Individual Details
David Scott
( - )
The Scotts of Scotstarvet take descent from David the second son of Sir David Scott, the eleventh generation of the house of Buccleuch in the male line. David Scott, known as of Allanhaugh and Whitchester, lived in the reigns of James IV and V, and died in 1530 leaving three sons, Robert, Alexander and James. The youngest entered the Church, becoming Provost of Corstophine and a Lord of Sessions on the spiritual side, on the institution of that court in Scotland.
The marriage of his son, DAVID SCOTT the younger, to Lady Jane Douglas, daughter of the fourth Earl of Angus, and sister of the famous Archibald the fifth Earl, brought him the governorship of the strong castle of Hermitage, in Liddesdale, and must have strengthened not a little the position of the family. The friendship which subsisted between the Scotts and the Douglases,whom they assisted to put down their kinsmen, was evidently of a very close kind, for provision was made in the marriage contract that, if David should die, his next younger brother was to marry Lady Jane Douglas, and so on in regular succession of the brothers; and that if Lady Jane should die, David was to obtain in marriage the next daughter of the Earl of Angus, till a marriage was completed an arrangement which showed the influential position of the Scotts at that period. Notwithstanding this connection, however, they took opposite sides in the contests between James III. and the discontented nobles; and the services which David Scott the younger, and his son Robert, rendered to that unfortunate sovereign, were acknowledged and rewarded by him with extensive grants of land and other favours.
The marriage of his son, DAVID SCOTT the younger, to Lady Jane Douglas, daughter of the fourth Earl of Angus, and sister of the famous Archibald the fifth Earl, brought him the governorship of the strong castle of Hermitage, in Liddesdale, and must have strengthened not a little the position of the family. The friendship which subsisted between the Scotts and the Douglases,whom they assisted to put down their kinsmen, was evidently of a very close kind, for provision was made in the marriage contract that, if David should die, his next younger brother was to marry Lady Jane Douglas, and so on in regular succession of the brothers; and that if Lady Jane should die, David was to obtain in marriage the next daughter of the Earl of Angus, till a marriage was completed an arrangement which showed the influential position of the Scotts at that period. Notwithstanding this connection, however, they took opposite sides in the contests between James III. and the discontented nobles; and the services which David Scott the younger, and his son Robert, rendered to that unfortunate sovereign, were acknowledged and rewarded by him with extensive grants of land and other favours.
Families
| Father | Sir David Scott (1440 - 1492) |
| Mother | Somerville ( - ) |
| Sibling | Robert Scott ( - ) |