Alexander Brodie (1697–1754)

Alexander Brodie, 19th of that Ilk (17 August 1697 – 9 March 1754) was a Scottish politician and clan chief who served as the Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1727 to 1754.

Born in Moray, Scotland into a Highland family, he also sat in the British House of Commons from 1720 to 1754, representing the constituencies of Elginshire, Caithness and Inverness Burghs.

[2] The Grants of that Ilk had become the dominant interest in the county since the 7th Earl of Moray, the hereditary sheriff of Elginshire, had been implicated in the 1715 Jacobite rising.

[2] As an alternating constituency, Caithness was not represented in the 1747–54 Parliament, and at the 1747 general election arrangements were made for Brodie to be returned for the Inverness Burghs, as part of a plan by Henry Pelham to avoid electoral contests between Scottish supporters of the government.

[2] Brodie's loyalty to the government was rewarded in July 1727, when he was appointed as Lord Lyon King of Arms, with a salary of £300 per year (equivalent to £56,000 in 2023[7]).

[2] He told the Duke of Newcastle that the Earl of Sutherland had sheltered a rebel, and is reported to have helped gather evidence against Lord Lovat.