the lands of Dryburgh near Dundee [RGS.109.33]. Alexander fought in the British Army during the American War of Independence. In 1772 a signature of the lands of Lundie was granted to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Duncan [SIG1.49.35][RGS.113.36]. Documents dated 1783 make reference to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Duncan of Lundie in sasines. He died at Lundie on 31 August 1796 and his brother Admiral Adam Duncan (Royal Navy) succeeded to the estate of Lundie on 20 December 1796 [NRS.SIG2.35.226]. In 1797 Admiral Adam Duncan led the British fleet to victory against the combined Dutch and French fleet at the Battle of Camperdown (11 October 1797). He was created Baron Duncan of Lundie and Viscount Duncan of Camperdown. Admiral Duncan died in 1804 and was succeeded by his son Robert. [NRS.GD68.2.131]. Viscount Robert Haldane Duncan of Lundie succeeded his uncle Alexander Duncan of Lundie in January 1812. In 1831 he was created 1st Earl Camperdown of Lundie. He died in 1859 and was succeeded by his son Adam. Adam Haldane-Duncan, born 25 March 1812 in Edinburgh, was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Juliana Cavendish Philips. Adam was a politician and a Member of Parliament from 1837 until 1854, on the death of his father he became the 2nd Earl of Camperdown, and from 1859 he was in the House of Lords where he served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury. Adam died on 30 January 1867 and was succeeded by his son Robert [RGS.132.62.64] Robert Haldane-Duncan ( 3rd Earl Camperdown) was born on 28 May 1841 and was educated at Eton and Baliol College, Oxford. He too followed a political career as a Liberal and as a government whip during the Gladstone administration, also a Lord of the Admiralty. He was granted an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews and was President of University College, Dundee. On his death on 5 June 1918, as he was unmarried, the lands and titles went to his younger brother George [NRS.CS46.1889.11/46]. George Haldane-Duncan was born on 5 December 1845. In 1888 he married Louisa Dove Blanchard and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he died in 1933 aged 88. From 1900 George became the 4th Earl of Camperdown aged 73. As he had no children the house and estate passed to a cousin Georgina, Dowager Duchess of Buckinghamshire. She died in March 1937. In April 1952 to title of