Alexander died on the 4th of September, 1805, was buried in
the Greyfriars, Edinburgh, and succeeded by his third and eldest
surviving son,
II. COLIN MACKENZIE, second of Portmore, W.S., Edinburgh,
Principal Clerk of Session and Keeper of the Signet, who was
born on the 11th of January, 1770. He was a very popular man,
and one of the oldest friends of Sir Walter Scott, who alludes to
him in his poems. He married on the 13th of May, 1803, Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir William Forbes, sixth Baronet of Pitsligo, by
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Hay of Hayston, Baronet. Sir
William was a banker of great eminence in Edinburgh. He succeeded
Coutts Brothers, the Scotch firm of Coutts & Co., and founded
the bank of Sir William Forbes, Baronet, and Sir William Hunter,
Baronet, & Co., now the National Bank of Scotland. He died on
the 16th of September, 1830, leaving issue -
1. Alexander, who died in infancy.
2. Alexander, who died in 1822, at the age of 17.
3. William Forbes, who succeeded to Portmore.
4. Colin, Bengal Civil Service, who was born in June, 1808, and
died, unmarried, on the 14th of January, 1870.
5. James Hay, W.
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