the king's commissioners ordered him to stop preaching but he did not and was formally put to the horn and declared an outlaw. Civil War During the Civil War the third Lord Cranstoun was captured at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. He was kept prisoner in the Tower of London where he languished, and his estates were sequestrated apart from a small portion that his wife and four children were allowed to keep. 18th and 19th centuries William Cranstoun, the fifth Lord Cranstoun sat in the last Scottish Parliament and supported the Treaty of Union. One of his descendants, George Cranstoun, was an eminent lawyer and judge, who became an advocate and Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1823. He was also a friend of Walter Scott who he had studied with at the University of Edinburgh. James Cranstoun, 8th Lord Cranstoun was a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy who commanded HMS Bellerophon (1786) and was involved in a battle where seven British ships defeated an entire French fleet in June 1795. He died of lead poisoning in 1796 and the peerage became extinct in 1813. 20th Century In 1950 Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Cranstoun of Corehouse was recognised as chief of Clan Cranstoun. He died in 1990. The current chief succeeded his uncle, who died with no issue. The family is still predominantly based in Midlothian. Clan Chiefs Incomplete List Alastair Joseph Edgar Gordon-Cranstoun of that Ilk (b. 11 August 1910, d. 28 February 1990) David Alexander Somerville Cranstoun of that Ilk and Corehouse (b. 19 December 1943) Heir apparent: Alexander John George Cranstoun of that Ilk and Corehouse, younger (b. 1995) Tartan See also Scottish clan Lord Cranstoun References External links Clan Cranstoun at ScotClans http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/cransto2.html Cranstoun Scottish Lowlands