Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine

Major-General Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine KB (1676 – 25 December 1730) was a Scottish peer and army officer.

Funeral hatchments in Sandford St Martin Church, Oxfordshire, to Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine and his wife Anne Duncombe
Arms of Duncombe: Per chevron engrailed gules and argent, three talbot's heads erased counterchanged

Life

Scott was the second surviving son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (the illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Lucy Walter) by his wife Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch. In 1693, he married Anne Duncombe (d. 1720), a daughter of William Duncombe of Batthesden, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. They had three surviving children:

  • Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Deloraine (1710–39)
  • Henry Scott, 3rd Earl of Deloraine (1712–40)
  • Lady Anne Scott (c.1720–?), died unmarried.
Tomb of the 1st Earl and Countess of Deloraine at Sandford St Martin, Oxfordshire

In 1706 Queen Anne created Scott Earl of Deloraine.[1] He was elected to the last Scottish Parliament that year and voted in favour of the Acts of Union. In 1725 he was vested with the Order of the Bath.[2] In 1727 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.[3]

In 1726, Deloraine married Mary Scott, Countess of Deloraine, the granddaughter of Col. Philip Howard, and they had two daughters:[1]

Lord Deloraine died suddenly on Christmas Day in 1730 in Leadwell (now Ledwell), Oxfordshire, and is buried at Sandford St Martin, Oxfordshire. His second wife, who had been a royal mistress,[4] remarried and she is buried at Windsor.[1]

References
  1. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Scott, Henry (1676-1730)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. "No. 6376". The London Gazette. 25 May 1725. p. 1.
  3. "No. 6601". The London Gazette. 22 July 1727. p. 8.
  4. "Scott [née Howard; other married name Wyndham], Mary, countess of Deloraine (bap. 1703, d. 1744), courtier and royal mistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68126. Retrieved 7 May 2021.


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