However, Scottish practice allows the style Master / Mistress of X to an heir presumptive as well as to an heir apparent ; for example, the brother of the present Marquess of Tweeddale has the title Master of Tweeddale.

On October 19, 1814, Canadian forces led by George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, met an American raiding party, numbering approximately nine hundred, near the eastern edge of the present community during the Battle of Cook's Mills.

# John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale 1742-1762

* 1761: John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale

The estate was then sold in 1696 to John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale who granted to his son the Lord William Hay following his marriage to Elizabeth Seton, a daughter of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston.

Wellington married Lady Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Field Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, in 1839.

Arms of the Marquess of Tweeddale

Marquess of Tweeddale ( sometimes spelled Tweedale ) is a title of the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1694 for the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale.

* John Hay, 2nd Earl of Tweeddale ( 1626 – 1697 ) ( created Marquess of Tweeddale in 1694 )

* John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1626 – 1697 )

* John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1645 – 1713 )

* Charles Hay, 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1670 – 1715 )

* John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1695 – 1762 )

* George Hay, 5th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1758 – 1770 )

* George Hay, 6th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1700 – 1787 )

* George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1753 – 1804 )

* George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1787 – 1876 )

* Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1824 – 1878 )

* William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1826 – 1911 )

* William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1884 – 1967 )

* David George Montagu Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 1921 – 1979 )

* Percy Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry ( 1868 – 1920 ), son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry

The last two to be granted were the promotion of the Marquess of Abercorn, a United Kingdom peerage, to be Duke of Abercorn in the Irish Peerage when he became Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1868, and the granting of Barony of Curzon of Kedleston to an English MP when he became Viceroy of India in 1898.

* James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 1791 – 1868 )

* George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon ( 9 December 1868 – 9 August 1873 )

* Percy Sholto Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry ( 1868 – 1920 )

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC ( 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903 ), styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years.

Engaged as a minor to Henri de Lossy, Baron of Ville, Patti wed three times: first, in 1868, to Henri de Roger de Cahusac, Marquess of Caux ( 1826 – 1889 ).

The title Duke of Abercorn was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1868 and bestowed upon James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn.

The 2nd Marquess, who had been given the Garter in 1844, served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1866 to 1868 ( and again from 1874 to 1876 ); and on 10 August 1868, during his first term, he was created Marquess of Hamilton, of Strabane, and Duke of Abercorn ( in the Peerage of Ireland ).

* James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn ( 1811 – 1885 ) was created Duke of Abercorn in 1868

: Other titles: Marquess of Abercorn ( GB 1790 ), Marquess of Hamilton, of Strabane in the county of Tyrone ( 1868 ), Earl of Abercorn ( Sc 1606 ), Viscount Strabane ( Ir 1701 ), Viscount Hamilton ( GB 1786 ), Lord Paisley, in the county of Renfrew ( Sc 1587 ), Lord Abercorn, in the county of Linlithgow ( Sc 1603 ), Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcashell and Kirkpatrick ( Sc 1606 ), Lord Hamilton of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone ( Ir 1617 ) and Baron Mountcastle, in the county of Tyrone ( Ir 1701 )

* Prince Adolphus of Teck ( 1868 – 1927 ); later Duke of Teck and Marquess of Cambridge.

Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, GCB, GCVO, CMG ( Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus ), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later The Duke of Teck ( 13 August 1868 – 23 October 1927 ), was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of King George III and younger brother of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

* Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings, 9th Earl of Loudoun ( 1842 – 1868 )

* Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire ( 1812 – 1868 )

Lord Sligo's younger son, the fourth Marquess, represented County Mayo in Parliament from 1857 to 1868.

In 1868, the 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury inherited the Earldom of Cardigan, and so the Marquesses of Ailesbury now also hold the titles Earl of Cardigan ( 1661 ) and Baron Brudenell, of Stanton Wyvill in the County of Leicester ( 1628 ), in the Peerage of England, as well as being Baronets of England, styled " of Deene in the County of Northampton ".

On the death in 1868 of their younger son, the fourth Marquess ( who had also succeeded his mother as Baron Grey de Ruthyn ), the marquessate became extinct, the Scottish earldom of Loudoun passed on to his eldest sister, while the Baronies of Hastings, Hungerford, Botreaux, De Moleyns and Grey de Ruthyn fell into abeyance between the sisters.

* Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings, 17th Baron Hastings ( 1842 – 1868 ) ( abeyant )

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* 1945 – Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro

* 1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician ( d. 1803 )

* George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1905 – 1908

* Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1908 – 1923

* Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading 1931 – 1936

* Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1936 – 1944

* Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1875 – 1880

:* John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( 1686 – 1703 ), elder son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried

:* William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford ( 1700 – 1731 ), elder son of the 2nd Duchess, predeceased his mother without issue

Aberdeen married firstly Lady Catherine Elizabeth ( 1784 – 1812 ), daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamilton in 1818.

* John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1847 – 1934 ) ( created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916 )

* John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1847 – 1934 )

* George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1879 – 1965 )

* Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1883 – 1972 )

* David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1908 – 1974 )

* Archibald Victor Dudley Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1913 – 1984 )

* Alastair Ninian John Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1920 – 2002 )

* Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua ( 1466 – 1519 )

* 1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia ( b. 1860 )

* 1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal ( d. 1807 )

* 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.

The John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow | Earl of Hopetoun, the first Governor-General, 1901 – 1903

* 1718 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1778 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry ( d. 1854 )