Patricia Katherine (Montagu-Douglas-Scott) Scrymgeour-Wedderburn 'Countess of Dundee' (1910 - 2012)

Born 9 Oct 1910 in London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Walter Douglas Faulkner MC — married 8 Jul 1931 in England

Wife of David Scrymgeour-Wedderburn — married 9 Sep 1940 in London, England

Wife of Henry James (Scrymgeour-Wedderburn) Scrymgeour — married 30 Oct 1946 in London, England

Descendants

Died 3 Dec 2012 at age 102 in Birkhill, Balmerino, Fife, Scotland

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Biography

"Patricia was married three times. She first married Walter Douglas Faulkner MC on 8 July 1930. Then she was widowed, and married David Scrymgeour-Wedderburn (later considered de jure 10th Earl of Dundee) on 9 September 1940. Then she was widowed again, and married her brother-in-law Henry James Scrymgeour, which took place on 30 October 1946 in London.

"Countess Patricia had a total of six children by three fathers. Her son Alexander is the Earl of Dundee and her daughter Elizabeth is Baroness Teynham."

'Obituary'

Patricia, Countess of Dundee

Matriarch and artist;

Born: October 9, 1910; Died: December 3, 2012.

Right up until she died aged 102, Patricia Dundee remained alert and contemporary with an abiding interest in her 77 descendants by whom she was greatly loved and respected.

Born in Hertfordshire, Patricia Katherine was the third child of Marie (nee Edwards) and Colonel Lord Herbert Montague Douglas Scott, fifth son of the sixth Duke of Buccleuch. A founder member of the Irish Guards in 1900, Herbert Scott served in the First World War, after having been awarded the DSO in the South African war of 1899 to 1902. In the 1930s, as chairman of Rolls Royce, he encouraged the development of the Spitfire engine, later to become of key importance to the success of British air defence.

Marie, who is remembered for her good humour and independence of mind, was the niece of George Edwards, the famous musical theatre director who played a part in the rise of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Patricia had three happy marriages. However, over her long life she suffered much bereavement and sadness not least caused by the Second World War.

Her first husband, Lt Colonel WD (Faulks) Faulkner whom she married in 1931, was killed during the Norway campaign in April 1940, while commanding the first battalion of the Irish Guards.

Her second husband, Lt Colonel David Scrymgeour Wedderburn, who commanded the first battalion of the Scots Guards, died of wounds at Anzio in March 1944.

After the war, she married David's elder brother Jim Wedderburn (later 11th Earl of Dundee) who in the House of Commons in the 1930s had been Under Secretary of State for Scotland, and in Harold Macmillan's administration in the 1960s became deputy leader of the House of Lords and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

She was predeceased by him in 1983, as she also was 10 years later by her eldest son, Major David Faulkner (the Irish Guards) who aged 60 died of a heart attack.

Patricia Dundee was an accomplished artist. Many of her descendants follow suit. She combined the skills of a water colourist and photographer, demonstrated within albums started when she was 15, and continued without interruption for 87 years.

A brilliant conversationalist, she will be recalled for her calm and uniting influence of goodwill. She is survived by four of her five children.

(Published in 'The Herald' - 15 February 2013)

Obituary

Patricia Katharine Countess of Dundee 1910-2012

Patricia Katharine Countess of Dundee, who died 3 December, 2012, at Birkhill by Cupar, Fife, was aged 102. Lady Dundee was a great-aunt of Sarah Duchess of York.

She was born Patricia Katharine Montagu Douglas Scott, 9 Oct, 1910, a scion of the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the second daughter of Lord Herbert Montagu Douglas Scott (1872-1944), by his wife the former Marie Josephine Edwards (d 1965). Her elder sister Marian Louisa married Col Andrew Ferguson, and was the grandmother of Sarah Duchess of York.

She married (1) 8 Jul 1931, Lt-Col Walter Douglas Faulkner, MC, who was killed in action in May, 1940; married (2) 9 Sept 1940, Lt-Col David Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, DSO, Scots Guards, scion of the arls of Dundee. He died of wounds in 1944. She married (3) 30 Oct 1946, her brother-in-law, Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn (later Scrymgeour of Dundee), de jure, later de facto 11th Earl of Dundee, PC (1902-1983).

She had issue from her three marriages, a son David James Faulkner, b 1932 (dec.), from her first union, 2 daughters from the second marriage, Janet Mary (now Mrs Fox-Pitt), b 1941, and Elizabeth, Baroness Teynham b. 1943, wife of the 20th Baron Teynham (and mother of 10); and 1 son from the third marriage, Alexander Henry Scrymgeour of Dundee, 12th Earl of Dundee, who was b 5 Jun 1949.

(Published in 'Peerage News' - Friday, December 07, 2012)

Sources

• Wikipedia, Patricia Montagu Douglas Scott [1]

• The Peerage [2]