List of family seats of Scottish nobility
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This is an incomplete index of leading Scottish noble family seats.
The Royal Family[]
Name | Residences |
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The Queen | Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire |
The Duke of Rothesay | Birkhall, Aberdeenshire |
Dukes[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Duke of Hamilton | Lennoxlove House, East Lothian | Hamilton Palace, Brodick Castle, Dungavel House, Kinneil House, Cadzow Castle |
Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry | Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway; Bowhill House, Selkirk and Boughton House, Northamptonshire | Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian and Montagu House, London |
Duke of Lennox and Duke of Gordon | Goodwood House, West Sussex | Gordon Castle, Huntly Castle, and Richmond House, London |
Duke of Argyll | Inveraray Castle, Argyll | Rosneath Castle, Argyll |
Duke of Atholl | Blair Castle, Perth and Kinross | Dunkeld House, Perth and Kinross |
Duke of Montrose | Auchmar, Stirling | Buchanan Castle, Stirling |
Duke of Roxburghe | Floors Castle, Scottish Borders | |
Duke of Sutherland | Mertoun House, Scottish Borders | Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, Lancaster House, London. |
Duke of Fife | Elsick House, Kincardinshire and Kinnaird Castle, Brechin |
Marquesses[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Marquess of Huntly | Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire | Huntly Castle |
Marquess of Queensberry | London | Kinmount House |
Marquess of Tweeddale | Edinburgh | Yester House, East Lothian |
Marquess of Lothian | Monteviot House and Ferniehirst Castle, Roxburghshire | Newbattle Abbey and Blickling Hall |
Marquess of Bute | Mount Stuart House, Bute | Dumfries House, Cardiff Castle, Bute House, Luton Hoo, Lansdowne House. |
Marquess of Linlithgow | Hopetoun House, South Queensferry |
Earls[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Countess of Sutherland | Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland | Forse Castle and Skibo Castle |
Earl of Crawford | Balcarres House, Colinsburgh, Fife | Crawford Castle |
Earl of Mar | St Michael's Farm, Great Witley, Worcestershire | Kildrummy Castle, Mar's Wark and Doune of Invernochty |
Earl of Erroll | Woodbury Hall, Bedfordshire[1] | New Slains Castle[2] |
Earl of Caithness | London | Ravenscraig Castle |
Earl of Morton | Old Mansion House, Dalmahoy near Edinburgh | Aberdour Castle, Dalkeith House, Dalmahoy, Loch Leven Castle and Morton Castle |
Earl of Rothes | Dorset | Ballinbreich Castle |
Earl of Buchan | Newnham House, Hampshire | Almondell House, Midlothian and Lochindorb Castle |
Earl of Eglinton | Tennessee | Eglinton Castle, Ardrossan Castle and Skelmorlie Castle |
Earl of Cassilis | Cassillis House, Ayrshire | Culzean Castle |
Earl of Moray | Darnaway Castle, Forres | Doune Castle, Drumsheugh House and Moray House |
Earl of Mar and Kellie | Hilton Farm, Alloa | Kellie Castle, Fife |
Earl of Home | The Hirsel, Berwickshire and Castlemains, Douglas | Hume Castle, Fast Castle, Berwickshire, Douglas Castle, Bothwell Castle |
Earl of Perth | Stobhall, Perthshire | Drummond Castle |
Earl of Abercorn | Baronscourt, County Tyrone | Duddingston House, Edinburgh |
Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | Glamis Castle, Angus | Castle Huntly, Gibside Hall, Streatlam Castle and St Paul's Walden Bury |
Earl of Haddington | Mellerstain House, Berwickshire | Tyninghame House in East Lothian |
Earl of Galloway | Cumloden House, Wigtownshire | Galloway House, Wigtownshire |
Earl of Lauderdale | Pimlico, London | Thirlestane Castle, Ham House, London and Dunbar Castle |
Earl of Lindsay | Lahill House, Fife, Scotland | Combermere Abbey, Shropshire |
Earl of Loudoun | Jerilderie, New South Wales | Loudoun Castle |
Earl of Kinnoull | Dupplin Castle, Perth | Balhousie Castle |
Earl of Dumfries | Mount Stuart House, Bute | Dumfries House, Cardiff Castle, Bute House, Luton Hoo and Lansdowne House |
Earl of Elgin | Broomhall House, Fife | Culross Abbey House |
Earl of Southesk | Elsick House, Kincardineshire | Duff House, Banffshire |
Earl of Wemyss and March | Gosford House, East Lothian, Stanway House in Gloucestershire, Neidpath Castle, Peebles and Elcho Castle near Perth | Wemyss Castle |
Earl of Dalhousie | Brechin Castle | Dalhousie Castle |
