Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine was a British nobleman, soldier, politician and diplomat, known primarily for the controversial procurement of marble sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens.
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, GCB was a British soldier and colonial administrator. He also was a first-class cricketer from 1798 to 1808 and an early advocate for the establishment of what would become the Canadian Indian residential school system.
Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer in the American Revolutionary War, he fought with the Coldstream Guards under the Duke of York during the Flanders Campaign. He then commanded the Buckinghamshire Volunteers in the actions of St. Andria and Thuyl on the river Waal and participated in the disastrous retreat from the Rhine. He went on to be commander of the northern district of Ireland, in which post he played an important part in placating the people of Belfast during the Irish Rebellion, and then became Adjutant-General in Ireland. He went on to be Governor of Jamaica, commander of the Western District in England, commander of the Kent District in England and finally Commander-in-Chief, India.
Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans was an English aristocrat and politician.
Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore was a Scottish nobleman, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1735 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Strathmore.
Francis Stuart, 10th Earl of Moray KT was the son of Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray.
The Grange is an affluent suburb of Edinburgh, just south of the city centre, with Morningside and Greenhill to the west, Newington to the east, The Meadows park and Marchmont to the north, and Blackford Hill to the south. It is a conservation area characterised by large early Victorian stone-built villas and mansions, often with very large gardens. The Grange was built mainly between 1830 and 1890, and the area represented the idealisation of country living within an urban setting.
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat, KT was a Scottish peer. He was also the 21st MacShimidh, the traditional Gaelic Patronym for the Chiefs of the Clan Fraser of Lovat.
Lt.-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Sleat was the second son of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald (c.1745–1795) and Elizabeth Diana Bosville (1748–1789). He succeeded his elder brother Alexander Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald, in the barony on 19 June 1824, after the former died unmarried and without legitimate issue.
John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway was a Scottish peer, styled Viscount Garlies from 1747 until 1773, who became the 7th Earl of Galloway in 1773 and who served as a Member of Parliament from 1761 to 1773.
George Robert Ainslie (1776–1839) was a Scottish general of the British Army, with a short lived and controversial career in the Caribbean, a Lt. Gov. of Cape Breton, and noted for his coin collecting pursuits.
Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet was a British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, orientalist and numismatist. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Milborne Port in Somerset between 1796 and 1802.
Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th baronet DL was an English banker and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1874.
Louisa Manners Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart was a peer in the Scottish peerage in a flourishing family. Her father held considerable estates in England largely due to the two marriages of Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, earlier Tollemache, née Elizabeth Murray. Her elder brothers left no surviving issue on their deaths which enabled her to enjoy and help to pass on to her descendants the key family settlement properties: Helmingham Hall and Ham House in England.
Lieutenant General Sir John Shaw Stewart Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet, known as John Maxwell until 1803, was a Scottish officer in the British Army and a politician.
General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell was a Scottish soldier and Whig politician from Argyll. An officer in the Duke of Argyll's regiment of the British Army, he sat in the House of Commons for nine years in the interest of George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll.
General the Honourable Henry St John was a senior British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1784 and briefly in 1802. He also served as a Groom of the Bedchamber.
General Charles Philip de Ainslie was a British Army officer.
Colonel Sir Philip Ainslie of Pilton (1728–1802) was a Scottish landowner and peer. He was regimental Colonel of the 7th Dragoons.
Thomas George Corbett was an English Member of Parliament, and High Sherriff of Lincolnshire in 1840.
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