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From: "Geoff Pearson" <>
Subject: Re: Dalgleish/Buccleuch
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:00:51 -0000
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"Eve McLaughlin" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
>> C.Rihan
>>>
>>
>>There are only 26 Dukes and the Bs are Bedford, Beaufort, Buccleuch.
>>There
>>were also Bridgewater and Berwick - now extinct. Only Buccleuch is
>>Scottish.
> There is the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, definitely Scottish, but it
> would be a bit eccentric to call him the Duke of B.
>>
>>
>
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

Actually the House of Lords forbade the Duke to sit there under the Brandon
title (created in 1711).


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