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The son of Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke Of Buccleuch and Vreda Esther Mary Lascelles , he was educated at Eton and Christ Church , Oxford University . He served as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Royal Naval Reserve from 1942 until 1971. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration in 1959. He was appointed Honorary Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1988. On 10th January 1953 he married Jane McNeill, the only child of John McNeill, QC, MA, of Drumavuic, Appin , Argyll , and Amy Yvonne Maynard. Their son Richard Scott, Earl Of Dalkeith , was born on 14th February 1954 . As Earl of Dalkeith, he was a Roxburghshire County Council lor from 1958. He contested Edinburgh East in 1959 and was the Unionist (and latterly Conservative ) Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North from a By-election in 1960 until 1973 and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Advocate 1961 to 1962 and to the Secretary Of State For Scotland from 1962 to 1964. On 4th October 1973 he succeeded to the dukedoms of Buccleuch and of Queensberry , as well as various subsidiary titles associated with each of them. He was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire in 1955, Roxburghshire in 1962, and Dumfriesshire in 1974. He was then appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Roxburghshire from 1974 to 1975, Selkirk in 1975, and Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale from 1975 to 1998. He was appointed Justice Of The Peace for the commission area of Roxburgh in 1975. He was appointed a Knight Of The Thistle in 1978, and served as Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle from 1992. He is a Captain of the Royal Company Of Archers , Lord President of the Council and Silver Stick for Scotland. He has held office with a large number of agricultural, forces and disabled charities and organisations. The Duke is Britain's biggest private landowner, with over 400 square miles of land, has seats at Bowhill, Selkirk , and also at Boughton House , Kettering , Northants , Drumlanrig Castle , Thornhill, Dumfriesshire , and Dalkeith Palace , Dalkeith . His estimated personal fortune of £55m is supplemented by a further c.£400m held by the Buccleuch Group , his holding company. The Duke was in the headlines in late 2003 when the '' Madonna With The Yarnwinder '' by Leonardo Da Vinci was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle. EXTERNAL LINKS
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