Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton, Duchess of Buccleuch (26
August 1836 16 March 1912) was the daughter of James Hamilton, 1st
Duke of Abercorn. In 1884, she became the Duchess of Buccleuch and
Duchess of Queensberry, the wife of
William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas
Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch & 8th Duke of Queensberry. She was the
paternal grandmother of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester and of
Lady Marian Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott, also she was the maternal
great-grandmother of Prince William of Gloucester, Prince Richard, Duke
of Gloucester and great-great-grandmother of Sarah, Duchess of York.
Louisa Jane Hamilton was born on Friday 26 August 1836 in Brighton,
Sussex, England, the third child of fourteen born to James Hamilton, 1st
Duke of Abercorn and Louisa Jane Russell, daughter of John Russell, 6th
Duke of Bedford.
She married William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas
Scott, Earl of Dalkeith on Tuesday 22 November 1859 in London. Lord
Dalkeith was the eldest son of the Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th
Duke of Buccleuch and his wife Lady Charlotte Thynne. They had six sons
and two daughters:
Walter Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of
Dalkeith (17 January 1861 18 September 1886)
John Charles Montagu
Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch (30 March 1864 19 October 1935)
Lord George William Montagu Douglas Scott (31 August 1866 23 February
1947), married 30 April 1903 Lady Elizabeth Emily Manners (daughter of
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland and Janetta Hughan) and had issue
Lord Henry Francis Montagu Douglas Scott (15 January 1868 19 April
1945)
Lord Herbert Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott (30 November 1872
17 June 1944), married 26 April 1905 Marie Josephine Edwards and had
issue, maternal grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York
Lady Katharine
Mary Montagu Douglas Scott (25 March 1875 7 March 1951), married Thomas
Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden and had issue
Lady Constance Anne Montagu
Douglas Scott (10 March 1877 7 May 1970), married 21 January 1908 The
Hon. Douglas Halyburton Cairns (son of Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns and
Mary Harriet McNeill) and had issue
Lord Francis George Montagu
Douglas Scott (1 November 1879 26 July 1952), married 11 February 1915
Lady Eileen Nina Evelyn Sibell Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (daughter of
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto and Lady Mary
Caroline Grey) and had issue
She served as Mistress of the Robes
to Queen Victoria from 1885 1892 (Conservative), and again from 1895
1901. She was appointed Mistress of the Robes to Queen Alexandra in
1901, a position in which she served until her death in 1912.
The
duchess died on Saturday 16 March 1912, in her 76th year, at Dalkeith
Palace, Midlothian, Scotland. She was survived by her husband, and six
of her children and their families.
She was buried on Wednesday
20 March 1912 in the Buccleuch family crypt in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. |
