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Old Photograph The Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital Buckhaven Fife Scotland
Old photograph of The Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. Captain Randolph Gordon Erskine Wemyss, born 11 July 1858, died 17 July 1908, was Laird of Wemyss Castle and Chief of Clan Wemyss. This Scottish hospital was erected in Buckhaven in his memory at a cost of £10,000, and opened on 28 August 1909. Randolph was born in Wemyss Castle on 11 July 1858, the eldest son on James Hay Erskine Wemyss and Augusta Millicent Anne Mary Kennedy Erskine, youngest daughter of the Honourable John Kennedy Erskine of Dun in the County of Forfar. He was tutored at home by Reverend John Thomson; minister of St. Adrian’s church in West Wemyss, until he entered Eton College in England in 1873. Randolph married twice. Firstly Lady Lillian Mary Paulet, daughter of John Paulet, 14th Marquess of Winchester and the Honorable Mary Montagu, on 18 July 1884. His second marriage was to Lady Eva Cecilia Margaret Wellesley, daughter of the William Henry Wellesley, 2nd Earl Cowley on 23 November 1899.
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