Graham CarsonThe Baron of Rusco
The Much Honoured Baron of Rusco (Robert Graham Carson of Rusco, Baron of Rusco)
died 2012 barony Vacant
Credentials
- • Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 3rd Oct 1984 (LXVII 14), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
- • Minor baron per Edinburgh Gazette, 4 January 1985, p.2 (Carson of Rusco, 3 October 1984, Lyon Reg. 67/14); also Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland (19th ed., 2001), p.1461, same date and register.
- • scotsman.com/…/obituary-graham-carson-…
Authentication
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