User talk:Dglenn

Sorry for not replying sooner, but I've been away for a bit. Scottish peerages often have far more extensive remainders than English/British/etc. ones, and in this case the Marquessate of Queensberry (and its subsidiary titles, whose remainders were later altered along with the Dukedom's) was granted with remainder to "heirs male whatsoever" rather than the usual "heirs male of the body". "Heirs male of the body" restricts succession to male-line descendants of the grantee, whereas "heirs male whatsoever" means that when the grantee's male line dies out, the title passes to the heirs male of his father, then his father's father, and so on (in essence making the title pass to his nearest male-line relative, and effectively making the title incapable of dying out (though obviously limited by whether the heir can be detected, if the line goes back before records were kept)). So you're right &mdash; if it had have had a normal remainder, it would have become extinct on the death of the 5th Marquess (and 4th Duke) in 1810, but the extended remainder meant that it passed to a male-line descendant of the 1st Earl of Queensberry (grandfather of the 1st Marquess). Hope that explains things. Proteus (Talk) 20:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)