Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess Of Ailsa
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Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa, KT, FRS (February 1770 – 8 September 1846), styled Lord Kennedy between 1792–4 and known as the Earl of Cassillis between 1794 and 1831, was a Scottish peer.


Early life

Kennedy was the eldest son of Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassillis, by Anne, daughter of John Watts. He became known by the
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Lord Kennedy when his father succeeded to the earldom of Cassillis in 1792.


Career

Kennedy succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father 30 December 1794. He sat in the
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as a
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between 1796 and 1806. In the latter year, he was created Baron Ailsa, of Ailsa in the
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, in the
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, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was admitted a Fellow of the
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on 18 February 1819. In 1831 he was created Marquess of Ailsa, of the Isle of Ailsa in the County of Ayr. He voted for the Reform Bill in 1832. In 1820, King George IV made Archibald a knight of the Order of the Thistle. This was an achievement that Sir Archibald had coveted for some time. He had a taste for gambling. He owned racehorses and raced many that won cups in 1801 and 1802. He owned ''Clementina, Scaramouche, Pegasus, Chancellor'', and ''Trimmer''. He and 13 others established the Ayr Gold Cup held annually with only Scottish-trained horses that raced over a run.


Marriage and issue

Lord Ailsa married Margaret Erskine (1772–1848), the second daughter of Mary ( Baird) Erskine and John Erskine of Dun,
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, on 1 June 1793. They had six children: * Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis (1794–1832), predeceased his father; married Eleanor Allardyce and had issue, including Archibald Kennedy, 2nd Marquess of Ailsa * Lady Anne Kennedy (26 June 1797 – 2 November 1877), who married Sir David Baird of Newbyth, 2nd Baronet and had issue. * Lady Mary Kennedy (4 May 1799 – 11 January 1886), who married Richard Oswald, son of Richard Alexander Oswald, MP for Ayr of Auchincruive Estate. * Lady Margaret Kennedy (16 June 1800 – 3 September 1889), who married Thomas Radclyffe-Livingstone-Eyre. * The Hon. John Kennedy-Erskine of Dun (4 June 1802 – 6 March 1831), assumed the additional name of Erskine after inheriting the Dun estate from his aunt in 1824; married in 1827 Lady Augusta FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothy Jordan and had issue (their granddaughter was the writer and poet Violet Jacob) * Lady Alicia Jane Kennedy (2 July 1805 – 11 May 1887), who married
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, and had issue. Lord Ailsa died in 1846 and was succeeded by his grandson Archibald Kennedy.


Legacy

Lord Ailsa bought a house near
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in London that had previously belonged to the playwright
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. He named it " St Margaret's" and the name of the house has now been applied to the whole adjacent area. Ailsa Road and Ailsa Avenue in the area are also named after him.


References


External links

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