Everything about Richard Scott 10th Duke Of Buccleuch totally explained
Richard Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry KBE,
DL (b.
14 February 1954) is the current
Duke of Buccleuch and
Queensberry.
Early life and Education
Scott was born in 1954, the son of
John Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and his wife,
Jane née McNeill, and was baptised with
Princess Margaret as one of his godparents. He later attended
Eton, was
Page of Honour to
the Queen Mother from
1967 to
1969. In
1973 his father inherited the Dukedoms of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and Scott took the courtesy title of Earl of Dalkeith. He later graduated from
Christ Church, Oxford in
1976 with a
Bachelor of Arts.
Marriage and family
In
1981 he married
Lady Elizabeth Marian Frances Kerr, a daughter of the
12th Marquess of Lothian (and a sister of
Michael Ancram), and they later had four children:
Career
Lord Dalkeith had a brief spell on the
board of
Border Television from
1989 to
1990, and in
1994 he joined the
Millennium Commission as the representative for
Northern England. Appointed a
KBE in
2000 for his services to the Millennium Celebrations, Dalkeith left the commission in
2003. He is President of the
National Trust for Scotland and is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dalkeith also served as Deputy Chairman of the (since abolished)
Independent Television Commission, as a member of Scottish Heritage, on the board of the
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and was President of the
Royal Scottish Geographical Society from 1999 to 2005.
The Duke currently lives in the Dabton area of
Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway near his father's home,
Drumlanrig Castle.
On
September 4,
2007 he inherited the titles Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Queensberry upon his father's death.
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