Ever wonder who the Premier Peers were, who was the first peer
in each grade and when were they created ?

Arms: Or a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter flory of the second charged with a label of three points Azure.

The Premier and first duke in Scotland was the Duke of Rothesay

Arms: Quarterly:
1st and 4th grand quarters counterquartered,
1st and 4th Gules, three cinquefoils Ermine;
2nd and 3rd Argent a lymphad Sable sails furled Proper flagged Gules;
2nd and 3rd grand quarters, Argent a man’s heart Gules ensigned with an
Imperial crown Proper, on a chief Azure three Stars Argent

George Gordon, 1st Marquis of Huntly born circa. 1562, was a minor at the time George Gordon, the 5th Earl of Huntly, his father, died in 1576, making our George the 6th Earl of Huntly.

Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules a fess chequy Argent and Azure ( for Lindsay ),
2nd and 3rd , Or a lion rampant Gules debruised of a ribbon in bend Sable ( for Abernethy)

The Viscount of Falkland, the Premier Viscount in the Peerage of Scotland, has royal ancestry we believe is of interest:

The Lord Forbes is the Premier Lord in the Peerage of Scotland

Since our website is concerned with Scots armigers, we thought was time for a look at a few of the members of the Peerage of Scotland.

The Duke of Roxburghe His creation was the last dukedom and the very last addition to the Peerage of Scotland.

The Marquess of Annandale

Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th Argent a saltire Sable on a chief Gules three cushions Or, for Johnstone; 2nd and 3rd Or an anchor Gules, for Fairholm

The Earldom of Ilay being extinct is not listed in Appendix B, The Union Role of 1960. (pp 159-160, “The Sixteen Peers of Scotland”, Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, Bt., 1960 )

The current holder is Andrew Walter Hepburne-Scott, 11th Lord Polwarth, born in 1947, his heir is the Hon. William Henry Hepburne-Scott, Master of Polwarth born in 1973 and his heir is his son Harry Walter Hepburn-Scott born in 2010. So, the succession to this peerage looks good.

Since this album is concerned with titled Scots armigers, we thought was time for a look at some of the members of the Baronetage of Nova Scotia

Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Bt., was born on 14 May 1580 at Dunrobin Castle in Sutherland and died in 1656, was the fourth but second surviving son of Alexander, 12th Earl of Sutherland, and Jane Gordon, daughter of the Earl of Huntly.

For aught yet seen, the Junior most and last Baronet of Nova Scotia

Dame Maureen Daisy Helen Dunbar (formerly Moore), 8th Baronetess of Hempriggs Was born on 19 Aug 1906 and succeeded her kinsman on 4 Feb 1963