Clan Seton

George Seton, 7th Lord Seton (1531 - 1586)

George Seton held a number of posts during his lifetime, including Provost of Edinburgh, Master of the Household of Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as being a Lord in the Scottish Parliament.
He served as Provost in Edinburgh in 1557, but didn't always manage to make it to meetings, so on some ocassions he sent his carpenter, Robert Fendour, as his representitive. The following year, in the February of 1558, Seton was one of eight commissioners sent to France to help negotiate with the French king Henry II a marriage between Mary, Queen of Scots and his son, the Dauphin, in which they succeeded.
After the murder of David Rizzio, Seton helped Mary, Queen of Scots escape and take refuge at Dunbar Castle, and again from her imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle.
George Seton was sent to France to act as ambassador to Scotland in December 1583. He remained in France until at least July 1585 before returning to Scotland for good. He took ill over the following months, and died in the February of 1586.

A famous portrait of him hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. His wife, Mary, was commemorated in song as one of the Queen’s “Four Marys”.


George Seton, 7th Lord Seton

Lord Pitmedden (1639-1719)

A famous Scottish judge and member of the Seton family with a taste for the macabre. He contributed a “Treatise of Mutilation and Demembration and Their Punishments” to the 1699 edition of “Laws and Customs”.