page_title: David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine / Family
caption_attribution_description: Gallery of Beauties
context_page_description: David Montagu Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine was a British diplomat and politician.
context_section_description: Lord Erskine had lived in the United States prior to his appointment as Minister to Washington. In 1799, he married as his first wife Frances Cadwalader, daughter of John Cadwalader, a general during the American Revolutionary War. She was the great granddaughter of Judge William Moore, of Moore's Hall, Pennsylvania, whose niece married Lord Erskine's father, and hence Lord Erskine and his wife were cousins. The portrait of Lady Erskine by Gilbert Stuart was considered one of his masterpieces. They had twelve children:
  Hon. Thomas Americus Erskine, later 3rd Baron Erskine (1802-1877), diplomat.
  Hon. John Cadwallader Erskine, later 4th Baron Erskine (1804-1882), diplomat.
  Hon. Steuarta Erskine (1810-1863), married Timothy Yeats Brown.
  Hon. Elizabeth Erskine (c. 1812-1886), married Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 2nd Baronet.
  Lt.-Col. Hon. David Montagu Erskine (1816–1903), soldier.
  Hon. Edward Morris Erskine (1817–1883), diplomat.
  Hon. James Stuart Erskine (1821–1904), created Graf Erskine by Ludwig II of Bavaria.
  Hon. Frances Erskine (died 1876), married Gabriel Shawe.
  Hon. Sevilla Erskine (died 1835), married Sir Henry Howard.
  Hon. Harriett Erskine (died 1855), married Charles Woomass.
  Hon. Jane Plumer Erskine (died 1846), married James Callander of Craigforth and Ardkinglas.
  Hon. Mary Erskine (died 1874), married Graf Hermann von Paumgarten; their great-grandson, Graf Karl Theodor zu Törring-Jettenbach, married Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark.
  Thomas Americus was named after Thomas Cadwalader, Lady Erskine's brother, who became an officer during the War of 1812. John Cadwallader was named after her father. Lady Erskine died in Genoa in March 1843.
  Erskine married as his second wife Anne, daughter of John Travis, in July 1843. After Anne's death in April 1851, he married as his third wife Anna, daughter of William Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore and Finlaystone and widow of Thomas Calderwood Durham, in 1852. There were no children from his second and third marriage. Lord Erskine died at his home of Butler's Green in Sussex in March 1855, aged 78, and was buried at Cuckfield. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Thomas. His widow married the Venerable John Sandford, Archdeacon of Coventry, in 1856. She died in March 1886.
caption: Lord Erskine's daughter, the Honourable Jane Erskine, circa 1838, in the Gallery of Beauties.
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