1832 - 1913 (81 years)
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Name |
David (3rd Bt of Newbyth) Baird |
Birth |
26 Jan 1832 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
13 Oct 1913 |
Person ID |
I104657 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Jul 2020 |
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Notes |
- Lennoxlove, seat of the Dukes of Hamilton
The property was purchased by the trustees of Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
following her death in 1702 for the benefit of her "neare and deare kinsman the said Walter Stuart". Walter
Stuart was the eldest son of Alexander, 5th Lord Blantyre, and was to become the 6th Lord Blantyre on the
death of his father in 1704. The Duchess had stipulated that the property be called "Lennox's Love to
Blantyre", this was subsequently shortened to Lennoxlove. It remained in the ownership of the BlantyreStewarts for almost two centuries. When the 12th Lord Blantyre died in 1900 without male heirs, the property
passed into the ownership of his daughter, Ellen Stewart, and her husband Sir David Baird, 3rd Baronet of
Newbyth, Prestonkirk. Their younger son, Major William Baird, commissioned the architect Sir Robert Lorimer
to oversee extensive refurbishment of the house in 1912. Lennoxlove is now the seat of the Dukes of
Hamilton, having been purchased by the 14th Duke in 1946.
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