David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss

Who was David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss?

David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss son of James Wemyss, Lord Burntisland and Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss.

In his 41 years Earl Wemyss married three times:

Lady Anne Douglas, the only daughter of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, two sons, David, Lord Elcho, and James, who became 5th Earl of Wemyss

at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Mary Robinson, daughter of Sir John Robinson

Elizabeth St. Clair, daughter of Henry, Lord Sinclair; two daughters: Elisabeth, who married William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland, and Margaret, who married James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray.

Entered parliament on 28 June 1705, and was the same year sworn of the privy council. He was one of the commissioners for the treaty of Union with England. In 1706 he was appointed High Admiral of Scotland, and this office having been abolished at the Union, he was then constituted Vice Admiral of Scotland.