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The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdoms of Scotland and England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was introduced in which subsequent titles would be granted. After the Union, the old Scottish Peers elected sixteen representative peers to sit in the House of Lords. The Peerage Act 1963 allowed all Scottish Peers to sit in the House of Lords, a right which was lost along with all other hereditary peers due to the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999. Unlike most other peerage titles, many Scottish titles can pass through female lines.The ranks of the Scottish Peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Lord of Parliament. Scottish Viscounts are unique from the other Peerages in using "of" in their title, as in Viscount of Oxfuird. Though this is the theoretical form, most Viscounts drop the "of". The Viscount of Arbuthnott and, to a lesser extent, the Viscount of Oxfuird, still actively use "of". Scottish Peers had the right to sit in the Scottish ParliamentThe Scottish Parliament Parlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national legislature of Scotland. The original Scottish Parliament (or Estates of Scotland was abolished by the Act of Union 1707 along with the English Parliament, t. Scottish BaronVarious rulers or governments of Europe, of Tonga and of Japan bestow or recognise the title of baron . In the British peerage system, barons rank lowest, coming after viscounts. A female of baronial rank has the honorific baroness . A baron may hold a bas are not peers, but merely holders of feudal baronies, which can be bought and sold.
In the following table of extant Scottish peers, all higher or equal titles in the other peerages are listed. Also, if a Scottish peer holds a lower title in the Peerages of England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, and therefore sat (or, in the cases of Life peerages, sit) by virtue of such a peerage in the House of Lords, such a lower title is listed. However, a holder of multiple Scottish peerages is only listed under the highest one.
1 Dukes in the Peerage of Scotland
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| The Duke of RothesayThe title Duke of Rothesay is the official title possessed by the Heir Apparent to the throne of Scotland. Though a separate Scottish throne no longer exists and has not since the Act of Union 1707 which merged the Kingdoms of Scotland and England to form | 1398Events Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed. Construction of the Stecknitz Canal as one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world. Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi. The Teutonic Order occupies the | Duke of CornwallThe Dukedom of Cornwall was the first dukedom created in the peerage of England. The dukedom remains one of the last in the United Kingdom still associated with an actual duchy (the other is the Duchy of Lancaster). Its income goes to the Duke (or to the in the Peerage of England
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| The Duke of HamiltonThe Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1643. The Duke of Hamilton was created Duke of Brandon in 1711, making the holder one of the five people currently to hold two different dukedoms, the others being the Duke of Cornwall | 1643Events January 21 Abel Tasman discovers Tonga May 14 Four year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. May 19 Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France. July 13 English Civil War: Battle of | Duke of Brandon in the Peerage of Great Britain
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| The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry | 1663; 1684 | Earl of Doncaster in the Peerage of England
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| The Duke of Lennox | 1675 | Duke of Richmond in the Peerage of England;
Duke of Gordon in the Peerage of the UK
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| The Duke of Argyll | 1701 | Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of the UK
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| The Duke of Atholl | 1703 | Lord Percy in the Peerage of Great Britain
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| The Duke of Montrose | 1707 | Earl of Graham in the Peerage of Great Britain
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| The Duke of Roxburghe | 1707 | Earl Innes in the Peerage of the UK
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