Malcolm Maclean of KingairlochRepresenter of the Baronial House of Kingairloch
Chieftain of Kingairloch
Representer of the Baronial House of Maclean of Kingairloch (Malcolm Fraser Maclean of Kingairloch IV, 23rd Chieftain of Kingairloch)
known as The Baron of Kingairloch
Credentials
- • Representer, baron is family style, not baron in legal title: Burke's Peerage styles his father "22nd Chieftain and feudal Baron of Kingairloch", without the word Representer, but blazons the crest "On a chapeau azure, furred contre-ermine" and records that Hector Maclean of Kingairloch "sold entire Kingairloch estate in 1803 to James Forbes, of Hutton Hall, Essex" (Burke's Peerage Revised Families, Maclean of Kingairloch: burkespeerage.com, paywall). The word "feudal" is quoted as burke's used it here; the term has been defunct since 28 November 2004. (Lyon Court statement of 3 December 2008; Lord Lyon Sellar, Note in the Petition of the Baron of Cartsburn, 2009, "quondam feudal baronies").
- • A blue chapeau marks the representer of a family formerly holding a barony; contre-ermine fur marks a barony first held of a superior other than the Crown (Burnett and Dennis, Scotland's Heraldic Heritage: The Lion Rejoicing, 1997, pp. 28-9).
- • Inherited from his father: Burke's names "MALCOLM FRASER MACLEAN IV, YOUNGER OF KINGAIRLOCH" as son and heir of Malcolm Fraser Maclean of Kingairloch III, who died 9 December 2018 (kua.org/news-detail).
- • Chieftain: "The Chieftains are: … and Malcolm Maclean IV of Kingairloch" (Maclean History Project: macleanhistory.org/…/the-clan-maclean-today).
- • Burke's Peerage Revised Families. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. Updated 2025 "Baron of Kingairloch"
- • burkespeerage.com/search.php
- • solimine.com/…/Malcolm-Fraser-MacLean-…
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