"The Haldanes have been in Scotland for over 800 years, and their story illustrates many of the defining themes of Scotland's history. Haldanes played significant roles in the Bruce war of independence, the political upheavals which accompanied the establishment of the Stewart dynasty, the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Darien Scheme and the Act of Union, the Jacobite rebellions, the development of the East India...

History and genealogical data about the Haldane family from the early 1400s to 1880. Particularly contains the genealogical and heraldic history of the Haldane family of Gleneagles (from various sources, includes Burke's Peerage), and the family succession to the Earldom of Lennox (once warmly contested, now virtually settled). Includes Chinnery, and Chinnery-Haldane as a variant spelling (approved legally). Includes Cockburn, Duncan, Murray, Stewart,...

History and origins of the family of Grant, of Highland descent in Scotland between the 1200s and 1895. Some of the family worked in India and elsewhere. and Charles Grant (1776-1866) was created Lord Glenelg in 1835.

A history of the various claims to the House of Lennox (or Levenax) of the Scottish nobility, between 1235 A.D. and 1835. The author reviews the original holding by the Earldom of Duncan, and these honours descended by inheritance through his heirs for centuries. He then reviews the claims of John, Lord Dernely, to the Earldom of Lennox, as well as the claims of John Haldane of Gleneagles to this Earldom, deeming each of these claims both meager and...