One of Scotland's biggest landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch, has died .
As recently as 2005, the duke was believed to be Britain's biggest private landowner, owning 270,000 acres, mostly in the Borders.
The Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth at £85 million .
Born in 1923, the oldest son of the eighth duke - whom he succeeded in 1973 - Johnnie Buccleuch was educated at Eton and Oxford and became director of the Buccleuch Estates in 1949. He later became a Tory councillor in Roxburghshire and subsequently Tory MP for North Edinburgh. In 1978 he was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle - the highest honour in Scotland.
He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Earl of Dalkeith.
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