There has been one baronetcy granted to the Lauder family. The baronetcy of Lauder of Fountainhall, Haddingtonshire, was created for John Lauder, last surviving male representative of the Lauders of that Ilk, a rich merchant-burgess and sometime Treasurer and baillie of the City of Edinburgh Council, and an armiger. He purchased (before 1672) the estate of Newington, Edinburgh, and subsequently (10 June 1681) the lands of Woodhead and Templehall near Pencaitland, which along with others in Edinburghshire and Haddingtonshire, were erected by Crown charter into the feudal barony of Fountainhall on 13 August 1681.
John Lauder was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 17 July 1688.[1][2] The first Letters Patent was successfully contested by his eldest surviving son, Lord Fountainhall, and "reduced",[3] and a second Patent with a new destination issued, dated 25 January 1690; the first Patent was formally annulled in 1692.[4]
- ^ Brown, Peter, publisher, The Peerage of Scotland", Edinburgh, 1834: 218
- ^ Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.vi: 630
- ^ Cokayne, G. E., edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol.1, London, 1910, p. 222 and notes, on the reduction in the case of the Earl of Arran. G.E.C., cites Hewlett's Jurisprudence, p. 24, where the absolute supremacy of the Court of Session in adjudicating on Scottish Peerages is recognised, and where it is stated that "There can be no doubt that, on sufficient cause, the Court of Session had jurisdiction."
- ^ Stewart-Smith, J., The Grange of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1898: 293; and 403 - 406 for Lord Fountainhall's own Memorandum anent the Patent and Court action