The title of Earl of Nithsdale was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1620. The title was forfeit upon the attainder of the 5th earl in 1716. The earls bore the subsidiary title of Lord Maxwell, Eskdale, and Carleill (1620) and Lord Maxwell (1445). The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. ... Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... Events Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, founded. ... Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... Events Discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz Births March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (d. ...
Robert Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (1586-1646) created Earl of Nithsdale in 1620
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NITHSDALE 5TH Earl Of (1676-1744), Jacobite leader, was a member of the family of Maxwell, being a son of Robert the 4th earl (d.
The earl and the other Jacobites were brought to trial in Westminster Hall on the 19th of January 1716, and condemned to death on the 9th of February.
The earl escaped from England and was followed by the countess, but not till she had gone back to Scotland to rescue important legal papers which proved the transfer of the estate to their son.
In 1586, however, the attainder was rescinded in favour of Archibald Douglas, 8th earl of Angus (q.v.), a nephew of the 4th earl.
By the 4th earl's will he succeeded in 1588 to the earldom of Morton, on the death of Archibald, 8th earl of Angus; but Lord Maxwell's title of Morton, which had been revoked in 1585, was revived in 1587 and 1592, so that both men were in possession, and a conflict arose.
Among later earls of Morton mention may be made of James (1702-1768), 14th earl (or, as sometimes numbered, 16th), who became president of the Royal Society (1764), and wasa distinguished patron of science, and particularly of astronomy.
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