Robert Monteith of Salmonet

He claimed descent from the Menteiths or Monteiths of Stirlingshire where his family had held a property at the small hamlet of Salmonet.

[2] He obtained a post as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saumur in western France where he worked for four years.

[4] Returning to Scotland he was presented by King Charles I to the Archbishop John Spottiswoode of St Andrews where he was given a post of minister of Duddingston Kirk on the southern edge of Edinburgh in December 1630.

However, in a very ungodly act, he was found to be conducting an "illicit amour" with Dame Anna Hepburn, wife of Sir James Hamilton of Priestfield.

His brother (not his son) was William Monteith of Carruber and Randeford, from whom the Stuart Menteiths of Closeburn are descended.