Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa

Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa

Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa KT FRS (February 1770–September 8 1846) was a Scottish peer, the son of Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis.

He married Margaret Erskine, the second daughter of John Erskine of Dun, Forfarshire on 1 June 1793 and they had five children:

*Lady Alicia Jane Kennedy (d. 1887), married Jonathan Peel and had issue.
*Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis (1794–1832), married Eleanor Allardyce and had issue.
*Lady Anne Kennedy (1798–1877), married Sir David Baird of Newbyth, 2nd Baronet and had issue.
*Lady Margaret Kennedy (1800–1889), married Thomas Radclyffe-Livingstone-Eyre.
*Lord John Kennedy-Erskine (1802–?), married Lady Augusta FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothy Jordan and had issue (their granddaughter was the writer and poet Violet Jacob). John Kennedy-Erskine assumed the additional name of Erskine on inheriting Dun from his maternal grandfather.

He succeeded to the titles 14th Lord Kennedy and 12th Earl of Cassilis on 30 December 1794. Cassilis was Representative peer for Scotland as Earl of Cassilis between 1796 and 1806. In 1806, he was created, and sat in the House of Lords as 1st Baron Ailsa. On 18 February 1819, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society. [cite web | url=http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1727 | title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows | accessdate=2006-12-15] He was created 1st Marquess of Ailsa in 1831 and voted for the Reform Bill in 1832. Lord Ailsa died in 1846 and was succeeded by his grandson, Archibald Kennedy.

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