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 370 BUCCLEUCH 25 June 1743, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., d. 21 Nov. 1827, at Richmond, Surrey, and was bur. at Warkton, Northants. Will pr. Jan. 1828. [George Scott, styled Earl of Dalkeith, b. 25 Mar. 1768. He d. an infant, v.t).^ 29 May following, from small-pox, after inoculation, and was bur. in South Audley Str. Chapel, Mayfair, Midx.] DUKEDOM IV. [S.] EARLDOM VII. BARONY [S.] VIII. [S.] 4, 7, and 8. Charles William Henry 1x812. (Montagu Scott), Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Queensberry, (^c. [S.], also Earl of Doncaster, ^c. [E.], 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h., b. 24 May 1772, in London; ed. at Eton, and at Christ's Coll. Cambridge. Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford 23 June 1793 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Selkirk 1794-98; of co. Dumfries from 1798, and of CO. Midlothian from 18 12 till his death. M.P. (Tory) for Marlborough, 1793-96; for Ludgershali, 1796-1804; for St. Michael's, 1805-06; and for Marlborough (again), 1806-07. Grand Master of Free- masons [S.] 1800-02. On II Apr. 1807 he was sum. v.p. to the House of Lords in his father's Barony as LORD TYNEDALE.C) K.T. 22 May 1812. Capt. Gen. of the Royal Company of Archers [S.] from 18 12, and Pres. of the Highland and Agric. Soc. from 1815 till his death. He w., 24 Mar. 1795, in Lord Sydney's house, Grosvenor Sq., his cousin, Harriet Catharine,('') yst. da. of Thomas (Townshend), ist Viscount Sydney of St. Leonards, by Elizabeth, rst da. and coh. of Richard Powys, of Hintlesham, Suffolk. She was i^. 29 Nov. 1773, and (S'. 24 Aug. 18 14, at Dalkeith House, of putrid sore throat. He d. 20 Apr. 18 19, at Lisbon, of consumption, in his 47th year.('') Will pr. 18 June 1819. Both were bur. at Warkton afsd. [George Henry Scott, usually spoken of as Lord Whitchester, or LordScottofWhitchester, being s.and h. ap. of Charles William Montagu Scott, at that time (by courtesy) styled Earl of Dalkeith, by Harriet Catharine, his wife abovenamed, was b. at Dalkeith House 2 Jan. 1798, ed. at Eton, but d. v.p., 11 Mar. 1808, of measles, in his nth year, at Dal- keith House, and was bur. at Warkton afsd.] (") For a list of such summonses see vol. i, Appendix Q. C") Her maternal grandmother was Lady Mary Brudenell, sister of George, Earl of Cardigan and Duke of Montagu, the Duke of Buccleuch's grandfather. Sir Walter Scott, in his Journal (25 Aug. 1825), says of her that she " had as much of the angel as is permitted to walk this earth." if) He was a friend of Sir Walter Scott, who dedicated to him The Lay of the last Minstrel. In politics he, like his father, was a firm supporter of Pitt. A very long and flattering obituary notice of him is given in Gent. Mag., vol. Ixxxix, part i, p. 579. V.G.