Margaret o Mar, 31st Coontess o Mar
Margaret o Mar, 31st Coontess o Mar an 24t Lady Garioch, (born 19 September 1940) is a crossbench member o the Hoose o Lords, an electit hereditary peer, the holder o the oreeginal Earldom o Mar, the auldest peerage title in the Unitit Kinrick an a farmer an specialist cheesemaker in Worcestershire. She currently is the ae suo jure Coontess in the Hoose o Lords.
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[edit] Early life
She wis born Margaret Alison Lane, the eldest dochter o Millicent Mary Salton an James Clifton Lane later James o Mar, 30t Earl o Mar the Heir Presumptive o Lionel Erskine-Young, 29t Earl o Mar, his first cousin ance removed (baith wur descendit frae a sister o John Goodeve-Erskine, 27t Earl o Mar).
Margaret haed twa yunger siblings: David o Mar, Master o Mar, an Lady Janet o Mar. In 1959, her faither wis offeecially recognized in the style o Mar an frae that year his three children wur an aa styled o Mar, the name Lane being abandoned.
[edit] Mistress o Mar
When Margaret's faither succeedit as 30t Earl o Mar in 1965 she became Lady Margaret o Mar, an her brither became The Master o Mar, Lord Garioch. When Lord Garioch dee'd in 1967, Margaret became The Mistress o Mar as the elder heir-portioner presumptive in general o her faither.
[edit] Coontess o Mar
When in 1975 her faither the 30t Earl dee'd, Lady Margaret became the 31st holder o the Mar earldom, the Premier Earldom o Scotland, an entered the Hoose o Lords,[1] making her maiden speech in April 1976.[2] After the passing of House of Lords Act 1999, Lady Mar wis electit tae serve as ane o the ninetie-twa hereditary peers retained in the Hoose,[3] where she sits as a cross-bencher, meanin she is no aligned wi ony particular poleetical pairty.
As Coontess o Mar she is an aa Titular 11t Duchess o Mar in the Jacobite Peerage (in which Peerage she is numbered as 32nt Coontess o Mar, as the attainder o 1716-1824 is no recognised bi the Jacobites).
Note: Awin tae a nineteent-century dispute an mistake, there is an aa anither Earl o Mar, James Erskine, 14t Earl o Mar an 16t Earl o Kellie, a kinsman o Margaret's. Margaret, housomeivver, is the undisputit haulder o the auncient earldom. The 1565 earldom, which wis creatit retrospectively in the 1870s, is held bi the Erskine side o this auncient Scots family.
Lady Mar haes held a number o positions athin the Hoose o Lords:
- Deputy Chair o Committees 1997–2007
- Select Committee on European Communities Sub-Committee C (Environment, Public Health an Consumer Protection) 1997–1999
- Deputy Speaker 1999–2007
- Select Committee on European Union Sub-Committee D (Environment, Agriculture, Public Health an Consumer Protection / Environment an Agriculture) 2001–2005
Lady Mar is currently a member o the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments[4], a member of the Lords Refreshment Committee,[5] an a member o the panel o Deputy Chairmen o Committees.[6] Lady Mar is an aa secretary o the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pesticides and Organophoshates.[7]
Lady Mar haes an aa held a variety o non-poleetical offices:
- Member o the Immigration Appeal Tribunal 1985-2006
- Chairman, Honest Food 2000-2005
- Chairman, Environmental Medicine Foundation 1997-2003
- President, Guild of Agricultural Journalists 2007-
- Patron, Dispensing Doctors' Association 1985-1986
- Patron, Worcestor Mobile Disabled Group 1991-2003
- Patron, Gulf Veterans' Association
- Preses, Elderly Accommodation Counsel, 1994-
- Honorary Associate o the Ryal College o Veterinary Surgeons 2006- [8]
- Honorary Associate of the British Veterinary Association 2007- [9]
[edit] Family
Lady Mar haes married three times: first tae Edwin Noel Artiss, then tae John Salton, an finally tae John Jenkin. Frae the first marriage she haed a dochhter: Susan Helen o Mar, Mistress o Mar (born 1963), the heiress presumptive tae her mither's peerage.
[edit] Titles an styles
- 1940-1959: Margaret Alison Lane
- 1959-1965: Margaret o Mar
- 1965-1967: The Lady Margaret o Mar
- 1967-1975: The Mistress o Mar
- 1975—present: The Coontess of Mar an Lady Garioch
[edit] References
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- ↑ Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. UK Parliament website. Retrieved on 7 Julie 2009. . Template:Dead link
- ↑ House of Lords Refreshment Committee. UK Parliament website. Retrieved on 7 Julie 2009. . Template:Dead link
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- ↑ House of Commons - Register of All-Party Groups. UK Parliament website. Retrieved on 31 August 2009. . Template:Dead link
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- Burke's Peerage
- Debrett's Peerage
- Extracts of Matriculations of Arms
- Lundy, Darryl (June 19, 2005). ThePeerage.com - Person Page 8460. Retrieved June 23, 2005.
- dodonline.co.uk
- Lady Mar's record in the Hoose o Lords
- Forward-ME o which Lady Mar is chairman
- Parliamentary contributions bi Lady Mar
| Cam efter: James o Mar |
Earl o Mar |
Cam afore: Heir:Susan o Mar |
