He was Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1689 to 1690, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1690, 1694, and 1699, and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow from 1692 to 1713.
[1] He was Secretary of State from 1699 to 1702, and supported the Union with England.
His wife was Beatrix Drummond, a daughter of the 3rd Lord Maderty and Lady Beatrice Graham.
Their daughter Beatrix married John Cockburn of Ormiston.
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