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Earl of Dalkeith Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The titl ...

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James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was an English nobleman and military officer. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest ill ...

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Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch, KT, FRS (11 January 1695 – 22 April 1751) was a Scottish nobleman. Family background Buccleuch was the son of Sir James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and Anne Scot ...

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, mother = Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch , birth_name = , birth_date = {{birth date, 1674, 5, 23, df=y , birth_place = , christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = {{death date and age, 1705, 3, 14, 1674, 5, 23, df=y , death_place = , burial_date = , burial_place =

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British m ...

, occupation = , memorials = , website = , module = James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, KT (23 May 1674 – 14 March 1705) was a Scottish nobleman and politician. He was the son of

, and Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch. He was also the grandson of

Charles II of England Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and King of Ireland, Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest su ...

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

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Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. On 2 January 1693/94 he married Lady Henrietta Hyde (born in

Hindon, Wiltshire Hindon is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about west of Salisbury and south of Warminster. It is in the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Hindon was a market town but is now a vi ...

, c. 1677, died 30 May 1730), daughter of

Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, (March 1642 – 2 May 1711) was an English statesman and writer. He was originally a supporter of James II but later supported the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He held high office under Queen Anne, daug ...

, and Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester.

Children

They had six children: # The Hon.

(11 January 1695 – 22 May 1751) married (1) Lady Jane Douglas, daughter of

James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover (18 December 16626 July 1711) was a Scottish nobleman and a leading politician of the late 17th and the early 18th centuries. As Lord High Commissioner he was instrumental in negoti ...

and Mary Boyle; (2) Alice Powell, daughter of Joseph Powell # Lady Anne Scott (1 April 1696 – 11 October 1714) # Lady Charlotte Scott (30 April 1697 – 22 August 1747) # The Hon. Charles Scott (March 1700 – 4 April 1700) # The Hon. James Scott (14 January 1702 – 26 February 1719) # The Hon. Henry Scott (26 November 1704 – died young)

Death and burial

Lord Dalkeith died of apoplexy and was buried 19 March 1704/05 in the

Henry VII Chapel The Henry VII Lady Chapel, now more often known just as the Henry VII Chapel, is a large Lady chapel at the far eastern end of Westminster Abbey, England, paid for by the will of King Henry VII. It is separated from the rest of the abbey by br ...

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References

{{Reflist * {{cite web , last=Lundy , first=Darryl , url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1073.htm#i10730 , title= James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith , publisher= The Peerage{{Unreliable source?, failed=y , date=September 2012 Retrieved 1 January 2009 * {{cite web , last=Lundy , first=Darryl , url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1074.htm#i10736 , title= Lady Jane Douglas , publisher= The Peerage{{Unreliable source?, failed=y , date=September 2012 Retrieved 1 January 2009 * G.E. Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden _The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant_ (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume 2, page 367 * Doyle, James William Edmund. ''The Official Baronage of England, Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations.'' (p. 602) London: Longmans, Green, 1886
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