Peerage of Scotland

The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdoms of Scotland and England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was introduced. After the Union, Scottish Peers elected sixteen Representative Peers to sit in the House of Lords. The Peerage Act of 1963 allowed all Scottish Peers to sit in the House of Lords, a right which was lost along with all other hereditary peers in 1999. Unlike most other peerage titles, many Scottish titles can pass through female lines.

The ranks of the Scottish Peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Lord of Parliament. Scottish Viscounts are unique from the other Peerages in using "of" in their title, as in Viscount of Oxfuird. (The Viscount Falkland, however, is an exception to this. Although it is likely that the Peerage was created as "Viscount of Falkland", this form is no longer used.) Scottish Peers had the right to sit in the Scottish Parliament. Scottish Barons are not peers, but merely holders of feudal baronies, which can be bought and sold.

In the following table of Scottish peers, all higher or equal titles in the other peerages are listed. Also, if a Scottish peer holds a lower title in the Peerages of England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, and therefore sat (or, in the cases of Life peerages, sit) by virtue of such a peerage in the House of Lords, such a lower title is listed.

Dukes in the Peerage of Scotland
Title	Creation	Other titles
The Duke of Rothesay	1398	Duke of Cornwall in the Peerage of England
The Duke of Hamilton	1643	Duke of Brandon in the Peerage of Great Britain
The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry	1663; 1684	Earl of Doncaster in the Peerage of England
The Duke of Lennox	1675	Duke of Richmond in the Peerage of England; Duke of Gordon in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Duke of Argyll	1701	Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Duke of Atholl	1703
The Duke of Montrose	1707	Earl of Graham in the Peerage of Great Britain
The Duke of Roxburghe	1707	Earl of Innes in the Peerage of the U.K.
Marquesses in the Peerage of Scotland
Title	Creation	Other titles
The Marquess of Huntly	1599	Baron Meldrum of Morvern in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Marquess of Queensberry	1682
The Marquess of Tweeddale	1694	Baron Tweeddale of Yester in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Marquess of Lothian	1701	Baron Ker of Kersehugh in the Peerage of the U.K.
Earls and Countesses in the Peerage of Scotland
Title	Creation	Other titles
The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres	1398; 1651	Baron Wigan of Haig Hall in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Erroll	1452
The Countess of Mar	1404
The Countess of Sutherland	1230
The Earl of Rothes	1457
The Earl of Morton	1458
The Earl of Buchan	1469	Baron Erskine of Restormel Castle in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Eglinton	1507	Earl of Winton in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Cassilis	1509	Marquess of Ailsa in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Caithness	1455
The Earl of Mar and Kellie	1565; 1619	Baron Erskine of Alloa Tower for Life in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Moray	1562
The Earl of Home	1605	Baron Douglas in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Perth	1605
The Earl of Abercorn	1606	Duke of Abercorn in the Peerage of Ireland; Marquess of Abercorn in the Peerage of Great Britain
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	1606	Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Haddington	1619
The Earl of Galloway	1623
The Earl of Lauderdale	1624
The Earl of Lindsay	1633
The Earl of Loudoun	1633
The Earl of Kinnoull	1633
The Earl of Dumfries and Bute	1633; 1703	Marquess of Bute in the Peerage of Great Britain
The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine	1633; 1647	Baron Elgin of Elgin in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Southesk	1633	Duke of Fife in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Wemyss and March	1633; 1697	Baron Wemyss of Wemyss in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Dalhousie	1633	Baron Ramsay in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Airlie	1639
The Earl of Leven and Melville	1641; 1690
The Countess of Dysart	1643
The Earl of Selkirk	1646
The Earl of Northesk	1647
The Earl of Dundee	1660
The Earl of Newburgh	1660
The Earl of Annandale and Hartfell	1662
The Earl of Dundonald	1669
The Earl of Kintore	1677	Viscount Stonehaven of Ury in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Breadalbane and Holland	1677
The Earl of Aberdeen	1682	Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Dunmore	1686
The Earl of Orkney	1696
The Earl of Seafield	1701
The Earl of Stair	1703	Baron Oxenfoord of Cousland in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Rosebery	1703	Earl of Midlothian in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Glasgow	1703	Baron Fairlie in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Earl of Hopetoun	1703	Marquess of Linlithgow in the Peerage of the U.K.
Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland
Title	Creation	Other titles
The Viscount Falkland	1620
The Viscount of Stormont	1621	Earl of Mansfield in the Peerage of Great Britain
The Viscount of Arbuthnott	1641
The Viscount of Oxfuird	1651
Lords of Parliament and female holders of Lordships of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland
Title	Creation	Other titles
The Lord Forbes	1442
The Lord Gray	1444
The Lady Saltoun	1445
The Lord Sinclair	1449
The Lord Bothwick	1452
The Lord Cathcart	1452	Earl of Cathcart in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Lord Lovat	1464
The Lord Sempill	1488
The Lord Herries of Terregles	1490
The Lord Elphinstone	1510	Baron Elphinstone in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Lord Torpichen	1564
The Lady Kinloss	1602
The Lord Colville of Culross	1604	Viscount Colville of Culross in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Lord Balfour of Burleigh	1607
The Lord Dingwall	1609	Baron Lucas of Crudwell in the Peerage of England
The Lord Napier of Merchistoun	1627
The Lord Fairfax of Cameron	1627
The Lord Reay	1628
The Lord Forrester of Corstorphine	1633	Earl of Verulam in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Lord Elibank	1643
The Lord Belhaven and Stenton	1647
The Lord Rollo	1651	Baron Dunning in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Lord Ruthven of Freeland	1651	Earl of Carlisle in the Peerage of England
The Lord Kinnaird	1682	Baron Kinnaird of Rossie in the Peerage of the U.K.
The Lord Polwarth	1690