William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure

Not initially an active supporter of the exiled Stuarts, Lord Kenmure became the leader of the Lowlands nobles, who opposed the Act of Union in 1701.

Absenting himself from parliament, early in Queen Anne's reign, the sixth Viscount Kenmure was deeply involved in plotting for a Jacobite rising and French invasion.

In 1707 he was one of the Jacobite peers for whose conduct David Murray, fifth Viscount Stormont, answered to Colonel Nathaniel Hooke, envoy from St Germain.

This small force received some additions before Kenmure reached Hawick, where he learnt the news of the English Jacobite rising.

Their united forces of some hundred and fifty cavalry, after a series of marches, halted at the border, at Kelso, where they were reinforced by a brigade under William Mackintosh of Borlum.