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William
Robert Bontine
Cunninghame Graham of
Gartmore,
Baron of Gartmore, BSc
(Hons), MSc, MA, FSA
Scot
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 12th October
2011. Registration No.
0203. (Vol.2) (Lordship
& Barony Register)
Arms:
Quarterly; 1st & 4th
Or, a pale Gules charged
with a crescent Argent,
on a chief Sable three
escallops of the First;
2nd Or, a fesse chequay
Azure and Argent, in
chief a chevron Gules;
3rd Argent, a shakefork
Sable
Crest:
An eagle displayed
holding in his dexter
talon a sword in pale
proper.
Supporters:
Two lions
rampant guardant proper
armed and langued Gules.
Standard:
The crest is depicted
three times upon a
standard four yards
(3.675m) in length with
the arms in the hoist,
of these liveries, Or,
Sable and Or, along with
two spurge laurel leaves
in the fly, and the
motto in letter Argent
on two transverse bands
Gule
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Matriculation: Court of the Lord Lyon
(re-matriculation
of 1772 arms)
dated 17th
January 1972.
The
armiger is a
direct
descendent of
Malise, 1st Earl
of Menteith
(grandson of
David, Earl of
Strathern - the
eldest son of
Robert II by his
second wife)
through his
eldest son, John
Graham of Port
& Monvrachy,
from his second
marriage; and
also a
descendant of
William, 12th
Earl of
Glencairn,
through his
eldest daughter,
Lady Margaret
Cunningham. From
his paternal
great-grandmother
he can claim
descent from
Henry VII of
England through
his daughter,
Mary, Dowager
Queen of France,
and from James
V’s illegitimate
son, James, Earl
of Moray,
through his
paternal
grandmother.
The family
succeeded to the
feudal barony of
Gartmore in the
17th century;
and following
the death of the
last Bontine
male heir in
1770, inherited
the Bontine
estates and
feudal barony of
Ardoch. The
family, to meet
the requirements
of the Bontine
entail, became
the only
non-peerage
family to have a
different
surname from
their father,
using the
Bontine name,
arms and the
designation of
Ardoch until
their father’s
death, when they
reverted to
Graham of
Gartmore. In
recent years the
family have
taken to adding
the Bontine to
the middle of
the name on
succeeding.
Following the
death of John
15th (and last)
Earl of
Glencairn in
1796, Robert
Graham of
Gartmore (poet
and Whig MP) -
who was Lord
Rector of
Glasgow
University
between Edmund
Burke and Adam
Smith -
inherited the
Finlaystone
Estates under an
entail of
William, 12th
Earl, that
required him to
assume the name
and arms of
Cunninghame. The
family used the
two sets of arms
side by side for
more than 175
years and
continue to use
the two names
side by side
without
hyphenation.
The most famous
Graham of
Gartmore was R B
(Don Roberto)
Cunninghame
Graham, who was
variously a
gaucho in
Argentina, the
first openly
socialist MP and
first President
of both the
Scottish Labour
Party and the
National Party
for Scotland, as
well as a
prolific author.
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The
current arms
were
matriculated by
his nephew and
heir, Admiral
Sir Angus Edward
Malise Bontine
Cunninghame
Graham, KBE CB,
JP, FRGS, who
following 47
years in the
Royal Navy,
retired as Flag
Officer
Scotland, and
was subsequently
Lord Lieutenant
of
Dunbartonshire
(1955 – 1968)
and the first
naval officer to
be Keeper of
Dumbarton Castle
(1955 – 1981).
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