Son of James Hay of Cocklaw. Hay was an advocate who in 1806 was raised to the bench as Lord Newton.

Son of John Hamilton and Margaret Montgomery. Married to Lillias Montgomerie (1743-1827),1 with whom he had several children, including John Hamilton, who succeeded his father as Laird of Sundrum, and Alexander West Hamilton (d. 1837), who inherited the Belleisle estate in Ayr from his uncle Hugh Hamilton of Pinmore (1746-1816).

• 1Lillias Montgomerie was a sister to Hugh Montgomerie of Coilsfield, who succeeded to the title of 12th Earl of Eglinton upon the death of his third cousin, Archibald Montgomerie (d. 1796), the 11th Earl.

Son of Robert Arbuthnot (1694?-1756), 1st Baronet of Haddo-Rattray, and Mary Petrie (1695?-1756). Married (1759) to Mary Urquhart (1745-1818), with whom he had four children,  Robert (1760-1809), Elizabeth (1765-1841)1, George (1772-1843)2 and William (1766-1829).3

Arbuthnot was a merchant in Peterhead, before moving to Edinburgh at some time before 1772, settling as a banker. He was for many years Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of the Manufacturers and Fisheries of Scotland, retaining the position until his death in 1803. He was succeeded in this position by his son William.

He was possessed of a genial and attractive disposition, and he counted among his friends the poet and philosopher James Beattie, as well as Sir Robert Murray Keith, British Ambassador in Vienna.4

• 1Elizabeth married Sir John Hunter, sometime Consular-General of Spain, with whom she had two daughters, Jane and Margaret.
• 2George married Elizabeth Fraser (1792-1834), with whom he had two children, Mary (1812-1859) and George (1815-1895).
• 3William married Anne Alves (d. 1846), with whom he had five children. He became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1800, and he followed his father as Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of the Manufactures and Fisheries of Scotland. He also twice served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1815-1817 and 1821-1823).
• 4For further details about Robert Arbuthnot of Haddo and the Arbuthnot family, see Memories of the Arbuthnots of Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire published in 1920 by Mrs. P. S-M. Arbuthnot.

Robert Ord was a British lawyer and politician, who succeeded to the high office of Chief Baron of the Scottish Exchequer (1755-1775).

Ord was the son of John Ord, attorney and sometime Under-Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his second wife, Anne Hutchinson. He studied Law at Lincoln's Inn, qualifying as an advocate in 1724. 

From 1734 to 1741 he served as Member of Parliament for Mitchell in Cornwall, and from 1741 to 1755 for Morpeth in Northumberland. He was Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1742–43), and Deputy Cofferer of the Household (1743–44) before, in 1755, he was appointed Chief Baron of the Scottish Exchequer, a position he kept until a few years before his death.

Ord married Mary, a daughter of Sir John Darnell, kt., with whom he had at least two children, Elizabeth1 and John (1729-1814)2

• 1Elizabeth Ord married Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield, as his second wife.
• 2John Ord was educated at Hackney and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1750, and afterwards obtained a lay fellowship. In 1762 he married Eleanor Simpson, a daughter of John Simpson, Esq. of Bradley in the County of Durham. In 1777 he became Attorney-General for the Duchy of Lancaster, and in 1778 Master in Chancery. He continued serving in both offices until a few years before his death. He was M.P. successively for Midhurst, Hastings, and Wendover (1774–1790), and was some time Chairman of ways and means in the House of Commons. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and died on June 6, 1814.

Long-time reverend of the English Episcopal Chapel in Edinburgh.

Carr was born in Newcastle and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1726 he was appointed under-usher of the Royal Grammar School in St. Mary's Hospital in Newcastle, before, in 1737, moving to Edinburgh to become Senior Clergyman of the Episcopal Chapel in Edinburgh, a position which he kept until his death in 1776.

Following his death, his sermons were published in numerous editions by Sir William Forbes and others.

Daughter of James Boswell (1740-1795) and Margaret Montgomerie (1738-1789).

Veronica died just four months after her father at the age of just 22.

William Scott was an English judge, jurist and Member of Parliament.

