Earl of Seafield

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James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield

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

The respective earl is the head of a branch of the Ogilvy clan . The Earls family seat is Cullen House (also Old Cullen ) in Cullen near Buckie in Moray (historically in Banffshire ).

Award

The title was created on June 24, 1701 for James Ogilvy, 1st Viscount Seafield . He was Minister and Lord Keeper of the Seal of the Kingdom of Scotland . He later became Lord Chancellor of Scotland .

The title was awarded with a special succession clause, according to which, if the respective earl does not have a son, the dignity is passed to the eldest daughter.

Subordinate title

The first earl had been raised to Lord Ogilvy of Cullen and Viscount of Seafield in 1698 . In 1701 he was given the title Lord Ogilvy of Deskford and Cullen and Viscount of Reidhaven at the same time as the Earl of Honor . All titles belong to the Peerage of Scotland and are provided with the same special successor clause as the Earldom. These titles are held as subordinate titles by the respective earl.

The respective title heir carries the courtesy title Viscount (of) Reidhaven .

Other titles

An ancestor of the first earl had been raised to Lord Ogilvy of Deskford in 1616 . His son, a great-grandfather of the first Earl of Seafield, was named Earl of Findlater in 1638 . These titles could only be inherited in the male line and expired in 1811 with the death of the fourth Earl of Seafield (or seventh Earl of Findlater).

In 1641 the title of Earl of Findlater was again awarded to the Earl, but now with a special succession clause, according to which the dignity could be passed on to the daughter of the Earl and her husband in the event of the male line becoming extinct, which then happened. This title also expired in 1811.

The fifth Earl of Seafield, a descendant of a daughter of the first Earl, had inherited the title of baronet , of Colquhoun in the County of Dumbarton , through his father . This was created in 1625 and renewed in 1704 with a special successor clause in relation to the son-in-law and belongs to the Baronetage of Nova Scotia . This dignity fell to another relative in 1915, when the eleventh Earl died of an injury sustained in World War I , as it can only be inherited in the male line.

The seventh earl was made Baron Strathspey , of Strathspey in the Counties of Inverness and Moray on August 14, 1858 . With this title, unlike the Scottish titles, an automatic seat in the House of Lords was associated, as it belonged to the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It expired in 1884 when the eighth Earl died without a male descendant. A few months later the barony was renewed for the ninth earl. In 1915, however, this title fell together with the baronetcy to the more distant relatives, since the eleventh earl had a daughter but no son.

List of Lords Ogilvy of Deskford, Earls of Findlater and Earls of Seafield

Lords Ogilvy of Deskford (1616)

Coat of arms of the Earl of Findlater

Earls of Findlater (1638/1641)

Earls of Findlater (1638/1641) and Seafield (1701)

Earls of Seafield (1701)

Coat of arms of the Earl of Seafield

The heir to the title is the son of the current Earl, James Andrew Studley, Viscount Reidhaven (* 1963).

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