The Marquis of LothianLord Newbattle
(baronage and peerage), Baron of Langnewton, Baron of Jedburgh, Baron of Ferniehirst, (other titles are peerages)
The Most Honourable The Marquis of Lothian (Ralph William Francis Joseph Kerr, 14th Marquis of Lothian, Earl of Lothian, Viscount of Briene, Lord Newbattle, Lord Jedburgh, Lord Kerr of Nisbet, Langnewtoun, and Dolphinstoun, Lord Kerr of Newbattle, Oxnam, Jedburgh, Dolphinstoun and Nisbet in the peerage of Scotland - Baron Ker in the UK peerage - Lord Newbattle, and Baron of Langnewton, Jedburgh and Ferniehirst in the baronage of Scotland)
peer addressed as My Lord or Lord Lothian
Credentials
- • Lord Newbattle RMS v, no. 1307, pp. 443–445 (28 July 1587) archive.org/…/1up
- • Langnewton RPS, 1641/8/305 (17 November 1641) rps.ac.uk/trans/1641/8/305
- • Jedburgh RPS, 1641/8/305 (17 November 1641) rps.ac.uk/trans/1641/8/305
- • Ferniehirst RMS iii, no. 249, p. 56 (17 January 1523/24) archive.org/…/1up
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