Malcolm Harry Erskine, 17th Earl of Buchan (4 July 1930 – 11 September 2022) was a Scottish landowner and peer, a member of the

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from 1984 until the

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removed most hereditary peers. The younger son of

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, and his wife Christina Baxendale, he became his father’s heir due to the death of his brother David Stuart Erskine (1928–1933) in childhood. He was educated at

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and was styled as Lord Cardross between 1960 and 1984, when he succeeded as the

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(1469), Lord Auchterhouse (1469), Lord Cardross (1610) and

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of Restormel Castle (1806). The last of these was in the

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, the others in that of Scotland. In 1972, as Lord Cardross, Buchan became a

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for

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and was also a Liveryman of the

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. On 21 February 1957, Buchan married Hilary Diana Cecil Power, a daughter of Sir Ivan Power, 2nd Baronet, and his first wife Nancy Hilary Griffiths, and they had four children: *Henry Thomas Alexander Erskine, 18th Earl of Buchan (born 1960) *Lady Seraphina Mary Erskine (born 1961) *Hon. Montagu John Erskine (born 1966) *Lady Arabella Fleur Erskine (born 1969) In 2003, Buchan was living at Newnham House,

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. He died on 11 September 2022, at the age of 92.

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