Baron of Lundie

The crown barony was created by King David II for John Iles, granting him the lands and title of the Baron of Lundie.

In June 1489 King James IV confirmed to Andrew, Lord Gray, the lands and Barony of Lundie.

During the reign of King David II (1329-1371) John Iles held the Baron of Lundie.

[7] During the reign of King James III of Scotland, Lord Lyall had been a Privy Councillor and an ambassador to England.

He joined however a group of nobles seeking to revenge the murder of James III and was considered to be a rebel, hence the forfeiture.

He was High Treasurer of Scotland in the reign of James V. It is believed that he was instrumental in restructuring the castle at Lundie.

[12] Colin Campbell was created a baronet of Nova Scotia on 13 December 1627, this title descended to his son and eventually to the Dukes of Argyll.

[14] Archibald was only the Baron of Lundie briefly as the following year he resigned it to the Crown and it was then granted to James Campbell, Lord of Kintyre.

[15] The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1638-1651) saw Campbell of Lundie as a cavalry officer taking an active role.

In the Battle of Dunbar (1650) he led a troop of sixty cavalrymen against Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary Army.

On 31 July 1686 he and his wife Anna Drummond of Megginch were officially granted the Barony of Lundie.

He too was a merchant burgess of Dundee and married to Isobel, daughter of Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre.

He had two sons Alexander, who succeeded to Lundie, and William physician to King George II.

Alexander, the elder son, succeeded to the lands and Barony of Lundie on his father's death in 1777.

On 6 August 1766, Alexander Duncan, a Lieutenant Colonel in the 55th Regiment of Foot was granted the lands of Dryburgh near Dundee [RGS.109.33].

[24] Documents dated 1783 make reference to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Duncan of Lundie in sasines.

Adam Haldane-Duncan, born 25 March 1812 in Edinburgh, was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.