24th Countess of Sutherland (1921-2019)

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A member at the Nobiliana Forum posted a link to this article which related the news of the death of the Countess of Sutherland.

https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/countess-of-sutherland-dies-187901/

This title has passed through females several times now. The original family seem to have assumed the surname Sutherland at about the same time they obtained that earldom. From 1535 the title passed to the Gordon family (though like most of the Gordons they were actually Setons in the male line), and they kept the surname Gordon for a few generations.

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/sutherland.html

 

William MORAY, aka SUTHERLAND, apparently cr ca 1235 Earl of Sutherland, d.ca 1248

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William SUTHERLAND, 2nd Earl of Sutherland, d.1306/7

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Kenneth SUTHERLAND, 4th Earl of Sutherland, k.a. Halidon Hill 19 Jul 1333; said to have m. Mary, dau of Donald, Earl of Mar, and widow of John,Earl of Athol

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William SUTHERLAND, 5th Earl of Sutherland, d.ca 1370/1; m.1st 1342 Margaret (d.1346/7), dau of King Robert I of Scotland; m.2nd 1347 Joan, dau of Sir John Mentieth, and widow of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, of John, Earl of Athol, and of Maurice, Earl of Athol

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Robert SUTHERLAND, 6th Earl of Sutherland, d.ca 1427; m.1389 Margaret, nat. dau of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan [himself a son of King Robert II]

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John SUTHERLAND, 7th Earl of Sutherland, d.ca 1460; in 1456 he resigned the earldom, which was re-granted the next day to his son John; he m.by 1432 Margaret Baillie (d.1509/10)

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John SUTHERLAND, 8th Earl of Sutherland in 1456 [under the re-grant], d.ca 1508; m.1st NN, possibly a Macdonald; m.2nd Fingole, widow of Munro of Foulis; m.3rd Catherine ___

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Elizabeth SUTHERLAND, 10th Countess of Sutherland (d.Aboyne Castle Sep 1535); m.1500 Adam GORDON, Lord of Aboyne, son of Earl of Huntly

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Alexander GORDON, Master of Sutherland (d.Dunrobin 15 Jan 1530); m.Lady Janet Stewart

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John GORDON, 11th Earl of Sutherland (1525-d.of poison at Dunrobin 23 Jun 1567); m.1st 1545/6 Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Moray, née Campbell; m.2nd ca 1548 Helen, Dowager Countess of Erroll, née Stewart (d.ca 1564); m.3rd Marion, Dowager Countess of Menteith, née Seton (d.of poison at Dunrobin 23 Jun 1567)

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Alexander GORDON, 12th Earl of Sutherland (Darnaway Castle 1552-Dunrobin 6 Dec 1594); m.1st ca 1567 (div 1572) Lady Barbara Sinclair; m.2nd Strathbogie 13 Dec 1573 Lady Jean Gordon, divorced Css of Bothwell (d.Dunrobin 14 May 1629)

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John GORDON, 13th Earl of Sutherland (20 Jul 1576-Dornoch 11 Sep 1615); m.Edinburgh 5 Feb 1600 Hon. Agnes Elphinstone (27 Oct 1579-Crakaig 18 Sep 1617)

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John GORDON, 14th Earl of Sutherland (9 Mar 1609-14 Oct 1679); m.1st Seton 14 Feb 1632 Lady Jean Drummond (d.Edinburgh 29 Dec 1637); m.2nd 24 Jan 1639 Hon. Anne Fraser (1619-Dunrobin 29 Jul 1658)

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George GORDON, 15th Earl of Sutherland (Dornoch 2 Nov 1633-Edinburgh 4 Mar 1703); m.Edinburgh 11 Aug 1659 Lady Jean Wemyss (d.Rosebank, Inveresk 5 Jan 1715), Dowager Css of Angus and Ormond

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John GORDON, later SUTHERLAND, 16th Earl of Sutherland (1661-Chelsea 27 Jun 1733); m.1st Paisley 28 Apr 1680 Hon. Helen Cochrane (d.1690); m.2nd Lady Katherine Tollemache (d.ca 1705); m.3rd London 12 Aug 1727 Frances Hodgson (d.London 15 Dec 1732)

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William SUTHERLAND, Lord Strathnaver (1683-19 Jul 1720); m.Katharine Morison (d.Edinburgh 21 Mar 1765)

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William SUTHERLAND, 17th Earl of Sutherland (2 Oct 1708-Montauban 7 Dec 1750); m.Lady Elizabeth Wemyss (d.Dunrobin 20 Feb 1747)

