Earl of Perth

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Coat of arms of the Earls of Perth

Earl of Perth is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland .

The respective earl is the hereditary chief of Clan Drummond .

The Earls' family seat was formerly Drummond Castle near Crieff in Perth and Kinross and is now Stobhall near Perth in Perth and Kinross.

Award and history of the title

The title was created on March 4, 1605 for James Drummond, 4th Lord Drummond . He had been Scotland's ambassador to Spain . In 1600 he already had the subordinate title Lord Drummond , of Cargill from his father , which had been bestowed on January 29, 1488 to his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir John Drummond . The latter had been Justiciar of Scotland . His great-nephew, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth , was, like his younger brother, John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort , a close confidante of the Stuart- King James VII and in 1685 publicly professed Catholicism . After King Jacob was deposed, he was arrested in 1688 while trying to escape to France and imprisoned until he was released in 1693 on the condition that he leave the country. He then went to France to see the titular king Jacob. On his death on May 11, 1716, his eldest son, who had participated in the Jacobite revolt of 1715 , had already been ostracized for treason on February 17, 1716 by a resolution of the British Parliament ( Bill of Attainder ), which also extinguished those of him inheriting title.

In French exile, King Jacob had bestowed the 4th Earl on May 10, 1690 with the Scottish titles Duke of Perth , Marquess of Drummond , Earl of Stobhall , Viscount Cargill and Lord Concraig . These Jacobite titles were considered illegal in Great Britain and therefore nonexistent. The French King Louis XIV , however, recognized him in 1701 as Duc de Perth , whereby he was treated in France with all the privileges of a duke (without real estate in France being connected with it). When his youngest son, the Jacobite “6. Dukes of Perth ”fell whose titular claims fell on James Drummond of Lundin (1707–1781), a grandson of the 1st Earl of Melfort, from the line of his first marriage, which remained Protestant and in Scotland and was loyal to the Guelph kings. His son James Drummond obtained the return of the confiscated lands of the family including Drummond Castle in 1785 . In 1792 he petitioned King George III. to restore the title of Earl of Perth , withdrew the petition in 1796 and was raised on October 25, 1797 in the Peerage of Great Britain to Lord Perth , Baron Drummond of Stobhall in the County of Perth. This title expired when he died on July 2, 1800 without male descendants. The titular claims as Jacobite “9. Duke of Perth ”etc. fell to James Drummond (1750-1800), the Jacobite“ 4th Duke of Melfort ”and great-grandson of the 1st Earl of Melfort. His nephew George Drummond, the "11. Duke of Perth and 6th Duke of Melfort ”petitioned Queen Victoria in 1841 for the restoration of the titles Earl of Perth and Earl of Melfort , along with subordinate titles. The petition was finally approved by the Act of Parliament of June 28, 1853, restoring the titles to him as 5th Earl of Perth and 2nd Earl of Melfort. In part, the legal act is also understood as a retroactive lifting of the ostracism and George Drummond is counted accordingly as the 14th Earl of Perth and 6th Earl of Melfort.

When George Drummond left no male descendants on his death on February 28, 1902, the Earldom Melfort and the associated subordinate titles Viscount of Melfort , Viscount of Forth , Lord Drummond of Gillestoun and Lord Drummond of Riccartoun, Castlemains and Gilstoun expired . The Earldom Perth together with the associated subordinate title Lord Drummond fell to his very distant male relative William Drummond, 9th Viscount of Strathallan . This had already the 1686 created, henceforth subordinate titles 9th Viscount of Strathallan , 9th Lord Drummond of Cromlix and 11th Lord Maderty . Today's title holder has been his great-nephew John Drummond, 9th Earl of Perth , since 2002 .

List of the Earls of Perth and Lords Drummond

Lords Drummond (1488)

Earls of Perth (1605) and Jacobite "Dukes of Perth" (1690)

The heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current Earl, James David Drummond, Viscount Strathallan (* 1965).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The London Gazette : 14052, 968 , October 7, 1797.

literature

  • Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Editor): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. St Martin's Press, New York 1990.

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