Lord Sempill of Dykehead was a title of the Jacobite peerage in the

Peerage of Scotland The Peerage of Scotland ( gd, Moraireachd na h-Alba, sco, Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom and for those peers created by the King of Scots before 1707. Following that year's Treaty of Union, ...

. It was created on 11 May 1712 by

James Francis Edward Stuart James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 16881 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs, was the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from ...

for

Robert Sempill Robert Sempill (the elder) (c. 1530–1595), in all probability a cadet of illegitimate birth of the noble house of Sempill or Semple, was a Scottish ballad-writer and satirist. Very little is known of Sempill's life. He was probably a soldi ...

, a grandson of Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord Sempill. James issued a "declaration of nobility" recognising Robert as the legitimate holder of the 1489 creation of

Lord Sempill Lord Sempill (also variously rendered as Semple or Semphill) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in circa 1489 for Sir John Sempill, founder of the collegiate Church of Lochwinnoch. Sempill was killed at the Battle of Flodden ...

, despite that title being extant in the Peerage of Scotland. The Lords Sempill of Dykehead were never recognised by the British authorities, with the original creation remaining the only legal title. The Jacobite title became dormant on the death of the second holder.Marquis of Ruvigny
''The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour''
(T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1904), p.164.

Lords Sempill of Dykehead (Jacobite Peerage, 1712)

, ''1st Lord Sempill of Dykehead'' (1672–1737) *

Francis Sempill Francis Sempill (c. 1616 – March 1682) was a Scottish poet, the son of Robert Sempill the younger. No details of his education are known. His fidelity to the Stuarts involved him in money difficulties, to meet which he alienated portion ...

, ''2nd Lord Sempill of Dykehead'' (1708–1748)

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{{Reflist Lordships of Parliament in the Jacobite peerage