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Records show that the King arrived at Hopetoun at 1.15pm and that after being received by the Earl and Countess he lunched
sparingly on turtle soup and three glasses of wine. He then knighted Sir Henry Raeburn, the Scottish portraitist, and Captain Adam
Ferguson, Keeper of the Regalia in Scotland, in the Yellow Drawing Room using Lord Hopetoun’s sword. At 3pm he made his
farewells and made his way by carriage to Port Edgar, just outside South Queensferry, where the Royal Yacht awaited to return him
to England.
Further Notes
* Alexander Keith, 1795-1873, was Provincial Grand Master for the Maritimes under the English authority in 1840 and under the
Scottish lodge in 1845. Following a reorganization of the various divisions in 1869, he became GM of Nova Scotia.
The Entrance of George IV at Holyroodhouse – 1828
by Sir David Wilkie
http://nationalgalleries.org/collections/artist_search.php?objectId=8199
Wilkie conveys magnificently, in this small sketch, the colourful pomp and ceremony of King George IV’s arrival at Holyrood House
in Edinburgh in 1822. A fanfare of trumpets sounds as the kneeling Duke of Hamilton presents the keys of the palace to the king.
Other nobles in attendance include the traditional custodians of the Honours of Scotland: the Crown, the Sceptre and the Sword of
State. Brilliant touches of red, gold and white enrich the royal event unfolding before the theatrical backdrop of the palace
architecture. Wilkie painted this as a preparatory study for his larger panel, now at Holyrood.
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Egerton,_1st_Earl_of_Ellesmere
Francis [Leveson-Gower] Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere KG PC (1 January 1800–18 February 1857) was the second son of the
1st Duke of Sutherland and his wife, Elizabeth.
He was known by his patronymic as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, when he assumed, by Royal Licence, the surname
of Egerton, having succeeded on the death of his father to the estates which the latter inherited from the Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke
of Bridgewater. Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered Parliament soon after attaining his majority as member
for the pocket borough of Bletchingly in Surrey. He afterwards sat for Sutherland and for South Lancashire, which he represented
when he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the County of Northampton, and Earl of Ellesmere in
1846.
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