With his brother, Lord Menmuir, he was educated on the continent under the care of James Lawson.
Fechtenburg said that Edzell's samples of ores were more promising than an assay made by Foulis' other experts suggested.
[3] Edzell was one of those who on 3 May 1578 signed a band in favour of the Earl of Mar as guardian of the young king James VI of Scotland.
On 14 June of the same year he appeared as procurator for the sureties of David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford.
On 27 August 1583, a remission was granted to Lindsay and others under the great seal for the murder of Campbell of Lundie.
This enraged David Lindsay, and she alleged he had threatened her mother and frightened her to death.
[4] For conniving at a fray between his son and the young laird of Pitarrow in the High Street of Edinburgh, 17 June 1605, he was for a short time warded in Dumbarton Castle.