ERSKINE, Hon Robert William Hervey 1930-2024

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He was s of Maj John Francis Ashley ERSKINE 1895-1953 Lord Erskine (s&h of 12^th Earl of MAR & [14^th] KELLIE 1865-1955 and Lady Susan Violet ASHLEY-COOPER 1868-1938 d of 8^th Earl of SHAFTESBURY 1831-86, etc) and Lady Marjorie HERVEY 1898-1967 d of 4^th Marquesss of BRISTOL 1863-1951 and Alice Frances Theodora WYTHES 1875-1957 scion of that gentry family f/o Copped Hall. He m 1^st 1955 (div 1964) Jennifer Shirley d of L J Cardew WOOD of Farnham Royal, Bucks. He m 2^nd 1969 (div 1975) Anne-Marie d of Jean LATTÈS of Paris, and had a son. He m 3^rd 1977 Belinda Mary Rosalind d of Raymond BLACKBURN of London and had a further two sons.

Obit in the Times of 2 Sep 2024:

E X T R A C T

Robert Erskine obituary: gallerist, collector and television presenter

Maverick who was ‘supreme among the post-Kenneth Clark generation of aesthetic talking heads’

… Erskine was married three times: in 1955 to Jennifer Cardew Wood; in 1969 to Anne-Marie Lattès; and in 1977 to Lindy Blackburn, who survives him with their two sons, together with a son from his second marriage.

The youngest of four brothers (one of whom was killed in action in 1945), Robert William Hervey Erskine was born in 1930 at 6 St James’s Square, the London home of his maternal grandfather, the 4th Marquess of Bristol. Robert’s father was the Unionist politician Lord Erskine (elder son of the 12th Earl of Mar and 14th Earl of Kellie), who in 1934 was appointed governor of Madras. The family followed him there and for the next six years lived at Government House, where an Indian groom would regale young Robert with stories from the Mahabharata.

… His interest in the arts and ability to draw, meanwhile, came from his mother, Lady Marjorie Hervey, whose extraordinary family seat in Suffolk, Ickworth House, became their home on their return from India…

Robert Erskine, gallerist, collector and television presenter, was born on October 13, 1930. He died on August 2, 2024, aged 93