Earl of Airlie | Cortachy Castle | Airlie Castle |
Earl of Leven | Glenferness House Nairn | Balgonie Castle |
Countess of Dysart | Rothiemurchus by Aviemore | Stobo Castle, Ham House |
Earl of Selkirk | London | Brodick Castle |
Earl of Northesk | Cambridge | Ethie Castle |
Earl of Newburgh | Milan, Italy | Glentirran House, Stirlingshire, Slindon House, Sussex and Dilston Castle, Northumberland |
Earl of Dundee | Birkhill House, Fife | Dudhope Castle |
Earl of Annandale | Raehills, Dumfries and Galloway and Lochwood Tower | Lochmaben Castle |
Earl of Dundonald | Lochnell Castle, Argyll and Beacon Hall, Kent | Auchindoun Castle |
Earl of Kintore | Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire | Dunnottar Castle |
Earl of Aberdeen | Haddo House, Aberdeenshire | Tolquhon Castle |
Earl of Dunmore | Tasmania | Amhuinnsuidhe Castle and Dunmore Park, Falkirk |
Earl of Orkney | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Kirkwall Castle |
Earl of Seafield | Old Cullen, Moray | Castle Grant |
Earl of Stair | Lochinch Castle, Wigtownshire | Oxenfoord Castle |
Earl of Roseberry | Dalmeny House and Barnbougle Castle, Edinburgh | Mentmore Towers; Lansdowne House; The Durdans; Villa Rosebery, Naples |
Earl of Glasgow | Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire | Stanely Castle |
Earl of Hopetoun | Hopetoun House, West Lothian | Niddry Castle |
Viscounts[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Viscount of Stormont | Scone Palace, Perthshire | |
Viscount of Arbuthnott | Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire | |
Viscount of Oxfuird | Battersea, London | Oxenfoord Castle |
Lords of Parliament[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Lord Cathcart | Gateley Hall, Norfolk | |
Lord Forbes | Forbes Castle | |
Lord Borthwick | Crookston, Heriot | Borthwick Castle |
Lord Lovat | Balblair House, Beauly, Inverness-shire | Beaufort Castle |
Lord Torphichen | Calder House, West Lothian | |
Lord Balfour of Burleigh | Edinburgh | Burleigh Castle |
Lord Dingwall | London | Panshanger Park, Hertfordshire |
Lord Fairfax of Cameron | London | Denton Hall, North Yorkshire |
Lord Napier | Thirlestane Castle | Merchiston Castle |
Lord Forrester | Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire | |
Lord Belhaven and Stenton | Pimlico, London | Wishaw House |
Lord Ruthven of Freeland | Easington, Co. Durham | Castle Howard, Yorkshire and Naworth Castle, Cumbria |
Lord Nairne | Bignor Park, Sussex | |
Lord Polwarth | Hardon, Hawick, Roxburghshire | Marchmont House, Berwickshire |
Minor barons (feudal barons)[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats | Year of Assignation |
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James Swinton of Swinton | Edinburgh | Swinton House, Swinton | |
Professor Mark Watson-Gandy | London | Myrton Castle, Wigtownshire | |
Dr. George M Burden of Seabegs | Seabegs | Feddal House | |
Alexander David Mungo Murray | Scone Palace | Balvaird Castle | 2015 |
Newlands of Lauriston | Lauriston Castle, Aberdeenshire | Newlands, Drumcow [3] | |
Michael C. Lyons | Winchburgh |
Baronets and Lairds[]
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Sir Henry Reid | Ellon Castle | |
Mr Donald Cameron | Achnacarry Castle | Fassiefern House and Tor Castle |
Lady Antonia Dalrymple | Newhailes House, East Lothian | |
Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott | Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders | |
Mr James Montgomery | Kinross House, Perth and Kinross | |
Mr Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington | Ardverikie House, Scottish Highlands | Muncaster Castle |
Mrs Althea Dundas-Becker | Arniston House, Midlothian | |
Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame | Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire | |
James C. A. Burnett of Leys, Baron of Kilduthie | Crathes Castle | |
Alexander Irvine of Drum, 27th Chief and Baron of Drum | Doha, State of Qatar | Drum Castle |
See also[]
- Scottish clan
- List of family seats of English nobility
- List of family seats of Irish nobility
- List of family seats of Welsh nobility
References[]
- ^ "Clan Hay Entertained to Lunch at the Chief's Home". Clan Hay. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1855). A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 2. Hurst and Blackett. p. 139.
- ^ Way & Squire Encyclopaedia
External links[]
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