Marcus Humphrey of DinnetThe Baron of Ochtercoull
The Much Honoured Baron of Ochtercoull (James Malcolm "Marcus" Humphrey of Dinnet, Baron of Ochtercoull)
alternatively The Baron of Dinnet-Ochtercoull
Credentials
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- • Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 24th Sep 1983, EDINBURGH GAZETTE
- • Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain, The Kingdom of Scotland, 19ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2001, p. 1462
- • Minor baron per Edinburgh Gazette, 17 January 1984, p.51 (†Humphrey of Dinnet, 24 Sep 1983, Lyon Reg. 65/68); barony named as Ochtercoull in Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland (19th ed., 2001), p.1462, same date and register reference. Pre-1988 Gazette convention prints designation + mark only, not the barony name, so the absence of "Ochtercoull" from the Gazette page is not a discrepancy.
Authentication
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