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BUCCLEUCH 373 stalking in Achnacarry forest, co. Inverness, and was bur. in St. Mary's Chapel, Dalkeith.] [John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, styled Earl of Dalkeith, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h. ap., ^. in Hamilton Place, Midx., 30 Mar., and bap. 21 May 1864, at Westm. Abbey. Sometime Lieut. R.N. M.P. (Conservative) for Roxburghshire 1895-1906. He w/., 30 Jan. 1893,31 St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Margaret Alice, 2nd da. of George Cecil Orlando (Bridgeman), 4th Earl of Bradford, by Ida Annabella Frances, da. of Richard George (Lumley), 9th Earl of Scarbrough. She was b. 20 Jan. 1872.] Family Estates. — These, which, in point of value, are by far the most con- siderable in the Kingdom, consisted, in 1883 (besides those in the suburbs of London) of above 433,000 acres in Scotland, valued at above /. 173,000 a year, and above 23,000 acres in England, valued at above ^^,44,000 a year. Total 460,108 acres valued at ;^2i7,i63 a year. In co. Dumfries are above 250,000 acres; in Roxburgh above 100,000; in Selkirk above 6,000; in Lanark above 9,000; in Midlothian above 3,000 (valued at above

^ 1 6,000 a year), i^c. [S.]; in Northants about 18,000 acres; in Warwick

about 7,000; in Hunts above 1,000; in Bucks about 900; in Lancashire about 370; and in Surrey 7, those 7 being valued at ^^708 a year; Minerals, i£c., valued at above ;^4,ooo, and Granton Harbour, valued at above ;/^ 10,000 a year. (") The estates of 3 different families have become united in this family, viz. those of the family of Scott, Dukes of Buc- cleuch [S.]; of Douglas, Dukes of Queensberry [S.] and of Montagu, Dukes of Montagu. The estates in co. Dumfries came principally from the Douglas family of Drumlanrig; those in England came chiefly from the family of Montagu, among which last, Boughton House (possessing a garden of above 100 acres, and avenues more than 70 miles long), was built by Ralph, Duke of Montagu, late in the 17th centur)', after the model of Versailles. Principal Residences. — Dalkeith House, co. Edinburgh; Bowhill, co. Selkirk; Branxholme, co. Roxburgh; Drumlanrig Castle, co. Dumfries [S.]; also Boughton House, near Kettering, Northants; Ditton Park, near Slough, Bucks, and Montagu House, Whitehall, Midx. BUCHAN Observations. Mar, with Buchan (now, together, forming Aberdeen- shire and Banffshire), was one of the seven original Earldoms [Mormaer- (■^) These values are in 191 2 quite obsolete and have only an historical interest, e.g. Granton Harbour has now been superseded by Leith. V.G. Of the noblemen, apparently twenty-eight in number, who possessed, in 18S3, above 100,000 acres in the United Kingdom, the Duke of Buccleuch, though second in point of acreage is the first in rental. For a list of these see vol. vi, Appendix H.