John Scrymgeour, 1st Earl of Dundee

John Scrymgeour, 3rd Viscount Dudhope and 1st Earl of Dundee (d. 1668) was a member of the Scottish nobility and fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

[1] Scrymgeour attended Charles II at Stirling Castle in 1651, and marched with him to England on the expedition that terminated at the battle of Worcester.

He was captured in the braes of Angus by a party of Cromwellian soldiers, and sent prisoner to London, where he was detained for some time.

He was made a privy councillor and created Earl of Dundee on 8 September 1660.

[1] Scrymgeour, by his marriage in 1644 with Lady Anne Ramsay, daughter of William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie, apparently had no children, and the title was thought extinct,[1] His widow married Sir Henry Bruce of Clackmannan, whose family is now represented by the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine.