William Huntly, Baron of Huntly

Marquisate / Earldom / Lordship and Barony of Huntly

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William St John Edward James Andrews of Huntly | awaiting verification of barony

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known as William Huntly

Credentials

• This title is recorded in the Scottish Barony Register (SBR public list of 9 August 2026) as Huntly (Marquisate, Earldom and Lordship), County of Aberdeen, registered 1st September 2015, with the holder shown as Private.
• Previous holder: Dennistoun Gordon Teall of Teallach, who narrated in his petition of 27th May 1992 that he had "acquired right and title to the feudal Marquisate, Earldom and Lordship of Huntly", was designed "Baron of Huntly" by warrant of Lord Lyon Innes of Edingight, 30th June 1993 (Lord Lyon Sellar, Note in the Petition of Sturzenegger of Arran, p. 4). The Edinburgh Gazette, 4th April 1997, p. 777, Court of the Lord Lyon, "Rolls of the Chiefs, and Heads of Territorial Houses": "†Teall of Teallach Baron of Huntly", matriculated 13th April 1994, Lyon Register 78/4; "† indicates that the Arms have been matriculated with chapeau in respect of being a Minor Baron". No document linking the previous holder to the present holder has been seen by the Roll.
• History: by Crown charter of 14th April 1662, ratified by Parliament on 6th September 1681 (RPS 1681/7/140), "all and whole the lands, marquisate and earldom of Huntly, of old called the lordship and barony of Strathbogie" were erected into "a whole and free marquisate, earldom, lordship and barony" for the Marquis of Huntly and his heirs and assignees. On the death of the 5th Duke of Gordon in 1836 the marquisate passed to the Earl of Aboyne and most of the Gordon estates to the Duke of Richmond (The Scots Peerage, vol. IV, p. 253). In 1850 the Court of Session, on the Duke of Richmond's petition, granted a decree of disentail of "The Marquisate Earldom and Lordship of Huntly" (National Records of Scotland, CS46/1850/8/22, catalogue entry): a peer who did not hold the Huntly peerage dealing with the lands under the peerage's name. The Huntly estate was sold in 1936; its passage between 1936 and the disposition to Teall of Teallach, recorded in 1992, has not been traced.
• The Lord Lyon's recognition of the previous holder was as "Baron of Huntly", the only style a Lord Lyon has given a holder of this unit; the peerage Marquis of Huntly is extant and distinct. See the Association's paper: baronage.com/…/non-peerage-earldoms

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