Robert Seton fl.1719
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Captain Robert SETON of Menie, fl.1719
Biographical Note
Captain Robert Seton of Menie, Lieutenant Governor of Blackness Castle, was an officer in the 3rd Regiment of Scots Guards. He is recorded as taking out a law suit against another branch of his family in 1719 defending his title as head of the family of Seton of Meldrum.
Books
Used an engraved bookplate (Franks 26487): Atchievemt. of Capt. Robt. Seton, Lineal Representer of ye Family of Seton of Meldrum. (A. Burden S.)
(Arms: Seton quartering Meldrum.)
The extent and disposition of his library is not known.
Sources
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- George Seton, History of the family of Seton during eight centuries, Edinburgh, 1896
- The Seton Family