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Earl of Glencairn, the Glossary

Index Earl of Glencairn

Earl of Glencairn was a title in the Peerage of Scotland.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 23 relations: Alexander Cunningham, 1st Earl of Glencairn, Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn, Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Cunynghame baronets, Dumfriesshire, Earl of Glencairn, Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway, House of Lords, Iain Moncreiffe, James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn, James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn, John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn, John Riddell (genealogist), Letters patent, Lord Chancellor, Montgomery-Cuninghame baronets, Peerage of Scotland, Roxburghshire, Sir Adam Fergusson, 3rd Baronet, William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn, William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn, William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn, William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn.

  2. Clan Cunningham
  3. Dormant earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland
  4. Noble titles created in 1488

Alexander Cunningham, 1st Earl of Glencairn

Alexander Cuninghame, 1st Earl of Glencairn, 1st Lord Kilmaurs (1426 – 11 June 1488) was a Scottish nobleman.

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Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn

Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn (Born around 1515 and died 23 November 1574) was a Scottish nobleman and Protestant reformer, prominent in the Scottish Reformation.

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Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn

Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, PC, KC (3 February 1733 – 2 January 1805) was a Scottish lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1780 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Loughborough.

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Cunynghame baronets

The Cunynghame Baronetcy, of Milncraig in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

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Dumfriesshire

Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (Siorrachd Dhùn Phris) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland.

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Earl of Glencairn

Earl of Glencairn was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Earl of Glencairn and Earl of Glencairn are Clan Cunningham, Dormant earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland and noble titles created in 1488.

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Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway

Glencairn is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Iain Moncreiffe

Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet, (9 April 1919 – 27 February 1985), Chief of Clan Moncreiffe, was a British Officer of Arms, historian and genealogist.

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James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn

James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn (1 June 174930 January 1791) was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and patron of Robert Burns.

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James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn

James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn (1552–1630) was a Scottish peer and member of the Privy Council of Scotland.

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John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn

John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn (1749 – 24 September 1796) was a Scottish nobleman, cavalry officer, and finally a priest.

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John Riddell (genealogist)

John Riddell (1785 – 8 February 1862) was a Scottish peerage lawyer and genealogist.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation.

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Lord Chancellor

The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister.

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Montgomery-Cuninghame baronets

The baronetcy of Cuninghame of Corsehill was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and conferred upon Alexander Cuninghame of Corsehill, a Scottish baron and landowner in Dumfriesshire and a great-great-great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Glencairn. Earl of Glencairn and Montgomery-Cuninghame baronets are Clan Cunningham.

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Peerage of Scotland

The Peerage of Scotland (Moraireachd na h-Alba; Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom and for those peers created by the King of Scots before 1707.

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Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh (Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

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Sir Adam Fergusson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Adam Fergusson, 3rd Baronet of Kilkerran, FRSE LLD (7 May 1733 – 25 September 1813) was a Scottish advocate, politician and slave-owner.

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William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn

William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn, 5th Lord of Kilmaurs (c. 1480–1548) was a Scottish nobleman, soldier, and "notorious intriguer".

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William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn

William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn (after 1530 – c. 1578) was a Scottish nobleman.

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William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn

William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn (1575–1630) was a Scottish politician.

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William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn

William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn (Uilleam Coineagan) (1610–1664), was a Scottish nobleman, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and a cavalier.

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See also

Clan Cunningham

Dormant earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland

Noble titles created in 1488

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Glencairn

Also known as Earls of Glencairn, Lord Glencairn, Lord Kilmaurs, William Cunningham, 13th Earl of Glencairn.