John Erskine, 4th Baron Erskine

John Cadwalader Erskine, 4th Baron Erskine (1804 – 28 March 1882) was a British diplomat and peer.

Early life

Erskine was born in 1804, Among his siblings were Thomas Americus Erskine (also a diplomat); Steuarta Erskine (who married Timothy Yeats Brown); Elizabeth Erskine (who married Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 2nd Baronet); David Montagu Erskine (a Lt.-Col. in the British Army); Edward Morris Erskine (also a diplomat); James Stuart Erskine (who was created Freiherr von Erskine by Ludwig II of Bavaria); Sevilla Erskine (who married Sir Henry Howard); Jane Plumer Erskine (who married James Callander of Craigforth and Ardkinglas); and Mary Erskine (who married Graf Hermann von Paumgarten).

His paternal grandparents were Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (himself a fourth son of Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan) and the former Frances Moore (a daughter of Daniel Moore). His maternal grandparents were John Cadwalader, an American general during the Revolutionary War, and his second wife, Williamina Bond (a daughter of Dr. Phineas Bond, of Philadelphia and niece of Dr. Thomas Bond).

Career Erskine was a member of the East India Company's Civil Service and had served as a Judge and Superintendent of Police in the Cis-Sutlej states. he succeeded to the title, 4th Baron Erskine, of Restormel Castle in the County of Cornwall, which had been created for his grandfather on 10 February 1806. His widow married Philip Henry Egerton, son of William Egerton, in 1886.