Walter_Scott,_Earl_of_Tarras Knowpia

Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Tarras (23 December 1644 – 9 April 1693) was a Scottish nobleman. Born Walter Scott of Highchester, he married his kinswoman Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch, daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Leslie, on 9 February 1659 in Wemyss, Fife. She died in 1661 and the couple had no children. He married Helen Hepburn of Humbie in 1677, and they had a number of children. He was granted the titles Earl of Tarras and Baron Almoor and Campcastill in the Peerage of Scotland in 1660. These were early examples of a life peerage, being granted "for the days of his natural life", to make Walter Scott of equal rank to his wife. In 1685 he was attainted, but restored in 1687.^[1]^[2]

An illustration of Walter Scott from William Fraser's The Scotts of Buccleuch (1878)

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^ Fraser, William (1880). "Walter Scott, Earl of Tarras". The two heiresses of Buccleuch. pp. 67–82.
^ Paul, James Balfour, ed. (1910). The Scots Peerage. Vol. 7. pp. 80–82.

[1] Fraser, William (1880). "Walter Scott, Earl of Tarras". The two heiresses of Buccleuch. pp. 67–82.

[2] Paul, James Balfour, ed. (1910). The Scots Peerage. Vol. 7. pp. 80–82.

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