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Elliock, an estate, with a mansion, in Sanquhar parish, NW Dumfriesshire, on the left bank of Elliock Burn, 3 miles SE of Sanquhar. It belonged to Robert Crichton, lord advocate of Scotland in the reigns of Queen Mary and James VI., and father of James Crichton (1560-83), best known as `the Admirable Crichton.' The room in which the latter was born is kept in nearly its original condition. (See Clunie, Perthshire.) By the lord advocate the estate was sold to the Dalzells, afterwards Earls of Carnwath, and from them it went to the Veitches, its present owner, the Rev. William Douglas Veitch (b. 1801; suc. 1873), holding 5163 acres in the shire, valued at £1693 per annum. Elliock Burn, rising on Wether Hill, at the Penpont border, runs 3 miles north-north-eastward to the Nith, and descends in this short course from 1400 to 400 feet above sea-level.—Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864. See Patrick Fraser Tytler's Life of the Admirable Crichton (1819; 2d ed. 1823).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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