(1663 - 1721), 1st surv. s. of 1st E. of Annandale [S]; suc. fa. 1672 as 2nd E.; Glasgow U.; m. 1 1682 Sophia Fairholm (d. 1716), 2 1718 Charlotte van Lore (d. 1762); cr. M. of Annandale [S] 1701; KT 1704.
1713 [dep. England spring 1712] Padua (13 Feb. 1713), Venice (17 Feb.), Naples (22 May - 10 Jun.), Rome (Jun.), Genoa, Turin (Aug.) [Marseilles, Sep.]
Lord Annandale reached Venice on 17 February 1713,1 having been in Padua on the 13th.2 On 22 May he arrived in Naples, where he stayed two weeks before going to Rome with Sir James Cunynghame.3 On 3 June William Kent said that 'ye Earl Analdal' was one of the few English then at Rome,4 although John Fleetwood, writing on 20 June, said that Annandale and others had left Naples '10 ds since'. At the end of August he arrived in Turin from Genoa,5 and in September he was at Marseilles on his way to Montpellier.6 It appears that his son James, Lord Johnston was also abroad at this time, but it is not clear whether they went to Italy together.7 Annandale evidently made some purchases in Italy: 'The ship from Leghorn is not yett arrived', his London banker George Middleton told him on 29 September 1713; 'There will be no possibility of saveing the bookes, pictures, &c. from paying duty for no person of Quality will be excepted.'8
1. SP 99/60, f.43 (Cole, 17 Feb. 1713). 2. Brown 1418. 3. SP 93/3 (Fleetwood, 23 May, 20 Jun. 1713). 4. Kent letters MSS. 5. SP 92/27, f.641 (Chetwynd, 28 Aug. 1713). 6. Coutts ledgers, 7:92. 7. Cf. Coutts ledgers, 6:143v., 154, 174; 7:42. 8. Ibid., 7:92.