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William Forbes, the fifth in succession from Sir John, the first laird of Tolquhon of thatname, married the daughter of Leith of Barns, and secondly, on her death, the daughter of theEarl of Errol.
Sir Alexander, the tenth in succession, married Bathia Murray, of Blackharony, but diedwithout issue in the year 1702.
William Forbes, the eleventh in succession, married Anne, the heiress of John Leith ofWhitehaugh, and by her had two sons and a daughter. His predecessor, in the latter years ofhis life, had been subjected to the control of designing people, and being then in a state ofdotage, he, under their guidance, so burdened the estate, that a sale became necessary ; at allevents, the same parties that had brought on this state of affairs, procured its sale, which tookplace by order of the Court of Session, in 1716, the purchaser being Lieutenant-Colonel FrancisFarquhar, from whom it passed to William, Earl of Aberdeen. William Forbes was so dis-satisfied with the transaction, and with the decision that had placed his paternal estates inother hands, that he refused to quit the house until attacked by a detachment of troops, inJanuary 1718, when he was wounded, and made prisoner. He subsequently went abroad, butreturned in 1728, and, dying the same year, was, on the tenth of April, buried in West minster Abbey .
His son, William, studied at Oxford, and became successively Curate of Binsay, nearOxford, and Vicar of Thornbury, in Gloucestershire , at which latter place he died, in Sep-tember, 1761, without issue.
John Forbes Leith became, by his brother’s death, the representative of the family ofTolquhon. He married in 1743-4, Jean Morrison, eldest daughter of the Laird of Bognie, bywhom he had three sons, William Forbes Leith, the eldest, was born in 1748, and diedunmarried in 1806. He was succeeded by his brother Theodore, who studied medicine, andsettled at Greenwich as a Physician. Upon his brother’s death, he became resident atWhitehaugh, where he died, in August 1819, from the consequences of an accident.
His elder brother having died young, James John Forbes Leith, succeeded his father.He had early in life gone to India as an officer in the service of the East India Company , andretired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married on the twenty-eighth November,1827, Williamina, only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Stewart, of the forty-secondRoyal Highlanders. Dying in 1841, Colonel Forbes Leith was succeeded by his eldest son,James, now the representative of the family of Tolquhon.
The Castle, with the adjoining estates, are now the property of the Earl of Aberdeen.