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Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, Chief of Clan Keith, (12 August 1852 – 3 March 1930), was a British politician and colonial governor. Among his siblings were Hon. Dudley Metcalfe Courtenay Keith-Falconer (who died unmarried), Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer (who married Gwendolen Bevan, a daughter of banker Robert Cooper Lee Bevan of Fosbury House), Lady Madeleine Dora Keith-Falconer (who married Capt. Francis Henry Tonge), Lady Blanche Catherine Keith-Falconer (who married Col. Granville Roland Francis Smith of Duffield Hall, a son of MP Rowland Smith).

He arrived with his family in South Australia on 11 April 1889 aboard the Orient and was formally welcomed by the administrator, Chief Justice Samuel Way, who later resigned as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of South Australia in his favour.

Court, military and later life

Lord Kintore acted as Lord-in-waiting for Queen Victoria for 1885/6 and Edward VII 1901–05.

Lord Kintore was appointed lieutenant-colonel in command of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders on 17 October 1891. He also held the honorary rank of colonel. In January 1903 he was appointed an Aide-de-Camp for Militia to the King, and received the substantive rank of colonel in the militia.

He was a Knight of Grand-Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy of Italy, a 1st Class of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia, a Grand-Cross of the Military Order of Our Lord Jesus Christ of Portugal and a Grand-Cross of the Order of the Polar Star of Sweden.

Kintore was the Grand Master of the Royal Order of Scotland from 1917 to 1925.

Personal life

Lord Kintore married Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu (1851–1932), second daughter of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester, at St George's, Hanover Square, London, on 14 August 1873. Together, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters, including: who married American heiress Helena Montagu, Duchess of Manchester ( Zimmerman), the divorced wife of William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester who was a daughter of Eugene Zimmerman, in 1937.

He died on 3 March 1930 aged 77 at 10 Park Place, St James Street, London, of acute bronchitis and periurethral abscess and interred on 7 March 1930 at Keith Hall, Inverurie, Aberdeen. He was succeeded on the earldom by his second but only surviving son, Arthur. Kintore's daughter, Lady Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, wife of John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, eventually inherited the earldom. His widow, the dowager Lady Kintore, died at Inverurie, Aberdeen on 21 September 1932.

Legacy

Places and other items named for Earl Kintore include:

  • County of Kintore in South Australia in 1890
  • The town of Kintore, Northern Territory
  • Kintore, Western Australia, now a ghost town
  • Kintore Avenue in Adelaide city centre
  • Kintore's egernia (Liopholis kintorei), an Australian lizard named in 1893
  • Mount Kintore and the Kintore Range in the Northern Territory, named by William Tietkens during his expedition of 1889

See also

  • Tietkens expedition of 1889

References

Sources

  • Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (1852-1930), Governor of South Australia at the National Portrait Gallery, London