Dudley Marjoribanks, 3rd Baron Tweedmouth

Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Churchill Marjoribanks, 3rd Baron Tweedmouth, DSO (2 March 1874 – 23 April 1935) was a British army officer and courtier.

Biography

Marjoribanks was the son of Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth and Lady Fanny Spencer-Churchill, daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. He succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Tweedmouth and is thus descended from Joseph Marjoribanks, a wine and fish merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1635. Joseph Marjoribanks is thought to have been the grandson of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho,[1] head of the lowland Clan Marjoribanks.[2]

He served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Horse Guards in the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa 1899-1900, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in November 1900.[3] Later military service ended with the promotion to Lieutenant-colonel.

In early 1901 he was asked by King Edward VII to take part in a special diplomatic mission to announce the King´s accession to the governments of France, Spain, and Portugal.[4]

After succeeding as Lord Tweedmouth, he was Lord-in-waiting to King Edward VII and King George V.[1]

He was said to be an excellent shot and had an amiable personality but had financial difficulties throughout his life.[1]

Lord Tweedmouth married, at St George's, Hanover Square on 30 November 1901,[5] Lady Muriel Brodrick (1881-1966), daughter of St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton. They had two daughters, Moyra and Millicent Joan[6] and the title Baron Tweedmouth became extinct on his death.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Marjoribanks		 Baron Tweedmouth
1909–1935 		Extinct

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marjoribanks, Roger. "Marjoribanks of Lees", The Marjoribanks Journal Number 3, page 14, June 1995. Accessed on 22 May 2010
  2. ↑ Clan Marjoribanks web site accessed 29 April 2010
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27359. p. 6304. 27 September 1901.
  4. ↑ "The King - the special Embassies" The Times (London). Saturday, 23 March 1901. (36410), p. 12.
  5. ↑ "Court circular" The Times (London). Monday, 2 December 1901. (36627), p. 9.
  6. ↑ Pine, Leslie Gilbert, "The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms" London, U.K., Heraldry Today, 1972, ISBN 9780900455230