| His male line ended in Sir Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunottar, Knight Marischal of Scotland. On 9 March 1801, having laid his titles for proving his claim before the Lyon King of Arms, Sir Alexander obtained a patent for bearing the arms of the chief of the family of Marischal. In 1818 he claimed the Marischal's office on the ground that it had not fallen by the attainder in 1716, inasmuch as it had not been included in the Act, either through mistake or by confusion with the title, or because it had fallen into temporary desuetude since the Union. He was made Knight Marischal of Scotland on the occasion of George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822. He got Corstorphine Hill from his father, who had bought it, and he owned landed property in the counties of Roxburgh and Peebles. He left issue an only child, Helen Margaret Oliphant, married, on 28 November 1833, to Sir William Murray, Bart., of Ochtertyre, who prefixed the surname of Keith to his own after his marriage.3 |