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1666. Sir Charles purchased the Barony of 

 Canibo in Fifeshire in the year 1669, and dying in 

 1677, was succeeded by his only son, 



1677. Sir Alexander Erskine, second Baronet of 

 Cambo, who was appointed Lyon-King April 1, 

 1677 (some authorities give the year 1671, and 

 there is some obscurity here, unless his father had 

 resigned the office in his favour), and it is certain 

 that Sir Alexander's inauguration took place at 

 Holyrood House, on July 27, 1681, when James 

 Duke of York officiated as Lord High Commis- 

 sioner for his brother King Charles XL ; and yet 

 it appears that by commission, dated January 29, 

 1702, he received the office "for himself and his 

 heirs." This hereditary grant did not, however, 

 take efi'ect, probably owing to the Lyon's partici- 

 pation in the rising of 1715', when he joined his 

 relative the Earl of Mar, but, having surrendered, 

 only suffered temporary imprisonment. The date 

 of his resignation or deprivation of office does not 

 appear, though it probably occurred long §efore 

 his decease in 1735. 



1726. Cochenie, Esq. appointed May 5, 



1726, is the next Lord-Lyon as given by Noble, in 

 his meagre notice of what he calls the " heads of 

 the Scotch College of Heralds." {History of the 

 College of Arms, edit. 1805, 4to. p. 407.) Mr. 

 Cocherne's name was most probably Cochrane, as 

 the former is not a' Scotish surname. 



172-. Alexander Drummond, Esq. "He died 

 June 14, 1729 " (Noble's Hist.). No particulars 

 beyond his name and date of death are stated: 

 but his tenure of office must have been brief. 



1729. Alexander Brodie, Esq. of Brodie in 

 Nairnshire, appointed Lord-Lyon, July 6, 1727. 

 (Nicolas' Orders of Knighthood, in which the list 

 is very incomplete regarding the order of The 

 Thistle, or St. Andrew of Scotland.) May not 

 these three last-mentioned have been only Lyons- 

 Depute until the death of Sir Alexander Erskine 

 in 1735 ? Mr. Brodie held the office till his death, 

 March 9, 1754, aged 56. 



1754. John Hooke Campbell, Esq. junior, second 

 son of John Campbell, Esq. of Cawdor Castle in 

 Nairnshire (ancestor of the present Earl of Caw- 

 dor), appointed Lord-Lyon April 3, 1754, jointly 

 with his younger brother, Alexander, a lieutenant- 

 colonel in the army, the office being executed by 

 the former. Mr. Campbell chiefly resided at 

 Bath, where he died, September 8, 1795, from a 

 fall over the St. Vincent Rocks, on the Avon, near 

 the Hot Wells. His tenure of office extended 

 over the long period of forty-one years, with what 

 benefit to heraldic science is unrecorded ; and his 

 brother. Lieutenant- Colonel Alexander Campbell, 

 who, as above stated, had a reversionary grant of 

 the Lyonship, having predeceased him in Novem- 

 ber, 1785, the King bestowed the office on the 

 Earl of Kinnoul. 



1796. Robert Auriol Hay -Drummond, ninth Earl 



of Kinnoul, Viscount Dupplin, and Baron Hay of 

 Kinfauns in the Peerage of Scotland, appointed 

 Lord-Lyon, May 26, 1796 (Nicolas; Noble gives 

 September 30 as the date, but no reliance can be 

 placed upon his accuracy), " to hold to him and 

 his son" — Viscount Dupplin — " the longest liver 

 of them." The Earl of Kinnoul died April 12, 

 1804, aged 53, and was succeeded in terms of the 

 above patdht by his only son, 



1804. Thomas Robert Hay -Drummond, tenth 

 Earl of Kinnoul, &c. in the Peerage of Scotland, 

 and Baron Hay of Pedwardine in that of Great 

 Britain ; born April 5, 1785, succeeded his father 

 in 1804, dnd is the present Lord-Lyon King- 

 at-Arms. 



A well-known Scotish antiquary of the day has 

 the following severe remarks on the present noble 

 Lord-Lyon : — 



"Apropos to this most distinguished successor to Sir 

 David Lj'ndsay ; Noble, in his jejune and unsatisfactory 

 History of the College of Arms, congratulates the ' Heralds' 

 College ' (as he erroneously terms the Lyon Office) on the 

 promotion of a peer of the realm to the office of Lord- 

 Lyon, as ' throwing a lustre upon this institution.' It 

 has done nothing of the kind, but quite the reverse ; ig- 

 norance of aught but the exaction fees, displayed in a 

 hundred capricious vagaries, is the ruling characteristic 

 of this establishment ; not one member of which, from the 

 Lyon to his meanest cub, has ever produced a work or 

 exhibited any skill in the sciences of Heraldry, Genealogy, 

 or the cognate accomplishments." (Fragmenta Scoto- 

 Monastica, Edinburgh, 1842.) 



For upwards of a century past it has been cus- 

 tomary for the Lord-Lyons to execute the duties 

 of their office by means of a deputy. The follow- 

 ing individuals have been Lyons-Depute since 

 1754: — 



1754. Thomas Brodie, appointed August 30, 

 1754. 



1770. Robert Boswell, appointed November 1, 

 1770, and was also Lord-Lyon ad interim. 



1796. James Home, appointed August 5, 1796. 



1819. David Clyne, appointed Lyon-Depute 

 ad interim, January 21. 



1819. George tait, appointed ad interim, April 

 24. 



1823. George Clerk Craigie, appointed April 1. 



1827. James Tytler of Woodhouselee, county of 

 Edinburgh, appointed June 2, 1827, and is the 

 present Lyon-Depute. He was born in 1780, and 

 is a Writer to the Signet, since 1803; his grand- 

 father, father, and brother (Patrick, the historian 

 of Scotland) were all distinguished for their lite- 

 rary abilities. 



The Court of the Lord-Lyon is at present com- 

 posed of the following officials, exclusive of the 

 Lord-Lyon and Lyon-Depute: — Heralds, six in 

 number — 1. Rothesay; 2. Marchmont ; 3. Al- 

 bany ; 4. Ross ; 5. Snowdon ; and 6. Islay. Pur- 

 suivants, also six — 1. Kintyre ; 2. Dingwall; 3. 

 Unicorn ; 4. Bute ; 5. Carrick ; and 6. Ormond. 



