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The Rattray family were established in the lands of that name near Blairgowrie, Perthshire, by the early thirteenth century. In 1720 Margaret, eldest daughter of Dr Thomas Rattray of Craighall Rattray, married Dr John Clerk, later president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and their grandson James Clerk (1763-1831) assumed the name of Rattray. James Clerk-Rattray became sheriff-depute of Edinburgh and a baron of exchequer, and among his papers there is material relating to measures against sedition during the French Revolutionary War. It was through James Clerk-Rattray that the family acquired the lands of Bonnington and others in and around Edinburgh. |