Sir Mark John MacTaggart-Stewart, 1st Baronet (12 October 1834 – 26 September 1923), known as Mark John Stewart until 1880, was a Scottish

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Member of Parliament in the

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. He represented Wigtown Burghs from 1874 to 1880 and again for a few months later in 1880 and also sat for

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between 1885 and 1906 and briefly in 1910. He married in 1866 Marianne Susanna Ommanney, daughter and heiress of John Orde Ommanney (d.1846), who was a son of Sir Francis Molyneux Ommanney. Her mother Susanna MacTaggart was a daughter of

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, and through her they inherited an estate at

Ardwell Ardwell (from Gaelic ''Àrd Bhaile'' meaning "high town", pronounced as "Ardwell") is a village in the Scottish unitary council area of Dumfries and Galloway. It lies on the shores of Luce Bay in the southern part of the Rhins of Galloway. The A ...

. In 1905 he assumed the additional surname of MacTaggart as he and his wife took possession of the Ardwell estate of her grandfather.Anon. (28 September 1923)
"A Notable Scottish Laird. : Sir Mark Mactaggart-Stewart"
''The Times''. p. 12. Retrieved 31 March 2022. He was an officer in the 1st Ayrshire and Galloway Artillery Volunteers and was appointed their Honorary Colonel on 22 December 1888. On 7 October 1892, he was made a Baronet, of Southwick in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Blairderry in the County of Wigtown. MacTaggart-Stewart died in September 1923, aged 88. He was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his only surviving son, Sir Edward Orde MacTaggart-Stewart, 2nd Baronet. Sir Mark and Lady MacTaggart-Stewart had five daughters and one son:Hesilrige Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1923 *Janet Gertrude MacTaggart-Stewart (b.1871), married in 1899 Robert George Seton (b.1860), a descendant of the Barons Brownlow, and left children. *Sarah Blanche MacTaggart-Stewart (b.1872). *Frances Emily MacTaggart-Stewart (1873–1949), married in April 1903 Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis (1872–1943), who succeeded in 1938 as

Marquess of Ailsa Marquess of Ailsa, of the Isle of Ailsa in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 September 1831 for Archibald Kennedy, 12th Earl of Cassillis. The title Earl of Cassillis (pronounced "Cass-ell ...

. They left no children. *Susanna Mary MacTaggart-Stewart (1878–1961), married first in 1901 Archibald Patrick Thomas Borthwick, 20th Lord Borthwick (1867–1910), and secondly in 1916 Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton, leaving daughters by both husbands. *Margaret Anna MacTaggart-Stewart (1880–1962), married in 1906 (div. 1919) Sir David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (1879–1932), and had children. *Edward Orde MacTaggart-Stewart (1883–1948), who succeeded as 2nd and last Baronet, leaving two daughters by his wife married in 1917 Hon. Margaret Selina Flora Maud Clifton-Hastings-Campbell (1895–1975), daughter of the 3rd

Baron Donington Baron Donington, of Donington Park in the County of Leicester, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 May 1880 for Charles Frederick Abney-Hastings. Born Charles Frederick Clifton, he was the widower of Edith Mary ...

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *

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