Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore Knight of the Order ot the Thistle Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Street Michael and Street George Personal Computer was a British politician and colonial governor.
Background
Born at Lixmount House, near Edinburgh, Keith-Falconer was the eldest son of Francis Keith Falconer, 8th Earl of Kintore and his wife Louisa Madeleine, née Hawkins. He succeeded to his father"s titles upon his father"s death in 1880, was appointed First Government Whip in the House of Lords in 1885 and was a Lord-in-Waiting from 1885 to 1886 and from 1895 to 1905.
Education
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
In 1880, Lord Kintore was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Chelsea. In 1886 he was invested as a Privy Counsellor. In 1913 he was elected a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
Lord Kintore was between 1889 and 10 April 1895.
A freemason, he was also Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of South Australia during his term as Governor (1889-1895). He arrived with his family at Adelaide in South Australia on 11 April 1889 aboard the Orient and was formally welcomed by the administrator, Chief Justice Samuel Way, who later resigned as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of South Australia in his favour.
In early 1901 he was asked by King Edward to take part in a special diplomatic mission to announce the King´s accession to the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony. In 1911, Kintore was presented with a royal gift cigarette case by Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria,(1884-1958).
A century later, the gift featured in the Christie"s London sale, SALE 7970 —IMPORTANT JEWELS held on 8 June 2011.
Lord Kintore married Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu (14 October 1851 – Keith Hall, Inverurie, Aberdeen, 21 September 1932), second daughter of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester, at Street George"s, Hanover Square, London, on 14 August 1873. He died on 3 March 1930 aged 77 at 10 Park Place, Street James Street, London, of acute bronchitis and periurethral abscess and interred on 7 March 1930 at Keith Hall, Inverurie, Aberdeen. He was succeeded on the earldom by his second but only surviving son, Arthur.
Kintore"s daughter Lady Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, wife of John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, eventually inherited the earldom.
A species of Australian lizard, Liopholis kintorei, is named in his honour.