Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (born 1954)


Elizabeth Marian Frances Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry is a Scottish noblewoman. She is the daughter of Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, and Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian, and wife of Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch.

Biography

Lady Elizabeth Marian Frances Kerr was born on 8 June 1954 in Shardlow, Derbyshire to Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian and his wife, Antonella. She has Scottish and English ancestry from her father, and English, Italian and Spanish ancestry from her mother. She has five siblings; Mary, Michael, Cecil, Clare and Ralph.
On 31 October 1981 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, she married Richard Scott, the then-Earl of Dalkeith. They have four children:
Scott is also a patroness of the Royal Caledonian Ball.

Titles and styles

As the daughter of a marquess, Scott was styled as Lady Elizabeth Kerr from birth. When she married in 1981, she took the feminine form of her husband's courtesy title, Earl of Dalkeith, with the style Right Honourable. She became Duchess of Buccleuch and Duchess of Queensberry upon her father-in-law's death in 2007.
Her full list of titles includes:
Duchess of Buccleuch,
Duchess of Queensberry,
Marchioness of Dumfriesshire,
Countess of Dalkeith,
Countess of Doncaster,
Countess of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar,
Viscountess of Nith, Tortholwald and Ross,
Baroness Scott of Tindale,
Lady Scott of Buccleuch,
Lady Scott of Whitchester and Eskdaill,
and Lady Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock.