(Vreda Esther) Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry (17 September 1900 – 9 February 1993), was the elder of the two daughters of Major William Frank Lascelles and
Lady Sybil Evelyn de Vere Beauclerk, daughter of
William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans, PC DL (15 April 1840 – 10 May 1898), styled Earl of Burford until 1849, was a British Liberal parliamentarian of the Victorian era.
The Duke served in William Gladstone's ...
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On 21 April 1921 she married
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch and 10th Duke of Queensberry; she was styled "Duchess of Buccleuch" from 19 October 1935. They had three children:
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Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu Douglas Scott (20 January 1922 – 19 September 2012)
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Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry (28 September 1923 – 4 September 2007)
*Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott ( 1927- 2004 )
The Duchess died aged 92 at
Boughton House
Boughton House is a country house in the parish of Weekley in Northamptonshire, England, situated about north-east of Kettering. It is situated within an estate of .
The present house was built by Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (d.1709), ...
on 9 February 1993. She was buried next to her husband among the ruins of
Melrose Abbey
St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. It was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks at the request of King David I of Scotland and was the chief house of th ...
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Photograph of Mary Lascelles(dated 1 March 1921, a month and a half before her marriage)
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1900 births
1993 deaths
British duchesses by marriage
Burials at Melrose Abbey