He was born 1 June, 1937, the only son of Capt.Patrick Claud Burges, JP [afterwards Burges-Lumsden] (1905-1984), late the Coldstream Guards, scion of that Irish landed gentry family, and his wife Margaret FitzGerald Lumsden [later Burges-Lumsden] (1905-1982), of Pitcaple Castle, Aberdeenshire.
He succeeded his mother as head of the Scots landed family, in 1982.
He married 3 October, 1964, Pernille Marianne Westergaard (who died 24 February, 2024), daughter of Benedict Westergaard, of Bernstorffsvej, 5, Copenhagen, Denmark, by whom he had a son, James Benedict Burges-Lumsden (born 16 July, 1966), and two daughters, Marina and Anna.
His only son succeeds to the headship of the landed family.
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