Baron of Ballencrieff
(East)
Authenticated BaronPledged Hereditary Title
The Much Honoured Baron of Ballencrieff (Moray Nairn of Ballencrieff, Baron of Ballencrieff)
Credentials
- • Previous holder-father: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 17th Apr 1974 (LVII 62), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
- • Burke’s Landed Gentry Scotland, 19ed vol 1, Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain Limited, 2001, p. 1461-1463
- • Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 237 column 2
- • 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.