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  Peerage of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ranks of the Scottish Peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Lord of Parliament.
The Viscount of Arbuthnott and, to a lesser extent, the Viscount of Oxfuird, still actively use "of".
Viscount Mersey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Viscount Runciman of Doxford, of Doxford in the County of Northumberland, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Viscount Tenby, of Bulford in the County of Pembroke, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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 List of Viscounts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of present Viscounts in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Viscounts of the United Kingdom and of Ireland after 1801
The Viscount Stansgate (1942, presently disclaimed by the Rt.
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 Viscount Falkland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title Viscount Falkland was created in 1620 for Sir Henry Cary, in the Peerage of Scotland, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Cary.
Theoretically, since all Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland use "of" in their titles, the Viscount should be the Viscount of Falkland.
However, most Scottish Viscounts have dropped the practice of using "of." The only ones who persist in the usage of the word are the Viscount of Arbuthnott, and, to a lesser extent, the Viscount of Oxfuird.
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 Viscount of Oxfuird -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The title Viscount of Oxfuird was created in 1651 for Sir James Makgill, Baronet, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Makgill of Cousland,with remainder to heirs male whomsoever, a Scottish concept that permitted inheritance by persons not descended from the original grantee,but descended in the male line from male-line ancestors of the grantee.
Thereafter, the matter was generally left alone, until the de jure tenth Viscount actively pressed his claim to the viscountcy and baronetcy.
John Makgill's successors also petitioned to revive the viscountcy, but their claims were not admitted until 1977, when Sir John Donald Arthur Alexander Makgill was declared 12th Viscount of Oxfuird.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- In House of Lords election, the winner is...Viscount Ullswater
He's the second viscount; his great-grandfather, a former speaker of the House of Commons, was the first.
The election was called after the 13th Viscount Oxfuird died in January.
Oxfuird was a hereditary peer, meaning he inherited his seat.
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 House of Lords   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Originally several hundred Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons were eligible to sit; reforms in 1999 mean that now only ninety-two may, and only two of these inherit seats in the Lords without facing election.
Currently, these ninety-two consist of fifteen "office-holders", that is, Deputy Speakers and Deputy Chairmen, who are elected by the whole House; seventy-five party or crossbench members, elected by their party or group.
The first was won by the Viscount Ullswater who replaced the Viscount of Oxfuird.
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 American Poet & Author, Bryant H. McGill
The first viscount was a Lord of Session in 1629, one of the judges of the Scottish Court of Session, or High Court.
The title of Viscount Oxfuird was in abeyance since the death of the second viscount in 1705.
Donald Makgill succeeded his father in the right to the title in 1926, though it was not until over fifty years later that he was able to persuade the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords to admit his claim to the viscountcy.
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 PEERS WITH NEW ZEALAND CONNECTIONS
Viscount Cobham was Governor-General of New Zealand 1957-62, and Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire 1963-74.
Viscount Galway was born 1882, succeeded 1931, and died 1943.
Oxfuird (the Right Honourable Sir John Donald Alexander Arthur Makgill), 12th Viscount of Oxfuird (Scotland 1651), 12th Lord Macgill of Cousland (Scotland 1651) and 12th baronet (Nova Scotia 1627).
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 Viscountcy of Oxfuird: report from the Committee for Privileges together with the proceedings of the Committee and the ...
Viscountcy of Oxfuird: report from the Committee for Privileges together with the proceedings of the Committee and the speeches of Counsel
'The petition of Sir John Donald Alexander Arthur Makgill, Baronet, claiming to be Viscount of Oxfuird and Lord Makgill of Cousland in the Peerage of Scotland'
The report states that the claimant is entitled to the right of the dignities of Viscount of Oxfuid and Lord Lord Makgill of Cousland as a descendent of the male line of Robert, second Viscount of Oxfuird.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Makgill : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
By letters patent dated 19 April 1651, he was elevated to the peerage with the titles of ‘Viscount Oxfuird’ and ‘Lord Makgill of Cousland’.
The viscountcy was claimed by the son of the second Viscount’s eldest daughter, Christian, but this was challenged in 1734 by James Makgill of Nether-Rankeillor, sixth in descent from Lord Rankeillor.
