Frances Douglas-Hamilton (died 30 December 1772) was the daughter of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney and his wife, Elizabeth Villiers.
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She was a lady of the bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales, later Queen Caroline of Great Britain and Princess Augusta of Wales.
He died "heavily in debt", and left his Durham estates to his nephew Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough and his Sussex estates to his nephew George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.
He was succeeded by his younger brother, Reverend John Lumley-Savile.
Kevin Saunderson, American originator of Techno music (born in 1964)
On 27 June 1724, Scarbrough had married Lady Frances Hamilton, the second daughter and coheiress of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney.
Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough | Nicholas Saunderson | Kevin Saunderson | John Saunderson | Frances Lumley-Saunderson, Countess of Scarbrough | Bill Saunderson |
In 1947, Saunderson's great-grandson, also named Alexander, married Louise Astor Van Alen, granddaughter of James John Van Alen and grandniece of RMS Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, and the ex-wife of two different Georgian Mdivani princes.
The first house on the site was built 1740 by James Paine for John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway, who had bought the 500 acre Serleby estate from the Saunderson family of Blyth.