History of the Earl of Annandale & Hartfell

Sept. 2010

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Earl of Annandale and Hartfell

Section Titles

1. Earl of Annandale & Hartfell
2. Children of Patrick Andrew Wentworth Hope Johnstone, 11th Earl of Annandale & Hartfell & Susan Josephine Ross
3. Children of David Patrick Wentworth Hope Johnstone, Lord Johnstone & Lady Penny Mcmillan.
4. Earls of Annandale (from 1625)
5. Earls of Annandale & Hartfell (from 1661)
6. Title Descent Notes – 9.12.08

Earls of Annandale (from 1625)

With subsidiaries Viscount of Annand and Lord Murray of Lochmaben (both c 1622) and Lord Murray of Tyninghame (1625)

1. John Murray, 1 st Earl of Annandale (d.1640)
2. James Murray, 2 nd Earl of Annandale (d. 1658) (title extinct)

Lord Johnstone (1633) – Lord of Parliament Lord Johnstone of Lochwood (To his heirs male). (Extinct)

Earls of Hartfell (from 1643)

With subsidiary titles of Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Moffatdale and Evandale (1643) (to him and his heirs male) (Extinct)

James Johnstone, 1 st Earl of Hartfell (1602-1653)
James Johnstone, 2 nd Earl of Hartfell (d. 1672)

Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
(13.02.1661) by letters patent.

Courtesy titles of Viscount of Annand, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale, Evandale. To him and his heirs male whom failing the eldest heir female without division etc.. (dormant)

Earl of Annandale and Hartfell,
By Crown charter of April 1662.

Courtesy titles of Lord Johnstone to his heir male of his body, where failing heirs female of the body, etc...

Marquises of Annandale (from 1701) –

Courtesy titles of Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, Viscount of Annand, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale, Evandale to himself and his heirs male whomsoever in all future time succeeding him in his lands and Estate. (Extinct)

William Johnstone , 1st Marquis of Annandale (d.1721)

James Johnstone , 2nd Marquis of Annandale (c.1687-1730)

George Vanden-Bempde Johnstone , 3rd Marquis of Annandale (1720-1792)

On the death of George the Marquisate extinct, the Earl of Hartfell extinct, the Lord Johnstone 1633 extinct; the Earldoms of Annandale and Hartfell of 1661 and 1662 creation dormant.

The present Earl also holds the Scottish feudal Baron of the Barony of Johnstone and the Barony of Annandale and Hartfell of 1662. Incorporated into them are all the other Scottish Baronies and Lordships previously granted to the Johnstone family dating from c. 1540 onwards.

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