Lord Saltoun,
of Abernethy, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It
was created in 1445 for Sir Lawrence Abernethy. The
title remained in the Abernethy family until the death
in 1669 of his descendant the tenth Lady Saltoun. She
was succeeded by her cousin Alexander Fraser, the
eleventh Lord. He was the son of Alexander Fraser and
Margaret Abernethy, daughter of the seventh Lord Saltoun.
The title has remained in the Frasers of Philorth family
ever since.
The seventeenth Lord was a Lieutenant-General in the
Army and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish
Representative Peer from 1807 to 1853. His nephew, the
eighteenth Lord, was a Scottish Representative Peer from
1859 to 1866. His son, the nineteenth Lord, and
grandson, the twentieth Lord, were also Scottish
Representative Peers, between 1890 and 1933 and 1935 and
1963, respectively. Since 1979, the title has been held
by the latter's daughter, the 21st Lady Saltoun. She is
head of the Frasers of Philorth and was also one of the
ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House
of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act
1999 (resigning her seat in the House in 2014).
The family seat is Inverey House, near Braemar,
Aberdeenshire.
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