Earl of Glasgow
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Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
. It was created in 1703 for David Boyle, Lord Boyle
David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow
David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow was a Scottish politician.The son of John Boyle of Kelburn, Commissioner, and Marion Steuart, he was the Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland from the Bute constituency from 1689–1699...
, one of the commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union uniting the Kingdom of England
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and the Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland
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into the United Kingdom of Great Britain
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. He had already been created Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry in 1699, and was made Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry and Viscount of Kelburn at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of Scotland. The fourth Earl was created Baron Ross, of Hawkhead in the County of Renfrew, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
, a title which became extinct on the death of the sixth Earl in 1890. The seventh Earl served as Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1897 and was created Baron Fairlie, of Fairlie in the County of Ayr, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1897.
The Earl of Glasgow is the hereditary Clan Chief
Scottish clan chief
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of Clan Boyle
Clan Boyle
Clan Boyle is a Scottish clan from Ayrshire in Scotland. There is also an Irish sept of the O'Neill Clan of the name O'Boyle or in Irish Ó Baoighill. The O'Boyles are one of three clans who shared the leadership of the North West of Ireland, specifically Co...
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The family seat is Kelburn Castle
Kelburn Castle
Kelburn Castle is a large house near Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the seat of the Earl of Glasgow. Originally built in the thirteenth century it was remodelled in the sixteenth century. In 1700 the first Earl made further extensions to the house in a manner not unlike a French château...
in Ayrshire
Ayrshire
Ayrshire is a registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, United Kingdom, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. The town of Troon on the coast has hosted the British Open Golf Championship twice in the...
, Scotland
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Earls of Glasgow (1703)
- David Boyle, 1st Earl of GlasgowDavid Boyle, 1st Earl of GlasgowDavid Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow was a Scottish politician.The son of John Boyle of Kelburn, Commissioner, and Marion Steuart, he was the Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland from the Bute constituency from 1689–1699...
(1666–1733) - John Boyle, 2nd Earl of GlasgowJohn Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow-Origins:Boyle was the eldest son and heir of David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow by Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Patrick Lindsay . The Boyles were an ancient family, whose estates centred around Kelburn in North Ayrshire.-Career:Boyle was born in April 1688 and succeeded to the peerage on 31...
(1688–1740) - John Boyle, 3rd Earl of GlasgowJohn Boyle, 3rd Earl of GlasgowJohn Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow was a Scottish nobleman.-Origins:Boyle was the third but eldest surviving son and heir of John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow by Helenor, third daughter of William Morrison of Prestongrange, county Haddington...
(1714–1775) - George Boyle, 4th Earl of GlasgowGeorge Boyle, 4th Earl of GlasgowGeorge Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, GCH FRS , styled Lord Boyle until 1775, was a British peer.He was the son of John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord Ross...
(1766–1843) - James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of GlasgowJames Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of GlasgowCaptain James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow , styled Viscount of Kelburn until 1843, was a British naval commander and politician.-Background:...
(1792–1869) - George Frederick Boyle, 6th Earl of GlasgowGeorge Boyle, 6th Earl of GlasgowGeorge Frederick Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow was a Scottish nobleman.He was the son of George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow and Julia Sinclair, daughter of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet....
(1825–1890) - David Boyle, 7th Earl of GlasgowDavid Boyle, 7th Earl of GlasgowDavid Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, GCMG was a Governor of New Zealand.-Royal Navy:Boyle served with the Royal Navy during the Crimean and Second Opium Wars...
(1833–1915) - Patrick James Boyle, 8th Earl of GlasgowPatrick Boyle, 8th Earl of GlasgowPatrick James Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow was a Scottish nobleman and a far right political activist.-Royal Navy:...
(1874–1963) - David William Maurice Boyle, 9th Earl of GlasgowDavid Boyle, 9th Earl of GlasgowDavid William Maurice Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow was a British nobleman and sailor. He was married to Dorothea Lyle, and had three children with her:*Patrick Robin Archibald Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow*Lady Sarah Dorothea Boyle...
(1910–1984) - Patrick Robin Archibald Boyle, 10th Earl of GlasgowPatrick Boyle, 10th Earl of GlasgowPatrick Robin Archibald Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow DL is a British peer, politician and the current chief of Clan Boyle. The family seat is Kelburn Castle in Ayrshire...
(b. 1939)
The heir apparent
Heir apparent
An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
is the present holder's son David Michael Douglas Boyle, Viscount of Kelburn (b. 1978).