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    John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird, FRSA, of Artigarvan (23 April 1944 – 10 July 2018) was a Northern Irish politician, life peer and former chairman of the...
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  • development of Birkenhead John Laird, Baron Laird (1944–2018), British Member of the House of Lords and Ulster Unionist Politician John E. Laird (born 1954), computer...
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    John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, GCB GCSI PC (4 March 1811 – 27 June 1879), known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was a...
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  • Nicholas Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet. Laird was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, where he attended the local comprehensive...
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  • Thumbnail for Mahavishnu Orchestra
    consisting of musicians Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, and Rick Laird, the band received its initial acclaim for its complex, intense music consisting...
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    and heir; Dudley, 3rd Baron Tweedmouth (1874–1935). Lord Tweedmouth's parliamentary career saw him reported as being the Laird of Guisachan and Glenaffric...
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    Lord Lovat (redirect from Baron Lovat)
    Lovat". 19th century historians John Anderson, writing in 1825, and Alexander Mackenzie, writing in 1896, list the Lairds of Lovat as follows, but this...
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    Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and Glenaffric (29 December 1820 – 4 March 1894), was a Scottish...
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    adopt this style also. When a person bearing this suffix becomes the laird or Baron in their own right or succeeds to the arms of a now landless family...
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    British peer and Conservative politician. Lawrence was the son of John Laird Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, Viceroy of India, and Harriett Katherine Hamilton...
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    (1297–) (died 1314) John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey (1327–) Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy (1328–) Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Henry...
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  • Maclean of Ardgour (category Lairds of Ardgour)
    year; one of 17 Barons in the Council of the Isles, 1545, dsp and was succeeded by his cousin once removed Allan Maclean, 5th Laird of Ardgour, born...
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    (1811–1879) (created Baron Lawrence in 1869) John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811–1879) John Hamilton Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence (1846–1913)...
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    Alexander, 2nd Laird of Tulloch (b. c. 1515). John. William. Ronald, who was a natural son, b. c. 1518. Two daughters. Alexander Bane, 2nd Laird of Tulloch...
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    John Laird Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. His work explored jazz fusion, free jazz, and avant-garde...
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  • Tomintoul and known as the Laird of Tomintoul, is a British accountant and convicted fraudster. He owned the title Baron of Chirnside bought with money...
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  • motorcycle racer, collision during practice (b. 1985) 10 July – John Laird, Baron Laird, Unionist politician (b. 1944) 5 September – Robert Coulter, Unionist...
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  • "Esq" except in the case of a Scottish laird, whose territorial designation implies the rank of esquire. Barons in Scotland are non-peerage nobles in the...
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  • barons and chiefs is correct, but used only in the most formal circumstances. "Esq." is not required, and "Mr." is incorrect. Most barons and lairds of...
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    the 16th Baron of Roslin. He was the son of William St Clair, 15th Baron of Roslin and his wife Jean or Janet Edmondstone, daughter of the Laird Of that...
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  • Order of the Thistle, or the wife of a lord, a baronet, Scottish feudal baron, laird, or a knight, and also before the first name of the daughter of a duke...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Langside
    Hamilton Laird of Innerwick James Heriot, laird of Trabroun Laird of Balwearie Laird of Preston younger Laird of Lauchop Laird of Mowe Laird of Irnok Laird of...
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    the battle as "Gude Sir Alexander Irvine the much renounit Laird of Drum". The next Laird of Drum was a prominent figure in the negotiations to ransom...
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    Campbell, 8th Baron Dugald Campbell, 9th Baron Captain Dugald Campbell, 10th Baron Colin Campbell, 11th Baron John 'Ean Gorm' Campbell, 9th Laird and 10th...
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    Philip Koomen David Kossoff Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail John Laird, Baron Laird David Lammy John Large Michael Latham Abdul Latif James Laver...
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    previously belonged to John Comyn, who was murdered by Robert the Bruce. The 1st laird of Cadzow was succeeded as the 2nd laird by his son Sir David fitz...
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  • James Clerk-Rattray (category Lairds)
    a Baron of the Exchequer. When he inherited the estate of Craighall Rattray he changed the family name to Clerk-Rattray and became the 24th Laird of...
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    Battle of Durham in 1346. Michael left two sons: Robert Scott, the third laird and John Scott who founded the important cadet branch of the clan, the Scotts...
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  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Wingfield Malcolm, 1st Baron Malcolm of Poltalloch, CB, VD (16 April 1833 – 6 March 1902) was a British soldier and Conservative...
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    Alexander Drummond was the son of Robert Drummond 3rd laird of Carnock and Marion Monteith daughter of laird of West Carse. One of his ancestors was Elizabeth...
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