Henry Francis Hepburne-Scott, 7th Lord Polwarth (1 January 1800 – 16 August 1867) was firstly a Member of the

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for

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, 1826–32, then a

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for Scotland in the

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. He was

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and

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, and a Lord-in-Waiting to

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. His father, Hugh Scott of Harden and Mertoun, had entered the House of Lords following his claim, by right of his mother, for the 1690 Scottish peerage of Lord Polwarth being admitted by them in July 1835. Henry assumed the additional surname of Hepburne in consequence of the estates of the Hepburns of

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having descended to him, through his great-great-grandmother, Helen Hepburn, Countess of Tarras. Harriet Brühl, the mother of the 7th Lord Polwarth, was the daughter of Alicia, Dowager Countess of Egremont, through her second marriage to Count

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.Carpenter, John R. ''Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009'' (DVD format). George Carpenter the 2nd is RIN 11686. The 7th Lord Polwarth married, on 28 December 1841, Georgina (1816–1859), sister of

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and third daughter of George Baillie of

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and Jerviswood by his spouse Mary, youngest daughter of Sir James Pringle, 4th Baronet. They left children.

References

* ''The Peerage of the British Empire'', by Edmund Lodge,

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, 27th edition, London, 1858, pps:276-7, and 447. * ''Burke's Peerage Baronetage and Knightage'', edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970, p. 2145.

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