List of family seats of Scottish nobility

This is an incomplete index of leading Scottish noble family seats.

The royal family

Name Residences
Queen Elizabeth IIHolyrood Palace, Edinburgh and Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire
HRH The Duke of RothesayBirkhall, Aberdeenshire

Dukes

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
Duke of HamiltonLennoxlove House, East LothianHamilton Palace, Brodick Castle, Dungavel House, Kinneil House, Cadzow Castle
Duke of Buccleuch and QueensberryDrumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway; Bowhill House, Selkirk and Boughton House, NorthamptonshireDalkeith Palace, Midlothian and Montagu House, London
Duke of LennoxGoodwood House, West SussexGordon Castle, Huntly and Richmond House, London
Duke of ArgyllInveraray Castle, ArgyllRosneath Castle, Argyll
Duke of AthollBlair Castle, Perth and KinrossDunkeld House, Perth and Kinross
Duke of MontroseAuchmar, StirlingBuchanan Castle, Stirling
Duke of RoxburgheFloors Castle, Scottish Borders

Marquesses

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
Marquess of HuntlyAboyne Castle, AberdeenshireHuntly Castle
Marquess of QueensberryUnknownKinmount House
Marquess of TweeddaleUnknownYester House, East Lothian
Marquess of LothianMonteviot House and Ferniehirst Castle, RoxburghshireNewbattle Abbey and Blickling Hall

Earls

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
Countess of SutherlandDunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland
Earl of CrawfordBalcarres House, Colinsburgh, FifeCrawford Castle
Earl of Mar Unknown Kildrummy Castle, Mar's Wark and Doune of Invernochty
Earl of ErrollWoodbury Hall, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire[1]New Slains Castle[2]
Earl of CaithnessUnknownRavenscraig Castle
Earl of MortonUnknownAberdour Castle, Aberdour House, Dalkeith House, Dalmahoy, Loch Leven Castle and Morton Castle
Earl of Rothes Unknown Unknown
Earl of BuchanNewnham House, HampshireUnknown
Earl of EglintonUnknownEglinton Castle near Ayr and Skelmorlie Castle
Earl of CassilisCassillis House, AyrshireCulzean Castle
Earl of MorayDarnaway Castle Forres MorayDoune Castle, Drumsheugh House and Moray House
Earl of Mar and KellieUnknownKellie Castle, Fife
Earl of HomeThe Hirsel, Berwickshire and Castlemains, Douglas Hume Castle, Fast Castle, Berwickshire, Douglas Castle, Bothwell Castle
Earl of PerthStobhall, PerthshireDrummond Castle
Earl of AbercornBaronscourt, County Tyrone
Earl of Strathmore and KinghorneGlamis Castle, AngusCastle Huntly, Gibside Hall, Streatlam Castle and St Paul's Walden Bury
Earl of HaddingtonMellerstain House, BerwickshireTyninghame House in East Lothian
Earl of GallowayCumloden House, WigtownshireGalloway House, Wigtownshire
Earl of LauderdaleUnknownThirlestane Castle, Ham House, London and Dunbar Castle
Earl of LindsayLahill House, Fife, ScotlandCobermere Abbey, Shropshire
Earl of LoudounAustraliaLoudoun Castle
Earl of KinnoullDupplin Castle outside PerthBalhousie Castle
Earl of DumfriesMount Stuart House, ButeDumfries House, Cardiff Castle, Bute House, Luton Hoo and Lansdowne House
Earl of ElginBroomhall House, FifeCulross Abbey House
Earl of SoutheskElsick House, KincardineshireDuff House, Banffshire
Earl of Wemyss and MarchGosford House, East Lothian, Stanway House in Gloucestershire, Neidpath Castle, Peebles and Elcho Castle near Perth Unknown
Earl of DalhousieBrechin CastleDalhousie Castle
Earl of AirlieAirlie Castle and Cortachy Castle
Earl of LevenGlenferness House Nairn
Countess of DysartRothiemurchus by Aviemore
Earl of SelkirkUnknown
Earl of NortheskEthie Castle
Earl of NewburghMilan, Italy
Earl of DundeeBirkhill House, Fife
Earl of AnnandaleRaehills, Dumfries and Galloway and Lochwood Castle
Earl of DundonaldLochnell Castle, Argyll and Beacon Hall, Kent
Earl of KintoreKeith Hall, AberdeenshireDunnottar Castle
Earl of AberdeenHaddo House, Aberdeenshire
Earl of DunmoreAustralia Estate of Harris and Dunmore Park, Falkirk
Earl of OrkneyUnknown
Earl of SeafieldOld Cullen, Moray
Earl of StairLochinch Castle, WigtownshireOxenfoord Castle
Earl of RoseberryDalmeny House and Barnbougle Castle, EdinburghMentmore Towers; Lansdowne House; The Durdans; Villa Roseberry
Earl of GlasgowKelburn castle, Ayrshire
Earl of HopetounHopetoun House, West LothianNiddry Castle

Viscounts

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
Viscount of StormontScone Palace, Perthshire
Viscount of ArbuthnottArbuthnott House, Kincardineshire
Viscount of Oxfuird?Oxenfoord Castle

Lords of Parliament

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
Lord CathcartGateley Hall, Norfolk
Lord ForbesForbes Castle
Lord Borthwick?Borthwick Castle
Lord Lovat?Beaufort Castle
Lord TorphichenCalder House, West Lothian
Lord Balfour of Burleigh?Burleigh Castle
Lord Dingwall?Panshanger Park, Hertfordshire
Lord Fairfax of Cameron?Denton Hall, North Yorkshire
Lord Napier?Merchiston Castle
Lord ForresterGorhambury House, Hertfordshire
Lord Ruthven of Freeland?Castle Howard, Yorkshire and Naworth Castle, Cumbria
Lord NairneBignor Park, Sussex
Lord Polwarth?Marchmont House, Berwickshire

Minor barons (feudal barons)

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
James Swinton of Swinton Edinburgh Swinton House, Swinton

Baronets and non-titled landowners

Primary Title Current Seat Former Seats
Lady Antonia Dalrymple?Newhailes House, East Lothian
Dame Jean Maxwell-ScottAbbotsford House, Scottish Borders
Mr James Montgomery?Kinross House, Perth and Kinross
Mr Patrick Gordon-Duff-PenningtonArdverikie House, Scottish Highlands
Mrs Althea Dundas-BeckerArniston House, Midlothian
Major-General Sir John Swinton of KimmerghameKimmerghame House, Berwickshire

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Clan Hay Entertained to Lunch at the Chief’s Home". Clan Hay. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Burke, Sir Bernard (1855). A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 2. Hurst and Blackett. p. 139.

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