Lieutenant of the County. In 1742 he inherited the estates of Blackbarony which had originally belonged to Sir Andrew Murray, the father of Gideon Murray who founded the Murrays of Elibank. At this time the family moved back to Darn Hall in Peebleshire.

Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank (1747-1820) married twice. By his first cousin Mary Clara De Montolieu he had five children. Two years after her death in 1802, he took as his second wife Catherine, daughter of James Steuart, who bore him seven children.1 Lord Elibank, who succeeded his uncle in 1785, had been commissioned into the Third Regiment of Foot Guards in 1768, advancing to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1769. He was a Member of Parliament for Peebleshire in 1783 and 1784 and served as lord lieutenant for counry Peebles from 1794 to 1820.

According to a letter from the Duke of Buccleuch to an unnamed correspondent, dated May 28, 1798, Lord Elibank was "a very Gentleman like man, but has been unfortunately much reduced in his circumstances by living in a style far beyond his income." The duke mentioned that Elibank lived on an allowance of five hundred pounds per year.2 He and his second wife lived in rented rooms in Portobello, a watering-place about three miles cast of Edinburgh on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth.

Apart from the fact that she was still alive in 1836,3 little is known about the life of the second Lady Elibank. But whatever is lacking in documentation is more than made up for by the portrait itself, one of the best examples in America of Raeburn's work. In it, she is shown leaning against a garden wail, a livid patch of sky and the spiky branches of a tree behind her. The dramatic lighting of the sky and the strong diagonal of the wall serve to set off the serene self-possession of the sitter. The mellow, golden colors match perfectly her contented expression and pose. A date of about 1805, that is, soon after her marriage, seems probable for this portrait; perhaps the arrangement of the sitter's hands is not accidental for the wedding ring on her left hand is the only jewelry she wears. The pose was a favorite of Raeburn's (for example, Mrs. George Kinnear, c. 1805, 34 1/2 x 26 3/4, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland).

A photograph in the Witt Library, London, of a painting that seems to be a copy after Raeburn is labeled "Baroness Elibank.'' It shows a woman who could be our Lady Elibank, standing with her left arm on a column and a dog at her feet. The picture was with Neumans in Paris in 1936, but its present location is not known. A pendant, showing the sitter's husband, Lord Eiibank, is still in the possession of his descendants.

Mary Clara MONTOLIEU, daughter of Lewis Charles MONTOLIEU ( - ), died on 19 January 1802. She and Alexander MURRAY had the following children:

Catherine STEUART was the daughter of James STEUART ( - ). She and Alexander MURRAY had the following children: