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Baron of Cromarty

Baron of Cromarty

Authenticated Baron🛡️ Hereditary Title

The Much Honoured Baron of Cromarty (John Bartholomew Wakelyn Nightingale, 2nd Baron of Cromarty)

Credentials

  • Previous holder-father: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 1st Feb 1978 (LVIII 104), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
  • Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 980 column 1
  • PLEDGED HEREDITARY TITLE, baronies held across generations are treated by the Roll, for its own purposes, as de facto hereditary and dynastic. The title becomes unrecognised by the Roll if the barony is later conveyed outside the family, in accordance with Roll policy.