[2] His paternal grandparents were Anthony Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore and the former Christina Elizabeth Sichterman (daughter of Jan Albert Sichterman of Groningen, the Netherlands, Intendant General of the Dutch Settlements in the East Indies and Director and Fiscal of Bengal).

[2] After being a pupil at Sparsholt in Berkshire, Lord Kintore attended St Mary Hall, Oxford.

[4] After inheriting Keith Hall, the family seat in Aberdeenshire, he began keeping hounds there.

Lord Kintore was master of the Old Berkshire Hunt from 1826 to 1830 and was known as "a rider bold to rashness, greedy for fences; and he was celebrated as a boon table companion.

After he "gave up the country," he returned to Keith Hall where he took to farming "on a large scale.