Nationality Scottish and British Spouse Isabella Hogg (m. 1848) Role Politician | Name Dudley 1st Political party Liberal Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford | |
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Preceded by John Stapleton and Matthew Forster Succeeded by Charles William Gordon and Ralph Anstruther Earle Preceded by Charles William Gordon and Ralph Anstruther Earle Succeeded by John Stapleton and Viscount Bury Died March 4, 1894, London, United Kingdom Children Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth Grandchildren Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair Great grandchildren Captain Lord Michael Gordon | ||
Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and Glenaffric, (29 December 1820 – 4 March 1894), was a Scottish businessman and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedmouth.
Life
Marjoribanks was the son of Edward Marjoribanks of Greenlands who was a senior partner in Coutts Bank. He was unable to acquire the partnership in the Bank (it passed to his elder brother Edward) but he inherited a substantial fortune from his father, a partner in Coutts & Co Bank from 1796 until his death on 17 September 1868, aged 92. As to his parentage there was some controversy. Although the Lyon Office of Scotland registered his family pedigree, he was accused of being a charlatan. The disproofs were offered as a statement of contradiction concerning his descent. Burnett of the Lyon's Herald wrote an article in The Genealogist upholding the Lyon Office's original assertion of genuine authenticity.
Dudley Coutts, as his banking second name implies, acquired considerable family wealth of his own after the purchase of Meux Brewery. He grew rich as a partner of Meux & Co's brewery, and later a director of the East India Company. With some of this wealth he built the mansion of Brook House in London's fashionable Park Lane and purchased the highland deer forest of Guisachan ("Place of the Firs") in Glen Affric, Inverness-shire, and the substantial estates of Hutton and Eddington near his family roots in Berwickshire. Marjoribanks had large kennels at Guisachan and was largely responsible for developing the then new breed of dog, known now as the golden retriever.
Their children were:
Marjoribanks was descended from James Marjoribanks, a younger son of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head of the lowland Clan Marjoribanks, both of whom lived in the 16th century in Edinburgh.