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7 unusual facts about Earl of Kintore


Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester

After they divorced in 1931, Helena married secondly, in 1937, the Earl of Kintore.

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

Lord Stonehaven married Lady (Ethel) Sydney Keith-Falconer, daughter of the 9th Earl of Kintore, in 1905.

The Viscountess Stonehaven succeeded her elder brother as eleventh Countess of Kintore in 1966.

Lord Stonehaven died of hypertensive cardiac disease at Ury House, Stonehaven, Scotland, in August 1941, aged 67, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Ian.

Viscount Stonehaven

James Ian Keith, 2nd Viscount Stonehaven (1908–1989) (succeeded as 12th Earl of Kintore in 1974)

The first Viscount married Lady Ethel Sydney Keith, daughter of Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, who in 1966 succeeded her younger brother as 12th Countess of Kintore.

The baronetcy, barony and viscountcy of Stonehaven are now subsidiary titles of the Earldom of Kintore.


John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore

He was created Knight Marischal of Scotland upon Charles II return, and in 1677 was created Earl of Kintore along with the subsidiary title of Lord Keith of Inverugie and Keith Hall.


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