0 @IBI82@ INDI
1 NAME George /Drummond/
2 NPFX Earl
1 SEX M
1 NOTE See Burke's Peerage
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 May 1807
2 PLAC London
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Feb 1902
2 NOTE Obiturary Times 1 Mar 1902
3 CONT The Earl of Perth on Melfort.
3 CONT We have to announce the death, which occured early yesterday morning at the Cottage, Kew,
3 CONT of the Early of Perth and Melfort, his Majesty's most aged peer, who had lived in the five
3 CONT reigns. George Drummond, cheif of the Clan Drummond, Viscount Melfort and Forth Baron Drummond
3 CONT of Cargill, Baron Drummond of Stobhall and Montifex, and Baron Drummond o Richertoun, Castlemain,
3 CONT and Galstoun, all in the peerage of Scotland; hereditary Thane of Lennox, and hereditary Steward
3 CONT of the Menteith and Strathearn; Duc de Melfort, Comte de Lussan and Baron de Valrose in France,
3 CONT was born in London on May 6 1807. Educated in France and Scotland, he joined the 93rd Sutherland
3 CONT Highlanders in 1824, and became a captain at 18. He succeeded his uncle in the French honours
3 CONT in 1840, and in 1841 established before the Conseil d'Etat in France and the Tribunal de la Seine
3 CONT his pedigree from the Earls and Dukes of Perth and Melfort and his right of succession to the
3 CONT French honours of Duck of Melfort and Perth, Comte de Lussan and Baron de Valrose. The Scottish
3 CONT earldoms of Perth and Melfort were restored to him by special command and recommedation of the
3 CONT late Queen Victoria by an Act of Parliment, which was unanimously passed by both Houses, and
3 CONT received the Royal assent on June 28, 1853. Lord Perth was married, first in 1831, to the
3 CONT Baroness Albertine de Rotberg, widow of General Comte Rapp, peer of France (she died in 1842);
3 CONT and secondly, in 1847, to Susan Henrietta, widow of Colonal Burrowes, of Dangan Castle, Meath,
3 CONT and daughter of Mr Thomas Bermingham Sewell, of Athenry, by Harriett, his wife, daughter of
3 CONT Lord Decies, Archbishop of Tuam. Lady Edith Drummond, his daughter by his second marriage,
3 CONT succeeds to the Earldom of Melfort and the French titles, his grandson by his first marriage,
3 CONT Lord Drummond, having died unmarried in 1887. Viscount Strathallan, his kinsman, succeeds to the
3 CONT title of Chief of the Clan and to the Barony of Drummond of 1487, and after having been served
3 CONT heir will succeed to the Earldom of Perth. The Drummonds, according to unvarying tradition, are
3 CONT of Hungarian origin, Maurice, the first of the family, who settled in Scotland, having come
3 CONT over from that country with Edgar Atheling and Margaret, his sister, afterwards Queen of Scotland.
3 CONT For many years the Earl of Perth was engaged in litigation, but without success, to recover
3 CONT the old family estates. The late peer, who was the 14th Earl of Perth and 6th Earl of Melfort,
3 CONT was a major of the Victoria Middlesex Rifles (Voluntear) form 1853 to 1859.
1 FAMS @FBI61@
1 FAMS @FBI41@

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