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The
Lockharts of Lee were a
Lanarkshire family that traced their descent from Sir
Simon Locard (the name being originally territorial, de
Loch Ard). The family estate was the barony of Lee, centred on
Lee Castle, originally built around 1272 but much expanded in the 19th century.
Sir Simon Locard is said to have accompanied
Sir James Douglas on his expedition to the East with the heart of
Robert the Bruce, which relic, according to Froissart, Locard brought home from Spain when Douglas fell in battle against the Moors at the
Battle of Teba, and buried in
Melrose Abbey. This incident was the origin of the "man's heart within a fetterlock" borne on the Lockhart shield, which in turn perhaps led to the altered spelling of the surname.
William Dunbar in his
Lament for the Makaris mourns
Schir Mungo Lokert of the Le among a roll call of poets chiefly from the
fifteenth century. No works have been traced to him.
Sir
James Lockhart of Lee (d. 1674), was a lord of the
Court of Session with the judicial title of Lord Lee, who commanded a regiment at the
battle of Preston (1648). Lord Lee's eldest son, Sir
William Lockhart of Lee (1621-1675), after fighting on the king's side in the
English Civil War, attached himself to
Oliver Cromwell, whose niece he married, and by whom he was appointed
commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland in 1652, and English ambassador at the French court in 1656, where he greatly distinguished himself by his successful diplomacy.
Lord Lee's second son, Sir
George Lockhart (c. 1630-1689), was
Lord Advocate in Cromwell's time, and was celebrated for his persuasive eloquence; in 1674, when he was disbarred for alleged disrespect to the court of session in advising an appeal to parliament, fifty barristers showed their sympathy for him by withdrawing from practice. Lockhart was readmitted in 1676, and became the leading advocate in political trials, in which he usually appeared for the defence. He was appointed
Lord President of the Court of Session in 1685, and was shot in the streets of Edinburgh on the 31st of March 1689 by John Chiesley, against whom the Lord President had adjudicated a cause. Sir George Lockhart purchased the extensive estates of the
Earls of Carnwath in Lanarkshire, which were inherited by his eldest son,
George Lockhart of Lee (1673-1731), whose mother was Philadelphia, daughter of
Lord Wharton.
The grandson of George Lockhart of Lee,
James, who assumed his mother's name of Wishart (of Clifton Hall) in addition to that of Lockhart, was in the Austrian service during the
Seven Years' War, and was created a baron and count of the
Holy Roman Empire. He succeeded to the estates of Lee as well as of Carnwath, both of which properties passed, on the death of his son Charles without issue in
1802, to his nephew Alexander Macdonald Lockhart, who was created a
baronet in
1806. On the death of Sir Simon Macdonald Lockhart in 1919, the baronetcy became extinct. The family still occupies Lee Castle, and owns extensive property in the area including the nearby
Tower of Hallbar.
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