[1] Ross succeeded to the peerage in 1501 on the death of his grandfather, whom his father had pre-deceased.
He had earlier been retoured heir of his mother in the barony of Melville on 16 May 1496.
Over the years that followed, he obtained a number of charters and sasines in respect of extensive estates in and around Renfrewshire and Linlithgow.
[1] It is recorded that James IV visited Ross at Halkhead on 1 April 1506 (on which occasion the King treated Ross's masons to a drink) and that he was again in the King's company (playing games and shooting the culverin) in February and March 1507/8.
[2] Ross married (before 27 September 1490) Christian Edmonstone, daughter of Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath.