Knight Marischal

The office of Knight Marischal was first created for the Scottish coronation of Charles I in 1633, at Scone. Unlike the separate office of Marischal, the office of Knight Marischal is not heritable, and has continued to be filled up to the death of the 11th Duke of Hamilton in 1863. The office is vacant but has not been abolished.

At the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715, the Knight Marischal was a Keith, and with his kinsman George, the 10th Earl Marischal, was in rebellion. However, as the office is non-heritable, it could not be forfeited, although the holder was stripped of office.

The salary attached to the post was £400 in 1660.[http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_024/24_018_048.pdf Reid, John J., The Scottish Regalia, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 9 December (1889)] The Public Offices (Scotland) Act 1817 provided that no person thereafter appointed as Knight Marshall should receive a salary.Public Offices (Scotland) Act 1817, section 10.

Knights Marischal

1660–1714: John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore
1714–1715: William Keith, 2nd Earl of Kintore{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Kintore1677.htm |title=Kintore, Earl of (S, 1677) |access-date=2010-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812124205/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/kintore1677.htm |archive-date=2013-08-12 |url-status=dead }}
1718–1732: Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning
1733–1758: John Keith, 3rd Earl of Kintore{{cite book | last=Lodge | first=E. | title=The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire | year=1907 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_xKAQAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=1062}}
1758: James Erskine, Lord Barjarg{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=W. | title=The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland | publisher=A. Fullarton & Company | issue=v. 3 | year=1877 | url=https://archive.org/details/scottishnationor03ande | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=[https://archive.org/details/scottishnationor03ande/page/114 114]}}
1785: Sir Robert Laurie, Bt
1805: William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll{{cite book | last=Debrett | first=J. | title=The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland | publisher=F.C. and J. Rivington | issue=v. 2 | year=1816 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98AvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA652 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=652 |quote=... and was appointed knight marischal of Scotland, Feb. 5, 1805.}}
1819–1832: Alexander Keith, later Sir Alexander{{cite book | title=The Scott Newsletter | publisher=Department of English, University of Aberdeen | issue=nos. 1-11 | year=1982 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqyaAAAAIAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=15 |quote= ... refers directly to the appointment of Alexander Keith as Knight Marischal, which was gazetted on 22 July 1819, it seems reasonable ...}}{{cite book | title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle | publisher=E. Cave | issue=v. 103, pt. 1 | year=1833 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5qZJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA178 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=178}}
1832–1846: William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll{{cite book | last=MacVeigh | first=J. | title=Dal-Mac | series=The Scottish Nation: Or, The Historical and Genealogical Account of All Scottish Families and Surnames | year=1889 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3NEAQAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=588}}{{cite book | last=Cokayne | first=G.E. | title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant | publisher=St. Catherine Press, Limited | issue=v. 5 | year=1926 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r0tmAAAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=101}}
1846–1863: William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton{{cite book | last=Doyle | first=J.E. | title=Abercon-Fortescue | publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company | series=The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations | year=1886 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jeg_Nc1hRfoC | language=es | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=217}}

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