Lord Somerville

The date of creation is not known with certainty but it was probably created about 1435 for Thomas Somerville, Justiciar of Scotland.

He related that William the Lion made John Somerville, his falconer, baron of Linton in Roxburghshire for killing a monstrous worm in 1174.

After stalking the beast for several days, Sir John killed it with a long iron-clad lance with a Catherine wheel fitted near its point.

The poet Blind Harry mentions the knighting of Walter Somerville of Newbigging and his son David at the battle of Biggar by Alexander III of Scotland.

Carnwath was sold in the 16th century and Hugh Somerville, the 7th Lord, built a substantial tower house at Drum in 1585, which was replaced between 1726 and 1734 with a Palladian mansion designed by architect William Adam.

Arms of Somerville: Azure, three mullets or 2 and 1 between seven cross-crosslets fitchée, argent 3, 1, 2 and 1
John Southey Somerville, 15th Lord Somerville (1765–1819)—engraved by Richard Rhodes (1765–1838), after a portrait by Samuel Woodforde (1763–1817)
Mural monuments to the last of the Somervilles, Aston Somerville Church, Worcestershire
Drum House , Gilmerton , near Edinburgh