There has been one baronetcy granted to the Lauder family. The baronetcy of Lauder of Fountainhall, Haddingtonshire, was created for John Lauder, last surviving male representative of the Lauders of that Ilk, a rich merchant-burgess and sometime Treasurer and baillie of the City of Edinburgh Council, and an armiger. He purchased (before 1672) the estate of Newington, Edinburgh, and subsequently (10 June 1681) the lands of Woodhead and Templehall near Pencaitland, which along with others in Edinburghshire and Haddingtonshire, were erected by Crown charter into the feudal barony of Fountainhall on 13 August 1681.

John Lauder was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 17 July 1688.[1][2] The first Letters Patent was successfully contested by his eldest surviving son, Lord Fountainhall, and "reduced",[3] and a second Patent with a new destination issued, dated 25 January 1690; the first Patent was formally annulled in 1692.[4]

Lauder baronets of Fountainhall, Haddingtonshire

Escutcheon of the Lauder baronets of Fountainhall

The heir presumptive to the baronetcy is Mark Andrew Dick Lauder (born 1951), second and youngest son of the 12th Baronet. He was born in Berlin at the British Military Hospital.

His heir apparent is his only son, Martin Dick-Lauder (born 1976).

Dick-Lauder coat of arms

Shield

Crests

Supporters

Motto of the arms

Mottos of the crests

References

  1. ^ Brown, Peter, publisher, The Peerage of Scotland", Edinburgh, 1834: 218
  2. ^ Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.vi: 630
  3. ^ Cokayne, G. E., edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol.1, London, 1910, p. 222 and notes, on the reduction in the case of the Earl of Arran. G.E.C., cites Hewlett's Jurisprudence, p. 24, where the absolute supremacy of the Court of Session in adjudicating on Scottish Peerages is recognised, and where it is stated that "There can be no doubt that, on sufficient cause, the Court of Session had jurisdiction."
  4. ^ Stewart-Smith, J., The Grange of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1898: 293; and 403 - 406 for Lord Fountainhall's own Memorandum anent the Patent and Court action
  5. ^ "University of Sydney Web Site". 3 December 2006. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2007.
  6. ^ "on-line bio". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
  7. ^ "A passionate advocate for women and environment". 23 August 2012.
  8. ^ The Scottish Genealogist, "Ancestry of Sir Harry Lauder", June 2006, vol.liii, no.2, p.77.
Notes
  • The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., by Messrs, John and John Bernard Burke, London, 1851, vol.2, pedigree CLXXIII.
  • Monumental Inscriptions in Greyfriars Churchyard, by James Brown, Edinburgh, 1864, pps: 301 - 302, gives the burial vault within the church of the family of Lauder of Lauder, and all who are contained therein.
  • The Peerage & Baronetage of the British Empire by Sir Bernard Burke, London, 32nd edition, 1870, under 'Lauder', pps:662-3.
  • Townend, Peter, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage, 105th edition, London, 1970, p. 1545.
  • Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland, 1999, p. 843, ISBN 1-57958-083-1
  • This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page which has further dates on it, not shown above.
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