John Scott, 4th Earl of EldonGCVODLJP (29 March 1899 – 20 October 1976) was a British Royal Auxiliary Air Force officer, peer and courtier.
Early life
Eldon was the son of John Scott, Viscount Encombe (1870–1900), and Hon. Mary Laura Fraser (1869–1946).[1] His younger brother, the Hon. Michael Simon Scott (1900–1938),[2] married American heiress Ruth Brady (the second daughter of James Cox Brady and a descendant of Anthony N. Brady),[3][4] died while fishing off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida.[2]
He served in the First World War as a junior officer in the Scots Greys. On 10 August 1926 he succeeded his eccentric grandfather as Earl of Eldon, his father having already died in 1900.[7]
John Joseph Nicholas Scott, 5th Earl of Eldon (1937–2017), who married Countess Claudine Maria Olga Columba Fidelis von Montjoye-Vaufrey et de la Roche, youngest daughter of Count Franz von Montjoye-Vaufrey et de la Roche of Vienna, in 1961.[5]
Hon. Simon Peter Scott (1939–2009), a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II from 1953 to 1956 who married Isabel Dalzell de Bertodano, second daughter of Andrew Ramon Dalzell de Bertodano (eldest son of 8th Marquis del Moral) and the former Lady Sylvia Savile (third daughter of John Savile, 6th Earl of Mexborough), in 1966.[5]
Lord Eldon died on 20 October 1976 and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, also called John.[5]