| Description | Nominated as Baillies: Andrew Craig, Merchant; Alexander Gillanders, Merchant; Peter Meldrum, Fisherman; Francis Porter, Baker; Alexander Mitchell, Tinsmith; Alexander Robertson, Merchant; Alexander Morgan, Fish Curer. Elected: Andrew Craig and Alexander Gillanders. "Meikleour, Perthshire 10th October 1893. I, the Honourable Emily Jane Mercer, Dowager Marchioness of Lansdowne, Superior of the Burgh of Barony of Stonehaven, do hereby nominate and appoint Andrew Craig and Alexander Gillanders both merchants in Stonehaven, to be Baillies of the said Burgh for the ensuing year in terms of the Charter of the Burgh." The Dowager Marchioness (1819-1895) was born in Edinburgh as Emily Jane de Flahaut to Charles Joseph Comte de Flahaut (a general during the Napoleonic Wars) and his wife Margaret Mercer Elphinstone. The Marchioness' husband Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 4th Marquess of Lansdowne inherited the marquessate in 1863. They had 3 children. The Dowager Marchioness died at Meikleour House in 1895. |