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Second, and were present at the battle of Worcester. John was killed in the command of atroop of horse, and Andrew fled to Sweden , where he obtained advancement under GeneralCount Henry Horn.
In the year 1708, John Horn, an Advocate at the Scottish Bar, married the daughter ofJohn Leslie of Pitcaple, and ornamented the place of Westhall by extensive plantations offorest trees and firs ; be also made out drives and walks through the grounds, some of whichascended an eminence to the westward of the house, on the summit of which he erected asummer-house, and a broad avenue of stately trees led to what he named Parnassus.
By a deed of entail, executed 24th July, 1733, John Horn settled the estates of Hornand Westhall, upon his own family and his collateral heirs; and, by a contract, dated 20thNovember, 1742, he farther explained and confirmed the same, by which act he left theseestates to his grandson, Hugh, and Anne Inglis, his wife, and their heirs male, whom failing,successively to Robert, David, and Campbell Dalrymple, his second, third, and fourth grand-sons, and, in failure of the male line, to the eldest heir female of these grandsons. John Hornmarried Anne, the daughter of Viscount Arbuthnott, by whom he had an only daughter,married to Hugh Dalrymple of Drummore. General Robert Horn Dalrymple, Colonel of the53d regiment, was the third son of this marriage, but succeeded to the estates, and marriedMary Elphinstone of Logie, with whom that estate came into the family. By this alliance hehad two sons and six daughters; James, his eldest son, succeeded him, and having marriedMargaret Davidson of Midmar, died without heirs, in the year 1798. Of the daughters, Jane,the eldest, married Alexander Davidson of Newton; Mary became Lady Gordon of Park;Marion married James Mansfield of Midmar ; Margaret married Sir Robert Burnett of Leys;Eleanora became Mrs. Wemyss of Cuttlehill; and Elizabeth, the youngest, Mrs. Leith ofOverhall.
On the death of his elder brother; Robert, an officer of the 3rd Guards, succeeded to thefamily estates, and married in 1800, the daughter of Colonel Rickart Hepburn, by whom hehad a large family. In the year 1828, Mr. Horn Elphinstone was created a Baronet, and hedied on the 11th of October, 1848. He was succeeded by his third, but eldest surviving son,James, now Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, who married Mary, the daughter of SirJohn Heron Maxwell of Springkell.