in the Scottish Borders, and a Knight of Malta. He returned the Franciscan monastery of San Damiano, near Assisi, to the Franciscan Friars Minor in 1979, and he ceded control of Monteviot and Melbourne House to his elder and younger son, respectively, in the 1980s, to take on the restoration of Ferniehirst Castle in Roxburghshire. Family The 12th Marquess married Antonella Newland on 30 April 1943. They had five children: Lady Mary Marianne Anne Kerr (20 March 1944), who married Charles Freiherr von Westenholz (17 March 1945 – 9 March 2006) on 6 April 1971. They had three sons and six grandchildren. Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian (7 July 1945), known as Michael Ancram. He married Lady Jane Fitzalan-Howard, later 16th Lady Herries of Terregles, on 7 June 1975. They have two daughters and two grandchildren. Lady Cecil Nennella Therese Kerr (22 April 1948), who married Donald Angus Cameron, 27th Chief of Clan Cameron on 1 June 1974. They have four children and five grandchildren. Clare Amabel Margaret Kerr (15 April 1951), who married James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston, on 16 September 1972. They have five children and three grandchildren. Lady Elizabeth Marion Frances Kerr (b. 1954) she married Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch on 31 October 1981. They have four children. Lord Ralph William Francis Joseph Kerr (b. 1957), who married Lady Virginia FitzRoy on 6 September 1980; they were divorced in 1987. He married Marie-Claire Black in 1988. They have six children. His elder son, the Conservative politician Michael Ancram, succeeded to the marquessate on his death. Notes References Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 12 October 2004 Obituary, The Independent, 19 October 2004 External links Lothian, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Scottish Roman Catholics Lothian, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess Conservative Party (UK) MEPs MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979 Scottish landowners Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of the Royal Company of Archers Marquesses of Lothian Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 20th-century Scottish businesspeople Lothian