walter montagu-douglas-scott, 5th duke of buccleuch

Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry (25 November 1806 - 16 April 1884) was a British politician and nobleman. Educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge, Buccleuch married Lady Charlotte Thynne, daughter of the Marquess of Bath, by whom he had three daughters and four sons. A great Scottish landed magnate, Buccleuch was in politics a Conservative, and was created a Knight of the Garter in 1835, and served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President in Peel's government in the 1840s, when he reluctantly supported Peel's decision respecting repeal of the Corn Laws. After Peel's fall, his political career largely came to an end. In 1877 he became Chancellor of Glasgow University. He died in 1884.

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