Earl of Hyndford was a title in the Peerage of Scotland

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 1701 for John Carmichael, 2nd Lord Carmichael

John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford

John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Carmichael , known as Lord Carmichael between 1672 and 1701, was a Scottish nobleman and politician....

, Secretary of State

Secretary of State, Scotland

The Secretary of Scotland was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland.The office appeared in the 14th century when it was combined with that of Keeper of the Privy Seal. Called Clericus Regis , he was regarded as an Officer of State...

 from 1696 to 1707. He was made Lord Carmichael and Viscount of Inglisberry and Nemphlar at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland. He was the grandson of James Carmichael, who had been created a Baronet, of Westraw in the County of Lanark, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1627, and raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Carmichael in 1647. The third Earl was a prominent diplomat. The titles became dormant on the death of the sixth Earl in 1817, and were later unsuccessfully claimed by James Carmichael Smyth

James Carmichael Smyth (physician)

James Carmichael Smyth, FRS was a Scottish physician and medical writer. He was born in Fife, Malaysia as James Carmichael, the only son of Thomas Carmichael of Balmedie and Margaret Smyth of Athenry. He later added his mother's surname to his own...

 and his great-grandson James Morse Carmichael.

Lords Carmichael (1647)

• James Carmichael, 1st Lord Carmichael (1579–1672)
• John Carmichael, 2nd Lord Carmichael
  John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
  John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Carmichael , known as Lord Carmichael between 1672 and 1701, was a Scottish nobleman and politician....
  
   (1638–1710) (created Earl of Hyndford in 1701)

Earls of Hyndford (1701)

• John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
  John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
  John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Carmichael , known as Lord Carmichael between 1672 and 1701, was a Scottish nobleman and politician....
  
   (1638–1710)
• James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford (d. 1737) (succeeded by his uncle's son)
• John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford
  John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford
  John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford PC, KT , styled Viscount of Inglisberry between 1710 and 1737, was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat....
  
  (1701–1766)
• John Carmichael, 4th Earl of Hyndford (1710–1787) (succeeded by his uncle's grandson)
• Thomas Carmichael, 5th Earl of Hyndford (c. 1750–1811) (unmarried, succeeded by brother)
• Andrew Carmichael, 6th Earl of Hyndford (1758–1817) (unmarried)