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Arms of the Earls of Glencairn as recorded in Brown's Peerage, 1834
Arms of the Earls of Glencairn as recorded in Brown's Peerage, 1834

The title of Earl of Glencairn was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1488 for the first Lord Kilmaurs (created 1450). The Peerage is a system of Titles of Nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707.

On the death of the fifteenth earl in 1796, there existing no original Letters Patent of the creation nor a given remainder in the various confirmations in title of previous earls the title became dormant. Year 1796 ( MDCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Letters patent are a type of Legal instrument in the form of an Open letter issued by a Monarch or Government, granting an office right

The earldom was claimed by Sir Adam Fergusson of Kilkerran, Bt. , as heir of line; by Sir Walter Montgomery Cunningham of Corshill, Bt. , as heir male; and by Lady Henriet Don, sister of the last earl, and wife of Sir Alexander Don of Newton Don, Roxburghshire. Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a Registration county of Scotland. The House of Lords Committee of Privileges on July 14, 1797, chaired by the Lord Chancellor (Lord Rosslyn), in deciding the claim of the first-named, took a view unfavourable to all the claimants, and adjudged, that while Sir Adam Fergusson had shown himself to be the heir-general of Alexander, 10th Earl of Glencairn who died in 1670, he had not made out his right to the title. The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor is a senior and important functionary in the Government of the United Kingdom.

The current claimants to the Earls of Glencairn are the Montgomery-Cuninghame Baronets, although no claim has as yet been forthcoming. 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

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Lords Kilmaurs (1450)

Earls of Glencairn (1488)

The coat of arms of the Cunninghames, Earls of Glencairn as recorded in 1820 (Robertson)
The coat of arms of the Cunninghames, Earls of Glencairn as recorded in 1820 (Robertson)

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Douglas's version (1764) of the Arms of the Earls of Glencairn
Douglas's version (1764) of the Arms of the Earls of Glencairn

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