NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rosslyn, James St Clair-Erskine Earl of, 1762-1837 NRA: Erskine, James St-Clair- (1762-1837) 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, General, statesman DNB: Erskine, James St Clair, second earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), army officer and politician LBT ID: LdRossl2 VIAF ID: 23674601 LOC ID: n87933817 | B/BAP: 1762-02-06 DIED: 1837-01-18 |
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He was Tory MP for Castle Rising (1781-84), Morpeth (1784), and Kirkcaldy (1790-1805);
major-general (1798) and commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean (1805). | |