Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun

Flora Marjory Fraser, 21. Lady Saltoun (born October 18, 1930 in Edinburgh ) is the bearer of a hereditary Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland and was a member of the British House of Lords from 1979 to 2014 .

In 1956 she married - with the privilege of keeping her maiden name - Alexander Ramsay (1919-2000), son of Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay and Princess Patricia of Connaught , a grandson of Arthur, Duke of Connaught , and great-grandson of Queen Victoria , with whom she had three daughters.

Flora Fraser was when her father Alexander Arthur Fraser, 20th Lord Saltoun (1886–1979) died, his only living child. The peerage of the Scottish Lordship Saltoun , bestowed in 1445, is passed on to the eldest daughter of the deceased last bearer in the absence of male offspring. From 1979 on, Lady Saltoun took her seat in the House of Lords as a non-party ( crossbencher ). According to the House of Lords Act 1999 , she was one of the 90 hereditary peers elected to the House of Lords by her peers, and has since been the only female holder of a Scottish lordship in the House of Lords. On December 12, 2014, Lady Saltoun resigned from her position as a member of the House of Lords.

The likely heir to the Lordship Saltoun is her eldest daughter Katharine (* 1957), who bears the courtesy title of Mistress of Saltoun .

Flora Fraser is known as Chief of the Name and the Arms of Fraser as the head of the Central Lowlands -related part of the Fraser Clan , while her distant relative Simon Fraser, 16.Lord Lovat (* 1977), grandson of Simon Fraser, 15 Lord Lovat , with the title of Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, is considered to be the head of the Highlands- resident parts of the clan .

Web links

• Official website of Lady Saltoun
• Clan Fraser of Lovat: Two Chiefs, One Clan

Individual evidence

1. ^ Retirement of a Member: Lady Saltoun of Abernethy

predecessor	Office	successor
Arthur Fraser	Lady Saltoun 1979-	current holder of the title