Dugald Skene of SkeneRepresenter of the Baronial House of Skene
Chief of the Name
Representer of the Baronial House of Skene of Skene (Dugald Alexander Skene of Skene, Chief of the Name and Arms of Skene)
family were barons of Skene
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Danus George Moncrieff Skene of Skene as Representer of the Baronial House of Skene of Skene, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 77/67 on 20 December 1994. The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Skene, and the Roll does not style the representer as one. Sir Thomas Innes of Learney wrote that such a chapeau "descends to the 'heir and representative' of such 'baronial race'—who in the Continental sense is of course a 'Baron'" (Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 79, p. 155), though not a baron in Scots law, the barony having passed with the land. See the glossary entry "Representer (of a House)" at baronage.com/scottish-baronies-expla…. The barony of Skene itself is a separate dignity, not identified on the Roll.
- • Previous holder-father: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 20th Dec 1994 (LXXVII 67), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
Authentication
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