James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith

The Earl of Dalkeith, 1688.

Sir James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith KT (23 May 1674 – 14 March 1705) was the son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch. He was also the grandson of Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. On 2 January 1693/94 he married Lady Henrietta Hyde (born in Hindon, Wiltshire, c. 1677, died 30 May 1730), daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester and Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester. They had six children:

1. Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch (11 January 1695 – 22 May 1751) married (1) Lady Jane Douglas (2) Alice Powell
2. Anne (1 April 1696 – 11 October 1714)
3. Charlotte (30 April 1697 – 22 August 1747)
4. Charles (March, 1700 – 4 April 1700)
5. (name unknown) (14 January 1702 – 26 February 1719)
6. Henry (26 November 1704 – died young)

Lady Dalkeith was described as "the wittiest of women", still youthful and charming when she was well over fifty: "the many afflictions she suffered never touched her wit and good nature".

References

• Lundy, Darryl. "James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith". The Peerage.  Accessed 1 January 2009
• Lundy, Darryl. "Lady Jane Douglas". The Peerage.  Accessed 1 January 2009
• G.E. Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden _The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant_ (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume 2, page 367
• Doyle, James William Edmund. The Official Baronage of England, Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations. (p. 602) London: Longmans, Green, 1886. googlebooks Retrieved 16 March 2008