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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Thomas Erskine
(about 1746 -- 6 February 1828) was a Scottish merchant, landowner and
politician who for many years lived in the Swedish port city of
Gothenburg. He returned to Scotland in 1799 when he inherited an earldom
from a nephew and became the 9th Earl of Kellie. In 1771 Thomas Erskine
wed Anne Gordon, a daughter of Captain Adam Gordon of Ardoch. The
marriage was childless, but Erskine's daughter born out of wedlock,
Harriet (born in 1763), married Johan Henrik Engelhart, professor of
medicine at Lund. Four of Harriet's children were raised in their
grandfather's house in Scotland. While the earldom was inherited by
Erskine's brother Methven, a new Erskine baronetcy was granted in 1820
to the 9th Earl's grandson, David Engelhart, who changed his name to
Erskine and on whom Thomas Erskine entailed the estate of Cambo. David's
sister, Harriet Engelhart, married a first cousin, another David Erskine
(a nephew of the 9th Earl of Kellie and the natural son of Sir David
Erskine) who settled as a merchant in Stockholm.
