Walter Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar

Walter Henry Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar and 13th Earl of Kellie (17 December 1839 – 16 September 1888) was a Scottish peer.

Mar was the son of Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Kellie and Elise Youngson. On 14 October 1853, he married Mary Anne Forbes (1838-22 May 1927), daughter of William Forbes. They had nine children.

• Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar (1865–1955)
• Elyne Mary Erskine (1866-1891)
• Constance Elise Erskine (1869-1959)
• Rt. Hon. Sir William Augustus Forbes Erskine (1871–1952)
• Mary Erskine (1872-1873)
• Louisa Frances Erskine (b. 1875)
• Frances Elizabeth Erskine (b. 1877)
• Alice Maud Mary Erskine (b. 1878)
• Alexander Penrose Forbes Erskine (1881–1925)

In popular culture

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 song "Eleventh Earl of Mar" on their album Wind & Wuthering

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(1977) depicts the failure of the unsuccessful Jacobite campaign and the innocence of the Earl's young son.