William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland
About William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland
Lived 1735 – 1766 (aged 31).
William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland (1735–1766) was a Scottish hereditary peer.
Life
He was born on 28 May 1735, the son of William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland and his wife Lady Elizabeth Wemyss.
In 1759, as a captain in the 56th Regiment of Foot he raised a regiment, the original Sutherland Fencibles, from his own Clan Sutherland, to resist the threatened invasion from France.
In the summer of 1761, at the house of Lord Alva in Mylnes Square in Edinburgh, he married sixteen year old Mary Maxwell of Reston (b.1745) in Kirkcudbright, the daughter of the late William Maxwell (1711-1760) and his wife Elizabeth Hairstares (who had remarried Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald a.k.a. Lord Alva). Her sister Wilhelmina married John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy.
The couple attended the coronation of George III in London on 22 September 1761, and all remarked on the beauty of his wife.
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William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland was born on 28 May 1735.
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William Sutherland, 18th Earl of Sutherland died on 16 June 1766.
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