The Much Honoured

is an honorific style applied to various minor nobles in Scotland, including Scots barons.

The highest-ranking baron in Scotland is HRH The Duke of Rothesay, who holds the barony of Renfrew; by tradition both titles are held concurrently by the heir apparent to the British throne.

Genuine territorial lairds (not those owning souvenir plots of land) style themselves "The Much Honoured", albeit archaic.

The official use of titles and honorifics in Scotland comes under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh.

[4] Historically, the honorific is used in association with five groups: The eldest son of a Scots minor noble is entitled to be addressed by courtesy as the Younger (abbreviated to the Yr); the eldest daughter of a minor noble, if heir apparent, is entitled to use the courtesy title The Maid of [designation] (e.g. David Leslie the Younger and The Maid of Leslie).