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General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore KT PC (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.
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Colyear became governor of Gibralter in 1713 and colonel of the Royal Scots Dragoons the following year. He married Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester See J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands,1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), pp.507, 509, 516, 567; Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage (8 vols., 1904-1911), VII, pp.91-92.
Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore was born on 27 August 1700. He was the son of David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester. He married Juliana Hele, daughter of Roger Hele, on 7 October 1732. He died on 5 July 1785 at age 84. Sources . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant ...
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