Graham Roderick Laurence Oliphant, who descends from a 1,000-year-old line of Scottish noblemen, faced a ban after racking up four speeding offences in a few months.
A hard-up aristocrat has been allowed to avoid a totting-up drive ban so he can work delivering takeaway food for Just Eat. Clan chief-in-waiting Graham Roderick Laurence Oliphant of Oliphant Younger convinced a court a ban would cause him "exceptional hardship."
However, solicitor Doug McConnell, defending, told an exceptional hardship hearing that Oliphant, 69, had fallen on hard times despite his aristocratic background. Mr McConnell said: "His address out in Glamis is remote. He earns his money through working for Just Eat, where he is a delivery driver. Oliphant told the court that his first speeding offence had happened when he was driving his estranged ex-wife to hospital and was distracted by the "toxic" nature of their relationship.
"This man has quite significant difficulties and my client allowed him to stay in his house. This man was being shuttled around by Mr Oliphant to get assistance. Top news stories today The Justice of the Peace granted the exceptional hardship bid and allowed Oliphant to stay on the road. She also fined him £100.
His grandfather was a Major in the Seaforth Highlander and was mentioned in dispatches twice for his war service. He became Deputy Chairman of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation after 1963. His grandmother was the daughter of Godfrey Ernest Willoughby, 10th Baron Middleton of Middleton.
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