Garter encircled arms of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, KG
Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry, KG,KT,PC,FRS,FRSE (25 November 1806 – 16 April 1884), styled Lord Eskdail between 1808 and 1812 and Earl of Dalkeith between 1812 and 1819, was a prominent Scottish nobleman, landowner and politician. He was Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1842 to 1846 and Lord President of the Council.
What has been entrusted to me has not been given that it might be wasted in idle or frivolous amusements; nor would I be justified in wasting the hard earnings of the tillers of the soil by carrying them away and spending them in foreign countries, but I wish to see them employed as the means of producing good to them and to the country at large.[6]
He joined the Canterbury Association on 20 May 1848. It was planned to build a town called Buccleuch in his honour near Alford Forest, but this did not eventuate.[8]
Lady Mary Charlotte Montagu Douglas Scott (born 6 August 1851, died 13 December 1908), married Hon. Walter Trefusis and had issue.
Death
Buccleuch died at Bowhill House near Bowhill, Selkirkshire, in April 1884, aged 77, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William. He was buried in the family crypt of the Buccleuch Memorial Chapel in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Dalkeith, Midlothian. The church is located on Dalkeith's High Street, at the entrance to Dalkeith Country Park.[9]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch
^ abc"Obituary. Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, Fifth Duke Of Buccleuch And Seventh Duke Of Queensbury, K.G., P.C., D.C.L, LL.D., F.R.S., 1806-1884". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 77 (1884 Part 3): 347–350. 1884. doi:10.1680/imotp.1884.21568.
^Major R.C. Dudgeon, History of the Edinburgh, or Queen's Regiment Light Infantry Militia (now) Third Battalion The Royal Scots, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1882/Bibliolife, nd, ISBN978-1-10368643-8, pp. 81, 89, 111, Table C.