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The son of Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Moncreiffe, RN, and Hilda, daughter of the Comte de Miremont, he succeeded his cousin as 11th baronet in 1957. The baronetcy derived from the feudal barony of Moncreiffe, near Perth, Scotland, "of that Ilk" meaning "of that same place", i.e. it is a contraction of "Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe".

Educated at Stowe, Heidelberg, and Christ Church, OxfordChrist Church (in full: The Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII is one of the largest and wealthiest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The city of Christchurch, New Zealand, he served in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough in the Scots GuardsThe Scots Guards are a regiment of the British Army and have a long and proud history stretching back hundreds of years. The Scots Guards are the Third Foot Guards regiment. Their tunic buttons are arranged in groups of three, and the thistle/St Andrew's, served as attaché at the British embassy in MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is, and then studied Scots Law at Edinburgh University, where he took a PhD with a thesis on the Scots law of succession to peerages.

A prominent member of the Lyon CourtLyon Court that is The Court of the Lord Lyon is the institution which regulates heraldry in Scotland. Like the College of Arms in England it maintains the register of grants of arms, and also genealogies. Lyon Court is a public body, and the fees for gra, he held the offices of Falkland Pursuivant (1952), Kintyre Pursuivant (1953), and (from 1961) Albany Herald. He wrote a popular work about the Scottish clans, The Highland Clans (1967), but his interests also extended to Georgian and Byzantine noble genealogies.

He held membership in many London clubs and founded his own club in EdinburghArthur's Seat. See also for a panoramic view from Holyrood Park towards Ocean Terminal. Edinburgh (pronounced ED-in-burra ( SAMPA: ["Ed@n%b@r@])), Dun Eideann in Scottish Gaelic, is a major and historic city on the east coast of Scotland on the south shor, called Puffin's, after his first wife, Diana, Countess of ErrollThe title Earl of Erroll is an ancient one in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1453 for Sir William Hay. The subsidiary titles held by the Earl of Erroll are: Lord Hay (created 1449) and Lord Slains (1452), both in the Peerage of Scotland. The E, whom he married in 1946. That marriage was dissolved in 1964 and in 1966 he took as his second wife Hermione Patricia Faulkner, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Douglas Faulkner.

He was known as good-natured, witty, knowledgable, and somewhat eccentric (e.g. he had a trick of moving his false teeth up and down while speaking, which he preferred to play on pretty young girls).