George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, (1803 – 20 September 1869) was a Scottish politician and judge.

Life

He studied at

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and

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. He was

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Member of Parliament for

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, Somerset from 1865 to 1866. He was appointed

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in 1859 and

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in 1866, and nominated himself for appointment to the bench as

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in 1867 with the judicial title Lord Glenalmond, partly to avoid inquiry into charges of bribery in connection with his election to Parliament. He was sworn as a

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in November 1867. He committed suicide in September 1869. In 1866 he was living at 30

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, Edinburgh.

Glenalmond College

The school now known as

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was built on land given by George Patton who for the rest of his life, in company with his wife, took a keen interest in its development and success.

Family

On 25 March 1857 in

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, he married Margaret Bethune (1823-1899). She was the younger daughter of Lieutenant-General Alexander Bethune of Blebo (1771-1847), son of Major-General Sir William Sharp, 6th Baronet and Margaret Bethune, and his wife Maria Low (1794-1886), daughter of Robert James Low of Clatto and his wife Susanna Elizabeth Malcolm. There were no children. His widow continued to run the Glenalmond estate for the rest of her life and on 2 January 1871 in Edinburgh married Robert Malcolm.Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. (subscription required) Retrieved 3 December 2015

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Glenalmond Glenalmond or Glen Almond () is a glen which stretches for several miles to the west of the city of Perth in Perth and Kinross, Scotland and down which the River Almond flows. The upper half of the glen runs through mountainous country and is ...

UK MPs 1865–1868 Solicitors general for Scotland Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 1860s suicides