Henry Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth

Henry Alexander Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth TD DL (17 November 1916 – 4 January 2005) was a Scottish chartered accountant, businessman and Conservative politician.

In 1944 he succeeded his grandfather in the lordship, his father having died in 1942 from an illness contracted during the Second World War.

Polwarth then returned to business and was again a Director of Imperial Chemical Industries from 1974 to 1981 and also of the Sun Life Assurance Co of Canada from 1975 to 1984, of the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1975 to 1986 and of Halliburton Co from 1974 to 1987.

[1] Lord Polwarth married firstly Caroline Margaret, daughter of Captain Robert Athole Hay, in 1943.

He married secondly Jean, daughter of Admiral Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore and of Ardoch, and former wife of Charles Jauncey, in 1969.