Sir Erie Drummond, as he was, had been so widely known that his sudden change of title and name takes "alittle time to realize. The Earldom of Perth to which his late brother succeeded as a remote cousin of the 14th holder of the title, is a 17th century creation, but its subsidiary titles go further back to the eleventh century, the oldest being that of Hereditary Thane of Lennox. In 1473 to that Thaneship was added the Hereditary Stewardship of Monteith and Strathearn. In 1488 the holder of those titles was made Lord Drummond of
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