 Her family home was in the baronial Largie Castle in Argyll where her father (and later brother) were the local lairds.She was a debutante in 1892 when she was presented at the Royal Court to Queen Victoria.They married in 1898 when her dowry was £1200 a year, which helped finance his campaigns; they were married at her family Castle in Argyll in Scotland by Cosmo Gordon Lang, (later Archbishop of Canterbury during the 1936 Abdication Crisis and 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth) Esther died in 1920 at the age of 51.