Mark Nesbitt of that IlkRepresenter of the Baronial House of West Nisbet
Chief of Clan Nesbitt
Representer of the Baronial House of Nesbitt of that Ilk and West Nisbet (Mark Nesbitt of that Ilk, Chief of Clan Nesbitt)
known as The Baron of West Nisbet
Credentials
- • Known as "Baroness of West Nisbet"; family style, not a legal title: Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 2875 column 2
- • Lord Lyon recognised Robert Anthony Ellis Nesbitt of that Ilk as Representer of the Baronial House of Nesbitt of that Ilk and West Nisbet, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 78/2 on 2 March 1995. The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of West Nisbet, 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 West Nisbet itself is a separate dignity, not identified on the Roll.
- • Previous holder-father: Robert Anthony Ellis Nesbitt, Rolls of the Chiefs, Edinburgh Gazette, Lyon Reg. 78/2, 2 March 1995 (deceased; heir recorded as (Robert) Mark Nesbitt of that Ilk per Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland, 19th ed., 2001, p.1462).
Authentication
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