The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club - His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensferry, KT, VRD, JP, DL

Our President in 1982/83 was:

His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensferry, KT, VRD, JP, DL

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1982 The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensferry

Walter Francis John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry, KT, VRD, JP, DL (born 28 September 1923) is a Scottish Peer, politician and landowner. The only son of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch and 10th Duke of Queensberry and the former Mary Lascelles, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

His estimated personal fortune of Ł55m is supplemented by a further c.Ł400m held by the Buccleuch Group, his holding company. The Duke was in the headlines in late 2003 when the Madonna with the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle.

He served as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Royal Naval Reserve from 1942 until 1971. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration in 1959. He was appointed Honorary Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1988. He was a Captain of the Royal Company of Archers, Lord President of the Council and Silver Stick for Scotland.

As Earl of Dalkeith, he was a Roxburghshire County Councillor from 1958. He contested Edinburgh East in 1959 and was the Unionist (and latterly Conservative) Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North from a by-election in 1960 until 1973 and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Advocate 1961 to 1962 and to the Secretary of State for Scotland from 1962 to 1964.

The 1984 Bulletin features speeches by Duke ot Buccleuch, Rt Hon Tom Morgan, Lady Antonia Fraser, Eric Kean and Vice Admiral Nicholas Hunt

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