 Scions of the latter include an Admiral; an Ambassador (author of "Ambassador in Bonds";) a Chairman of the Hon.East India Company who was also appointed by Queen Victoria as guardian to Maharajah Duleep Singh; a Chief Justice of Ceylon who, when coffee rust hit that crop, first created and planted a tea estate in the highlands from tea bushes in his garden, which gave rise to the country's tea industry today; two Generals; several knights, two Scottish MPs and Thomas Oliphant (musician and artist) (1799–1873) who wrote the chorale for the wedding of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, and Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Edward VII and his consort Queen Alexandra), and also wrote his own interpretation as the first English words to the Christmas carol "Deck the Hall(s) with Boughs of Holly" amateur composer, long time Secretary, then President, of the Madrigal Society and author, inter alia, of "A Brief Account of the Madrigal Society, from Its Institution in 1741, up to the Present Period" (1835), and "La Musa Madrigalesca" (1837).Other examples of his compositions appeared in the "English Hymnal".