Must be. He was a Scots peer.

 

You might like this poem "After Blenheim" which in my generation was very well known. Too patriotic nowadays.

 

CCXVI. After Blenheim

IT was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun;
And by him sported on the green	5
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found:	10
He came to ask what he had found
That was so large and smooth and round.
Old Kaspar took it from the boy,
Who stood expectant by;
And then the old man shook his head,	15
And with a natural sigh�?/TD>
"'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.
"I find them in the garden,
For there's many here about;	20
And often when I go to plough
The ploughshare turns them out.
For many thousand men," said he,
"Were slain in that great victory."
"Now tell us what 'twas all about,"	25
Young Peterkin he cries;
And little Wilhelmine looks up
With wonder-waiting eyes;
"Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for."	30
"It was the English," Kaspar cried,
"Who put the French to rout;
But what they fought each other
I could not well make out.
But everybody said," quoth he,	35
"That 'twas a famous victory.
"My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
And he was forced to fly:	40
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
"With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then	45
And newborn baby died:
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.
"They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won,	50
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.
"Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won,	55
And our good Prince Eugene"�?/TD>
"Why 'twas a very wicked thing!"
Said little Welhelmine;
"Nay—nay, my little girl," quoth he,
"It was a famous victory.	60
"And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win"�?/TD>
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why that I cannot tell," said he,	65
"But 'twas a famous victory."

Shame of shames Seafire, as I must admit to never having read a book on him. Churchill wrote a biography of his great ancestor and I've toyed with getting it. Think I'll go have a look on Amazon, which is brilliant for cheap second hand books, see what they come up with. Let you know.

Seafire.... I've just ordered a book on him, so I'll let you know the answer to your question in a few months.

thank you major.seafire