Robert Lauder of Popill

Sir Robert Lauder of Popill (died April 1575) was a Scottish landowner and an adherent of Mary, Queen of Scots. Family He was eldest son and heir of Robert Lauder of the Bass and Margaret Sinclair. He is first mentioned in a feu renewal made by Andrew Forman, Archbishop of St Andrews, to his grandfather, Sir Robert Lauder of Bass, of the barony and lands of Tyninghame on 28 July 1517, when his name appears in the list of heirs and successors. He must have been an infant. In the North Berwick Protocol Books (NAS-B56/1/1) Robert Lauder younger of The Bass, son and apparent heir to Robert Lauder, of The Bass, subscribed an obligation to William Lauder his eldest brother natural that he shall be seised in the lands of Little Spott, in East Lothian, dated 29 April 1553. A legal instrument dealing with the redemption of property, dated 9 May 1573, refers to him as the "heir of Mr. John Sinclair, Dean of Restalrig". When John Sinclair, now Bishop of Brechin, died in April 1566 Robert Lauder of Poppill inherited his estates.