Talk:Marquess of Huntly

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Please excuse me, Mr. "Proteus," but are you certain that the Earldom of Enzie and Lordship of Gordon of Badenoch are extinct or no longer belong to the Marquises of Huntly? In addition, (I hope that does not sound frivolous) do any of you, gentlemen, know the lines of the nursery-rhyme "The Earl of Aboyne"? --Anglius 01:37, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

So are the titles dormant, sir? --Anglius 29 June 2005 00:06 (UTC)

When the 5th Earl of Aboyne claimed the Marquessate and Earldom of Huntly and the Earldom of Enzie on the death of the 5th Duke of Gordon in 1836, the House of Lords only allowed his claim to the Marquessate. Their reasons for the refusal are rather dodgy, to say the least (how they could say he was Marquess of Huntly but not Earl of Enzie when the titles were created at the same time with the same remainder is anyone's guess), but the House of Lords has a long history of making utterly crazy decisions on such matters. As to what the current status of the titles is, it's a bit of a mystery, but we certainly can't say he holds them if the House of Lords says he doesn't. Proteus (Talk) 29 June 2005 00:24 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't know the rhyme, sorry. (My name is Peter Tilman, by the way, if you don't like pseudonyms. It used to be on my user page, but I believe I deleted most of that a while back.) Proteus (Talk) 29 June 2005 00:26 (UTC)

I thank you, Mr. Tilman, and I apologise if I have wasted your time. I do not really mind pseudonyms , for I must admit that I myself use one. --Anglius 29 June 2005 01:09 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright

The first paragraph of this article is verbatim the same as the second-to-last paragraph on this page: http://www.houseofgordonva.com/Chief.html. Has permission been obtained from the copyright holder?

That's a copy of us, not vice versa. The last paragraph on that page is also a copy of a paragraph that used to be in this article before it was rewritten, and which is the standard method we use of listing courtesy titles. Wikipedia is rather widely used, so it's not entirely safe to assume that a duplicate existing on the internet automatically means a Wikipedia editor has been copying another website's material. Proteus (Talk) 13:23, 13 September 2006 (UTC)