Name William 9th Died May 27, 1712 | Role Politician Deposed date 1712 | |
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Parents George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal, Mary Hay People also search for George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal, Anne Keith, Mary Hay | ||
William Keith, 9th Earl Marischal (c.1664 – 27 May 1712, London) was a Jacobite politician and Earl Marischal of Scotland.
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Life
His parents were the army officer George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal (d. 1694) and the courtier Lady Mary Hay (d. 1701), third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Kinnoull. Keith succeeded to the earldom in March 1694, swore loyalty to the de facto monarchy, took up his seat in Scotland's parliament in July 1698, was sworn into the privy council in June 1701 and made a knight of the Thistle by James Francis Edward Stuart in 1705. However, he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for Jacobitism during the 1708 rising then sent to London for trial once it was over, but still managed to be made one of 16 representative peers at Westminster from 1710 to 1712. He was anti-Union and Tory in political sympathies and founded a medicine chair at Marischal College in Aberdeen (though he did not endow it). John Macky described him as:
Marriage and issue
Around 1690 Keith married the committed Jacobite Mary Drummond, daughter of James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (1648–1716), and his first wife, Lady Jane Douglas (d. 1678), the fourth daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas. Mary thus did not join her father when he was exiled in 1693 for Jacobitism. Their children were: