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Erskine, Thomas, 1706-1766
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1706-1766
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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.
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.