Lord and Lady Lamington "Jnr" to visit Australia

Lord Lamington

 1936

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The great grandson Alex Scrimgeour and great granddaughter Belinda Leigh of Lord Lamington - the creator of the world-famous lamington - are coming to Australia next week on a whirlwind visit to southeast Queensland.

They will be part of the National Lamington Day celebrations in Brisbane, Ipswich and Toowoomba.

National Lamington Day is Tuesday 21 July 2009 and the festivities involving Lord Lamington's great grandchildren will include an official dinner in Ipswich, where Lord Lamington's world-famous lamington reputedly had its first public appearance over 100 years ago.

This will be an opportunity to re-live the past and recall this unique part of Queensland's history which resulted in this world-famous culinary icon being named after the last Governor of the Colony of Queensland and the first Governor of the State of Queensland Lord Lamington - Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington.