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28 de ago. de 2022 · General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore KT PC (c. 1656 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar. He was the elder son of Sir Alexander Robertson, of the family of Strowan, Perthshire, who settled in Holland, where he acquired a considerable property, and adopted the nam
Juliana married Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, on 7 October 1732. The earl, a sporting associate of her first husband, was the son of David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore and his wife Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet and former mistress of King James II.
David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore , KT (27 August 1700 – 5 July 1785), known as Lord Milsington to 1730, of Portmore House, Weybridge, Surrey, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1726 and 1730, when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Portmore .
The Earl of Portmore was a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1703 for Scottish military commander David Colyear, which became extinct in 1835. by Alexander Feb 25, 2023 Once upon a time, in the Scottish Peerage, there was a title that exuded power and nobility.
COLYEAR, Sir DAVID, first Earl of Portmore (d. 1730), was the elder son of Sir Alexander Robertson, of the family of Strowan, Perthshire, who settled in Holland, where he acquired a considerable property, and adopted the name of Colyear. The son entered the army of the Prince of Orange as a volunteer in 1674, and ultima
Earl of Portmore was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for the Scottish military commander David Colyear, 1st Lord Portmore. He had already been created Lord Portmore in 1699 and was made Lord Colyear and Viscount of Milsington at the same time as he was granted the...
