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ERSKINE, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Erskine, Chief Clerk, Home Office, and Maria Lucie de Chastelain (IGI); b. 14 Jul 1868; adm. (G) Feb 1882; head of Grants 1886 (and founded Grantite Review Mar 1884); left (with Triplett) Jul 1887; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1887; BA 1890; MA 1894; BD 1901; Wells Theol. College 1890; ordained 1892; Curate, St. Peter Port, Guernsey 1892-4, St. Mark’s, Hamilton Terrace, London, from 1894; d. at St. Moritz, Switzerland 18 Dec 1905. [mother probably dau. of Adolphe Emanuel de Chastelain, Merton, Surrey (IGI)]

ERSKINE, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1725.

ERSKINE, CLAUDE FRANCIS, son of Claudius James Erskine, Judge and Sessions Judge, EICS Bombay, and Emily Georgina, dau. of Lestock Robert Reid, EICS Bombay, member of Council, Bombay; b. 15 Oct 1855; adm. from Clifton Coll. 15 Apr 1868 (James'); left May 1871; entered Indian Civil Service, Survey Dept., Jun 1880, Assistant Superintendent Dec 1881, Deputy Superintendent Jan 1896, retired Oct 1910; m. 28 Dec 1885 Mary Katherine Erskine, dau. of Torin Thatcher, Poona, India; d. 30 Oct 1925.

ERSKINE, JAMES FRANCIS, brother of John Francis Erskine, 7th Earl of Mar (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1752 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Ensign, 16th Foot 27 May 1758; Lieut., 90th Foot 15 Dec 1759; Capt., 115th Foot 18 Oct 1761; half-pay 1763; 18th Dragoons 5 Jun 1771; retired 3 Jan 1773; m. 18 Jul 1791 (in London, after a previous marriage in Stuttgart) Magdaleine Baller, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg; d. 5 Apr 1806.

ERSKINE, JOHN FRANCIS MILLER, 9TH EARL OF MAR (S) AND 11TH EARL OF KELLIE (S), only son of John Thomas Erskine, 8th Earl of Mar (S), and Janet, dau. of Patrick Miller, Dalswinton, Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire; grandson of John Francis Erskine, 7th Earl of Mar (qv); b. 28 Dec 1795; adm.; left 1813; his “mill” in fighting green with Sir John Edmond De Beauvoir, Bart. (qv), was witnessed by Princess Charlotte (Lord Albemarle, Fifty years of my life, I, 299); Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Dec 1813; Lieut. and Capt., 10 Feb 1820; retired 12 Jul 1821; served at Waterloo; succ. father as 9th Earl of Mar (S) 20 Sep 1828; his claim to the Earldom of Kellie (S), as heir male to Methven Erskine, 10th Earl of Kellie (died 1829), was allowed by the House of Lords 3 Sep 1835; m. 24 Apr 1827 Philadelphia, eldest dau. of Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteath, Bart., advocate; d. 19 Jun 1866.

ERSKINE, JOHN FRANCIS, 7TH EARL OF MAR (S), elder son of James Erskine, Knight Marischal, advocate, and Frances, only dau. of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar (S), by his second wife, and half-sister of Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1751 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Cornet, 9th Dragoons 27 May 1757; Lieut., 1st Horse 31 Dec 1759; Capt., 15 Jun 1764; 18th Dragoons 5 Jun 1771; retired 1776; inherited family estates at Alloa on death of his mother 20 Jun 1776; restored to “the dignity and title of Earl of Mar” by Act of Parliament 17 Jun 1824; m. 17 Mar 1770 Frances, dau. of Charles Floyer, EICS Madras, Governor of Madras; d. 20 Aug 1825.

ERSKINE, JOHN, second son of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Henry Erskine, Bart., MP, and Janet, dau. of Peter Wedderburn, Lord Chesterhall SCJ, of Chesterhall, Haddingtonshire, and sister of Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn PC, Lord Chancellor; b.; adm. 17 Sep 1773; Min. Can. 1776; KS (Capt., aged 13) 1777; Capt. of the School 1780; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Jun 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 - Jun 1792, Faculty Student 12 Jun 1792 - void by marriage 13 Nov 1802; BA 1785; MA 1788; BCL and DCL 1802; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 May 1780, called to bar 30 May 1788; Filazer in Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex 1794; Commissary-General at Toulon 1793, in Corsica 1794, and in Portugal 1797; Comptroller of Army Accounts from 9 Oct 1802; m. Nov 1802 Mary, dau. of Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., MP; d. at Malta 10 Feb 1817.

Erskine, Keith David, son of Sir James Malcolm Monteith Erskine MP and Cicely Grace, d. of Rev. Charles Penrose Quicke, Rector of Ashbrittle, Somerset; b. 11 June 1907; adm. Sept. 1920 (KS), (A) Jan. 1921; left July 1924; adm. a solicitor Oct. 1933; RA 1940-5, despatches (Italy) Aug. 1944 and Nov. 1945; sen. partner Hextall Erskine & Co., solicitors; chairman Metal Closures group 1959; man. dir. Kensington Palace Hotels Ltd; chairman Multiple Sclerosis Soc. National Appeal; m. 1st 21 Oct. 1936 Kathleen Diana, d. of Charles William Keyser of Eaton Hall, Retford; 2nd 23 Nov. 1944 Audrey Rosemary, d. of John Skinner; d. 23 Apr. 1974 after a road accident in Argyll.

ERSKINE, THOMAS, LORD ERSKINE, eldest son of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar (S) PC KT, Secretary of State, and his first wife Lady Margaret Hay, eldest dau. of Thomas Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull (S); bapt. Alloa, Clackmannanshire 3 Nov 1706 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) May 1715; acted Monimia in Otway’s The Orphan, performed by some Westminster boys in Jan 1719/20 (HMC Portland, v, 593; see also Stuart Papers, ii, 98-9 and iii, 143 for some account of him at the School); had company in an Irish Regiment in French Army 1724; a Captain of Foot in British Army 1729-34; Commissary of Stores, Gibraltar 1729; MP Stirling Burghs 16 Mar 1728-34, Stirlingshire 6 Feb - 18 Jun 1747, Clackmannanshire 1747-54; owing to his father’s attainder on 17 Feb 1715/6 for complicity in the rebellion of 1715, Erskine did not inherit the Earldom of Mar on his father’s death in May 1732, but the family estate at Alloa was repurchased from the Government by his friends and conveyed to him in 1739; m. 1 Oct 1741 Lady Charlotte Hope, eighth dau. of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (S) KT; d. 16 Mar 1766.

ERVIN, ---; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1767 (“paid no entrance fee”). [Name also appears as Irwin or Erwin].