Michael Dewar of that Ilk and VogrieRepresenter of the Baronial House of Vogrie
The Dewar, Chief of the Name
Representer of the Baronial House of Dewar of Vogrie (Michael Kenneth O'Malley Dewar of that Ilk and Vogrie, Chief of the Name and Arms of Dewar, The Dewar)
family were barons of Vogrie
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Kenneth Malcolm Joseph Dewar of that Ilk and Vogrie as Representer of the Baronial House of Dewar of Vogrie, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 77/1 on 25 September 1990 (Edinburgh Gazette, 7 April 1992, p. 1040). The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Vogrie, 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 Vogrie itself is a separate dignity, not identified on the Roll.
- • Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 25th Sep 1990 (LXXVII 1), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
- • Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 1132 column 1
Authentication
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