James Dundas, Lord Arniston
| Sir James Dundas, Lord Arniston | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1620 Midlothian, Scotland |
| Died | 1679 (aged 58–59) Arniston, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | St. Andrews University |
| Occupation | politician and jurist |
| Spouse(s) | Marion Boyd (1624-1661) m. 1641 Janet Hepburn ?-1665 |
Sir James Dundas, Lord Arniston (1620–1679) was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as a shire commissioner to the Scottish Parliament.
He was son of Sir James Dundas of Arniston, Midlothian, governor of Berwick under James I, by Marie, daughter of George Home of Wedderburn. He was educated at the University of St. Andrews. In 1639, he signed the national covenant; in 1640 he was appointed an elder of the church, and on 16 November 1641, he was knighted by Charles I.
He represented Edinburgh in parliament in 1648, and was commissioner for war within the sheriffdom of that city between 1643 and 1648, sat on a commission composed partly of lawyers and partly of laymen, to which the liquidation of the insolvent estates of the Earl of Stirling and Lord Alexander was referred in 1644; on a parliamentary committee of eighteen appointed to consider of dangers threatening religion, the covenant, and the monarchy, and how to meet them; on another "close and secret" committee of six empowered to take steps rendered necessary by the presence of garrisons of "malignants and sectaries" in Berwick and Carlisle in March 1648; and on 11 May was appointed one of the "committee of estates" in which supreme power was vested during the adjournment of parliament. The same year he was also a member of a committee for considering of ecclesiastical matters in conference with the commissioners of the kirk, and was added to the "commission for the plantation of the kirks". He signed the solemn league and covenant, apparently with some reluctance, in 1650. From that date his history is a blank until we find him again a member of the commission for the plantation of kirks in 1661, and also one of the commissioners for raising the sum of £40,000 granted to the king in that year.
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