Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth

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Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth ( December 29, 1820 - March 4, 1894 ) was a British politician and breeder. He was best known as the first breeder of the breed of dog known as the Golden Retriever .

Life

Marjoribanks was born in 1820 as the third son of the director of the London " Coutts Bank " Sir Edward Marjoribanks of Greenlands and Ewden in Buckinghamshire and his wife Georgiana, daughter of Joseph Francis Louis Latour of Hexton Park in Bedfordshire. He was educated at Harrow School in London and Christ Church College in Oxford. It then worked as a lawyer for the Honorable Society of Middle Temple . He inherited a considerable fortune from his father, which he was later able to expand considerably through his work as managing director of the brewery Meux Brewery . He had the stately Brook House built in London's Park Lane by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt . He later acquired the Guisachan Forest in Glen Affric in Inverness-shire and larger lands near Hutton and Eddington near his family's home in Berwickshire .

In 1853 Marjoribanks moved into the British House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party for the constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed . On July 25, 1866, he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Guisachan in Beaulieu in the County of Inverness. On October 12, 1881 as Baron Tweedmouth , of Edington in the County of Berwick, raised to peer and thereby became a member of the House of Lords . The reason for this is the considerable financial support that his party received from him. He died in 1894.

family

As a private person, Marjoribanks was mainly engaged in dog breeding. In this role he “created” the dog breed known as the Golden Retriever. On October 19, 1848, he married Isabella, the eldest daughter of Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Baronet .

The couple had several children:

literature

  • Francis Harvey: Catalog of the library at Brook House Park Lane belonging to Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Baronet of Guisachan. Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press, London 1878, OCLC 56375946 .
  • Veronica Strong-Boag: Liberal Hearts and Coronets. The Lives and Times Olf Ishbel Majoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2015, ISBN 978-1-4426-2602-7 , pp. 44, 49-54, ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Origin of the Yellow Retriever - Golden Retriever Club of America. Golden Retriever Club of America, accessed February 25, 2016 (American English).
  2. ^ A b Marjoribanks, Dudley Coutts. In: British Armorial Bindings. armorial.library.utoronto.ca, accessed February 25, 2016 .
  3. ^ View of Brook House, Park Lane, designed for Sir Dudley. akg-images.com, accessed February 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Edward Marjoribanks - Second Baron Tweedmouth. In: Marjoribanks Journal 4.marjorib.awardspace.co.uk, accessed February 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ More Recent Registrations. In: Marjoribanks Journal 3. marjorib.awardspace.co.uk, accessed February 25, 2016 .
predecessor title successor
New title created Baronet, of Guisachan
1866-1894 		Edward Marjoribanks
New title created Baron Tweedmouth
1881-1894 		Edward Marjoribanks
personal data
SURNAME Marjoribanks, Dudley, 1st Baron Tweedmouth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marjoribanks, Dudley Coutts, 1st Baron Tweedmouth; Marjoribanks, Sir Dudley, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and dog breeder
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1820
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1894