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| | The Barony of Macduff |
 | | Lay on, Macduff; and damned be he that first cries, Hold enough! This, from the play whose title those in the superstitious theatre world fear to mention, is the favourite quotation of young schoolboys, and it was the Chief of the Macduff clan who in the year 1056 AD allegedly slew Macbeth. |
 | | In 1735 he was raised to the peerage with an Irish title as Baron Braco of Kilbryde, and in 1759 he was promoted to be Viscount Macduff and Earl Fife, which titles, although in the Irish Peerage, appeared to reinforce the familys claims to descent from the Macduff Earls of Fife. |
 | | The arms of Alexander Ramsay of Mar, 7th Baron of Macduff, whose banner is illustrated on the left, quarter his fathers Ramsay arms with those of the Duke of Connaught whose daughter, Princess Patricia, was his mother. |
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