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MARQUESSES AND See also:DUKES OF See also:MONTROSE
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See also:David See also:Lind-say, 5th See also:earl of See also:Crawford (c
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1440-1495), was created See also:duke of See also:Montrose in 1488 (the first dukedom conferred in See also:Scotland on a See also:person not of royal See also:blood), as a See also:reward for remaining loyal to See also: He was an ardent supporter of the Hanoverian See also:succession; he also favoured the See also:union of Scotland with See also:England, for his services in regard to which he was created duke of Montrose and marquess of Graham in 1707, becoming in the same See also:year one of the first representative peers of Scotland in the See also:parliament of See also:Great See also:Britain . He was one of the regents of the See also:kingdom on the death of See also:Queen See also:Anne, and was appointed a secretary of See also:state by See also:George I . He took an active See also:part in suppressing the Jacobite rising in 1715, after which he was made keeper of the great See also:seal in Scotland . He died in 1742 . During his life-See also:time his son David was raised to the See also:peerage of Great Britain with the title of Earl Graham; and on David's death without issue in 1731 this earldom passed under a See also:special See also:remainder to his See also:brother William (c . 1710-1790), who on his See also:father's death in 1742 succeeded to the dukedom also . William's son James, 3rd duke of Montrose (1755-1836), held See also:office in See also:Pitt's administrations in 1783 and 1804, and in that of the duke of See also:Portland in 1807 . He obtained the annulment of the See also:law prohibiting Highlanders from wearing the See also:kilt . He.was succeeded by his son James (1799—1874), who held office under the earl of See also:Derby in 1852, and again in 1858and 1866, and was father of See also:Douglas See also:Beresford Malise Ronald, 5th duke (b . 1852) . In 18J3 James See also:Lindsay, 24th earl of Craw-See also:ford, claimed the title of duke of Montrose on the ground that the patent granted to his ancestor David Lindsay in 1488 (see above) had not been effectively rescinded, but his See also:petition was dismissed by the See also:House of Lords . |
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