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8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE GEORGE (178...

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 491 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUESS OF See also:TWEEDDALE See also:GEORGE (1787-1876)  , son of the preceding, succeeded in See also:August 1804 . He fought in the See also:Peninsular See also:War, being wounded at the battles of Busaco and See also:Vittoria, and then in See also:America; and he attained the See also:rank of a See also:field See also:marshal in 1875 . From 1842 to 1848 he was See also:governor and See also:commander-in-See also:chief of See also:Madras, but his later See also:life was mainly spent at Yester, where he showed a very See also:practical See also:interest in See also:agriculture . He died on the loth of See also:October 1876 . His son, See also:ARTHUR (1824-1878), who became 9th See also:marquess, was an ornithologist of repute and a soldier who served in See also:India and the See also:Crimea . His ornithological See also:works were published privately in 1881 by his See also:nephew, See also:Captain R . E . W . See also:Ramsay, with a memoir by Dr W . H . See also:Russell . His successor was his See also:brother, See also:WILLIAM See also:MONTAGU (b .

1826), who, after sitting in the See also:

House of See also:Commons for thirteen years, was made a peer of the See also:United See also:Kingdom as See also:Baron See also:Tweeddale in 1881 .

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