Lord Banff is an extinct or dormant title in the

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. It was created on 31 August 1642 for Sir George Ogilvy, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Forglen in the

County of Banff Banffshire ; sco, Coontie o Banffshire; gd, Siorrachd Bhanbh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. The county town is Banff, although the largest settlement is Buckie to the west. It borders the Moray ...

, in the

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on 30 July 1627. He was succeeded by his son, the second Lord. He was a

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and member of the

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. On his death the title passed to his elder son, the third Lord. He was a supporter of the Union between England and Scotland. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Lord. Two of his sons, the fifth and sixth Lords, succeeded in the title. The latter was a

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in the

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. He was unmarried and on his early death in 1746 the line of the third Lord failed. The late Lord Banff was succeeded by his second cousin Sir Alexander Ogilvy, 2nd Baronet, who became the seventh Lord. He was the grandson of the Hon. Alexander Ogilvy, younger son of the second Lord, who had been created a ''baronet'', of Forglen in the County of Banff, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1701. On the death of his unmarried eldest surviving son, the eighth Lord, in 1803, the lordship and two baronetcies became either extinct or dormant. The Forglen estate passed to the late Lord Banff's sister the Hon. Jane, wife of Sir George Abercromby, 4th Baronet (see

Abercromby baronets The Abercromby Baronetcy, of Birkenbog in the County of Banff, was a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 20 February 1636 for Alexander Abercromby, who subsequently represented Banffshire in the Scottish Parliament. His ...

Lords Banff (1642)

George Ogilvy, 1st Lord Banff George Ogilvy, 1st Lord Banff ( – 11 August 1663) was a Scottish royalist army officer. Early life He was eldest son of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Banff and Dunlugas, by Helen, daughter of Walter Urquhart of Cromarty. He had charters to himself and M ...

(d. 1663) *

George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff (died March 1668) was member of the old Scottish Parliament, a feudal baron, and a Cavalier. Family The son of Sir George Ogilvy, 1st Lord Banff, and 1st Baronet (1627), by his spouse Janet, daughter of William S ...

(d. 1668) *

George Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Banff George Ogilvy, recorded as baptised in the Aberdeen sasines, xiv 500, on 9 September 1649, was the third Lord Banff. He inherited the lands of Inchdrewer and Montbray on the death of his father in 1668. Formerly a staunch Roman Catholic, he renoun ...

(1649–1713) *George Ogilvy, 4th Lord Banff (1670–1718) *John George Ogilvy, 5th Lord Banff (1717–1738) *Alexander Ogilvy, 6th Lord Banff (1718–1746) *Alexander Ogilvy, 7th Lord Banff (d. 1771) *William Ogilvy, 8th Lord Banff (d. 1803)

Ogilvy baronets, of Forglen (1701)

Sir Alexander Ogilvy, 1st Baronet Sir Alexander Ogilvy, 1st Baronet (died 1727) was a Scottish politician and judge, lord of session under the title Lord Forglen. Life He was the second son of George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff, and Agnes Falconer, only daughter of Sir Alexander Falc ...

(d. 1727) *Sir Alexander Ogilvy, 2nd Baronet (d. 1771) (succeeded as Lord Banff in 1746) ''see above for further succession''

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