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CARDROSS, LORD,
a title first conferred on the earl of Mar, but now a secondary title of
the earl of Buchan. The first possessor having been invested with the
right of conferring it on any of his male heirs renders the title of Lord
Cardross unique in the peerage either of Scotland or England. There is no
other instance of such a power having been granted to a subject. David,
who became, on his grandfather’s death in 1634, second Lord Cardross, was
one of the Scottish peers who protested against the delivering up of
Charles the First to the English army at Newcastle in 1646. He died in
1671. Of his eldest son, Henry, third Lord Cardross, distinguished for his
patriotism, a separate notice is given under the head of ERSKINE, HENRY,
third Lord Cardross. A younger son, the Hon. Colonel John Erskine of
Carnock, was father of John Erskine, the well-known author of the
‘Institutes of the Law of Scotland,’ and grandfather of the celebrated Dr.
John Erskine, minister of Greyfriars, Edinburgh, of both of whom notices
are given under ERSKINE. On the death, in 1695, of William Erskine, eighth
earl of Buchan, the succession of that title opened to David, fourth Lord
Cardross, eldest son of Henry, the third lord, and in the parliament of
1698, an act was passed allowing him to be called in the rolls of
parliament as earl of Buchan. [See BUCHAN, Earl of]. |
