David Erskine, 13th Earl of Buchan

Erskine married Agnes Graham Smith, daughter of James Smith, Esq. of Craigend, Stirlingshire, on 27 April 1849; they had two sons:^[2]

• Shipley Gordon Stuart Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan (1850–1934)
• Hon. Albany Mar Stuart Erskine (1852–1933)

His first wife died in 1875 and Lord Buchan remarried on 17 July 1876 to Maria James (1818–1899), daughter of Lt.-Col. William James.^[2]

Erskine lived at West Hagbourne Manor, Didcot, Oxfordshire.^[1] He was declared bankrupt in 1894 at the sum of £388 after having passed on his estates in Linlithgow to his son, Lord Cardross, later the 14th Earl of Buchan.^[2]

Erskine died aged 83 on 3 December 1898. Before his death he had converted to Roman Catholicism.^[5]

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