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James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn

Scottish soldier and Tory politician

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
name	The Earl of Rosslyn
honorific-suffix	PC DL
order1	Master of the Buckhounds
term_start1	10 September 1841
term_end1	29 June 1846
monarch1	Victoria
primeminister1	Sir Robert Peel
predecessor1	The Lord Kinnaird
successor1	The Earl Granville
term_start2	28 February 1852
term_end2	17 December 1852
monarch2	Victoria
primeminister2	The Earl of Derby
predecessor2	The Earl of Bessborough
successor2	The Earl of Bessborough
office3	Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
term_start3	18 January 1837
term_end3	16 June 1866
Hereditary Peerage
predecessor3	The 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
successor3	The 4th Earl of Rosslyn
birth_date	15 February 1802
death_date
nationality	British
party	Tory
parents	James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
Harriet Elizabeth Bouverie
spouse
children	3, including Robert

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | honorific-suffix = PC DL Lord Temporal Hereditary Peerage Harriet Elizabeth Bouverie

General James Alexander St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn PC, DL (15 February 1802 – 16 June 1866), styled Lord Loughborough from 1805 to 1837, was a Scottish soldier and Tory politician. A General in the British Army, he also held political office as Master of the Buckhounds between 1841 and 1846 and again in 1852 and as Under-Secretary of State for War in 1859.

Early life

Rosslyn was the son of James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, by his wife Harriet Elizabeth Bouverie, daughter of the Hon. Edward Bouverie (the second son of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone).

Career

Rosslyn entered the British Army in 1819. He purchased a captaincy in the 9th Light Dragoons in 1823 and a lieutenant-colonelcy in 1828. He was promoted to Major-General in 1854, to Lieutenant-General in 1859 and to full General on 20 April 1866.

In 1864 he was appointed Regimental Colonel of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars after the death of General Sir William Tuyll. Lord Rosslyn also commanded the Auxiliary Cavalry Regiment, The Fife Mounted Rifle Volunteers from 1860 until his death in 1866.

Political career

Rosslyn was returned to Parliament for Dysart Burghs, in Fife, in 1830, a seat he held until 1831, and then represented Grimsby from 1831 to 1832. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1837. In 1841 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Master of the Buckhounds under Sir Robert Peel, which he remained until the government fell in 1846. He held the same office from February to December 1852 under Lord Derby, and was briefly Under-Secretary of State for War under Derby from March to June 1859.

Lord Rosslyn was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Fife.

Personal life

In 1826, James married Frances Wemyss (1794–1858), daughter of Lt.-Gen. William Wemyss, of Wemyss Castle, Fife. Together, they were the parents of two sons and a daughter, including:

Hon. James Alexander George St Clair-Erskine (1830–1851), styled Lord Loughborough, a Lieut. who died unmarried.
Robert Francis St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn, who married Blanche Adeliza FitzRoy, great-granddaughter of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and widow of Col. Hon. Charles Henry Maynard.
Lady Harriet Elizabeth St Clair-Erskine (d. 1867), who married Prince Georg Münster, Hereditary Marshal of Hanover and Hanoverian Ambassador to London (d. 1902) in 1865.

Lady Rosslyn died on 30 September 1858 and Lord Rosslyn died, several years later, in June 1866, aged 64. He was succeeded in the earldom by his only surviving son, Robert.

References

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{{London Gazette. (5 March 1852)
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{{London Gazette. (13 May 1828)
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