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3 unusual facts about William Erskine


William Erskine

Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet (1770–1813), British Army officer and Member of Parliament

William Erskine, Lord Kinneder

It was Erskine who negotiated for Scott's translation of Lenore in 1796.

On 13 September 1800 Kinneder married Euphemia Robison (only daughter of Professor John Robison- Physicist), who died in September 1819.


Claude Farrer

He was the second son and third child of four of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (who was raised to the peerage but only in 1893 after Claude's death, so Claude was not styled "the Honourable") and his wife Frances Erskine (1825–1870), daughter of the historian and orientalist William Erskine (1773–1852) and his wife Maitland Mackintosh daughter of James Mackintosh by his first wife.


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