Social Victorians/People/Tarbat

Also Known As

• Family name: Mackenzie (but because women can succeed to the titles, the names vary more than usual)
• Earl of Cromarty
  • Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl of Cromartie ( – 24 November 1893)
  • Sibell Lilian Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Blunt-Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie (1895? – 20 May 1962)
• Viscount or Viscountess Tarbat (one of the courtesy titles of the Earl of Cromarty). People who inherited the title, both men and women:

1. Anne Hay-Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Viscountess Tarbat (suo jure), 1861–1888 (known dates as Viscountess Tarbat: 1864, 1872)
2. Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (2nd Earl of Cromartie), Viscount Tarbat 1861–1893 (known dates as Viscount Tarbat: 1876, 1884)
3. Sibell Lilian Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Blunt-Mackenzie, 3rd Viscountess Tarbat (suo jure, granted in 1895): 1894 or 1895 –? (known dates as Viscountess Tarbat: 1908)
4. Roderick Grant Francis Mackenzie (4th Earl of Cromartie), 1962?-1989 (known dates as Viscount Tarbat: ?)

• Dowager Viscountess Tarbat
  • Lilian Janet Bosville Macdonald Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Cazenove ?–? (known dates: 1908)

Demographics

• Nationality: Scots (but there are also members of the family who are English), so Anglo-Scots

Family

• Anne Hay-Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (21 April 1829 – 25 November 1888)
• George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (19 December 1828 – 22 September 1892)

1. George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower (27 July 1850 – dvp 5 July 1858)
2. Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland (20 July 1851 – 27 June 1913)
3. Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl of Cromartie (3 August 1852 – 24 November 1893)
4. Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Chaplin (17 April 1855 – 10 October 1881)
5. Alexandra Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (13 April 1866 – 16 April 1891)

• Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl of Cromartie (3 August 1852 – 24 November 1893)
• Lilian Janet Bosville (Macdonald?) (Wentworth?) Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Cazenove (21 January 1856 – 20 November 1926)

1. Sibell Lilian Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Countess of Cromartie (14 August 1878 – 20 May 1962)
2. Constance Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Stewart-Richardson Matthew (1882– 24 November 1932)

• Sibell Lilian Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Blunt-Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie (14 August 1878 – 20 May 1962)
• Edward Walter Blunt-Mackenzie (19 May 1869 – 31 July 1949)

1. Janet Frances Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie (24 November 1900 – 19 December 1900)
2. Roderick Grant Francis Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Cromartie (24 October 1904 – 13 December 1989)
3. Walter Osra Blunt-Mackenzie (6 December 1906 – 8 January 1951)
4. Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie (22 March 1911 – )

Timeline

1849 June 27, Anne Hay-Mackenzie and George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower married.

1861, Anne Hay-Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower was granted suo jury the titles lost as a result of an ancestor's having fought in the Jacobite uprising; the titles "were recreated when she was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in her own right as Baroness MacLeod, of Castle Leod in the County of Cromartie, Baroness Castlehaven, of Castlehaven in the County of Cromartie, Viscountess Tarbat, of Tarbat in the County of Cromartie, and Countess of Cromartie" ("Earl of Cromarty").

1870–1874, Anne Hay-Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria.

1876 August 2, Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and Lilian Janet Bosville Macdonald married at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, in London.

1889 March 4, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and Mary Caroline Mitchell married.

1893 November 24, Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower died, causing his titles to fall into abeyance.

1895, the titles that had fallen into abeyance with the death of Francis Mackenzie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower were granted as titles in the U.K. peerage to his eldest daughter, Sibell Lilian Sutherland-Levenson-Gower.

1899 December 16, Sibell Lilian Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and Edward Walter Blunt married at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, in London.

1904 April 19, Constance Sutherland-Leveson-Gower married Edward Austin Stewart-Richardson.

1905, Edward Walter Blunt changed his name to Blunt-Mackenzie.

1914 November 28, Edward Austin Stewart-Richardson of Pitfour (Constance Sutherland-Leveson-Gower's first husband) died.

Questions and Notes

1. All of the titles associated with the title Viscount Tarbat appear to have descended through female as well as male lines. The same person may have been holding both these titles at the same time; at least sometimes it is used for the heir apparent to the Earl of Cromarty title.
2. What is the relationship of this title to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland?
3. Suo jure = in her own right, for a woman who holds a title by virtue of her own inheritance
4. DVP = decessit vita patris, died while the father was still living

Bibliography

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