Peter Barclay of Towie BarclayRepresenter of the Baronial House of Towie Barclay
Chief of the Name
Representer of the Baronial House of Barclay of Towie Barclay (Peter Charles Barclay of Towie Barclay and that Ilk, Chief of the Name and Arms of Barclay)
died 2023
family were barons of Towie Barclay
Credentials
- • Edinburgh Gazette, 25 February 1972, p. 167 (Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses: "Barclay of Towie Barclay and of that Ilk, Peter Charles, 22 March 1971, Lyon Register LIV, p. 95"; name recognised, no minor baron mark) — thegazette.co.uk/…/167
- • Burke's Peerage, 107th ed., Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 252 column 2: "Chief of the Name and Arms of Barclay and Representer of the House of Towie Barclay, Aberdeenshire, so recognised by Ld Lyon King of Arms and matric arms LO 22 March 1971".
- • Later matriculation 8 October 1997, Lyon Register 78/105, listed in Burke's Landed Gentry, The Kingdom in Scotland (19th ed., 2001), p. 1461, with a blue chapeau (B), the family no longer holding the lands; not gazetted.
Authentication
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