Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Scottish peer
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About Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton
- Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (10 February 1723 – 25 October 1769), was a Scottish peer. Eglinton was the son of The 9th Earl of Eglinton.
- His mother, who was the third wife of the 9th Earl, was Susanna, Countess of Eglinton, the renowned society beauty.
- He was the Grand Master Mason of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1750-51. Lord Eglinton was one of the first of the Scottish landowners to carry out improvements on his estates.
- He planned and built the conservation village of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, in 1769 around the basic plan of a capital 'A'.
- 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. The Earl was shot on the beach near his own estate of Ardrossan by an excise officer or Gaudger (Scots) named Mungo Campbell on 24 October 1769 following a dispute about the latter's right to bear arms on the Earl's grounds.
- The Earl died from his abdominal wounds late that evening.
- Campbell was convicted of murder but died by his own hand before the sentence could be carried out.
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