ROBERT KEITH (d. 1774)

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ROBERT KEITH (d. 1774) , descended from a younger son of the 2nd

earl

EARL

marishal, was British minister in Vienna in 1748, and subsequently held other important diplomatic appointments, being known to his numerous friends, among whom were the leading men of letters of his time, as "

Ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

Keith

." His son, Sir Robert Murray

Keith

(1730-1795), was on Lord George Sackville's staff at the battle of Minden. He became colonel of a regiment (the 87th foot) known as Keith's Highlanders, who won distinction in the continental wars, but were disbanded in 1763; he was then employed in the diplomatic service, in which he achieved considerable success by his honesty, courage, and knowledge of languages. In 1781 he became lieutenant-general; in 1789. he was made a privy councillor.
From the Keith family through the female line was descended George Keith

Elphinstone

, Baron Keith of

Stonehaven

STONEHAVEN (locally Stanehive)

, Marishal and afterwards Viscount Keith (q.v.), whose titles became

extinct

EXTINCT

at the death of his daughter Margaret, Baroness Keith, in 1867.
See Calendar of Documents relating to

Scotland

, edited by J.. Bain (4 vols., Edinburgh, 18811888) ; Peter Buchan, An Account of the Ancient and Noble Family of Keith (Edinburgh, 1828) ; Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir Robert Murray Keith, edited by Mrs.

Gillespie

Smyth

(London, 1849); John Spalding, Memorialls of the Trubles in

Scotland

, 76241645 (2 vols., Spalding Club Pub]. 21, 23, Aberdeen, 18501851) ; Sir Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1813) ; G.E.C., Complete Peerage, vol. iv. (London, 1892). (R. J. M.)

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