Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 & 1745 Volume - III

The family of Atholl had attained a degree of power and influence in Scotland which almost raised them out of the character of subjects. It was by consummate prudence not unattended with a certain portion of time-serving that until the period 1715 the high position which these great nobles held had been in seasons of political difficulty preserved. Their political principles were those of indefeasible right and hereditary monarchy. John first Marquis of Atholl the father of Lord George Murray married Amelia Stanley daughter of Charlotte De la Tremouille Countess of Derby whose princely extraction to borrow a phrase of high value in genealogical histories was the least of her merits. This celebrated woman was remarkable for the virtue and piety of her ordinary life; and when the season of trial and adversity called it forth she displayed the heroism which becomes the hour of adversity.