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General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore (c. 1656 – 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar. 35 relations.
c 1656-1730. Title: 1st Earl of Portmore. Biography: ODNB link for Colyear, David (c 1656-1730) 1st Earl of Portmore, General. Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P127884 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P6271 ) View details of this record creator.
Colyear was the son of David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore and his wife Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, MP, of Aylesford, Kent, and former mistress of James II. His mother was the owner of Portmore House, Weybridge, which became the seat of the Earls of Portmore.
Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, KT (27 August 1700 – 5 July 1785), known as Lord Milsington to 1730, of Portmore House, Weybridge, Surrey, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1726 and 1730, when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Portmore.
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General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore (c. 1656 - 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar.. Life. He was the elder son of Sir Alexander Robertson, of the family of Strowan, Perthshire, who settled in Holland, where he acquired a considerable property, and adopted the name of Colyear.
Earl of Portmore was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for the Scottish military commander David Colyear, 1st Lord Portmore. He had already been created Lord Portmore in 1699 and was made Lord Colyear and Viscount of Milsington at the same time as he was granted the earldom, also in the Peerage of Scotland.
