Walter Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Ruthven of Gowrie
Walter James Hore-Ruthven, 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland, 1st Baron Ruthven of Gowrie (14 June 1838 – 28 February 1921), previously known as Walter James Hore, was a British soldier and peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1919 until his death. The son of William Hore and Dells Honoria Lowen, in 1853 his surname may have been changed to Hore-Ruthven by his paternal grandparents making this change to theirs. Commissioned into the British Army, Hore-Ruthven saw active service in the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856 and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. On 13 February 1864, on the death of his grandmother Mary Elizabeth Thornton Hore-Ruthven, 8th Lady Ruthven of Freeland (c. 1784–1864), Ruthven succeeded her as the 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland in the peerage of Scotland, but was not recognized as such. On 22 December 1865, as Baron Ruthven of Freeland and as the Heir of Entail in possession of the entailed lands of Freeland, Forteviot, Meikle Kinnaird, and other estates in Perthshire, Ruthven lodged a petition with the Court of Session to challenge the Will of his grandmother. She had left an annuity of £1,500 a year to