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This is an incomplete index of leading Scottish noble family seats.
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This is an incomplete index of leading Scottish noble family seats.
| Name | Residences |
|---|---|
| The King | Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire Dumfries House, Ayrshire Birkhall, Aberdeenshire |
| Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Duke of Hamilton | Lennoxlove House, East Lothian | Hamilton Palace, Brodick Castle, Dungavel House, Kinneil House, Cadzow Castle |
| Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry | Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway; Bowhill House, Selkirk and Boughton House, Northamptonshire | Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian and Montagu House, London |
| Duke of Lennox and Duke of Gordon | Goodwood House, West Sussex | Gordon Castle, Huntly Castle, and Richmond House, London |
| Duke of Argyll | Inveraray Castle, Argyll | Rosneath Castle, Argyll |
| Duke of Atholl | Blair Castle, Perth and Kinross | Dunkeld House, Perth and Kinross |
| Duke of Montrose | Auchmar, Stirling | Buchanan Castle, Stirling |
| Duke of Roxburghe | Floors Castle, Scottish Borders | |
| Duke of Sutherland | Mertoun House, Scottish Borders | Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, Lancaster House, London. |
| Duke of Fife | Elsick House, Kincardinshire and Kinnaird Castle, Brechin | |
| Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Marquess of Huntly | Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire | Huntly Castle |
| Marquess of Queensberry | London | Kinmount House |
| Marquess of Tweeddale | Edinburgh | Yester House, East Lothian |
| Marquess of Lothian | Monteviot House and Ferniehirst Castle, Roxburghshire | Newbattle Abbey and Blickling Hall |
| Marquess of Bute | Mount Stuart House, Bute | Dumfries House, Cardiff Castle, Bute House, Luton Hoo, Lansdowne House. |
| Marquess of Linlithgow | Hopetoun House, South Queensferry |
| Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Viscount of Stormont | Scone Palace, Perthshire | |
| Viscount of Arbuthnott | Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire | |
| Viscount of Oxfuird | Battersea, London | Oxenfoord Castle |
| Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Lord Cathcart | Gateley Hall, Norfolk | |
| Lord Forbes | Forbes Castle | |
| Lord Borthwick | Crookston, Heriot | Borthwick Castle |
| Lord Lovat | Balblair House, Beauly, Inverness-shire | Beaufort Castle |
| Lord Torphichen | Calder House, West Lothian | |
| Lord Balfour of Burleigh | Edinburgh | Burleigh Castle |
| Lord Dingwall | London | Panshanger Park, Hertfordshire |
| Lord Fairfax of Cameron | London | Denton Hall, North Yorkshire |
| Lord Napier | Thirlestane Castle | Merchiston Castle |
| Lord Forrester | Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire | |
| Lord Belhaven and Stenton | Pimlico, London | Wishaw House |
| Lord Ruthven of Freeland | Easington, Co. Durham | Castle Howard, Yorkshire and Naworth Castle, Cumbria |
| Lord Nairne | Bignor Park, Sussex | |
| Lord Polwarth | Hardon, Hawick, Roxburghshire | Marchmont House, Berwickshire |
| Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats | Year of Assignation |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Swinton of Swinton | Edinburgh | Swinton House, Swinton | |
| Professor Mark Watson-Gandy | London | Myrton Castle, Wigtownshire | |
| Dr. George M Burden of Seabegs | Seabegs | Feddal House | |
| Alexander David Mungo Murray | Scone Palace | Balvaird Castle | 2015 |
| William Newlands of Lauriston | Lauriston Castle, Aberdeenshire | Newlands, Drumcow [3] | 1985 |
| Michael Chou-Leng Looi Lyons | Avondale, Newfoundland, Canada [4] | Niddry Castle, Winchburgh | 2021 |
| Primary Title | Current Seat | Former Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Henry Reid | Ellon Castle | |
| Mr Donald Cameron | Achnacarry Castle | Fassiefern House and Tor Castle |
| Lady Antonia Dalrymple | Newhailes House, East Lothian | |
| Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott | Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders | |
| Mr James Montgomery | Kinross House, Perth and Kinross | |
| Mr Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington | Ardverikie House, Scottish Highlands | Muncaster Castle |
| Mrs Althea Dundas-Becker | Arniston House, Midlothian | |
| Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame | Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire | |
| James C. A. Burnett of Leys, Baron of Kilduthie | Crathes Castle | |
| Alexander Irvine of Drum, 27th Chief and Baron of Drum | Doha, State of Qatar | Drum Castle |
| Sir John Roderick Hugh McEwen of Marchmont and Bardrochat Bt, Commander of Clan MacEwen | The Steadings, Polwarth | Marchmont House |
| Sir Roderick Duncan Hamilton Campbell of Barcaldine, 9th Bt. | ||
| Madam Sarah Anne Grierson of Lag, 25th Chief of Clan Grierson | London | Lag Tower and Rockhall Tower |
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