Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, 8th Earl of Kintore, 10th Lord Falconer of Halkerton, 8th Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall, Chief of Clan Keith (7 June 1828 – 18 July 1880), was a Scottish aristocrat.
Early life
Keith-Falconer was born on 7 June 1828.[1] He was the second son of Anthony Keith-Falconer, 7th Earl of Kintore and, his second wife, Louisa (née Hawkins), Countess of Kintore. After his parents divorced in 1840, his mother remarried to Dr. B. North Arnold (but died a year later in 1841). His elder brother was Lt. Hon. William Adrian Keith-Falconer, styled Lord Inverurie. His younger brother was Maj. Hon. Charles James Keith-Falconer, Commissioner of the Inland Revenue and his only sister was Lady Isabella Catherine Keith-Falconer (the wife of Henry Grant of Congalton).[2]
His elder brother, Lord Inverurie, died unmarried in 1843 and Francis became heir apparent to his father, who died the following year on 11 July 1844 at which point he became the 8th Earl of Kintore, 8th Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall.[2]
Portrait of his wife, Louisa, Countess of Kintore, by Francis Grant
On 24 June 1851, Lord Kintore was married to his cousin Louisa Madeleine Hawkins (d. 1916), the second daughter of his maternal uncle, Francis Hawkins.[5] Together, they were the parents of:[2]
Lady Madeleine Dora Keith-Falconer (1858–1925), who married Capt. Francis Henry Tonge, a son of Capt. Louis Tonge of the Royal Navy, in 1889.[2]
Lady Blanche Catherine Keith-Falconer (1859–1922), who married Col. Granville Roland Francis Smith of Duffield Hall, a son of MP Rowland Smith, in 1883.[2]
Hon Arthur Keith-Falconer (1863–1877), who died young.[2]
Lord Kintore died on 18 July 1880. His widow, the dowager Countess of Kintore, died on 6 February 1916.[2]
References
^L. G. Pine, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952), page 174.
