Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton | |
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| 10th Earl of Eglinton | |
| In office 1729–1769 | |
| Succeeded by | Archibald Montgomerie |
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| Born | 10 February 1723 |
| Died | 25 October 1769 (aged 46) |
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Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (10 February 1723 – 25 October 1769), was a Scottish peer.
Eglinton was the son of The 9th Earl of Eglinton. His mother, who was the third wife of the 9th Earl, was Susanna, Countess of Eglinton, the society beauty.[1] He was the Grand Master Mason of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1750 to 1751.
Lord Eglinton was one of the first of the Scottish landowners to carry out improvements on his estates.[1] He planned and built the conservation village of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, in 1769 around the basic plan of a capital 'A'. The Earl introduced the young James Boswell to the joys of London society in the early 1760s, and figures prominently in Boswells London Journal, 1762-63.
The Earl was shot on the beach near his own estate of Ardrossan by an excise officer or Gaudger (Scots) named Mungo Campbell on 24 October 1769 following a dispute about the latter's right to bear arms on the Earl's grounds.[2] The Earl died from his abdominal wounds[3] late that evening. Campbell was convicted of murder but died by his own hand before the sentence could be carried out.[4]
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A panel from the coach in which the 10th Earl travelled during the Mungo Campbell incident. -
The outside facing side of the panel from the coach in which the 10th Earl travelled during the Mungo Campbell incident.
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 18.
- ^ The Trial of Mungo Campbell for the Murder of Alexander Earl of Eglintoun. (1770). London. Page 2
- ^ The Trial of Mungo Campbell, page 3, D. Wilson & G. Nicol (publ.); London: 1770
- ^ Account of the murder of the 10th Earl of Eglinton Archived 12 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine