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Baron of the Lewes

Baron of the Lewes

Clan Chief

Authenticated BaronPledged Hereditary Title

The Much Honoured Baron of Lewes (Torquil Donald Macleod of the Lewes, Baron of the Lewes, Chief of the Macleods of the Lewes)

Credentials

  • Previous holder-father: Rolls of the Chiefs and Heads of Territorial Houses, Officially-Recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms 11th Sep 1988 (LXVII 119), EDINBURGH GAZETTE
  • Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland 19th Edition, 2010, p. 945 column 2
  • greatscottishclans.com/clans/macleod.php
  • 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.