From: Etchings
by Sir David Wilkie, Limner to H.M. for Scotland, and
by Andrew Geddes: With Biographical Sketches by David
Laing (Edinburgh:
Printed by R. & R. Clark, 1875)
This compositional sketch is all that remains
of Geddes's massive group-portrait The Discovery of the
Regalia of Scotland (1821). A number of the figures are
identified in pencil as follows. From the right:
- ‘[G.?] R. Abercromby’ [General
Robert Abercromby (1740-1827), Governor of Edinburgh Castle]
- ‘Mr. H. Jardine’ [Henry
Jardine, Advocate (1766-1851), the King’s Remembrancer
in Exchequer]
- ‘Mr Wm Clerk’ [William Clerk,
Advocate (d. 1847), Principal Clerk of the Jury Court]
- ‘Lord Advocate’ [Alexander
Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank (1777-1861)]
- ‘Solicitor G.’ [James Wedderburn
(1782-1822), Solicitor General]
- ‘Sir G. Murray’ [Sir George
Murray (1772-1846), Lieutenant Governor of Edinburgh Castle]
- ‘Lord Chief Baron’ [Robert
Dundas of Arniston (1758-1819), Lord Chief Baron of the
Court of Exchequer]
- ‘Mr T. Thomson’ [Thomas
Thomson, Advocate (1768-1852), Deputy Remembrancer in Exchequer]
- Unspecified [Kincaid Mackenzie (d. 1820),
Lord Provost of Edinburgh?]
- ‘Lord President’ [Charles
Hope of Granton (1763-1851), Lord President of the Court
of Session]
- ‘General Hope’ [Sir John
Hope (1765-1823), Commander of His Majesty’s Forces
in Scotland]
- ‘D. of Buccleuch’ [Charles
William Henry Douglas-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch, 6th
Duke of Queensberry (1772-1819), Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Midlothian]
- ‘Mr. Scott’ [Sir Walter
Scott, nominated in his capacity as one of the Principal
Clerks of Session]
- ‘D. of Gordon’ [Alexander
Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827), Keeper of the Great
Seal]
- ‘L. Justice Clerk’ [David
Boyle (1772-1853), Lord Justice Clerk]
- ‘Mr Wm Dundas’ [William
Dundas (1762-1845), Keeper of the Signet]
- ‘L. Commissioner’ [William
Adam of Blair Adam (1751-1839), Lord Chief Commissioner
of the Jury Court]
- ‘Lord Register’ [Archibald
Campbell Colquhoun (ca. 1754-1820), Lord Clerk Register]
- ‘Lord Melville’ [Robert
Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), Keeper
of the Privy Seal]
Five figures beyond are not specified, but only nineteen
commissioners were nominated by the Prince Regent. The only
member of the Commission not named here is the Lord Provost
of Edinburgh, Kincaid McKenzie, who is presumably the unspecified
ninth figure.
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