Viscount of Frendraught

Viscount of Frendraught was a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

It was created on 29 August 1642, along with the title Lord Crichton, for James Crichton, younger of Frendraught, son of James Crichton of Frendraught, who thereafter became known as Crichton of Kinnairdie. The Crichtons of Frendraught were heirs-male of William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, who was Lord Chancellor under James II and whose title had been forfeit in 1484.

Viscounts of Frendraught

• James Crichton, 1st Viscount of Frendraught (born c. 1620, died 1663)^[1]
• James Crichton, 2nd Viscount of Frendraught (born 1643, died 1676), son of the first Viscount
• William Crichton, 3rd Viscount of Frendraught (born 1670, died 1686), son of the second Viscount
• Lewis Crichton, 4th Viscount of Frendraught (born c. 1650, died 1698), younger son of the first Viscount

The 4th Viscount Frendraught, a Jacobite, served with Viscount Dundee in the 1689 rising and, as punishment, the title was attainted on 14 July 1690 (i.e. the peerage became forfeit). It was unsuccessfully claimed in 1827 by David Maitland Makgill (later Maitland Makgill Crichton) of Rankeillour, a descendant of the first Viscount's eldest daughter Janet.

References

1. Temple, William (1894). The Thanage of Fermartyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors, with genealogical deductions; its parishes, ministers, Churches, churchyards, antiquities, &c. Aberdeen: Wyllie. p. 152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Francis J. Grant, "Crichton, Lord Frendraught" in The Scots Peerage, vol. iv, pp. 123–134.