Torquil Donald MacleodRepresenter of the Baronial House of the Lewes
Clan Chief
Representer of the Baronial House of Macleod of the Lewes (Torquil Donald Macleod of the Lewes, Chief of the Macleods of the Lewes)
family were barons of the Lewes
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Torquil Roderick Macleod of the Lewes as Representer of the Baronial House of Macleod of the Lewes, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 67/119 on 11 September 1988 (Edinburgh Gazette, 5 December 1989, p. 2064). The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of the Lewes, 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 the Lewes 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 11th Sep 1988 (LXVII 119), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
- • Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland 19th Edition, 2010, p. 945 column 2
- • greatscottishclans.com/…/macleod.php
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