Thomas Erskine, 3rd Baron Erskine

[1] Erskine served as attaché to the British legation at Turin, Naples and Lisbon from 1824 to 1827.

[4] Upon the death of his father on 19 March 1855, he succeeded to the title, 3rd Baron Erskine, of Restormel Castle in the County of Cornwall, which had been created for his grandfather on 10 February 1806.

[4] On 12 May 1830, he married Louisa (née Newnham) Legh (c. 1791–1867).

[4] Louisa, the widow of Thomas Legh, of Adlington, was a daughter of George Lewis Newnham of Newtimber Place,[7] and Mary Diana Aston (only daughter of Sir William Aston, of Lincoln's Inn Fields).

[8] Lady Erskine died at Hillside, Alderley Edge, Cheshire on 10 March 1867.