Lord Duffus
Lord Duffus was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland .
Award and history of the title
The title was created on December 8, 1650 for Sir Alexander Sutherland , Lord of Duffus Castle at Elgin in Moray . This was a agnatischer descendant of the fourth Earl of Sutherland and head of the line Sutherland of Duffus of Clan Sutherland .
His grandson, the 3rd Lord, took part in the Jacobite revolt of 1715 and was ostracized for this in 1716 and his titles were revoked. His grandson obtained that the Act of Parliament of May 25, 1826 revoked his ostracism and retroactively restored his title as 5th Lord.
When the 5th Lord died childless on January 30, 1827, the title was suspended because the original award document was no longer available and it was unclear whether the title was hereditary only in the male or also in the female line. The nearest legitimate male relatives, Sir Benjamin Dunbar 3rd Baronet, grandson of a younger son of the second Lord, James Sutherland († 1724), the 1706's surname Dunbar had accepted and Baronet , of Hempriggs in the County of Caithness had been raised , used from 1837 the title 6. Lord Duffus, but did not achieve formal recognition of his title at the House of Lords . With the childless death of his son, who called himself 8th Lord Duffus but was also never confirmed, on August 28, 1875 the male line of the family and probably the title became extinct.
List of Lords Duffus (1650)
- Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord Duffus (around 1621–1674)
- James Sutherland, 2nd Lord Duffus († 1705)
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Kenneth Sutherland, 3rd Lord Duffus († 1734) (title forfeited 1716)
- Eric Sutherland of Duffus, de iure 4. Lord Duffus (1710–1768)
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James Sutherland, 5th Lord Duffus (1747–1827) (title restored 1826; title dormant 1827)
- Sir Benjamin Dunbar, 3rd Baronet, de iure 6th Lord Duffus (1761–1843)
- Sir George Sutherland Dunbar, 4th Baronet, de iure 7th Lord Duffus (1799–1875)