Tour Scotland photograph of the Parish Church and cemetery in Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland. On 23rd October 1612, Sir Thomas Erskine, soon to be the Earl of Kellie, obtained the permission of Parliament in Edinburgh to build a new Church at Dirleton. Thomas Erskine was the eldest surviving son of Sir Alexander Erskine of Gogar and Margaret Home, a daughter of George Home, 4th Lord Home and Mariotta Haliburton. Thomas was a school classmate and lifelong personal friend of James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, and in 1585 was made one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Bedchamber. He was with the king on the occasion of the Gowrie Conspiracy in 1600, when James was supposedly kidnapped by the Ruthven brothers at their house in Perth, Perthshire. He was afterwards awarded a third of the confiscated land of the Ruthvens and given the title Lord Erskine of Dirletoun in 1604. He was made a Privy Councilor in 1601 and accompanied the Duke of Lennox on a diplomatic visit to France.
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