page_title: Murder of Alexander Montgomerie
section_title: Lord Eglinton
hierarchical_section_title: Murder of Alexander Montgomerie / Lord Eglinton
caption_attribution_description: English: A print of Lady Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton. Lived 1690 - 1780.
context_page_description: The Rt Hon. Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, was a wealthy Scottish peer and landowner. Lord Eglinton was mortally wounded on the beach near his stables at Parkhouse on his own estate of Ardrossan in Ayrshire by an excise officer or Gaudger named Mungo Campbell on 24 October 1769, following a dispute about poaching and the latter's right to bear arms on the Earl's grounds.
context_section_description: The 10th Earl of Eglinton, one of twenty siblings, was the eldest son of The 9th Earl of Eglinton (c. 1660-1729) and his third wife, Susanna, Countess of Eglinton, a renowned society beauty. The 10th Earl planned and built the conservation village of Eaglesham in Renfrewshire in 1769 around the basic plan of a capital 'A' (for Alexander). The Earl introduced the young James Boswell to the joys of London society in the early 1760s, and figures prominently in Boswells London Journal, 1762-63. Lord Eglinton was the Grand Master Mason of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1750-51. He was married to Jane (or Jean) Montgomerie, daughter of John Maxwell and widow of James Montgomerie of Lainshaw, the brother of Boswell's wife Margaret. They had no offspring.
  Lord Eglinton was a great agricultural innovator and, although this ultimately led to improvements that were of great benefit, they were initially very unpopular with many of the tenants.
caption: Susanna, mother of The 10th Earl of Eglinton
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