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unusual facts about Duke of Roxburghe


Old Windsor

In 1751 the estate was bought by the Duke of Roxburghe for his son, the Marquis of Beaumont, who renamed it Beaumont Lodge.


Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder

Though more highly trusted than Sir David Dalrymple, the Lord Advocate, by the Duke of Roxburghe, he felt this an irksome position, and in 1718 applied to succeed Eliot of Minto on the bench; but the place was already given to Sir Walter Pringle.


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Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder

He held himself somewhat aloof at first from politics, and on the advice of the Duke of Roxburghe forbore next year to join the party forming against the Duke of Argyll, but soon engaged in a violent and even factious opposition to government.