Louis Epstein
2024-10-01 19:17:16 UTC
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Permalinkborn July 7th 1945,died October 1st 2024 according to the
Herald of Scotland and other sources.
An active Conservative politician,he was known widely
as "Michael Ancram" from the courtesy title "Earl of
Ancram" he had held since birth (his father having
succeeded to the Marquessate in 1940 on the death
of a cousin,the intervening ancestors in line having
died in his childhood).
In 2010,after many years in the House of Commons and
Shadow Cabinet and government and party posts,he was
given a life peerage as Baron Kerr of Monteviot and
sat in the House of Lords by virtue of that title
since the Marquessate no longer carried a seat.
He had only daughters and the Marquessate thus passes
to his brother Lord Ralph Kerr (born November 7th
1957,just under a year after the current Duke of
Northumberland,also a Lord Ralph who succeeded his
elder brother)...his elder daughter is however the
heiress presumptive to the Scottish barony (Lordship
of Parliament,though similarly barred from Parliament
by the 1999 Act) of Herries of Terregles now held by
the newly-deceased Marquess's widow,who was the youngest
daughter of the 16th Duke of Norfolk (who also had
only daughters and was succeeded by a cousin in his
titles limited to heirs male,while three of his four
daughters in turn succeeded to the Herries title).
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