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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Tweedmouth" Dudley Marjoribanks Hand Written Letter.
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Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron
Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and
Glenaffric, (29 December 1820 – 4 March 1894), was a Scottish
businessman and a Liberal politician
who sat in the House of
Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the
peerage as Baron Tweedmouth. Marjoribanks
was the son of Edward Marjoribanks of Greenlands who was a senior partner in Coutts Bank.[3] He was unable to acquire the
partnership in the Bank (it passed to his elder brother Edward) but he
inherited a substantial fortune from his father, a partner in Coutts & Co
Bank from 1796 until his death on 17 September 1868, aged 92. As to his parentage
there was some controversy. Although the Lyon Office of Scotland registered his
family pedigree, he was accused of being a charlatan. The disproofs were
offered as a statement of contradiction concerning his descent. Burnett of
the Lyon's Herald wrote an article in The Genealogist upholding
the Lyon Office's original assertion of genuine as his banking second name implies, acquired considerable family wealth
of his own after the purchase of Meux Brewery. He grew rich as a partner of Meux & Co's
brewery, and later a director of the East India Company. With some of this
wealth he built the mansion of Brook House in
London's fashionable Park Lane and, by 1846, had purchased the highland deer
forest of Guisachan in Glen Affric, Inverness-shire, and the substantial estates of Hutton and Eddington near his
family roots in Berwickshire. Marjoribanks had large kennels at Guisachan and
was largely responsible for developing the then new breed of dog, known now as
the golden retriever.
He
married Isabella Hogg, daughter of Sir James Hogg, Bt,
in 1848. Their children were:
Louise Spencer-Churchill in 1873)
·
Mary Georgina Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley in 1873)
1877
·
Archibald John Tennessee in
1897 and died in 1900)
Marjoribanks was descended from James
Marjoribanks, a younger son of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head of the
lowland Clan Marjoribanks, both of
whom lived in the 16th century in Edinburgh.
