Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
[3] Lothian entered the Diplomatic Service and was an attaché at Lisbon and Tehran in 1854, Baghdad in 1855 and Athens from 1857, then second secretary at Frankfurt from 1862, Madrid from 1865, and Vienna from 1865.[2] In 1870, he succeeded to the marquessate on the death of his childless elder brother, William, and took his seat in the House of Lords.In 1886, he was sworn of the Privy Council,[4] and the following year he succeeded Arthur Balfour as Secretary for Scotland[5] and Vice-President of the Scottish Education Department[6] in Lord Salisbury's Conservative administration.Lord Lothian married, in 1865, Lady Victoria Alexandrina (d.1938), daughter of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch.Lord Lothian died at his town residence in London on 17 January 1900, aged 66,[2] and was succeeded in the marquessate by his third and only surviving son, Robert.
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