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Single Person record details
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Person Code
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NA16307
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PreTitle
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Sir
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Forenames
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Algernon Hawkins Thomond
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Surname
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Keith-Falconer
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Title
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9th Earl of Kintore
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Dates
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1852-1930
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Epithet
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Lord-in-Waiting in Royal Household
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Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer was born in Edinburgh in 1852 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1872. He was the eldest son of Francis Alexander (1828-1880), 8th Earl of Kintore, and Louisa Madaleine Hawkins. He succeeded his father as 9th Earl of Kintore in 1880. He was for some time JP for Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire and was Lord in Waiting to Queen Victoria from 1885 to 1886, before becoming Governor of South Australia in 1889. On his return to England in 1895 he resumed his office in the Royal Household until Queen Victoria?s death in 1901, when he continued in office under Edward VII until 1905. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Colonel of the 3rd Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders, and was awarded an honorary LLD by Aberdeen University in 1889. He died in 1930 and was succeeded by his second and eldest surviving son.
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Associated records
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GB231/MS 3064 | Papers of the Earls of Kintore | 1405 - 1952 | GB231/MS 3538 | Algernon Keith-Falconer, Earl of Kintore: papers | 1897 - 1906 | GB237/Coll/874 | Letters of Sir Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer (1852-1930), 9th Earl of Kintore | 1896-1914 |
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