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Article: Duke of Buccleuch dies.
- Article from:
- Southern Reporter (Selkirk, Scotland)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2007
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IT has been confirmed this afternoon that the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry has died at the age of 83.
He was Britain's largest private landowner, a cousin of the Queen and a direct descendant of Charles 11.
The Duke had been in the Borders General Hospital but was taken home to Bowhill where he passed away in the early hours of this morning.
He was paralysed from the waist down after fracturing his spine in a fox hunting accident in 1971 while serving as the Conservative MP for Edinburgh North - a seat he secured in 1960. Despite his injuries, he returned to the House of Commons in a wheelchair six months later and remained as an MP until ...