Living thirds · Three daughters
The living writ
from 27 June 1997
Carries. The barony, in thirds, until the Crown terminates abeyance.
Breaks. A cadet petition that treats these three as a footnote has already failed Joan Audley's jurisprudence.
Women of this house
- H
Hon. Patricia McKinnon
b. 1946 · Co-heiress. One third of the 1313 writ. No portrait invented here.
Living — no invented portrait
- H
Hon. Jennifer Carrington
b. 1948 · Co-heiress. One third. The living barony.
Living — no invented portrait
- H
Hon. Amanda Souter
b. 1958 · Co-heiress. One third. They are not a footnote.
Living — no invented portrait
Pauline Souter
20th c. · Wife of the 25th. Mother of the three. Not a co-heiress.
Men of this house
- None named on this board.
Words used here
- Cadet
- A younger line of the same blood. Related. Not the heir.
- Writ
- A royal letter calling a man to sit in Parliament — and, in this family, the legal act that created the barony.
- Abeyance
- The title is asleep among co-heiresses. It is not extinct.