page_title: Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Statesmen No. 588: Caricature of Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and 7th Earl of March (1857-1937). Caption read "Derby Day".
context_page_description: Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and 7th Earl of March DL, styled Lord Elcho from 1883 to 1914, was a Scottish Conservative politician.
context_section_description: He was the fifth but eldest surviving son of The 10th Earl of Wemyss and his wife, Lady Anne Frederica Anson. His sister, Evelyn Charteris, was married to The 4th Viscount de Vesci; their only child (Mary Gertrude Vesey) was the second wife of Aubrey Herbert (second son of The 4th Earl of Carnarvon), whose daughter Laura Herbert married the writer Evelyn Waugh and was the mother of Auberon Waugh.
  His father was the eldest son, and heir, of The 9th Earl of Wemyss (and 5th Earl of March). His mother was a daughter of The 1st Earl of Lichfield (and 2nd Viscount Anson).
caption: Lord Elcho as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1892
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