(1723 - 69), 1st surv. s. of 9th E. of Eglinton [S]; suc. fa. 1729 as 10th E.; educ. Winchester; Dilettanti 1749; unm.
1744 Genoa (by 30 May), Florence (24 Jun. - 21 Jul. - ), Rome ( - 22 Aug.)
Lord Eglinton travelled with a tutor, Michael Ramsay who, according to Horace Mann, may have had Jacobite sympathies.1 They were in Paris in November 17422 and had arrived in Genoa by 30 May 1744, when Eglinton wrote to his bankers in London.3 On 24 June they arrived in Florence.4 Eglinton was still there on 21 July, having meanwhile escorted Alexander Drummond on a visit to Horace Mann.5 It was thought Eglinton would spend most of the summer at Florence, but his bankers made arrangements for him to draw money in Rome 'if he should have Ocasion for it'.6 On 15 August Cardinal Albani was hoping to be of service to Eglinton when he returned to Rome and on 22 August Albani told Mann of Eglinton's departure for England,7 presumably from Rome.
In January 1768 Lucas Pepys saw in Naples at William Hamilton's a Venus which Sir James Macdonald had bought for Lord Eglinton.8
1. Wal.Corr., 19:112 - 13. 2. W. Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, 1:337. 3. Coutts ledgers, 22:253. 4. Wal. Corr., 18:479n20. 5. Ibid., 20:426. 6. Coutts ledgers, 22:261. 7. SP 105/283, ff.278, 300 (Albani, 15, 22 Aug. 1744). 8. Pepys, 325 - 6.