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unusual facts about Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran


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The Boyd family crest was inscribed on the silver which was received by Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran on his marriage to Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of James II of Scotland.


Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran

It was through her children by her second husband that the Hamilton Earls of Arran and Stewart Lennoxes derived their claim to the Kingdom of Scotland.

Montague Gore

Gore was the eldest son of the Rev. Charles Gore of Honbury, Gloucestershire and was the member of a branch of the Gore family that descended from Sir John Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1624, younger son of Gerard Gore, whose elder son Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, was the ancestor of the Earls of Arran, the Barons Annaly and the Barons Harlech.

Thomas Boyd-Carpenter

In retirement, he became chairman of the Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Heath Authority and then chairman of the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.


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