Francis Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Lord Elcho
1818–1914
Politician. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford; BA 1841. MP for East Gloucestershire, 1841–6; for East Lothian, 1847–83. Succeeded as the eighth earl of Wemyss and the sixth earl of March in 1883. Founded and financed the Liberty and Property Defence League, opposing trade-unionism and socialism, 1882.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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