Lords Kinnaird of Inchture (1682)

 

1st Lord Kinnaird, George Kinnaird, b.?, a.1682, d.1689

 

The name of Kinnaird is reckoned to be one of the oldest in Scotland, from Pictish times, with original lands in Perthshire. George Kinnaird was a prominent Royalist and made a Privy Counsellor after the Restoration in 1661.

 

2nd Lord Kinnaird, Patrick Kinnaird, b.1653, a.1689, d.1701

 

Son of the 1st Lord and Margaret Crichton (b.?, d.1704).

 

3rd Lord Kinnaird, Patrick Kinnaird, b.1683, a.1701, d.1715

 

Son of the 2nd Lord and Anne Fraser (b.?, d.1684), daughter of Hugh Fraser, 8th Lord Lovat.

 

4th Lord Kinnaird, Patrick Kinnaird, b.1707, a.1715, d.1727

 

Son of the 3rd Lord and Lady Elizabeth Lyon (b.?, d.1739), daughter of Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore.

 

5th Lord Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, b.1684, a.1727, d.1758

 

Younger brother of the 3rd (sic) Lord.

 

6th Lord Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, b.1719, a.1758, d.1767

 

Great-grandson of the 1st Lord, grandson of George Kinnaird (b.?, d.c.1703) and Margaret Maitland (b.?, d.1735) and son of George Kinnaird and Lady Helen Gordon (b.?, d.1731), daughter of Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne.

 

7th Lord Kinnaird, George Kinnaird, b.1754, a.1767, d.1805

 

Son of the 6th Lord and Barbara Johnstone (b.?, d.1765), daughter of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet Johnstone of Westerhall.

 

8th Lord Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, b.1780, a.1805, d.1826

 

Son of the 7th Lord and Elizabeth Ransom (b.?, d.1805).

 

9th Lord Kinnaird, George William Fox Kinnaird, b.1807, a.1826, d.1878

 

Son of the 8th Lord and Lady Olivia Letitia Catherine Fitzgerald (b.1787, d.1858), daughter of William Robert Fitzgerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. He was educated at Eton. He was created 1st Baron Rossie of Rossie, Perthshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1831. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1840 and a Knight of the Thistle in 1857. He was also created 1st Baron Kinnaird of Rossie in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with special remainder to his younger brother, having outlived his two sons. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1830 to 1832 and Lord-Lieutenant of Perthshire from 1866 until his death, when his first UK barony became extinct.

 

10th Lord Kinnaird, Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, b.1814, a.1878, d.1887

 

Younger brother of the 9th Lord. He was a Liberal MP for Perth from 1837 to 1839 and from 1852 to 1878.

 

11th Lord Kinnaird, Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, b.1847, a.1887, d.1923

 

Son of the 10th Lord and Mary Jane Hoare (b.1816, d.1888). He was a leading footballer in the early days of the Football Association, and played in nine FA Cup finals, including the second ever final in 1873 playing for Wanderers. In 1877 he was the first person to score an own goal in a major match, although Wanderers still won. He later won playing for Old Etonians as well. Although born in London, he played once for Scotland against England in the second ever international, also in 1873. He was Treasurer of the FA from 1877 and President from 1890 until his death. Away from football, he also served as a director of Barclays Bank and was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1907 to 1909.

 

12th Lord Kinnaird, Kenneth Fitzgerald Kinnaird, b.1880, a.1923, d.1972

 

Son of the 11th Lord and Mary Alma Victoria Agnew (b.1854, d.1923), daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet Agnes of Lochawe.

 

13th Lord Kinnaird, Graham Charles Kinnaird, b.1912, a.1972, d.1997

 

Son of the 12th Lord and Frances Victoria Clifton (b.1876, d.1960). His only son died before him without children. Though there was a notably high number of female relatives in the preceding generations, all of the other heirs-male had died young and without children, and so the title became extinct.

 

(Last updated: 09/05/2010)