Sir James Forbes of CraigievarRepresenter of the Baronial House of Craigievar
Representer of the Baronial House of Forbes of Craigievar (Sir James Alexander Cumnock Forbes of Craigievar, 14th Bt)
baronet addressed as Sir James
family were barons of Craigievar
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Sir John Alexander Cumnock Forbes of Craigievar, Bt, as Representer of the Baronial House of Forbes of Craigievar, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 76/23 on 2 February 1994 (Edinburgh Gazette, 26 April 1994, p. 970); his predecessor Sir Ewen Forbes of Craigievar, Bt, had matriculated likewise at LO 60/86 on 6 October 1977 (Edinburgh Gazette, 16 November 1979, p. 1276). The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Craigievar, 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 Craigievar 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 2nd Feb 1994 (LXXVI 23), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
Authentication
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