From 1784 to 1787 Wemyss was MP for Sutherland, succeeding his father,[2] before sitting for Fife from 1787 to 1796 and again from 1807 to 1820.[3]
Military career
Captain in the Army by brevet, 1 July 1783[4] DAG in Scotland and Major, 18 November 1786[5] DAG in Scotland and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 October 1791[6] Colonel, 22 August 1795[7]
He attained the rank of Major-General on 23 June 1798.[8] Action near Ardee[9]
Major-General William Wemyss raised the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders in 1799 for his cousin the 16-year-old Countess of Sutherland, Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower. Men were recruited to the Regiment through a highly original form of conscription. General Wemyss lined up the young men of each parish and invited them to drink from a large silver bound horn, having drunk his dram it was understood he consented to join the Regiment.[10]
William Wemyss (1790–1852), a Lieutenant-General and also colonel of the 93rd Foot who married Lady Isabella Hay, another daughter of the 17th Earl of Erroll.[20]
Clementina Wemyss (1805–1834), who married James Dewar, Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, Bombay.[21][22]
Wemyss died on 4February 1822.
References
^"Earl of Sutherland". Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
^"House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "S"". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "F"". Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^Bromley, Janet; Bromley, David (2015). Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo- Volume II: M to Z. Pen and Sword. p. 1828. ISBN 978-1-4738-5768-1.
^"The Royal military calendar, or Army service and commission book. Containing the services and progress of promotion of the generals, lieutenant-generals, major-generals, colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and majors of the army, according to seniority: with details of the principal military events of the last century". 21 July 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
^"Person Page". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
^"Earl of Rosslyn". Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
^ a b"Earl of Erroll". Archived from the original on 17 July 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
^"Clementina Wemyss". 5 August 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
^E. Walford (1882). The county families of the United Kingdom. ISBN 9785871943618.
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Wemyss