Rogart is a small village in Sutherland, Highland,
Scotland.
The Rogart Volunteers were part of the Sutherland
Highlanders. The 4th Rogart Company
Volunteers was formed on December 25, 1860 but before
receiving a number was merged into the 1st
Corps as its No. 4 Company. It was made independent as
the 4th Corps in January 1864 and became ‘D’
Company of the new 1st Corp of the Sutherland
Highland Corps in 1880.
The company bore the title "Duchess Harriet's Company
Rogart" upon the pouch-belt plate. Harriet Elizabeth
Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess
of Sutherland styled The Honourable Harriet Howard
before her marriage, was Mistress of the Robes under
several Whig administrations: 1837–1841, 1846–1852,
1853–1858, and 1859–1861; and a great friend of Queen
Victoria. She was an important figure in London's high
society, and used her social position to undertake
various philanthropic undertakings including the protest
of the English ladies against American slavery.
On May 28, 1823 she married her cousin George
Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower (1786–1861), who
had been elected MP for St Mawes, Cornwall in 1808, and
succeeded his father as second Duke of Sutherland in
1833. Gower was twenty years older than she, but their
union proved one of affection and produced four sons and
seven daughters.
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