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Francis Scott (other)
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Francis Scott may refer to: * Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch (1626–1651), Scottish nobleman * Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch (1694–1751), Scottish nobleman * Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (1721–1750), Scottish nobleman * F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, constitutional expert and intellectual * Francis Scott (British politician) (1806–1884), British politician * Francis George Scott (1880–1958), Scottish composer * Francis Cunningham Scott (1834–1902), British Army officer * Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet (1824–1863), English landowner See also * Frank Scott (other) Frank Scott may refer to: * Frank Scott (footballer) (1876–1937), English professional footballer * Frank Scott (musician) (1921–1995), American musician and arranger * Frank Scott (poet and legal scholar) (1899–1985), Canadian poet, intellec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl Of Buccleuch
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch (21 December 1626 – 22 November 1651) was a Scottish peer. He was the son of Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch and his wife, Lady Mary Hay, daughter of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll. Upon the death of his father in 1633, Scott succeeded to the earldom of Buccleuch. On 25 July 1646, he married Lady Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes. They had four children: * Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch (1647–1661) *Walter Scott, Baron Scott of Buccleuch (1648, died in infancy) *Lady Margaret Scott (1650-1652) * Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch (1651–1732) References 1626 births 1651 deaths Earls of Buccleuch Francis Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome * Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Francis (surname) Places *Rural ... Members of the Parliament of Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Scott, 2nd Duke Of Buccleuch
Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch, KT, FRS (11 January 1695 – 22 April 1751) was a Scottish nobleman. Family background Buccleuch was the son of Sir James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch) and Lady Henrietta Hyde, daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. Through his father, Charles II of England was his great-grandfather. Scott was baptised on 20 January 1695 in St. James's Church, Westminster. Following the death of his father in 1705, he was styled the Earl of Dalkeith, until he succeeded to the dukedom of Buccleuch, 6February 1732, on the death of his grandmother, who was Duchess of Buccleuch in her own right. At the same time, other titles in the Scottish peerage came his way: Earl of Dalkeith and Baron Scott of Whitchester and Eskdale. His grandfather, the Duke of Monmouth, was the illegitimate son of Charles II who raised a rebellion upon James II and VII's accession to the English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Scott, Earl Of Dalkeith
Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (19 February 1721 – 1 April 1750) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the eldest child of Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch by his first wife Jane, daughter of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry. In 1732 his father succeeded as second Duke of Buccleuch and Francis assumed the courtesy title Earl of Dalkeith. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was awarded the degree of Master of Arts on 26 January 1741. On 2 October 1742 he was married to Lady Caroline Campbell (born 17 November 1717), eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and 1st Duke of Greenwich. They had four sons and two daughters: * Caroline Scott (1 October 1743 – 10 December 1753) * John Scott, styled Lord Scott of Whitchester (3 January 1745 – January 1749)Buried at St James, Westminster, on 22 January 1748/9. Source: ''The Register of Marriages (and Burials) belonging to St James's Westminster. 1723-1754''. 22 January 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Scott (British Politician)
Francis Scott (31 January 1806, Mertoun, Berwickshire – 9 March 1884, Send Hurst near Guildford) was a British politician. Scott was the youngest son of Hugh Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he read for the bar at the Middle Temple. In 1835 he married the daughter of the Rev. Charles Boultbee. He was MP for Roxburghshire Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ... from 1841 to 1847, and for Berwickshire from 1847 to 1859. Between 1844 and 1851, Scott acted as the Parliamentary Agent for the New South Wales, representing the interests of the New South Wales Legislative Council in the House of Commons. From 1866 to 1876 he was master of the Surrey Union hounds, and actively promoted the Hunt Servants' Benefit Society.''British sports and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis George Scott
Francis George Scott (25 January 1880 – 6 November 1958) was a Scottish composer often associated with the Scottish Renaissance. Born at 6 Oliver Crescent, Hawick, Roxburghshire, he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts. Educated at Hawick, and at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, he studied composition under Jean Roger-Ducasse in Paris. From 1904 to 1913 he was a teacher at Langholm Academy, where he taught the young Christopher Murray Grieve. In 1925, he became lecturer in music at Jordanhill Training College for Teachers, Glasgow, a post he held for more than twenty-five years. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1957. Scott's approach to composition was informed by an intense love of Scottish literature, which won him the Saintsbury essay prize at the University of Edinburgh. Bruce, George (1980), ''F.G. Scott 1880 - 1958'', in ''Cencrastus'' No. 4, Winter 1980-81, pp. 27 & 28, He wrote more than three hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Cunningham Scott
Major-General Sir Francis Cunningham Scott, (1834 – 26 June 1902) was a British Army officer who commanded in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War in 1895–1896. Biography Scott was born in India in 1834, the son of Carteret George Scott, of Malleny House and Garden, Midlothian, by his wife Emily Coffin, daughter of Admiral Francis Holmes Coffin and sister of Isaac Coffin. He obtained a commission with the 42nd Highlanders in 1852 and was commissioned a lieutenant on 18 August 1854. He served with this regiment in the Crimean War (1854-1856), where he took part in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), including the battles of Alma (20 September 1854) and Balaclava (25 October 1854). Promoted to captain on 6 September 1855, he followed the regiment to India 1856–68, where he took part in the Relief of Lucknow in 1857. He was promoted to major on 26 March 1868. Seven years later, he took part in the First Ashanti Expedition in 1874, for which he was mentioned in despatches, appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet
Sir Francis Edward Scott, 3rd Baronet (25 February 1824 – 21 November 1863) was an English landowner. On birth he succeeded his maternal grandfather Sir Hugh Bateman to the Baronetcy (but not the estates) of Bateman of Hartington, Derbyshire to become 2nd Baronet of Hartington. He was the son of Sir Edward Scott, 2nd Baronet of Great Barr Hall, then Staffordshire who had married Catherine Juliana Bateman. In 1851 he succeeded his father to also become 3rd Baronet Scott of Great Barr. He was commissioned as Captain of the Walsall Troop of the Staffordshire Yeomanry on 7 August 1847 and remained with the regiment until about 1854. He was one of the original officers of the 1st Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps raised at Handsworth on 15 August 1859 during a French invasion scare. He married Mildred Anne Cradock-Hartopp of Four Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield, (See Cradock-Hartopp baronets), by whom he had the following children:Burke's 1953. * Sir Edward William Dolman S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