William Scott's father (also named William Scott) was a tradesman working for a coal fitter's business. The young Scott was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School, before going to Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he later (1773-1785) became the   Camden Professor of Ancient History. Around 1780 he graduated as Doctor of Civil Law, and he soon embarked on a distinguished legal career, eventually becoming, in 1798, judge of the High Court of Admiralty. 

He unsuccessfully tried getting elected for parliament for Oxford University in 1780, but had more luck some years later, when in 1784 he was elected M.P. on a so-called double return1 for the constituency of Downton, which was also the reason why Boswell referred to him as "Mr. Scott of University College, Oxford (now Dr. Scott of the Commons) in his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, published in 1785. He was, however, unseated that same year on a petition. 

He did not again seek election until 1790 when he was successfully elected Member of Parliament for Downton. He sat for this constituency until 1801, when he was finally elected for Oxford University as "a single instance of a professional man representing the university".2 

Scott was married twice. In 1781 he married Anna Maria (d. 1809), daughter of John Bagnall of Erleigh Court, with whom he had four children, only one of whom, their daughter Marianne, survived her father. In 1813 he married Louisa-Catherine, the widow of John, the late Marquess of Sligo.

William Scott's younger brother, John (1751-1838) also became a politician, who rose to serve as Lord Chancellor of Britain for almost three decades (1801-1806, 1807-1827)

• 1A double return could formerly occur when two candidates obtained equal votes and the returning officer either did not have a vote or declined to use it, in which case two names were returned instead of one. However, since the 1949 Representation of the People Act, an equality of votes requires a choice to be made by lot, so a double return can no longer occur. Cf. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmproced/855/3070202.htm 
• 2Cf. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/scott-sir-william-1745-1836

James Beattie was a Scottish poet and philosopher, best known for his Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770) and his poem The Minstrel (1771). Married (1767) to Mary Dunn, with whom he had two sons, James Hay (d. 1790) and Montagu (d. 1796).

Beattie was born in 1735, the son of a shopkeeper and small farmer. He was educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, where he formed a lifelong friendship with abolitionist James Ramsay. In 1757 he was appointed master at Aberdeen Grammar School, and just a few years later in 1760, at the young age of 24, he became Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at his alma mater Marischal College, supposedly due to the influence of his friend Robert Arbuthnot of Haddo.

In 1770 he wrote the Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, as an answer to the theories of David Hume. This gained him instant fame and led to an introduction to King George III, a government pension of £200 and the degree of LL.D. from Oxford. In 1771 and 1774 respectively was published the two volumes of his poem The Minstrel, which even won him the praise of Dr Johnson himself. Beattie had met the poet Thomas Gray some years earlier, during the latter's journey into Scotland, and Johnson wrote in his Lives of the Poets (1779-1781), that "[Gray] naturally contracted a friendship with Dr. Beattie, whom he found a poet, a philosopher, and a good man."

In 1783 Beattie was co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In contrast to his professional career, his personal life was marred with some degree of tragedy. In 1767 he married Mary Dunn, a daughter of the Rector of the Aberdeen Grammar School, and she bore him two sons. Mary, however, suffered from some unidentified mental disease and was eventually committed to Musselburgh Asylum. As if that wasn't bad enough, his two promising sons died in 1790 and 1796 respectively, at the ages of 22 and 18.

Following Beattie's death in 1803, An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D., including many of his Original Letters was written by his friend, the eminent banker and literary executor of James Boswell, Sir William Forbes. It was published in 1806.

At the time of her death, Danziger was Emeritus Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. 

Green was the daughter of a Capt. Green, who was killed at the Battle of Minden in 1759. Her brother was Charles Green (1749-1831), who rose to become a General, a Baronet and Governor of Suriname.

In 1783 she married Thomas David Boswell, with whom she had four children, two of whom, Maria (1788-1811) and Thomas Alexander, survived infancy. She appears to have separated from her husband in 1799 and details of her life after this time are sketchy.1

• 1Main source for this bio is John Stone's article Being Boswell's Brother by John Stone, printed in The Age of Johnson 23 (2015): 205-238.