Henry Wardlaw of Pitreavie

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Henry Wardlaw of Pitreavie (1565–1637) Scottish courtier and administrator.

He was the son of Cuthbert Wardlaw of Balmule and Katherine Dalgleish, and a grandson of Henry Wardlaw of Torrie.

Pitreavie Castle before nineteenth-century alterations

He was administrator of the Dunfermline estates of Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI. His predecessor as the queen's chamberlain was William Schaw.[1]

In 1609 he advanced £200 Sterling in recompense for jewels taken from Anne of Denmark by Margaret Hartsyde.[2]

In 1612 Anne of Denmark sent instructions to Henry Wardlaw for the baptism of Anne Home, a daughter of Mary (Dudley) Sutton, Countess of Home and the Earl of Home. The queen as sponsor or godmother wanted presents of money distributed at the baptism, and Anna Hay, Countess of Winton was to be her representative.[3][4][5]

He was knighted at Royston on 22 October 1613.[6] Wardlaw acquired the "superiority" of the lands of Pitreavie from the burgh of Edinburgh in May 1614.[7]

After the death of Anne of Denmark in 1619, Wardlaw continused to administer the Dunfermline estates for Prince Charles, and his accounts for this period survive in the National Archives of Scotland. King Charles is said to have sent him a bible with an embroidered crimson velvet cover for his services, and gave him a pair of gloves, perhaps in 1633. These are now kept by the University of St Andrews.[8]

In 1626 Wardlaw paid from his receipts of royal revenue for 26 blue gowns given 26 poor men at Holyrood Abbey on the birthday of King Charles, 19 November.[9] Wardlaw delivered substantial sums from royal rents to James Murray of Kilbaberton for projects including the repair of Dumbarton Castle, Linlithgow Palace, and Falkland Palace in 1629.[10] Some accounts for crown revenue made by Wardlaw from the papers of the Earls of Mar are held by the National Records of Scotland.[11]

Wardlaw built Pitreavie Castle near Dunfermline, probable employing the royal master of work James Murray.[12]

He died in 1637. He was buried at Dunfermline Abbey in the burial vault granted him by Anne of Denmark in 1616.[13]

Marriage and family[]

He married Elizabeth Wilson. Their children included:

  • Henry Wardlaw (d. 1653), who married Margaret Beaton, a daughter of David Beaton of Balfour
  • Elizabeth Wardlaw, who married Anthony Alexander, Master of Works, in 1633.[14]
  • John Wardlaw of Abden
  • William Wardlaw of Balmule, who married Christian Foulis, a daughter of James Foulis of Colinton
  • Anne Wardlaw, who married David Sibbald

References[]

  1. ^ Charles McKean, Scottish Chateau (Sutton, 2001), pp. 203-4.
  2. ^ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1607-1610, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1887), pp. 580-1.
  3. ^ John Fernie, A History of the Town of Dunfermline (Dunfermline, 1815), p. 105
  4. ^ Claire Robinson, 'A Pair of Early Seventeenth-Century Gauntlet Gloves given by King Charles I to Sir Henry Wardlaw', Costume, 49:1 (2015), pp. 9, 13
  5. ^ Letter of Anne of Denmark to Henry Wardlaw, St Andrews University Library MS 38590
  6. ^ Claire Robinson, 'A Pair of Early Seventeenth-Century Gauntlet Gloves given by King Charles I to Sir Henry Wardlaw', Costume, 49:1 (2015).
  7. ^ Marguerite Wood, Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh, 1604-1626 (Edinburgh, 1931), p. 116.
  8. ^ Maria Hayward, Stuart Style (Yale, 2020), pp. 270-1: Claire Robinson, 'A Pair of Early Seventeenth-Century Gauntlet Gloves given by King Charles I to Sir Henry Wardlaw', Costume, 49:1 (2015).
  9. ^ George Ritchie Kinloch, Reliquiae Antiquae Scoticae (Edinburgh, 1848), p. 149.
  10. ^ John Imrie & John Dunbar, Accounts of the Masters of Works, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. 259, 275, 293.
  11. ^ HMC Mar & Kellie at Alloa House (London, 1904), p. 150: NRS GD124/10/326.
  12. ^ Charles McKean, Scottish Chateau]] (Sutton, 2001), pp. 203-4.
  13. ^ Claire Robinson, 'A Pair of Early Seventeenth-Century Gauntlet Gloves given by King Charles I to Sir Henry Wardlaw', Costume, 49:1 (2015).
  14. ^ Charles McKean, Scottish Chateau (Sutton, 2001), pp. 203-4.
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