Alexander Lauderdale Duncan (1850-1934)
D.L., J.P., of Knossington Grange, Oakham, Leicestershire
He was educated in England at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. He inherited Knossington Grange (pictured), Leicestershire, from his father which he subsequently enlarged. He divided his time between there, 7 Prince's Gate in Kensington, London, and the Knickerbocker Club in New York which he helped found in 1871. From boyhood, he had made annual visits to England for the fox-hunting and rode to hounds until he was eighty years old. When he was 82, he completed his 89th trip across the Atlantic, and he died the following year at his retirement home, 2 Second Avenue in Hove, Sussex. He was married in 1879 to Louisa Elizabeth Hunt, third daughter of George Hunt. They were the parents of four daughters and a son, Alexander Duncan (1880-1914).
