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Biography of Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland 1844-1929

Paternal Family Tree: Dundas

On 16 Aug 1844 Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland was born to John Charles Dundas (age 35).

On 14 Feb 1866 [his father] John Charles Dundas (age 57) died.

In 1871 Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 26) and Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess Zetland aka Shetland. She the daughter of Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough (age 57) and Adeliza Drummond Countess Scarborough.

On 24 Nov 1872 [his daughter] Hilda Mary Dundas Baroness Southampton was born to Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 28) and [his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 21).

On 06 May 1873 [his uncle] Thomas Laurence Dundas 2nd Earl Zetland (age 78) died at his home Aske Hall North Yorkshire. Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 28) succeeded 3rd Earl Zetland aka Shetland, 4th Baron Dundas, 5th Baronet Dundas of Kerse.

On 19 Jan 1874 [his son] Thomas Dundas was born to Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 29) and [his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 22).

On 11 Feb 1874 [his son] Thomas Dundas died.

On 11 Jun 1876 [his son] Lawrence John Lumley Dundas 2nd Marquess Zetland was born to Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 31) and [his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 24).

On 09 Jul 1877 [his daughter] Maud Frederica Elizabeth Dundas Countess Fitzwilliam was born to Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 32) and [his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 25).

The London Gazette 24843. St. James's Palace, May 10, 1880. THE Queen has been pleased to appoint to be Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty:-

Frederick Henry Paul (age 62), Lord Methuen in the room of William, Lord Bagot (age 69), resigned.

Lawrance (age 35), Earl of Zetland, in the room of Charles Adolphus (age 39), Earl of Dunmore, resigned.

William (age 46), Earl of Listowel, in the room of Dudley Charles FitzGerald (age 53), Lord de Ros, resigned.

Thomas (age 25), Lord Ribblesdale, in the room of William Buller Fullerton (age 51), Lord Elphinstone, resigned.

Charles Douglas Richard (age 39), Lord Sudeley, in the room of John Major (age 37), Lord Henniker, resigned.

Arthur (age 55), Lord Wrottesley, in the room of Cornwallis (age 63), Viscount Hawarden, resigned.

On 01 Jul 1882 [his son] George Heneage Lawrence Dundas was born to Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 37) and [his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 30).

On 05 Dec 1884 [his father-in-law] Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough (age 71) died. On 05 Dec 1884 [his brother-in-law] Aldred Beresford Lumley 10th Earl Scarborough (age 27) succeeded 10th Earl of Scarborough, 11th Viscount Lumley, 10th Baron Lumley.

On 09 Jul 1892 [his son-in-law] Charles Fitzroy 4th Baron Southampton (age 25) and [his daughter] Hilda Mary Dundas Baroness Southampton (age 19) were married. She by marriage Baroness Southampton. She the daughter of Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 47) and [his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 40).

The London Gazette 26328. Whitehall, September 22, 1892. THE Queen hns been pleased, by letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, dated the 22nd August, 1892, to grant the dignities of an Earl and a Marquess of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable Lawrence, Earl of Zetland (age 48), and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Earl of Ronaldshay, in the county of Orkney and Zetland, and Marquess of Zetland. [[his wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 40) by marriage Marchioness Zetland.]

On 08 Apr 1899 [his brother-in-law] Aldred Beresford Lumley 10th Earl Scarborough (age 41) and Lucy Cecilia Dunn-Garnder Countess Scarborough were married at Christ Church. She by marriage Countess of Scarborough. He the son of [his father-in-law] Richard Lumley 9th Earl Scarborough and [his mother-in-law] Adeliza Drummond Countess Scarborough.

On 11 Mar 1929 Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland (age 84) died at his home Aske Hall North Yorkshire. [his son] Lawrence John Lumley Dundas 2nd Marquess Zetland (age 52) succeeded 2nd Marquess Zetland, 2nd Earl of Ronaldshay in Orkney, 4th Earl Zetland aka Shetland, 5th Baron Dundas, 6th Baronet Dundas of Kerse.

On 24 Dec 1943 [his former wife] Lilian Selina Elizabeth Lumley Marchioness Zetland (age 92) died.

Ancestors of Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland 1844-1929

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Laurence Dundas 1st Baronet

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Dundas 1st Baron Dundas

GrandFather: Lawrence Dundas 1st Earl Zetland

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzwilliam 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Cremor

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fitzwilliam 1st and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Stringer

Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Fitzwilliam Baroness Dundas

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Watson

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Watson 1st Marquess Rockingham

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Watson Wentworth Countess Fitzwilliam

Father: John Charles Dundas

Lawrence Dundas 1st Marquess Zetland