William Sutherland, 5th of Duffus

He was the son of William Sutherland, 4th of Duffus who died in 1513 and his mother may have been Janet Innes Lady Greeship, said to be a daughter of the family of Innes, who as a widow re-married before 1517 to Hugh Rose of Kilravock.

He succeeded his father in the lands of Duffus and Quarrelwood in 1513-1514.

[1] In 1519-20, he was infeft in his father's lands of Brichmond or Brichtomy.

He received a grant for the lands of Kinstearie from James V of Scotland in 1524.

[1] In 1527, William Sutherland, 5th of Duffus resigned his lands of Duffus and Quarrelwood in Elgin, Moray, and Brichtmony, Kinstearie and the mill of Auldearn in Nairn in favour of his eldest son.