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William SUTHERLAND, 18th Earl of Sutherland (28 May 1735-Bath 16 Jun 1766); m.Edinburgh 14 Apr 1761 Mary Maxwell (d.Bath 1 Jun 1766)

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Elizabeth SUTHERLAND, 19th Countess of Sutherland (Leven Lodge 24 May 1765-Hamilton Place, London 29 Jan 1839); m.London 4 Sep 1785 George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford, cr 1833 Duke of Sutherland (9 Jan 1758-Dunrobin Castle 19 Jul 1833)

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GEORGE Granville, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, etc, took surname SUTHERLAND-LEVESON-GOWER (London 8 Aug 1786-Trentham Hall, Staffs 28 Feb 1861); m.Devonshire House 28 May 1823 Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard (21 May 1806-Stafford House 27 Oct 1868)

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GEORGE Granville William SUTHERLAND-LEVESON-GOWER, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, etc (London 19 Dec 1828-Dunrobin Castle 22 Sep 1892); m.1st Cliefden House, Taplow, Bucks 20 Jun 1849 Anne Hay-Mackenzie, who was cr 1861 Countess of Cromartie, with remainder to her second surviving son (d.Stafford House 25 Nov 1888); m.2nd Dunedin, Florida 4 Mar 1889 Mary Caroline Michell (1848-25 May 1912)

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CROMARTIE SUTHERLAND-LEVESON-GOWER, 4th Duke of Sutherland, etc (London 20 Jul 1851-Dunrobin 27 Jun 1913); m.London 20 Oct 1884 Lady Millicent Fanny St.Clair-Erskine (Dysart House 20 Oct 1867-20 Aug 1955)

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Alastair St.Clair SUTHERLAND-LEVESON-GOWER (Lilleshall 24 Jan 1890-Johannesburg, So Africa 2 Apr 1921); m.Boulogne 27 Apr 1918 Elizabeth Hélène Demarest (d.26 Sep 1931)

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Elizabeth Millicent SUTHERLAND-LEVESON-GOWER, later SUTHERLAND, 24th Css of Sutherland (30 Mar 1921-9 Dec 2019); m.5 Jan 1946 Charles Noel Janson (d.15 Jun 2006)

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Alistair Charles St.Clair SUTHERLAND, 25th Earl of Sutherland (b.7 Jan 1947); m.1st 29 Nov 1968 (div 1980) Eileen Baker; m.2nd 21 Mar 1980 Gillian Murray; he has the surname SUTHERLAND though his brothers seem to have retained the Janson patronymic.

[BREMENMURRAY]

Visited magnificent family seat Dunrobin Castle just two months ago

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Times Obituary, behind a pay-wall/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-countess-of-sutherland-obituary-vvxgwjtxq

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The heir apparent, the new Earl's only son, is Alexander Charles Robert Sutherland, b. 1981.

He is styled Lord Strathnaver.

Brooke

[Uwe Schollmeyer]

HRH The Prince of Wales now is the oldest heir apparent of any peer (i.e. the Duke of Edinburgh).

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Is the Countess of Mar now the only female titleholder in her own right above a barony/lordship?

Thanks.

Brooke

On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 4:06:34 PM UTC-5, dpth...@gmail.com wrote:

[marquess]

Yes as far as I am currently aware.

[marquess]

Furthermore on the question of Mar, the next 2 in direct succession are women, daughter and a granddaughter.  Those of you who have the latest copy 'of the good book' to quote Richard,  perhaps you can look up how near another female is in succeeding to a Scottish earldom? 

Finally on this point, Arlington would do the trick, if the Committee of Privileges finally got their act together and terminated the abeyance of the earldom,  relying on the precedence of Cromartie, instead of being such sticks in the mud.

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 4:06:34 AM UTC+7, dpth...@gmail.com wrote:

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Unless something has changed recently, the Heir Presumptive to the Earl of Rothes is his brother, aged 47, who has no children. The next heir is his aunt Jean (b.1927), followed by the daughters of his aunt Evelyn.

On Monday, December 16, 2019 at 4:45:23 AM UTC-6, marquess wrote:

...Those of you who have the latest copy 'of the good book' to quote Richard,  perhaps you can look up how near another female is in succeeding to a Scottish earldom? 

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Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, died on Monday, 9 December, aged 98. Wife for over 60 years of the late Charles Noel Janson, mother of twins Alistair and Martin, daughter Annabel and the late Matthew, grandmother of 13 and great-grandmother of 7.

Funeral to be held at Dornoch Cathedral, Sutherland, Saturday, 21 December.

Source: The Telegraph, 18 December 2019

On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 3:06:34 PM UTC-6, dpth...@gmail.com wrote: