A CLAIMANT TO A PEERAGF

Dunstan Times, Issue 1190, 19 December 1884, Page 3

A CLAIMANT TO A PEERAGF

A new chapter, it is said, is about to be added to- the romance of the Scotch peerage. One. Mr John Fraser, of Mount Pleasant,’ Carnarvon, lays claim to the Lovat barony and estates, and maintains that he directly descends from the son of some far back Lord Lovat,' who fled from Scotland to Wales, after killing a fiddler at a hall. Some people might think that a gentleman with due respect for his fore fathers would hardly care to bring int) public notice an ancestor who had such a record as that just indicated, even for the purpose of securing an ancient title an! a fine Highland properly. But it must be remembered that a good many wild things were done in the Highlands before the abolition of heritable jurisdictions; and the celebrated Lord Lovat whose career ended oa Tower Hill, was himself a somewhat violent personage. If by any chance .the Welsh Mr Fraser should establish his claim to be of elder Wood than the present Lord .Lovat, a,curious state of things will "The' father of the present Lord Lovat obtained-a removal of the attainder under which, the Young Pretender’s ’ Lord lovat and he was restored to the; Scotch peerage as 14th Lord Lovat. Bat several years ’before that ho had been -Created - laird Lovat in the peerage of the ;jjnited.vKiugdoin. His son cannot ho dey.ptjived of his succession to that barony. : lf| therefore, Mr Fraser, of Carnarvon, r should succeed in his claim, we should have a Scotch Lord LoVat. with the estates, and a landless Lord Lovat in the peerage -of the United Kingdom.