He was born in Wemyss Castle on 11 July 1858, the eldest son on James Hay Erskine Wemyss and Augusta Millicent Anne Mary Kennedy Erskine, youngest daughter of the Honourable John Kennedy Erskine of Dun in the County of Forfar.
Captain Randolph Wemyss, the greatest of the Fife coalowners, was therefore permitted to construct a railway from the mines to the port of Methil from where the coal was exported.
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