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No substantive Scottish peerage had appeared since George Crawfurd's in 1716. In 1764, Douglas published the volume, The Peerage of Scotland; [2] with a dedication to the Earl of Morton and a list of subscribers prefixed. In his preface Douglas stated that he had sent for corrections and additions a manuscript copy of each account of a peerage ...
The Scots Peerage is a nine-volume book series of the Scottish nobility compiled and edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, published in Edinburgh from 1904 to 1914. The full title is The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom.
The 1764 coat of arms of Walter Sandilands, Lord Torphichen. Lord Torphichen or Baron Torphichen [1] (pronounced / ˈ t ɔːr f ɪ k ən /) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.It was created by Queen Mary in 1564 for Sir James Sandilands (to whom she was related).
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
His grandson, the Scottish-born Robert Douglas (1611–1662), transplanted this branch of the Scottish clan to Sweden when in 1627 he became an officer in the Thirty Years' War; In 1657 he became field marshal. He received the Swedish title of Baron in 1651 and the title of Count (the highest title awarded to non-royalty in Sweden) in 1654.
1764: Died; Peerage extinct Earl of Portsmouth (1743) John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth ... Peerage of Scotland: Viscount of Falkland (1620) Lucius Cary, 7th ...
1764: 1774: Died John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl: 1774: 1830: Duke of Montrose (1707) William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose: 1742: 1790: Duke of Roxburghe (1707) John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe: 1755: 1804: Peerage of Great Britain: Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1715) Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven: 1742: 1778: Died
He was a Scottish representative peer from 1739 and sheriff of Lanark from 1739, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1739 and 1740. He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1742 and a Privy Counsellor in 1750. He was Vice Admiral of Scotland from 1764 to 1767.