Johnston, Warriston; Archibald

Birth Name Johnston, Warriston; Archibald
Gramps ID I582811768
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Death 1663-07-26 Edinburgh - Beheaded  
 
Burial   Greyfriers Churchyard  
 
Occupation     lawyer & statesman
 
Education     admitted advocate, 1633
 
Religion     Presbyterian
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Johnston, James [I582811775]
Mother Johnston, Elizabeth Craig [I582811776]
         Johnston, Warriston; Archibald [I582811768]

Families

    Family of Johnston, Warriston; Archibald and Johnston, Helen Hay [F533086614]
Unknown Partner Johnston, Helen Hay [I582811774]
  Narrative

CHAN13 Sep 2003

  Children
  1. Johnston, James [I582811767]

Narrative

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Lord
knighted in 1641 by Charles I who was visiting Scotland;

1643 represented county of Edinburgh in Estates of parliament,
appointed speaker to the barons;

1646 became lord advocate, proclaiming Charles II king on Feb.
5, 1649

Mar. 10, 1649 appointed lord-clerk-register

after Battle of Dunbar, in 1650, lived in retirement;

accepted office under Cromwell and in July 1657, reappointed
lord-clerk-register

escaped to France when Cromwell resigned; outlawed on Oct. 10,
1660; condemned to death on May 15, 1661; brought back to be
prisoner in Tower in England, then in Edinburgh

hanged at the Cross without trial, July 22, 1663

Pedigree

  1. Johnston, James [I582811775]
    1. Johnston, Elizabeth Craig [I582811776]
      1. Johnston, Warriston; Archibald
        1. Johnston, Helen Hay [I582811774]
          1. Johnston, James [I582811767]

Ancestors