| Lordship of Saltoun | |
|---|---|
 Azure three fraises (cinquefoils) argent | |
| Creation date | 28 June 1445[1] |
| Created by | James II |
| Peerage | Peerage of Scotland |
| First holder | Lawrence Abernethy, 1st Lord Saltoun |
| Present holder | Katharine Fraser, 22nd Lady Saltoun |
| Heir presumptive | Alexander Fraser, Master of Saltoun |
| Remainder to | Heirs general |
| Subsidiary titles | Master of Saltoun |
| Seat(s) | Cairnbulg Castle Inverey House |
| Former seat(s) | Mar Lodge |
| Motto | Dexter (over cross): All my hope is in God Sinister (over crest): In God is All |
Lord Saltoun, of Abernethy, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1445 for Sir Lawrence Abernethy. The title remained in the Abernethy family until the death in 1669 of his descendant the tenth Lady Saltoun. She was succeeded by her cousin Alexander Fraser, the eleventh Lord. He was the son of Alexander Fraser and Margaret Abernethy, daughter of the seventh Lord Saltoun. The title has remained in the Frasers of Philorth family ever since.[2]
The seventeenth Lord was a Lieutenant-General in the Army and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer from 1807 to 1853. His nephew, the eighteenth Lord, was a Scottish representative peer from 1859 to 1866. His son, the nineteenth Lord, and grandson, the twentieth Lord, were also Scottish representative peers, between 1890 and 1933 and 1935 and 1963, respectively. From 1979 to 2024, the title was held by the latter's daughter, the 21st Lady Saltoun. She was head of the Frasers of Philorth and was also one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999[1] (resigning her seat in the House in 2014).
The family seats are Cairnbulg Castle, near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, and Inverey House, near Braemar, Aberdeenshire.
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3510. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Balfour Paul, James (1904). The Scots Peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edinburgh : D. Douglas. pp. 416–453. Retrieved 24 November 2018.