240 MAR — MARCH. [John Francis Hamilton Sinclair Cunliffo ]>rooks Forbes Goodkvk-Erskine. ityUd Lord GahioiII,( :i ) only s. ami h. ap., b. 27 Feb. 1868, at Bournemouth, Hants ; ed. at Eton ami at Mag. Coll., Cambridge,] Family AsfufM.— These were left by the late Karl (who </. in 1SGG) to bis distant Cousin ami beir >aal<, the Karl of Kellie [S.], to the exclusion of bis nephew and heir of line. The Restitution Act of 1885 expressly declares that nothing therein con- tained '• shall affect or in any manner prejudice the right or title " thereto of any the heirs " in the direct male line of the said John, Lord Krskine." MA K. /.« ., " M.
" Karhloni [S.] (Erdiw), cr. (according to a judgment of
the House ot Lords in lS7. r >, previous t<i w hich date its existence was unknown) in 1566. See " Mar" Karldom [S.], tub (the ISth bolder of that dignity) 1565. .MARCH [ill .Scotland], i.e., the Scotch Marches. Earldom [s.] j. Patmck (de Dtjjibar), Earl op Dox- I i os n lull [SJ, s. and h. <.f Patrick, BAM, OK DtlKBAR [S.], ' about 1242, sue. bis father in 12811 and was the firttojhis raa teho called AtnMd/EARL OK MAltCH(»') [S.] II. He </. 1300. 1309. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of MAncn or Dunbar [S.], s. and h. Resigned his title in 136S and </. 1369, aged 84. III. 1308. S, ( iK.oRiiK (ni- 1)uni!aii),Eai!i. of March or DunbarJS.] He </. 1 120, aged S2. IV. 1420, George (de Dunbar), Earl of Mari ii to or Dunbar [S.J, s. and h., i. about 1370 ; forfeited 1 135. M85 ! living 1454, ,1. before 1157. even [Patrick Dunbar, of Kilcnnquhar, co. Fife, tfi/led („, after bis father's attainder) '• HAISXSH of the March," s. and h., living 1467.] 1 -B-2 - V 3 v. 3 o a " sa a: J J x - - 13 v. im, to 1 183. Alexander Stewart, 2.1 s. of King James II. [8.1 h about 1464, was KARL OK MARCH [S.] before 8 July 1155, and was styled " Lord of Annandttle ami Karl of linrck " in(' : ) an act of Pari., 1 Aug. 14fi6, and was soon afterwards (certainly before 3 July 1 158), cr. DUKE OK ALBANY [S.] See that title, forfeited (with this) in 1438 ; soon after Mpiestie ' Garioch " whether us an Karldom or Barony, was umjuestiunably a dignity anciently held with the territorial Karldom of Mar and, as such, may be considered as having been restored under the act of 1885 to the then Karl. See, however, vol. iv p. 11, note " d." nub Garioeh," as to this Baron; having, probably, never been a Lordship of Pai l. ( L ) T/ic Mens, or March, was part of the land in Berwickshire granted in 1072 by Malcolm III. [S.] to Karl Cospatiick, the ancestor of this Karl. It was not till the Pari, at Biigham in March 1^90 that these Kails of Dunbar appear to have had the designation of Kai ls of March [Comes (If. Marchia] since which period they were generally so known. ( c ) " He carried the armorial insignia of the Karldom as is shewn by bis seal in 1473 exhibiting the lion and roses of Dunbar ; the three legs of Man, and the saltire and chief of Atmandale (Laing's catalogue, No. 790.") See Her. and Gen., vol. vii, p. 39. This Earl appears to have had the Castle of Dunbar and the Lordship of Dunbar possessed formerly by th Earls of March of the Dunbar family.
