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In 1706 Queen Anne created Scott Earl of Deloraine. He was elected to the last Scottish Parliament that year and voted in favour of the Acts of Union. In 1725 he was vested with the
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Major-General
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Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine KB (1676 – 25 December 1730) was a Scottish peer and army officer.
Life
Scott was the second surviving son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (theillegitimate
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, ''illegitimacy'', also known as '' ...
son of King Charles II by his mistress Lucy Walter
Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658), also known as Lucy Barlow, was a Welsh noblewoman, the first mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James, Duke of Monmouth. During the Exclusion Crisis, a Protestant faction wanted to make her son h ...
) by his wife Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch
Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch (11 February 1651 – 6 February 1732) was a wealthy Scottish peeress. After her father died when she was a few months old, and her sisters by the time she was 10, she inherited the family's titles. She was ma ...
, daughter of 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 hi ...
. In 1693, he married Anne Duncombe (d. 1720), a daughter of William Duncombe of Batthesden, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
The Court of King's Bench (or Court of Queen's Bench during the reign of a Queen) was one of the senior courts of common law in Ireland. It was a mirror of the Court of King's Bench in England. The Lord Chief Justice was the most senior judge ...
. They had three surviving children:
*Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Deloraine (1710–39)
*Henry Scott, 3rd Earl of Deloraine (1712–40)
*Lady Anne Scott (c.1720–?), died unmarried.
In 1706 Queen Anne created Scott Earl of Deloraine. He was elected to the last Scottish Parliament that year and voted in favour of the Acts of Union. In 1725 he was vested with the Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I of Great Britain, George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved Bathing#Medieval ...
. In 1727 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
In 1726, Deloraine married Mary Howard, Countess of Deloraine, the granddaughter of Col. Philip Howard, and they had two daughters:
*Lady Georgiana Caroline (1727–1809), married James Peachey, 1st Baron Selsey
James Peachey, 1st Baron Selsey (8 March 1723 – 1 February 1808), known as Sir James Peachey, Bt, between 1765 and 1794, was a British politician and courtier.
Peachey was a younger son of Sir John Peachey, 2nd Baronet. In 1765 he succeeded hi ...
.
*Lady Henrietta (b. 1728–?), married Nicolas Boyce.
Lord Deloraine died suddenly on Christmas Day
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in 1730 in Leadwell (now Ledwell), Oxfordshire, and is buried at Sandford St Martin
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Geography
The parish measures about north–south, just ...
, Oxfordshire. His second wife, who had been a royal mistress, remarried and she is buried at Windsor.
James Worsdale
James Worsdale (''c.'' 1692 – 10 June 1767) was an Irish and English portrait painter, actor, literary fraud, and libertine whose lively conversation, wit, and boldness allowed him to move among the highest circles of literary life. His ski ...
, 1733-1734
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