In 1986 Crichton’s kinsman, George Hubbard Makgill, was recognised as the thirteenth Viscount of Oxfuird and chief of the Makgills.
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 House of Lords Elections
Viscount Younger of Leckie (died 26th January 2003) also held a previous life peerage.
At a byelection on 25th and 26th March 2003, Viscount Ullswater (C) was elected to fill the vacant seat.
At a byelection on 11th and 12th May 2004, Viscount Trenchard was elected to fill the vacant seat.
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 Telegraph | Opinion | Blair's Lords reform has ended as a peerless farce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Among them was the 2nd Viscount Ullswater, who had inherited his title from his great-grandfather half a century earlier, when he was seven.
He owes his return to the compromise negotiated by the former shadow Leader of the Lords, Viscount Cranborne, under which 92 places would be reserved for hereditary peers until the Government got round to introducing the second stage of its Lords reforms.
By the time Viscount Oxfuird died in January, creating a vacancy for a hereditary peer, ministers had made no progress at all with Stage Two - indeed, only last month the Commons rejected every one of a range of options put forward by a joint parliamentary committee set up to find a way forward.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The diligent and the eccentric triumph in poll for Lords seats
Also elected were: Lord Colwyn, the jazz-playing dentist; Viscount Simon, who has an extraordinary 100 per cent attendance record; and Viscount Falkland, the Liberal Democrat biker.
Among the most prominent who failed were the Earl of Onslow, the bow-tied peer who has been among the most outspoken and outrageous in defence of the hereditary princi ple.
Viscount Oxfuird, 65 (Tory): deputy speaker in the House of Lords since 1990
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 Lords Hansard text for 1 Apr 1998 (180401-04)
The noble Viscount said: My Lords, I very much appreciate the opportunity that I have been allowed this afternoon to introduce a debate on export selling, which is something with which I have been involved for most of my working life.
As the noble Viscount, Lord Oxfuird, pointed out, there is no doubt that exports remain a very large part of our total economic activity: namely, more than 25 per cent.
As my noble friend Lord Oxfuird observed in opening the debate, whatever the strength of sterling, it is the duty of all of us working in the manufacturing sector to do everything we can to optimise export sales.
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 Electorama!
The United Kingdom is holding an election to fill the vacant seat in the House of Lords [1] of the recently deceased 13th Viscount Oxfuird.
Under the old rules, this seat would have been filled by the Viscount's son.
However, in the brave new world, an election is held amongst the peers that were ejected in the reforms of 1999.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Election epitomizes stalled efforts to reform Britain's ancient House of ...
This week, blue bloods submitted to the indignity of an election to fill a seat vacated by the 13th Viscount Oxfuird, who died in January.
In voting Tuesday and Wednesday, some 700 lawmakers in the House of Lords, most of them commoners, chose the 14th Viscount from 81 former Lords expelled when Blair's government began a chaotic and unfinished process of reforming the tradition-bound upper chamber of Parliament.
Those former Lords are known as hereditary peers, meaning they inherited their seats as members of the upper class.
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 Politics | Irvine gloom on Lords reform
Prospects for the reform of the House of Lords darkened yesterday after the lord chancellor, Lord Irvine, implied that it might be impossible for parliament to reach a consensus on the issue.
The government also faces the embarrassing prospect of a byelection among hereditary peers to choose a replacement for the Viscount of Oxfuird, whose death opens a gap in the ranks of the hereditary peers allowed to continue as active members of the upper house.
Allowing such byelections was a concession forced on the government when it abolished the right of most hereditary peers to sit in the Lords.
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 HEREDITARY PEERAGES IN THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND BELOW THE RANK OF A MARQUESS
71 Lordship of Cary 10 November 1620(The Lordship belongs to and is held by the Viscount of Falkland).
98 Lordship of Inverbervie 16 November 1641(The Lordship belongs to and is held by the Viscount of Arbuthnott).
110 Lordship of Makgill of Cousland 19 April 1651(The Lordship belongs to and is held by Viscount Oxfuird).
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 House of Lords Byelection
After the death of the Viscount of Oxfuird on 3rd January 2003, the vacant seat was filled at a byelection held on 25th and 25th March 2003.
