John, 7th Duke of Buccleuch and 9th Duke of Queensberry
 John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch and 9th Duke of
Queensberry KT GCVO (30 March 1864 – 19 October 1935) was a Scottish
Member of Parliament (MP) and peer.
Buccleuch was born in
1864 in Montagu House, London, the son of William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Louisa Hamilton,
the daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn . He was the second of eight
children. His elder brother, Walter Henry, Earl of Dalkeith, was
accidentally killed in a deer-stalking accident in Achnacary Forest,
at the age of 25. Walter was unmarried, and the title of Earl of
Dalkeith passed to John. He is a descendant of Charles II.
From 1883 to 1886 he served as a lieutenant in tho Royal Navy. He
formerly hold the rank of captain in the Mounted Roxburgh Rifle
Volunteers, and he was (1915) an Ensign in the Royal Company of
Archers.
He is a Deputy-Lieutenant of the Counties of
Edinburgh, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Dumfries. As the Earl of Dalkeith
he sat for Boxburgshire as a Conservative in the House of Commons
for eleven years, from 1895 to 1906.
He was seven years
chairman of the North British Railway Company, a position from which
he retired in 1912 in order to devote more time to the management
of the family estates, though betwen 1926 and 1935, he was Lord
Clerk Register for Scotland.
He was married in 1S93 to Ladv
Margaret Alice Bridgeman, second daughter of the Earl of Bradford.
The Duke of Buccleuch is the only member of the peerage who
holds two dukedoms; he is the seventh Duke of Buccluech and the
ninth Duke of Queensbcrry. He is also Marquis of Dumfriesshire, Earl
of Drumlanrig, Buccleuch, Sanqahar, and of Dalkeith, Viscount Nith,
Torthowald and Ross; Baron Douglas of Kidmont, Middlebie, and
Dornock. Baron Scott of Buccleuch, Whitchester, and Eskdale in
Scotland; Earl of Doncaster, Yorkshire; and Baron Scott of Tyndale,
Northumberland.
Buccleuch died from cancer at Bowhill, Selkirkshire, Borders,
Scotland, on 19 October 1935, aged 71, less than a month before his
daughter Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott was to wed HRH
The Prince Henry, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. The
marriage was to take place at Westminster Abbey, but given the
circumstances, the event was scaled back and the venue changed to
The Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace.
Buccleuch was buried
on 22 October 1935 in the family crypt of the Buccleuch Memorial
Chapel in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Dalkeith, Midlothian. The
church is located on Dalkeith's High Street, at the entrance to
Dalkeith Country Park. He was succeeded by his son, Walter.
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