Jane Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, née McNeill, was a fashion model for Norman Hartnell before marrying John Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, the future 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry.
Background
The Duchess, the only child of John McNeill, Queen's Counsel, and his wife Amy, née Maynard, was born in Shanghai. Her father was in practice as a barrister in Shanghai and was Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China from 1940 to 1942. On the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, she and her mother were sent to live at the family house in Argyll.
Education
The future duchess attended Abbot"s Hill School before starting to model for Norman Hartnell.
Career
Her father stayed on in Shanghai and was appointed acting Crown Advocate in 1939 and to the substantive position in 1940. He was interned by the Japanese at the start of the Pacific War in 1941. He returned to England after an exchange of internees in 1942.
After the war he returned to Asia to practice at the bar in Hong Kong.
Jane McNeill regularly featured in the society columns of Hong Kong"s newspapers. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry had four children: Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, married Lady Elizabeth Kerr and had issue Lord John (born 9 August 1957), married Berrin Torrinson Lady Charlotte-Anne (born 9 January 1956), married Count Bernard de Castellane, and had issue Lord Damian (born 8 October 1970), married Elizabeth Powis, and had issue.
Membership
Lord Dalkeith, a Conservative Member of Parliament, was thrown off a horse in 1971, and, as a result, remained paralysed from the chest down.