William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne

The son of Mr. Roderick Macleod WS and Isabel Bannantyne, daughter of Hector Bannatyne of Kames.

He received a liberal education, including a period at the High School of Edinburgh (1755-6), and was admitted advocate, 22 January 1765.

Among his intimate friends were Henry Mackenzie, Robert Cullen, William Craig, Hugh Blair, Erskine and Alexander Abercromby.

He extended Kames Castle by the addition of a fine mansion house in the early eighteenth century.

[3] He collected a library of historical, genealogical, and antiquarian works, and at its sale in 1834, a set of the Bannatyne publications was purchased for Sir John Hay, Baronet of Smithfield and Haystown, for one hundred and sixty-eight pounds sterling.