Family
The house of the Grange lands was Halyards Palace in Fife. William's father, James Kirkcaldy of Grange (d. 1556), was lord high treasurer of Scotland from 1537 to 1543 and was a determined opponent of Cardinal Beaton, for whose murder in 1546 William and James were partly responsible
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