Francis Wemyss-Charteris

He was born with the name Francis Wemyss but on 24 February 1732, he legally changed it to Francis Wemyss Charteris, adopting his mother's maiden name on the inheritance of the estates of his maternal grandfather Colonel Charteris.

In a Haddingtonshire Sasine registered on 8 August 1792, No.576, Francis Charteris, Earl of Wemyss was seised in the barony of Newmilns, or Amisfield, Haddingtonshire, plus half of the barony of Morham and its lands, plus the grain mill of the monastery of Haddington called Abbey Mill.

His elder brother David, Lord Elcho, was implicated in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and was attainted in 1746.

[2] Charteris died in August 1808, aged 84 and is buried in the Wemyss Mausoleum (a huge stone pyramid) near Gosford House, the estate he had acquired in 1781 or 1784 (depending on the source).

[5] His grandson Francis obtained a reversal of the attainder in 1826 and became the eighth Earl of Wemyss.