48 ATRTH— ALBANY. EC 1G70. ft "William (Graham), Earl of Airth and"! fS^ Menteith [Sj, grandson and h. Having no issue he re- -= K = signed his territorial Earldoms (desiring also to resign, tit. the same time, the actual dignities of the Earldoms of Mkntkiih and ok Aiuth) in favour of James [Graham,] Mabqukss ok MoNTliosE [S.] and his heirs male the King, while he accepted the resignation of the territorial Eatidcmt and tion of the dignitiet or to interfere with the right of succession to them. The Earl d. s.p. 12 Sep. 1694 when the issue mule of the 1st EARL OF AIRTR [S.] became ex,.(') b*l Jfs_, J AITHRIE. See "Hopetoux," Earl of [S.] i.e. VISCOUNT AITHRIE " |_S.]. er. 170S. ALBANY, i.e., those parts of Scotland that are north of the Firths of Clyde and Forth. Dukes [SJ. 1. Robert Stewart, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Robert, I 1398 Hr0H Steward of Scotland, afterwards (1370-90) Robert II [S.], by his 1st wife Elizabeth, da. of Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan, wits b. about 1340 and, while a young man (1361), became, in right of his wife, Earl of Menteith [S.]. By agreement, 30 March 1871, with Isabel, suo jure Countess of Fife [S.], he became, on her resignation, Earl of Fife [S.], by which latter title he was generally known. Great Chamberlain [S.] 1383-1407. He made several warlike invasions of England, particularly one in 13S8 after the defeat of Douglas at Otterburn. On 1 Dec. 13SS, the King (his father), being very aged and his eldest br. (afterwards Robert III [S.] ) infirm, be was made (by Pari.) Gv AMMAN (C'lisfos) of TBS Realm [S.] and, as such, agreed to a treaty with the English in 13s9 : but on 27 Jan. 1398-1), he was superseded, by the appointment of David, the h. up. of the throne, as g's Lieutenant." with as ample powers as his (David's) uncle (the said I hike) had as "Guardian." In March 1398 he, with his said nephew David, had an interview at Haudenstank with John. Duke of Lancaster, and other English Commissioners, and shortly afterwards he and his said nephew were each advanced to a Dukedom (the first (1S34) of R. B. Allardiee to the Earldom of Airth," by Sir X. H. Nicolas. London, 1842, p. 98. See also Craik's "Romance of the Peerage," (4 vols., 1 S 19,) vol. iii, p. 362 for an interesting account of these Earldoms. (") Of his two sisters, whose seniority is doubtful, (1) Mary m., S Oct. 1662, Sir John AllaBDICE of Allardiee, and d. Dec. 1720, leaving issue; (2) Elizabeth, in. Dec. 1(563 Sir William GRAHAM of Gartmore, Bart. [S.] and «/., v.f., leaving issue, which, according to some accounts, became ex. on the death of her great-great- grand-daughter Mary Bogle in 1S2L The claim of the Allardiee family to the title was opposed in 1839 by Nicholas Donnithome Bishop and Mary-Eleanor his wile, da. and h. of .fames Andrew Bogle, said to have been a descendant of this Elizabeth Graham. — See Burke's "Extinct Peerage," sub "Graham" Earl of Strathern," 4* In 1 S3 1 Mr. Robert Baiiclay-Allardice (whose mother Sarah-Ann. was da. and li. of James Allardiee, great-grandson and h. of Sir John A. and Mary-Graham above- named) claimed the dignity of EARL OF AIRTH [S.] as h. of line of the grantee, contending that the word " heirs " in the patent of 1633 must be read as " heirs of the body." To which the Lord Advocate opposed that the patent only annexed the new dignity of Airth to the old one of Monteith, and that no person could be Earl of Airth [S.] who was not ulso Earl of Monteith [S.] The case was frequently heard in 1839 and was adjourned 15 Aug. 1839. Iu 1S40, Mr. B. A. presented a petition claiming the additional honours of EARL 01' STRATHERN AND MONTEITH [S.], but no further steps were taken and he d. in 1854. In 1870 Mrs. Barclay- Allardiee, his only surv. child, claimed the dignity of COUNTESS OF AIRTH [S.] and was opposed by W. C. BOSTTKE (formerly Graham) who claimed to be h. male of the body of the 1st Earl of Menteith, or Monteith [S.] and asserted the Earldom of Airth to be united therewith. The case was last heard 21 July 1871. See " Hewlett," p. 74-76.
