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Algernon Keith-falconer, 9th Earl Of Kintore




Educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge , he was unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Chelsea in 1880, and succeeded as Earl of Kintore in the same year.

He was appointed First Government Whip in House of Lords in 1885 and was a Lord-in-Waiting from 1885-1886 and from 1895-1905.
He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1886 . He was Governor Of South Australia from 1889 to 1895 , in between his terms in conservative British Government s.

He was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords in 1913.

He was appointed a GCMG ; Grand Cross Order Of The Crown Of Italy ; 1st Class Order Of The Red Eagle of Prussia; Grand Cross Military Order Of Christ of Portugal; and a Grand Cross of the Order Of The Polar Star of Sweden.