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326:. Lockhart and Argyll became friends as children, and remained friends into adulthood despite political differences. Campbell became one of Scotland's leading Whigs, while Lockhart came to have a profound dislike of Presbyterianism . By 1695 he had obtained the appointment of episcopalian guardians and had begun to manage his own financial affairs. He developed the estate and exploited the coal reserves to become one of the wealthiest of Scottish commoners, and gathered a major electoral interest in Lanarkshire and Midlothian. He married Lady Euphemia Montgomerie (d. 1738), daughter of a leading Episcopalian peer 44: 296: 350:. He joined the cavalier wing of the Country party. He was made a privy councillor in 1703 as part of the Court’s attempt to woo the cavaliers. He was attracted to a political alliance in the hope of achieving legal toleration for Episcopalians but as this was not forthcoming, he went into opposition, and remained disaffected with the Court for the rest of his time in the Scottish parliament. He denounced the defection from the Country party of the so-called ‘New Party’ (later 606: 354:) in 1704. He had a close connection with the Duke of Hamilton, although he was frustrated at the Duke’s unwillingness to pursue Jacobite objectives. After he voted for Hamilton’s motion for deferring a decision on the succession, he was removed from the privy council in December 1704. In 1705, to his annoyance, he was appointed a commissioner for arranging the 358:
apparently through the influence of Wharton. Initially he decided not to accept the post, but was persuaded by Jacobite colleagues that it would be useful for him to report back to them on the proceedings. He avoided signing the treaty, and in Parliament became one of the most vigorous opponents of
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After the union Lockhart was not one of the but he decided to seek election to Westminster to serve the Jacobite cause, and to distract the ministry from suspicion about the intended invasion. He gave his interest in Lanarkshire to Lord Archibald Hamilton and was returned as
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from 1708 to 1715. He was a member of the Commission on the Union before 1707 but acted as an informant to his Jacobite colleagues and later wrote an anonymous memoir of its dealings. He supported the Stuart cause in the
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Argyll's influence was again exerted in Lockhart's behalf, and in 1728 he was permitted to return to Scotland, where he lived in retirement until his death in a duel on 17 December 1731.
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Argent a man’s heart proper within a fetterlock sable, on a chief azure three boar’s heads erased of the first, all within a bordure of the fourth charged with five mullets of the field.
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of the union. He was deeply implicated in the rising of 1715, the preparations for which he assisted at Carnwath and at Dryden, his Edinburgh residence. He was imprisoned in
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the Union. Although he had some support for the article on communication of trade, he usually voted with the opposition, and abstained from voting on ratification.
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Lockart was the source of intelligence revealing the extensive bribery of Scottish parliamentarians prior to the Treaty of Union, giving rise to the famous
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Szechi, Daniel, Sankey, Margaret (November 2001). "Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism 1716-1745".
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and condemned to be shot, the sentence being executed on 2 December 1715. Lockhart continued to act on behalf of
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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where he stood as an insurance. In 1713 he took part in an abortive movement aiming at the
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An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland
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The "Lockhart Papers" are a significant authority for the history of the
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during the 17th century. He married Eupheme Montgomerie, daughter of
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up to the union with England, first published in 1714. These
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and his second wife Philadelphia Wharton, daughter of
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Lockhart of Carnwarth

Member of Parliament
Midlothian
1708
1715
John Baird
Member of Parliament
Wigtown Burghs
1708
1708
William Cochrane
Commissioner
Edinburghshire
Tory
Squadrone Volante
Carnwath
South Lanarkshire
Jacobite
Parliament of Scotland
Tory
House of Commons
Jacobite rising of 1715

Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath
Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton
Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton
Whig Junta
John Campbell
Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglintoun

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