James St Clair-Erskine 3rd Earl of Rosslyn Politician

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.

Personal facts

Birth dateFebruary 15, 1802
Nationality
British people
Date of deathJune 16, 1866

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Office holder

monarch
Queen Victoria
party
Tory
prime minister
Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby
successor
Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville
John Ponsonby 5th Earl of Bessborough

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