Edward Lennox of that IlkRepresenter of the Baronial House of Woodhead
Chief of the Name
Representer of the Baronial House of Lennox of that Ilk and Woodhead (Edward James Howell Lennox of that Ilk and Woodhead, Chief of the Name and Arms of Lennox)
family were barons of Antermony
Credentials
- • Lord Lyon recognised Denis Peareth Hornell Lennox of that Ilk and Woodhead as Representer of the Baronial House of Lennox of that Ilk and Woodhead, matriculating arms with a blue chapeau at LO 65/105 on 28 June 1984. The blue chapeau marks the representer of a baronial family no longer in possession of the barony. It is not recognition as Baron of Antermony, 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 Antermony itself is a separate dignity, not identified on the Roll.
- • Previous holder [relationship unconfirmed]: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Lord Lyon King of Arms, 28th June 1984, LXV 105, Edinburgh Gazette, 4 January 1985, Issue 21660, p.2 (name-only entry, no mark printed on this row); barony recognition as Baron of Antermony rests on Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland (19th ed., 2001), p.1462, which shows "(B)" blue chapeau for this entry — Burke's note 3 asserts chapeau matriculation for all 133 listed, but the Gazette's own printed row for this specific entry carries no mark, a discrepancy not resolved here.
Authentication
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