This is an incomplete index of leading Scottish noble family seats.
Name | Residences |
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The King | Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire Dumfries House, Ayrshire Birkhall, Aberdeenshire |
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Duke of Hamilton | Lennoxlove House, East Lothian | Hamilton Palace, Brodick Castle, Dungavel House, Kinneil House, Cadzow Castle |
Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry | Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway; Bowhill House, Selkirk and Boughton House, Northamptonshire | Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian and Montagu House, London |
Duke of Lennox and Duke of Gordon | Goodwood House, West Sussex | Gordon Castle, Huntly Castle, and Richmond House, London |
Duke of Argyll | Inveraray Castle, Argyll | Rosneath Castle, Argyll |
Duke of Atholl | Blair Castle, Perth and Kinross | Dunkeld House, Perth and Kinross |
Duke of Montrose | Auchmar, Stirling | Buchanan Castle, Stirling |
Duke of Roxburghe | Floors Castle, Scottish Borders | |
Duke of Sutherland | Mertoun House, Scottish Borders | Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, Lancaster House, London. |
Duke of Fife | Elsick House, Kincardinshire and Kinnaird Castle, Brechin |
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Marquess of Huntly | Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire | Huntly Castle |
Marquess of Queensberry | London | Kinmount House |
Marquess of Tweeddale | Edinburgh | Yester House, East Lothian |
Marquess of Lothian | Monteviot House and Ferniehirst Castle, Roxburghshire | Newbattle Abbey and Blickling Hall |
Marquess of Bute | Mount Stuart House, Bute | Dumfries House, Cardiff Castle, Bute House, Luton Hoo, Lansdowne House. |
Marquess of Linlithgow | Hopetoun House, South Queensferry |
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Viscount of Stormont | Scone Palace, Perthshire | |
Viscount of Arbuthnott | Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire | |
Viscount of Oxfuird | Battersea, London | Oxenfoord Castle |
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Lord Cathcart | Gateley Hall, Norfolk | |
Lord Forbes | Forbes Castle | |
Lord Borthwick | Crookston, Heriot | Borthwick Castle |
Lord Lovat | Balblair House, Beauly, Inverness-shire | Beaufort Castle |
Lord Torphichen | Calder House, West Lothian | |
Lord Balfour of Burleigh | Edinburgh | Burleigh Castle |
Lord Dingwall | London | Panshanger Park, Hertfordshire |
Lord Fairfax of Cameron | London | Denton Hall, North Yorkshire |
Lord Napier | Thirlestane Castle | Merchiston Castle |
Lord Forrester | Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire | |
Lord Belhaven and Stenton | Pimlico, London | Wishaw House |
Lord Ruthven of Freeland | Easington, Co. Durham | Castle Howard, Yorkshire and Naworth Castle, Cumbria |
Lord Nairne | Bignor Park, Sussex | |
Lord Polwarth | Hardon, Hawick, Roxburghshire | Marchmont House, Berwickshire |
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats | Year of Assignation |
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James Swinton of Swinton | Edinburgh | Swinton House, Swinton | |
Professor Mark Watson-Gandy | London | Myrton Castle, Wigtownshire | |
Dr. George M Burden of Seabegs | Seabegs | Feddal House | |
Alexander David Mungo Murray | Scone Palace | Balvaird Castle | 2015 |
Newlands of Lauriston | Lauriston Castle, Aberdeenshire | Newlands, Drumcow[3] | |
Michael Chou-Leng Looi Lyons | Avondale, Newfoundland, Canada[4] | Niddry Castle, Winchburgh | 2021 |
Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
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Sir Henry Reid | Ellon Castle | |
Mr Donald Cameron | Achnacarry Castle | Fassiefern House and Tor Castle |
Lady Antonia Dalrymple | Newhailes House, East Lothian | |
Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott | Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders | |
Mr James Montgomery | Kinross House, Perth and Kinross | |
Mr Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington | Ardverikie House, Scottish Highlands | Muncaster Castle |
Mrs Althea Dundas-Becker | Arniston House, Midlothian | |
Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame | Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire | |
James C. A. Burnett of Leys, Baron of Kilduthie | Crathes Castle | |
Alexander Irvine of Drum, 27th Chief and Baron of Drum | Doha, State of Qatar | Drum Castle |
Sir John Roderick Hugh McEwen of Marchmont and Bardrochat Bt, Commander of Clan MacEwen | The Steadings, Polwarth | Marchmont House |
Sir Roderick Duncan Hamilton Campbell of Barcaldine, 9th Bt. | ||
Madam Sarah Anne Grierson of Lag, 25th Chief of Clan Grierson | London | Lag Tower and Rockhall Tower |