Sir Alistair Innes of CoxtonRepresenter of the Baronial House of Coxton
Representer of the Baronial House of Innes of Coxton (Sir Alistair Gordon Innes of Coxton, 13th Bt)
baronet addressed as Sir Alistair
family were barons of Coxton
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Sir Charles Kenneth Gordon Innes of Coxton, Bt, as Representer of the Baronial House of Innes of Coxton, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 56/108 on 24 September 1974 (Edinburgh Gazette, 29 July 1975, p. 1029). The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Coxton, 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 Coxton itself is a separate dignity, not identified on the Roll.
- • Previous holder-father: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 24th Sep 1974 (LVI 108), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
Authentication
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