WARRIOR FAMILY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 234, 31 August 1935, Page 11

WARRIOR FAMILY.

SCOTTISH LINE OF BUCCLEUCH

s ; Tho Dukes of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-loo) take their title from the , Duke of Monmouth, son of King l Charles 11., who married into the j family and was created Duke of Buec- ! leuch oil that occasion. The fact that ■ he was afterwards executed by his , uncle. King James 11.. for his part in the uprising which culminated in the disastrous Somerset Battle of Sedgmoor i did not prevent the title from being i held, together with all the earlier titles : of her family, by his widow. The third • Duke of Buccleuch became fourth Duke of Queensberrv when he fell heir to : that title, with its attendant string of lesser ranks. A famous family of Scottish warriors, - the Dukes count their descent from three daring chieftains all named Sir Walter Scott, the first of whom made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to rescue King James V. from the Earl of Angus. This expedition was made tho foundation of the story told by his later namesake in “The Lay of the Last Minstrel.” The third Sir Walter became Hostage to Queen Elizabeth when peace was established among the predatory border tribes. When he was brought before, her she imperiously demanded of him : how he dared to engage in such deeds. • For once tho haughty woman had met I her match, for a ready answer came, | “What is there a man dare no do? Struck with the reply, she turned to a ! Lord-in-Waiting and said, “With 10,000 j ! such men, our brother of Scotland j ' might shake the firmest throne in j Europe.” This “brother” was James IVI. who on becoming James I. of Great Britain, among his first acts made a Baron of the intrepid warrior. He took the title of Lord Scott of Buccleuch (1606), and his successors received the earldoms of Buccleuch and Baronies of Eskdaill and Whitchester (1619), Earldom of Dalkeith and Dukedom of Buccleuch (1663), with such attendant titles as Dukedom of QueensI berry, Marquessate of Dumfriesshire, 1 Earldoms of Doncaster, Drumlanrig and ! Sanquhar, Viscounties of Nish, Torthorj wald and ltoss, and Baronies of -Kin- ' moot, Tyndale, Middlebie and Dqrnock. The head of the family is Lord-Lieuten-

ant of Dumriesshire and Lord Warden of the Marches. | The present Duke of Buccleuch, the seventh, owns large estate in Scotland and England. He is captain-general of the King’s bodyguard on Royal visits to Scotland and Keeper of the Signet of Scotland.