8TH

MARQUESS OF

See also:

• TWEEDDALE, MARQUESSES OF

TWEEDDALE

See also:

• GEORGE
• 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE GEORGE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

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

1826), who, after sitting in the

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