Richard Dunbar

Baron of Hempriggs

Authenticated Baron 🛡️ Hereditary Title

The Much Honoured Baron of Hempriggs (Sir Richard Francis Dunbar of Hempriggs, 9th Baronet, Baron of Hempriggs)

baronet addressed as Sir Richard

spouse Jane Lady Hempriggs

Credentials

• Previous holder-mother: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 2nd Aug 1965 (XLIX 1), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
• Burke’s Peerage, 107ed. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, p. 1204 column 1-2
• 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.

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