Alan Browning Mackay, Baron of Breadalbane

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Alan Browning Mackay | awaiting verification of baronial earldom

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Credentials

• Style on verification: because a Lord Lyon recognised a holder of this earldom in an earl's style (Lord Lyon Blair, warrant 12th April 2006, "Feudal Earl of Breadalbane"), the Roll will, once the present holder has verified, style him The Much Honoured Earl of Breadalbane in the baronage of Scotland (Alan Browning Mackay, holder of the dignity of the Earldom of Breadalbane), on the same precedent as the Earl of Rothes. This applies only where the present holder has no Lyon Court recognition that speaks to the earldom. If he holds Letters Patent that name it, the Roll will follow the form used in them: an earl's style if one is recognised, otherwise holder of the earldom, as for Wigtoun. Letters Patent that grant arms without mentioning the earldom leave this rule in place. That recognition was personal to the previous holder and covered the earldom together with the lordships of Kildrummie and Braemar, which have since been registered separately; no Lyon Court recognition of the present holder is cited. The Roll's rule: where a Lord Lyon has recognised a holder of an earldom in an earl's style, the Roll continues that style for the successor; otherwise it uses the Court's own form, holder of the earldom.
• This barony is recorded in the Scottish Barony Register (SBR public list of 9 August 2026). Registration records legal title; the Roll is a record of recognition, which does not affect legal title. As a neutral record, the Roll enters a title once the holder has verified by a short scheduled call, seen the Roll's published rules and been offered the Pledge, which is optional. Until then the title is not on the Roll and is on a separate pending list, not yet recognised by this Roll; under the Roll's published rules, listed barons and cooperating organisations recognise only verified titles. This does not imply that the title or holder is not genuine, and no conclusion is made regarding legitimacy. Verification is free and the Roll is non-profit.
• Scottish Barony Register: Breadalbane (Earldom), County of Perth, registered 31st August 2016, Alan Mackay. The Lordship of Kildrummie (27th November 2023) and the Lordship of Braemar (19th November 2025), held with the earldom by the previous holder, are registered separately.
• Previous holder: John Sullivan, infeft as at 23rd November 2004, recognised by Lord Lyon Blair, warrant 12th April 2006 (amended from 2nd August 2005), as "Feudal Earl of Breadalbane, Feudal Lord of Kildrummie and Feudal Lord of Braemar" (Lord Lyon Sellar, Note in the Petition of Sturzenegger of Arran, p. 5). Letters Patent and the register entry have not been seen by the Roll. The word "feudal" is quoted as the warrant uses it; the term has been defunct since 28 November 2004. (Lyon Court statement of 3 December 2008; Lord Lyon Sellar, Note in the Petition of the Baron of Cartsburn, 2009, "quondam feudal baronies").
• The Earldom of Breadalbane and Holland in the Peerage of Scotland was created by patent, 13th August 1681 (The Scots Peerage, vol. II, pp. 202–205). The printed Register of the Great Seal ends in 1668; no charter erecting the lands as an earldom has been seen, and charters may survive outside the printed record. How the earldom passed out of the peer's family has not been shown to the Roll.
• Four titles of this kind were recognised by Lord Lyon Blair in 2006–2007; the Lyon Court has since treated such earldoms as "of the genus of barony" (Lord Lyon Morrow, Menking, 2015). See the Association's paper: baronage.com/…/non-peerage-earldoms

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A note on terminology: “Scottish feudal barony” or “feudal title” is an incorrect, defunct historical term for extant barons. Baronies were feudal until 28 November 2004, when feudal baronies were abolished and the dignity of baron was retained — an extant barony is no longer “feudal”. The correct term is Scottish barony or Scottish baron (or baron, lord or earl in the Baronage of Scotland, collectively the minor barons of Scotland); never “feudal baron”. Why the term is defunct →