Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st

Baron Tweedmouth

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The Right Honourable

The Lord

Tweedmouth

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Parliament

for Berwick-upon-Tweed

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1853 – May 1859

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Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and

Glenaffric,[1][2] (29 December 1820 – 4 March 1894), was a Scottish businessman and a Liberal politician who

sat in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron

Tweedmouth. He was the breeder of the first golden retriever.

Contents

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● Life

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● References

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○ Bibliography

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● External links

Life[edit]

Marjoribanks was the son of Edward Marjoribanks of Greenlands who was a senior partner in Coutts Bank.[3]
He was unable to acquire the partnership in the Bank (it passed to his elder brother Edward) but he inherited a

substantial fortune from his father, a partner in Coutts & Co Bank from 1796 until his death on 17 September

1868, aged 92. As to his parentage there was some controversy. Although the Lyon Office of Scotland registered

his family pedigree, he was accused of being a charlatan. The disproofs were offered as a statement of

contradiction concerning his descent.[4] Burnett of the Lyon's Herald wrote an article in The Genealogist

upholding the Lyon Office's original assertion of genuine authenticity. [5]

Dudley Coutts, as his banking second name implies, acquired considerable family wealth of his own after the

purchase of Meux Brewery. He grew rich as a partner of Meux & Co's brewery, and later a director of the East

India Company. With some of this wealth he built the mansion of Brook House in London's fashionable Park

Lane and, by 1846, had purchased the highland deer forest of Guisachan in Glen Affric, Inverness-shire,[6] and

the substantial estates of Hutton and Eddington near his family roots in Berwickshire. Marjoribanks had large

kennels at Guisachan and was largely responsible for developing the then new breed of dog, known now as the

golden retriever.[7][8]

He married Isabella Hogg, daughter of Sir James Hogg, Bt, in 1848. Their children were:[9]

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (married Lady Fanny Octavia Louise Spencer-
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Churchill in 1873)
Mary Georgina Marjoribanks (married Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley in 1873)
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Stewart (died aged 11)
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Annie Grizel (died aged 1)
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Ishbel (married John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in
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1877)
Coutts Marjoribanks (married Agnes Margaret Kinloch in 1895)
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Archibald John Marjoribanks (married Elizabeth Trimble Brown of Tennessee in 1897;
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operated the Rocking Chair Ranche, and died in 1900)

Marjoribanks was descended from James Marjoribanks, a younger son of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head

of the lowland Clan Marjoribanks, both of whom lived in the 16th century in Edinburgh. [3][10]

References[edit]

● ^ "Golden Retriever". dog-names.org.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2017. Golden Retriever History: Dudley Coutts
Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth (29 December 1820 – 4 March 1894), also known as the Laird of Guisachan
and Glenaffric, is credited with developing the Golden Retriever at his Guisachan estate in the Scottish Highlands.

● ^ "Lairds of Glen Affric". scotland.forestry.gov.uk. Forestry Commission. Retrieved 24 May 2016. The lairds (of
Guisachan and Glenaffric, including the original Clan Chisholm and, later, Lord Tweedmouth) who controlled how
 land was managed in Affric have had a major influence on the look and life of the place...

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a b Marjoribanks, Roger. "Marjoribanks of Lees", The Marjoribanks Journal Number 3, p. 14, June 1995.
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Accessed on 22 May 2010

● ^ Foster, R. F, "Collectanea Generalis", part 8, pp. 61-72

● ^ The Genealogist magazine, vol. 6, pp. 294-303

● ^ "Glen Affric". 2019 Forestry and Land Scotland. Retrieved 30 August 2019. Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, the
first Lord Tweedmouth, was a rich Liberal MP who took a long lease on shooting rights over much of Glen Affric in
1846, paying £3,000 per year for the privilege: about £130,000 in today's money

● ^ Golden Retrievers: History

● ^ Lord Tweedmouth Memorial

● ^ Pine, Leslie Gilbert, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended
Peerages With Genealogies and Arms. London: Heraldry Today, 1972, ISBN 9780900455230

● ^ Marjoribanks, Roger, Marjoribanks - A Rural Family in the Capital, The Scottish Genealogist, December 2010,
Accessed 4 April 2012

Bibliography[edit]

External links[edit]

● Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Dudley Marjoribanks

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