Malise Monteith of CarstairsRepresenter of the Baronial House of Carstairs
Representer of the Baronial House of Monteith of Carstairs (Malise Charles Robert Monteith of Carstairs)
died 2022
family were barons of Carstairs
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Lt Col Robert Charles Michael Monteith of Carstairs as Representer of the Baronial House of Monteith of Carstairs, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 61/109 on 28 June 1981. The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Carstairs, 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 Carstairs itself is a separate dignity; its present holder is listed on the Roll as Reisinger of Carstairs Baron of Carstairs (entry 54).
- • Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 1xii column [knight of Malta 19th March 1982 "Malise Charles Robert Monteith of Carstairs, Baron of Carstairs"]
- • Malise Charles Robert Monteith, 1952–2022 (memorial notice, St Mary's, Lanark, parish newsletter, 10 April 2022).
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