Earl of Breadalbane and Holland

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Coat of arms of the Earls of Breadalbane and Holland

Earl of Breadalbane and Holland is a currently dormant hereditary nobility title in the Peerage of Scotland .

The Earls' family seat was Taymouth Castle near Kenmore in Perth and Kinross until 1922 .

Award, subordinate and other titles

In 1672, George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness , went deep into debt to Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet , gave him the ownership of his lands and agreed that his earldom should fall to them on his death. After the death of the Earl in 1677, King Charles II. Campbell issued a certificate of appointment on June 28, 1677 , with which he raised him to Earl of Caithness with the subordinate titles Viscount of Breadalbane and Lord St. Clair of Berriedale and Glenurchy . The son and heir of the 6th Earl, however, obtained the title of 7th Earl by law and his father's lands were handed over to him.

Campbell finally renounced the Earldom Caithness and was instead awarded the title Earl of Breadalbane and Holland on August 13, 1681 , along with the subordinate titles Viscount of Tay and Paintland and Lord Glenorchy, Benederaloch, Ormelie and Weick . The award of the title was made with the special note that this should be considered to have been awarded on June 28, 1677 with regard to the protocol order of precedence , as well as that the titles could also be inherited by his other male heirs in the absence of male descendants. Campbell had inherited from his father in 1670 the title of Baronet , of Glenorchy in the County of Perth, which had been bestowed on his great-grandfather on May 29, 1625 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

When his grandson, the 3rd Earl, died on January 26, 1782 without leaving any male descendants, his line of descendants became extinct and the titles fell to his third cousin as 4th Earl according to the special inheritance regulation. This was raised on November 13, 1806 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Baron Breadalbane , of Taymouth Castle in the County of Perth, and on September 12, 1831 to Marquess of Breadalbane and Earl of Ormelie . With these titles, unlike his Scottish titles, a hereditary seat in the British House of Lords was connected to him. These three titles expired with the childless death of his son, the 2nd Marquess, on November 8th, 1862. The Earldom Breadalbane and Holland and the other Scottish titles fell to his great-uncle 5th degree as 6th Earl.

His son, the 7th Earl, was made Baron Breadalbane , of Kenmore in the County of Perth in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on March 25, 1873 , and Marquess of Breadalbane and Earl of Ormerlie , in the on July 11, 1885 County of Caithness, collected. When he left no male descendants on his death on October 19, 1922, these titles became void. The Earldom Breadalbane and Holland and the other Scottish titles fell to his nephew as the 8th Earl.

Since the childless death of the 10th Earl on December 15, 1995, the titles have been suspended, as no legitimate heir has so far been able to effectively prove his title claim before the Court of the Lord Lyon .

List of Earls of Breadalbane and Holland (1677)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 18846, p. 1833 , September 7, 1831.
  2. ^ The London Gazette : 25489, 3178 , July 10, 1885.

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