Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 6th Earl of Minto

Gilbert Edward George Lariston Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 6th Earl of Minto OBE (19 June 1928 – 7 September 2005), styled Viscount Melgund until 1975, was a Scottish peer.

Background

Lord Minto was the son of Victor Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 5th Earl of Minto and Marion Cook.

Family

Lord Minto married Lady Caroline Child-Villiers (born 9 April 1934), daughter of George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey and Patricia Kenneth Richards, on 26 November 1952. They had two children:

• Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 7th Earl of Minto [formerly Viscount Melgund] (born 1 December 1953); who is married and has three surviving children.
• Lady Laura Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (born 11 March 1956) who married in 1984, John Reginald David Palmer, son of William Palmer, and has issue, two sons.

Lord and Lady Minto were divorced in 1965. In 1965 Lord Minto married, secondly, Mary Elizabeth Ballantine (29 December 1936 — 24 January 1983), daughter of Peter Ballantine, of Stonehouse Farm, Gladstone, New Jersey, United States. The marriage lasted until her death in 1983. He married, thirdly, in 1991 (divorced 2004) to Mrs Caroline Larlham, née Godfrey (b. 1952), who now styles herself as the Dowager Countess of Minto. Lord Minto died after a fall, and due to severe lung disease that rendered an operation impossible, at the age of 77 in a nursing home. His funeral took place on Monday, 12 September 2005 at Minto Parish Church, near Hawick, Scottish Borders. His estate has been the subject of a dispute between his third wife and his son.