Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and Glenaffric, (29 December 1820 – 4 March 1894), was a Scottish businessman and a

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politician who sat in the

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from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedmouth. He was the breeder of the first

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Life

Marjoribanks was the son of Edward Marjoribanks of Greenlands who was a senior partner in

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. He was unable to acquire the partnership in the Bank (it passed to his elder brother Edward) but he inherited a substantial fortune from his father, a partner in Coutts & Co Bank from 1796 until his death on 17 September 1868, aged 92. As to his parentage there was some controversy. Although the Lyon Office of Scotland registered his family pedigree, he was accused of being a charlatan. The disproofs were offered as a statement of contradiction concerning his descent. Burnett of the Lyon's Herald wrote an article in ''The Genealogist'' upholding the Lyon Office's original assertion of genuine authenticity. Dudley Coutts, as his banking second name implies, acquired considerable family wealth of his own after the purchase of

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. He grew rich as a partner of Meux & Co's brewery, and later a director of the East India Company. With some of this wealth he built the mansion of Brook House in London's fashionable

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. In 1854 he began leasing the highland deer forest of

Guisachan Glen Affric ( gd, Gleann Afraig) is a glen south-west of the village of Cannich in the Highland region of Scotland, some west of Loch Ness. The River Affric runs along its length, passing through Loch Affric and Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin. A minor ...

Glen Affric Glen Affric ( gd, Gleann Afraig) is a glen south-west of the village of Cannich in the Highland region of Scotland, some west of Loch Ness. The River Affric runs along its length, passing through Loch Affric and Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin. A mi ...

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, buying Guisachan outright in 1856. He also leased substantial estates of Hutton and Eddington near his family roots in Berwickshire. Marjoribanks had large kennels at Guisachan and was largely responsible for developing the then new breed of dog, known now as the

Family

He married Isabella Hogg, daughter of Sir James Hogg, Bt, in 1848. Their children were:Pine, Leslie Gilbert, ''The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms''. London: Heraldry Today, 1972, *

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth, (8 July 1849 – 15 September 1909), was a moderate British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lor ...

(married Lady Fanny Octavia Louise Spencer-Churchill in 1873) *

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(married

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, (25 July 1842 – 28 November 1904), known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet, from 1877 to 1900, was a British Conservative statesman. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1895 to 1900. Bac ...

in 1873) * Stewart (died aged 11) * Annie Grizel (died aged 1) * Ishbel (married John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1877) *

Coutts Marjoribanks Coutts & Co. is a London-headquartered private bank and wealth manager. Founded in 1692, it is the eighth oldest bank in the world. Today, Coutts forms part of NatWest Group's wealth management division. In the Channel Islands and the Isle of ...

(married Agnes Margaret Kinloch in 1895) *

Archibald John Marjoribanks Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and ''bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop of ...

(married Elizabeth Trimble Brown of Tennessee in 1897; operated the Rocking Chair Ranche, and died in 1900) Marjoribanks was descended from James Marjoribanks, a younger son of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head of the lowland

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, both of whom lived in the 16th century in Edinburgh.Marjoribanks, Roger. "Marjoribanks of Lees"
The Marjoribanks Journal Number 3
p. 14, June 1995. Accessed on 22 May 2010Marjoribanks, Roger

''The Scottish Genealogist'', December 2010, Accessed 4 April 2012

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