Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine

Major-General Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, KB (1676 – 25 December 1730) was a British Army officer and politician.

Life Scott was the second surviving son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (the illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Lucy Walter) by his wife Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch. In 1693, he married Anne Duncombe (d. 1720), a daughter of William Duncombe of Batthesden, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. They had three surviving children:

Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Deloraine (1710–39) Henry Scott, 3rd Earl of Deloraine (1712–40) Anne Scott

In 1706, Queen Anne created him Earl of Deloraine. In 1727 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.

In 1726, Deloraine married Mary Howard, the granddaughter of Col. Philip Howard, and the great-granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, both of the Howard family, and they had two daughters:

Lord Deloraine died suddenly on Christmas Day in 1730 in Leadwell (now Ledwell), Oxfordshire, and is buried at St Martin’s Church, in the village of Sandford St Martin in Oxfordshire. His second wife, who had been a royal mistress of King George II, remarried, and she is buried at Windsor.

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