BUCCLEUCH, DUKES OF. The substantial origin of the ducal house of the Scotts of Buccleuch dates back to the large grants of land in Scotland to Sir Walter Scott of Kirkurd and Buccleuch, a border chief, by James II., in consequence of the fall of the 8th earl of Douglas (1452) ; but the family traced their descent back to a Sir Richard le Scott (1249-85). The estate of Buccleuch is in Selkirkshire. Sir Walter Scott of Branx holm and Buccleuch (died 1552) distinguished himself at the battle of Pinkie (1547), and furnished material for his later namesake's famous poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel; and his great-grandson Sir Walter (1565-1611) was created Lord Scott of Buccleuch in 1606. An earldom followed in 1619. The second earl's daughter Anne (1651-1732), who succeeded him as a count ess in her own right, married in 1663 the f amou.3 duke of Mon mouth (q.v.), who was then created 1st duke of Buccleuch; and her grandson Francis became 2nd duke. The latter's son Henry (1746-1812) became 3rd duke, and in 1810 succeeded also, on the death of William Douglas, 4th duke of Queensberry, to that dukedom as well as its estates and other honours, according to the entail executed by his own great-grandfather, the 2nd duke of Queensberry, in 1706. John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 7th duke of Buccleuch, duke of Queensberry, etc., son of the 6th duke whose wife was well known as mistress of the robes to Queen Victoria, succeeded to the title in 1914; died Oct. See Sir W. Fraser, The Scotts of Buccleuch (1878).