He was born about 1656 and when, in 1685, he was M.P. for County Ross, it was resolved that, as his father belonged to the nobilitate, he was not allowed to represent the shire. In 1685 he married Lady Elizabeth Gordon but divorced her on 28 July 1698. In April 1691 he was tried before the Court of Justiciary for the murder of the Sieur de la Roche, who had been killed in a brawl in a tavern at Leith, but was acquitted.
On 25 April 1701 he married Mary Murray and they became the parents of eight children. She died before 1717 as in that year he married Anne Fraser, the twice widowed daughter of Lord Lovat, and they became the parents of four children. In 1724 he had financial troubles and his estates were sequestrated. He died on 20 February 1731, at Castle Leod, aged about seventy-four, and his widow died on 10 August 1734.
 

Source: Leo van de Pas