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  • Thumbnail for Marquess of Tweeddale
    House of Lords. The Marquess's eldest son uses Viscount Walden as a courtesy title. Lord Tweeddale also holds the title of Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline...
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  • and its subsidiary titles, and also as Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline. He rarely spoke in the House of Lords, but achieved fleeting prominence...
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  • Thumbnail for George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale
    Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, KT, GCB (1 February 1787 – 10 October 1876), Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline, was a British soldier and...
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  • Thumbnail for William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale
    in the peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. As well as being Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline, he was Lord High...
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  • taken over by the lord steward and lord chamberlain. The marshalship and the constableship became hereditary, and, although the Lord High Constable and...
    109 KB (10,128 words) - 03:01, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coronation of James I and Anne
    guardians at Coombe Abbey. Charles remained at Dunfermline Palace. James met Anne at Easton Neston the house of George Fermor in Northamptonshire on 27 June...
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  • religious house the lands of Mauchline in Ayrshire. He also granted his lands in Dunfermline and Inverkeithing to Dunfermline Abbey. Walter founded Paisley...
    130 KB (14,998 words) - 21:16, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Scotland
    Union of the Crowns in 1603. The Scottish Crown adopted the conventional offices of western European courts, including High Steward, Chamberlain, Lord...
    112 KB (13,333 words) - 22:39, 23 August 2024
  • general election, at age 71. David Hacking was the oldest hereditary peer elected to the House of Lords in a by-election, aged 83 in 2021. He had previously...
    364 KB (16,443 words) - 20:30, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Government in medieval Scotland
    The other major secular posts also had a tendency to become hereditary, with the chamberlain responsible for royal finances and the constable for organising...
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    Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton (category Liberal Party (UK) hereditary peers)
    of the mid-19th century. Labouchere was born in London into a prominent family, the son of Peter Cesar Labouchere of Hylands, a Dutch-born banker of French...
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    The other major secular posts also had a tendency to become hereditary. The Chamberlain was responsible for royal finances and the Constable for organising...
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  • University Observatory (1849–1852) Martyn Chamberlain – Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University; Master of Grey College (2003–2011) Emma Chapman...
    281 KB (15,452 words) - 06:39, 20 September 2024
  • coronation of Elizabeth II was an element of the ceremony in which court, clerical, governmental, and parliamentary officials from around the Commonwealth of Nations...
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  • Thumbnail for Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick
    on an even earlier text, about the descendants of Saint Margaret of Scotland, produced at Dunfermline Abbey. Thus material from these works concerning...
    76 KB (10,060 words) - 14:27, 26 August 2024
  • 2021 in the United Kingdom (category Years of the 21st century in the United Kingdom)
    Hart, Ross (29 January 2021). "Eddie Connachan, Dunfermline 1961 Scottish Cup winner, dies". Dunfermline Press. Retrieved 30 January 2021. "Hilton Valentine...
    347 KB (33,568 words) - 15:07, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
    Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815, and in his role as Ambassador to the Netherlands. For his service as ambassador to The Hague, he was awarded the hereditary title...
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    Archbishop of Mexico, held position 1613–1627 Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline of Scotland (1555–1622), lawyer, judge, and Lord Chancellor of Scotland...
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  • 2015 in the United Kingdom (category Years of the 21st century in the United Kingdom)
    (1969–1997). Robin Page, 82, artist. 13 May Eric Bakie, 87, footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen). Bert Hitchen, 76, railway preservationist. 15 May...
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  • Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) May 28 Frescheville Holles, English Member of Parliament (b. 1642) Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich...
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