(1727 - 90), 2nd s. of George Lockhart (1700 - 61) of Carnwath; B. of the Roman Empire, Kt. of the Order of Maria Theresa, chamberlain and maj.-gen. in the Imperial service; m. 1 [or 2] Mathilda (c.1744 - 69), 3 1785 Annabella Crawford; d. Pisa.
1768 - 70 Venice ( - 20 Dec. 1768), Florence (22 Apr. - after 23 Aug. 1769), Pisa, Rome (Dec. 1769), Naples (Jan. 1770)
1785 - 90 Pisa (Feb. 1785 - Mar. 1786; d. 1790)
James Lockhart was first in Italy in 1768, when he came to Venice with his young wife in December.1 They were in Florence in April,2 but his wife, 'poor Madie Lockhart', died there on 23 August.3 'Capt. Lockhart' arrived in Rome in December 1769,4 and 'Mr & Mrs [Miss?] Lockhart of Carnwath' were in Naples in January 1770, described as having come from Pisa, Lockhart 'now a General, a very frank goodlike sort of man'.5
General Lockhart was again in Italy from 1785. In February 1785 he was staying in Pisa with his daughter Marianna (who m. Anthony Aufrere in Pisa in 1791), part of a sober company with the Minnifies and Mallocks who 'never Play and give coffee and ice'.6 By December Lockhart had married (for the third time) in Pisa Annabella Crawford; by March 1786 he had departed for Sardinia and his wife and daughter had gone to Rome,7 but he returned to Pisa where he died in 1790. James Lockhart, the youngest son of this third marriage, was buried in Leghorn.8
1. ASV is 759. 2. Gazz.Tosc. 3. Leghorn Inscr., 47. Forbes MSS (Mrs Forbes, 13 Sep. 1769). 4. Forbes MSS (Mrs Forbes, 25 Dec. 1769). 5. E.M. Graham, Oliphants of Gask, 287 (Mrs M. Oliphant, 4 Feb. 1770). 6. Riviere 1964, 355. 7. Jnls.& Corr.of Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, 1:462, 464. Quin jnl.MSS ('Miss Lockhart'). 8. Leghorn Inscr., 79.