The Barony of Craigie is governed under the Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act, Scotland, 2000 which protects the dignity of the title.

Craigie is located just to the east (right) of Dundee, just north of the coastline, and west (left) of the Broughty Castle.

[11] Other historical references to Craigie include citations in 1678 as found in the Angusia Provincia Scotiae sive The Shire of Angus, by Janssonius Waesberghe, Moses Pitt and Stephanus Swart of Amsterdam.

[12] The lands of the Barony of Craigie were never fully set, with frequent changes of territory between abbeys, merchants, towns, and nobles.

The manor home was located at the end of the current Southampton Road leading off Craigie Drive in Dundee, Scotland.

In the Statistical Account of 1793 the agricultural focus on the manor was noted: "The market in Dundee, for all kinds of butcher meat, is one of the best in Scotland.

[16] In 1856 Craigie House was described as a "...neat villa, beautifully situated amid finely wooded grounds and gardens, on the sea-coast, on the north side of the Broughty Ferry Road,[18] about two miles east of Dundee.

[18] Alexander Johnston Warden, in his 1884 work Angus or Forfarshire, the Land and its People, Descriptive and Historical, quotes Reverend James Headrick from his 1813 work Review of the Agriculture of Angus, who says of Craigie House "The plantations are so artificially disposed as to hide all those parts of the Tay where the tide leaves the bottom dry, and to give it all the effect of an artificial lake.

In the mid 18th century whaling companies had occupied the lands that had once been the waterside gardens of Wallace Craigie House.

[16] Craigie House was a private nursing home from 1923 until 1949, first run by Miss Clementina Methven and then by Mrs. Christine Brodie and her family.

About 1200 the lands of Hilton and Milton of Craigie were donated by his second daughter, possibly known as Ysabella de Brous, to the Abbey of Lindores in north Fife.

The affirmation states that the original charter was granted by King Alexander II of Scotland at Maiden's Castle on 12 November 1247.

[10] Patrick of Inverpeffer, a burgess of Dundee, was granted part of the lands of Craigie with fishing rights by King Robert II of Scotland in 1378.

[10] In 1365 King David II of Scotland granted a charter to John Gray of all his lands, and of Craigie in Forfarshire.

In a charter from King David II of Scotland dated 11 February 1366, William Guppyld is confirmed in his land from the inheritance of Alexander of Lambirtoun.

[10] On 9 October 1535, David Wedderburn of Tofts, Town Clerk of Dundee, received from King James V of Scotland a charter to the lands of Hilton of Craigie.

[Baronage, p.281] Woodhill seems eventually to have succeeded to Craigie – for Mr. Thomas Kyd, Merchant in Edinburgh, "son of Woodhill and Craigie", wedded Rachel, daughter of Dr. William Eccles (died 1723) of Kildonan, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Wedderburn of Blackness – by whom he left children.

On 16 June 1632, King Charles I of Scotland confirmed a charter granted by Patrick Kyd of Grange of Barry on 4 September 1620, whereby he sold a third part of the lands and town of Hilton of Craigie alias Wester Craigie to his son James Kyd and his future wife Agnes, daughter of Robert Clayhills of Baldovie, a merchant burgess of Dundee.

This had originally belonged to the Abbey of Lindores which granted it to David Wedderburn on 9 October 1538, later it was owned by John Sharp who sold it to James Durham.

[25] By 1684 James Kid, then described as 'of Craigie' and his spouse Helen Fotheringham, appear in the Forfarshire Register of Sasines, again involved in a property transaction.

[31] The couple had a number of children including their eldest son James, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who served under Captain Bligh on his famous voyage.

[30] Their only son James Guthrie duly inherited the lands, barony and title of 3rd Baron of Craigie on the death of his grandfather in 1830.

[33][34] George Makgill of Kemback sold the lands and title of Craigie to his kinsman James Alexander Guthrie in 1867.

In 1858 he was elected Director of the Bank of England[36] He was served heir to his father David Charles Guthrie, a merchant in London, who died 27 June 1859, in two farms of the lands of Craigie, 22 January 1860.

"The 1872 (Scotland) Owners of Land and Heritages return" stated that the trustees of James Alexander Guthrie of Craigie owned 309 acres in Angus.

The eldest son David Charles Guthrie succeeded his father on his death at 78 Portland Place, London, on 17 January 1873.

[38] David Charles Guthrie, 5th Baron of Craigie[39][40] and later of East Haddon Hall, Northamptonshire, was born 25 July 1861.

He married Mary, daughter of Andrew Low of Savannah, Georgia, USA, on 21 November 1891, and had four children including James Alexander Guthrie, born 15 March 1893.

James Alexander Guthrie, 6th Baron of Craigie, was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and served as a captain of the 15th Hussars.

[41] The Barony of Craigie remained in the Guthrie family estate until it was passed by assignation to Rabbi Robert Owen Thomas, III in February 2011.