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The Hostarius (alternatively, Usher, Doorward or Durward) was an office in medieval Scotland. Its holders who eventually became hereditary, had the theoretical responsibility of guarding the king's door, thereby protecting the king's property. This is a list of hostarii. Malcolm de Molle, uncle of Alan fitz Walter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland [1]
Alan Durward (died after 1264 or in 1275), effective ruler of Scotland at several times during the minority of Alexander III; Durward Gorham Hall (1910–2001), American politician; Durward Kirby (1912–2000), American television host and announcer; Durward Knowles (born 1917), Olympic champion sailor from the Bahamas
He was born in 1272 at Yoxall in Staffordshire, the son and heir of William de Ferrers (1240-1287), [2] of Groby in Leicestershire (a significant figure in the Second Barons' War between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester), the younger son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his second wife Margaret de Quincy, daughter and heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of ...
Alan Hostarius (or Alan Durward) (Scottish Gaelic: Ailean Dorsair) (died after 1264, or in 1275) was the son of Thomas de Lundin, a grandson of Gille Críst, Mormaer of Mar. His mother's name is unknown, but she was almost certainly a daughter of Máel Coluim, Mormaer of Atholl , meaning that Alan was the product of two Gaelic comital families .
[2] William de Ferrers (1240–1287), [4] of Groby in Leicestershire, younger son, who having been granted by his mother Groby Castle, founded the junior line of Ferrers of Groby. He married firstly Anne Durward, possibly the widow of Colbán, Earl of Fife and a daughter of Alan Durward, by whom he had issue:
Thomas de Lundin, often referred to as Thomas l'Ussier or Thomas Durward (Scottish Gaelic: Tomhas Dorsair), was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman.. Thomas takes his name from the villa of Lundie in Angus (not to be confused with Lundie in Fife), and was one of two known sons of Máel Coluim of Lundie (the other was Eóghan).
Durward William John Cruickshank FRS (7 March 1924 – 13 July 2007), often known as D. W. J. Cruickshank, was a British crystallographer whose work transformed the precision of determining molecular structures from X-ray crystal structure analysis.
Arms possibly borne by Earl Colban, as shown (without colour) on his seal [1]. Colban, Earl of Fife (b.c. 1247–1253, d. 1270/2) was ruler of Fife in Scotland. The son of Earl Malcolm and his wife, one of the daughters of Llywelyn the Great (probably Susanna fl. 1228), [2] he succeeded his father while still a teenager on Malcolm's death in 1266.