As the Viscount of Oxfuird had been one of the 15 peers elected by the whole House as office-holders, the electorate was the whole House of Lords.
Viscount Gage (C) Lord Gainford (C) Lord Glanusk (C) Lord Herbert (C) Lord Hindlip (C) Lord HolmPatrick
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 List of Viscounts - TheBestLinks.com - England, Great Britain, Scotland, United Kingdom, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 makgill02
As that claim was later upheld by a successor, see below, he was in retrospect the 4th Viscount of Oxfuird (and 4th Baronet of Makgill).
John, de jure 10th Baronet of Makgill and 10th Viscount of Oxfuird, made strenuous effort to have those titles formally recognised.
Claims for the Viscountcy continued and were eventually accepted, in 1977, so that George's elder son John (Donald) was formally accepted as the 12th Viscount of Oxfuird.
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 ILM - Institute of Leadership and Management
It is with great sadness that we inform you of Lord Oxfuird's recent death, 3 January 2003.
Viscount Oxfuird became President of ISM in at the end of 1998.
13th Viscount Oxfuird was born George Hubbard Makgill, 1934, and succeeded his uncle in 1986.
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 House of Lords   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Originally severalhundred Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons were eligible to sit; reforms in 1999 mean that now only ninety-two may, and only two of these inherit seats in the Lords without facing election.
Currently, these ninety-two consist of fifteen "office-holders", that is, Deputy Speakers and Deputy Chairmen, who are electedby the whole House; seventy-five party or crossbench members, elected by their party or group.
The first was won by the Viscount Ullswater whoreplaced the Viscount of Oxfuird.
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 House of Lords Reform Speech, 21 January 2003
Respect for the principle of election is so powerful in our nation that even the hereditary peers have adopted it to fill vacancies among the ranks of their survivors.
As a result of the death of Viscount Oxfuird, there is to be a by-election.
The essential qualification for candidates is to have been born a hereditary peer, and the right to vote is confined to those who are already peers.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | A by-election like no other
The result is a chamber government critics say is made up of "Tony's cronies", wholly appointed except for - and this is the mortifying bit for the government - its remaining hereditary members.
One of those 92 survivors, the Viscount of Oxfuird, died last year.
The by-election contest, open to the hundreds of hereditary peers cast out of the Lords three years ago, is to fill the resulting vacancy; the electorate is the membership of the House of Lords.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Lords move targets hereditaries
The bill comes as nominations close for the first by-election to be held under the rule following the death of Conservative peer the Viscount of Oxfuird.
Only peers can vote in the election, and only hereditary peers axed in the first stage of Lords reform are allowed to stand.
The two frontrunners for the election are seen as former Conservative chief whip Lord Ullswater and Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
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 Viscount Palmerston -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Viscount Palmerston -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Viscount Palmerston was a title in the (additional info and facts about Peerage of Ireland) Peerage of Ireland created on March 12, 1723, along with the subsidiary title Baron Temple of Mount Temple.
Upon the death of the third Viscount (who served as (additional info and facts about Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), the title became extinct.
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 Spectator, The: Spectator's notes, The
Unfortunately Ms Williams's entry fell outside the criteria of the sponsorship.' Previous winners of this stringently nonpolitical prize, incidentally, include Morgan Tsvangirai and - ahem - Robert Mugabe.
The demise of the Viscount of Oxfuird in January left space on the red leather benches for one more hereditary bottom.
On the 25th and 26th of this month, therefore, comes the first by-election - the amusing spectacle of the zingy new ultrademocratic House voting on the ultimate closed list.
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 ILM - Institute of Leadership and Management
The Viscount Oxfuird entertained the Institute of Leadership & Management to dinner in the House of Lords on the evening of 26 June 2002.
The occasion was the presentation of Lord Oxfuird's Awards for Excellence to the winners: Scott Haley, Julie Mills and Jackie Richards.
The Lord Oxfuird, President of ISM, presented Jeannette with her award at a special ceremony at the Castle Hotel, Taunton on 18 January 2002.
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