Knight Marischal

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The office of Knight Marischal was first created for the Scottish coronation of Charles I in 1633, at Scone, the last monarch of Scotland, Great Britain or the UK to be crowned in Scotland.

Like the Earl Marischal, the Knight Marischal was involved in the 1715 Rising but, being non-heritable, the office itself continued to be filled up to the death of the 11th Duke of Hamilton in 1863. The office is vacant but has not been abolished.

[edit] Knights Marischal

• John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore (d 1715)
• 1702-1715: Lord Inverury, son of the above
• 1718-1732: Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning
• 1733-1758: John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore
• 1758: James Erskine

list incomplete

• 1785: Sir Robert Laurie, Bt
• 1805: William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll
• 1819: Alexander Keith, later Sir Alexander
• 1832: William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll
• 1846: William Alexander Anthony Archibald Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton

The office was not filled after the death of the Duke of Hamilton in 1863.