Earl of Kintore is a title in the Peerage of Scotland

Peerage of Scotland

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. It was created in 1677 for Sir John Keith

John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore

Sir John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore was a Scottish nobleman.The fourth son of William Keith, 5th Earl Marischal, he held Dunnottar Castle against Oliver Cromwell, and preserved the regalia in 1650...

, third son of William Keith, 6th Earl Marischal (see Earl Marischal

Earl Marischal

The title of Earl Marischal was created in the peerage of Scotland for William Keith, the Great Marischal of Scotland.The office of "Marischal of Scotland" had been held heritably by the senior member of the Keith family since Hervey de Keith, who held the office of Marischal under Malcolm IV and...

 for earlier history of the family). He was made Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland. At the death of William, the fourth Earl, in 1761 the earldom became dormant as no-one could prove a claim to it. In 1778, it was decided that the earldom should pass to Anthony Adrian Falconer, Lord Falconer of Halkerton, who changed his surname to Keith-Falconer. The Lordship of Falconer of Halkerton and the Earldom of Kintore remained united until 1966, when, at the death of the tenth Earl, the Lordship became dormant.

The eleventh holder of the title, Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, married John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL , known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth...

. At the death of Lord Stonehaven, the titles Viscount Stonehaven (created 1938), and Baron Stonehaven (1925), both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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, as well as the Baronetcy of Urie, passed to the couple's son, James. The Countess of Kintore, who died the day after her one-hundredth birthday, was the longest-lived female holder of a British peerage; upon inheriting his mother's title, her son James changed his name to Keith.

The family seat is Keith Hall, near Inverurie

Inverurie

Inverurie is a Royal Burgh and town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately north west of Aberdeen on the A96 road and is served by Inverurie railway station on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line...

, Aberdeenshire.

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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 to the earldom uses the courtesy title

Courtesy title

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 Lord Inverurie.

Earls of Kintore (1677)

• John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore
  John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore
  Sir John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore was a Scottish nobleman.The fourth son of William Keith, 5th Earl Marischal, he held Dunnottar Castle against Oliver Cromwell, and preserved the regalia in 1650...
  
   (d. 1714)
• William Keith, 2nd Earl of Kintore (d. 1718)
• John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore (c. 1699–1758)
• William Keith, 4th Earl of Kintore (c. 1702–1761) (dormant 1761)
• Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore (d. 1804) (revived 1778)
• William Keith-Falconer, 6th Earl of Kintore (1766–1812)
• Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, 7th Earl of Kintore (1794–1844)
  • William Adrian Keith-Falconer, Lord Inverurie (1822–1843)
• Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, 8th Earl of Kintore (1828–1880)
• Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
  Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
  Algernon Hawkins Thogond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore PC, GCMG, was a British politician and colonial governor.-Biography:...
  
   (1852–1930)
  • Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer, Lord Inverurie (1877–1897)
• Arthur George Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl of Kintore (1879–1966)
• Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, 11th Countess of Kintore (1874–1974)
• James Ian Keith, 12th Earl of Kintore (1908–1989)
• Michael Canning William John Keith, 13th Earl of Kintore (1939–2004)
• James William Falconer Keith, 14th Earl of Kintore (b. 1976)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Tristan Michael Keith, Lord Inverurie (b. 2010)