The Earl of AnnandaleEarl of Annandale
and Hartfell, Lord Johnstone, (baronage and peerage), Baron of Annandale, Baron of Johnstone, Steward & Keeper, (heritable offices), Chief of Clan Johnstone
The Rt Hon The Earl of Annandale (Patrick Andrew Wentworth Hope Johnstone of Annandale and of that Ilk, 11th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and Lord Johnston in the peerage of Scotland, Earl of the Territorial Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell and Lordship of Johnstone in the baronage of Scotland, 11th Hereditary Steward of Annandale and 11th Hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Palace, Baron of the Barony of the Lands of the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell, Baron of Johnstone, 26th Chief of the Name and Arms of Johnstone)
heir Lord Johnstone DL (David)
peer addressed as My Lord or Lord Annandale
Credentials
- • Earl of Annandale and Hartfell in the Peerage of Scotland (charter of 1662): claim upheld by the House of Lords Committee for Privileges, 23rd July 1985. Letters Patent of Lord Lyon Innes of Edingight, interlocutor 23rd September 1985, design him "Earl of Annandale and Hartfell in the Peerage of Scotland"; the words "Earl of the Territorial Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell" also appear in the patent, added to the draft by counsel and not judicially determined (Lord Lyon Sellar, Note in the petition of Sturzenegger of Arran, pp. 19–22). Previous holder (father): Percy Wentworth Hope Johnstone of Annandale and that Ilk, recognised by Letters Patent of 4th February 1983 as "Baron of the Barony of the lands of the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell" and Chief of Clan Johnstone; Edinburgh Gazette, 17th January 1984, p. 51, Lyon Register 66/71. The peerage had been dormant since 1792; the family held the territorial earldom throughout.
- • The lands were erected "in liberum comitatum, dominium et baroniam de Annandaill" by Crown charter of 13th July 1625, ratifying the patent of 1624 (RMS VIII nos. 599, 826).
- • Baron of the Baron of the Barony of the Lands of the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell title mentioned by chief in his newsletter: clanjohnstone.org/…/2009Summer.pdf
- • Annandale RPS, 1669/10/120 (Act of ratification, session of 1669 (RPS dates the act 23 Dec 1669); ratifying a Crown charter dated 23 April 1662) rps.ac.uk/trans/1669/10/120 ; RPS, 1662/5/122 (9 September 1662) rps.ac.uk/trans/1662/5/122
- • See the Association's paper: baronage.com/…/non-peerage-earldoms
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