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...tenth duke died, only twelve years after his father's death had compelled him to sell off land in eight English counties and in Ireland to meet inheritance taxes. To hang on to Chatsworth, the tenth duke negotiated a contract with his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry to take over $5,200,000 worth of the estate, thus exempting that much from death duties. But by law such gifts must be made at least five years before the donor's death, and the duke's heart attack occurred just three months short...
Benevolent and good-humored, Scott was a tradition-loving Tory who, says Biographer Pearson, "thought nothing of his fame as a writer compared with his place as . . . clansman of Buccleuch." He tossed off such novels as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy without revising or even rereading, dictating at times while racked by pain from gallstones and stomach cramps. He was extravagant: his "hut" at Abbotsford became a castle, where he spent immense sums buying up land, planting trees (3,000 laburnums, 3,000 Scotch elms, 100,000 birches) and entertaining noblemen, statesmen, lairds and literary lights...
...preserve Chatsworth by turning the whole estate into a stock company and signing over most of its shares to his son. Twenty years later the son, by then tenth duke, a crusty veteran of Gallipoli and France, negotiated a contract by which his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch, as trustees, would take over ?1,850,000 worth of the estate, thus exempting that much from death duties. However, the duke made the arrangement too late, and in 1950 he died before it could become legal. A chancery court ordered the heir to pay a full...
Married. Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, 29, rangy, redheaded heir to the eighth Duke of Buccleuch (pronounced "buck-cloo"), long regarded as the front runner for Princess Margaret's hand; and Jane Mc-Neill, 22, ash-blonde, China-schooled fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister practicing in Hong Kong. Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret traveled by special train from Sandringham to join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and 1,600 other royal guests, socialites and privileged laborers and tenants of the Buccleuch estates (six ancestral homes...
...screamed overhead and a 21-gun salute boomed in welcome from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, Queen Elizabeth arrived in Scotland's capital for her first visit since her accession. After inspecting Edinburgh's Royal Company of Archers, she was presented by its captain, the Duke of Buccleuch, with the company's emblem, done up as a brooch of three golden arrows with a diamond thistle. Unable to accompany the royal entourage; the Duke of Edinburgh, laid low in Buckingham Palace by an attack of jaundice in the wake of a feverish cold...