Background
Randolph was born in 1928, the only son of the 12th Earl of Galloway and his American wife Philipa Wendell.
Randolph was born in 1928, the only son of the 12th Earl of Galloway and his American wife Philipa Wendell.
He was educated at Belhaven Hill School in Dunbar, and at Harrow School in London.
He was diagnosed as schizophrenic at a young age, and subjected to insulin coma therapy. lieutenant is possible that had he been born today his behaviour would have been recognised as autistic. The lobotomy changed him forever.
"I was never the same again" he told an interviewer.
After this surgery, he spent the next 15 years in the mental wing of the Crichton Royal Infirmary, in Dumfries. Budge had been married twice before, and already had four children, one of them adopted.
He died in 1978, leaving Randolph the title and little else, having written him out of his will. With his wife"s support, the couple moved to London and Randolph claimed his seat in the House of Lords.
Looking back on these acts he described them as “A disgraceful, disgusting, dishonourable and downgrading performance on my part.”
Countess Lily died in 1999 with the marriage childless.
As such, upon Lord Galloway"s death, the Earldom and its associated Lordships and Baronetcies will pass to Andrew Clyde Stewart, who is the great great grandson of the 9th Earl and thus Randolph"s second cousin once removed. The Earl currently lives in sheltered housing in Borgue in Galloway, where he is described as eccentric but benevolent.