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BUCCLEUCH 369 Earl of Dalkeith, by Caroline his wife abovenamed, was b. 3 June, and bap. I July 1745, at St. Geo., Han. Sq. He d. 31 Jan. 1748/9, of the small- pox, v.p., in his 4th year, and was bur. at Dalkeith.] DUKEDOM III. EARLDOM VI. BARONY [S.] VII. [S.] [S.] yi75i- 3, 6, and 7. Henry (Scott), Duke of Buc- CLEUCH, i^c. [S.], also Earl of Doncaster, &c. [E.], grandson and h., being 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. of Francis Scott, styled Earl of Dal- keith, and Caroline his wife abovenamed. He was b. 2, and bap. 29 Sep. 1746, at St. Geo., Han. Sq. Ed. at Eton from 1757; sue. his grand- father 22 Apr. 1 75 1 ; K.T. 23 Dec. 1 767 to May 1794. Gov. of the Royal Bank of Scotland, 1777 till his death. Capt. Gen. of the Royal Com- pany of Archers 1778 till his death; raised a regiment of Fencibles, 1778, and was Col. in the army during service; First Pres. of the Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 1783 till his death. Lord Lieut, of Mid- lothian, and of CO. Haddington from 1794, and of co. Roxburgh, from 1804, till his death. Norn. K.G. 28 May 1794, inst. 29 May 1801, on which occasion he resigned the Order of the Thistle.(^) On 11 Jan. 1794, by the death of his mother, suo jure Baroness Greenwich, he sue. to the landed property acquired by her father, the Duke of Argyll [S.]; and on 23 Dec. 1810, by the death of his cousin, William (Douglas), 4th Duke ofQueens- berry [S.], he sue. to the considerable estates in co. Dumfries of that family, as also (by virtue of a resignation of the 2nd Duke, and of a new patent, 1 7 June 1 706) to the titles of DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY, MARQUESS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE, EARL OF DRUMLANRIG AND SAN- QUHAR, VISCOUNT OF NITH,TORTHORWALD AND ROSS, and LORD DOUGLAS OF KINMONT, MIDDLEBIE AND DORNOCK [S.], being peerages cr. in 1681/2 and 1684. See " Queensberry " Earl- dom [S.], cr. 1633, ^^'^ Dukedom [S.], cr. 1684. A Tory, and steady sup- porter of Pitt's ministry. He w. (while a minor), 2 May 1767, by spec, lie, at Montagu House, Elizabeth,() only da. and h. of George (Montagu, formerly Brudenell), ist Duke of Montagu and 4th Earl of Cardigan, by Mar)-, da. and eventually sole h. of John (Montagu), 2nd and last Duke of Montagu. He a'. 11 Jan. 18 12, at Dalkeith, and was bur. there, aged ^5-0 ^'ill pr- June 18 12. His widow, who was b. 29 May, and bap. (^) See vol. i, p. 16, note " d " for an account of the Knights of the Thistle that have been afterwards elected to the Garter, of whom the greater part resigned the " Thistle " on such election, though some retained both orders. (*>) " She was a woman of unbounded beneficence to, and even beyond, the extent of her princely fortune. She had a masculine courage, and great firmness in endur- ing affliction, which pressed on her with continued and successive blows in her later years." (Sir Walter Scott's Journal, 23 Nov. 1827; ex inform. Bright Brown). V.G. {^) He was a great patron of literature. 48