1635 - 1711 (76 years)
| Name | William Dunbar | |
| Prefix | Sir | |
| Suffix | of Hempriggs, 1st Baronet of Northfield | |
| Born | 1635 | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Official Position/s | 1678 | |
| William Dunbar of Hempriggs elected MP for Caithness [joerocksresearchpages/home/historical-timelines/ackergill-castle]. | ||
| Property: | 16 Nov 1682 | |
| Extract disposition and assignation by William Dunbar of Hemprigs, son of the late John Dunbar of Hemprigs, to George Sinclair of Asserie[?], in liferent, and his sons John and Patrick Sinclair, in fee, of the town and lands of Brawlbin and Asserie [NAS, GD 139/102 per joerocksresearchpages/home/historical-timelines/ackergill-castle] | ||
| Official Position/s | 15 Aug 1687 | |
| Declaration by William Dunbar of Hemprigs that he has accepted commission by John, Earl of Breadalbane, sheriff and justiciar of shire of Caithness, as sheriff and justice depute thereof, from date hereof to 1 June 1691, that clerk and other members of court shall have a share and proportion of fines, unlaw, amerciaments and emoluments of court as is due to them conform to custom of said jurisdiction. [NAS, GD112/29/43/20 per joerocksresearchpages/home/historical-timelines/ackergill-castle] | ||
| Property: | 1691 | |
| William Dunbar of Hempriggs purchases Telstane three miles south of Wick where he built a new house and renamed it Hempriggs, after the original Dunbar estate in Morayshire. [joerocksresearchpages/home/historical-timelines/ackergill-castle] | ||
| Property: | 1699 | |
| William Dunbar of Hempriggs purchases Ackergill from John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy. [joerocksresearchpages/home/historical-timelines/ackergill-castle] | ||
| Official Position/s | 10 Apr 1700 | |
| Date of creation as a baronet of Nova Scotia [Magnae Britaniae Notitia Or the Present State of Great Britain ..., Vol 2] | ||
| Legal: | 1700 - 1706 | |
| Letters from Sir William Dunbar of Hempriggs, bt., to Robert Fraser, advocate, his cousin: Re purchase of land in Caithness from Earl of Breadalbane, and unreasonable demands of Carwhin. \'I have losed all the Sinclairs for the Earl of Breadalbane, and serving of him has bred me all this trouble I have had or may have during my lifetime, and yet I cannot have the ordinary termes and conditions a Sinclair gets\' (1703) With many references to disputed election between writer and James Sinclair, brother of Dunbeath. \'I have done the Earle of Breadalbane service worth all the soume that they have now in prospect out of Caithnes, but it has been my misfourtune that my shilling has not the intrinsick value of ane other man\'s sixpence\'. \'I have three pictures coming up, my own, my wife\'s and my son\'s to coppie for my daughter\'s use and at hir expenss, for which William Innes hes orders; you may be at the trouble to speak to Mr. Scougall that after the pictures are copied that he may draw the three faces only for my use. Agree with him as cheap as yow can for doing of that, the designe I have for them is to be copies for three statues I designe to cause make at Edinburgh to be sett up in a monament I am ordering heir\' (20 February 1706). Yow wreat to me that ther will be litle diffrance betuixt that (copying the faces) and copieing the haill pictures, but I consider that the pictures wer copied haill they will be but tarnished and defaced standing before the workman when he works, and besyde I allow but twenty shillings for coppieing of each face, att which rate Master Scougall works. William Innes can tell you that he caused coppie Sir Robert Gordon\'s face at that rate\' (11 March 1706) The statues were to be made by Mr. Smith Master mason. [Papers of Robert Fraser, Advocate, and William Fraser, W.S. NAS RH15/13/25] | ||
| Legal: | 1696 - 1710 | |
| Legal papers re John Dunbar of Hempriggs, and Sir William Dumbar of Hempriggs, sheriff and justiciar depute of Caithness | ||
| Residence: | Ackergill Tower, near Wick, Caithness  |
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| Official Position/s | Sheriff and justiciar depute of Caithness |
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| Died | 1711 | |
| Person ID | I2041 | Grant |
| Last Modified | 11 Jan 2020 | |
| Father | John Dunbar, 3rd of Hempriggs, b. c 1600, d. 1666 (Age ~ 66 years) | |
| Relationship | Birth | |
| Mother | Ann Fraser, of Inverness, d. Aft 1657 | |
| Relationship | Birth | |
| Married | 26 Sep 1634 | |
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| Family ID | F803 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Margaret Sinclair, of Latheron | |||
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| Last Modified | 30 Jun 2019 | |||
| Family ID | F805 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||
| Photos |  | Ackergill Tower near Wick - home of Sir William Dunbar of Hempriggs |
| Dunbar of Hempriggs |
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