Talk:Lord Polwarth

succession

It's very curious that the title of 1690 passed to daughters while those of 1697 did not, all being in the Peerage of Scotland. Was there, during those few years, a change in the customary form of Scottish patents, from remainder to heirs general to remainder to heirs male?

Or did the first peerage have a special remainder? Meseems there are more instances where the later peerage survived by a special remainder when the earlier one went extinct. —Tamfang (talk) 22:16, 17 September 2014 (UTC)