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DeutschShipley Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan
Shipley Gordon Stuart Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan, JP, DL (27 February 1850 – 16 April 1934), styled Lord Cardross from 1857 until 1898, was a Scottish nobleman, landowner and horseman.
Biography
[edit]He was the eldest son of David Stuart Erskine, 13th Earl of Buchan and his wife Agnes Graham Smith, daughter of Smith of Craigend, Stirlingshire.[1][2] He was presumably named after his great-grandfather, Major-General Sir Charles Shipley. He was educated at Harrow.[3]
Buchan held the office of Justice of the peace and Deputy lieutenant for both Cambridgeshire and Linlithgowshire.[4] He succeeded as the 14th Earl of Buchan, in the Peerage of Scotland, in 1898.[4]
Buchan was Conservative in politics but spent most of his life involved in equestrian and leisurely pursuits. In 1911 he acquired 4,000 acres of farmland in Nyeri, Kenya.[5]
Lord Cardross was a member and supporter of the antisemitic group "The Britons", donating £30 in 1922.[6]
Buchan died on 16 April 1934 at his residence in Chelsea, London.
The family seat was Almondell House, near Broxburn, Linlithgowshire.[7] He owned a mere 3,000 acres in Linlithgow and Midlothian.[8]
Family
[edit]On 9 November 1876, Buchan married Rosalie Louise Sartoris (1859-1943), daughter of Capt. Jules-Alexandre Sartoris, a scion of the Swiss Sartoris family. They had four children:[4]
- Ronald Douglas Stuart Mar Erskine, 15th Earl of Buchan (1878–1960), died unmarried[1]
- Lady Muriel Agnes Stuart Erskine (1879–1967), married Hon. Charles Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby[1]
- Lady Marjorie Gladys Stuart Erskine (1880–1910), died unmarried at Aviemore after having been missing for several weeks[9]
- Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine (1883–1939), married Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne,[1] who was assassinated in 1944[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage (repr. 2003). Vol. 1. p. 567.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Edinburgh: Jack.
- ^ Cokayne, G.E. (1889). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. G. Bell & sons. p. 58.
- ^ a b c Lodge, Edmund (1907). "Buchan". The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 356.
- ^ "Europeans In East Africa - View entry". www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ Toczek, Nick (2015). Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right. Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-317-52588-2.
- ^ "Almondell House | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
- ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
- ^ "LADY MARJORIE ERSKINE'S DEATH". Evening News. 31 August 1910. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "LORD MOYNE ASSASSINATED". Daily Mercury. 8 November 1944. Retrieved 25 June 2024.