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Ian
James Young
AM, Baron of
Kilbirnie
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 30th May 2025.
Registration No. 0735
(Vol.5). (Lordship
& Barony Register)
Arms:
Argent, three piles
Sable on a chief of the
Last a Naval crown
between two annulets Or
and on the centre pile a
fleam of the Third.
Above
the Shield and from
which is pendant by
its proper riband the
Badge of a Member of
the Order of Australia
(Military Division) is
placed an Helm
befitting his degree
with a Mantling Sable
doubled Argent.
Crest:
A demi-lion rampant
issuant Gules holding a
sword point downwards in
the dexter paw Proper.
Motto:
Prudentia Curae.
Pennon:
120 centimetres in
length or thereby of two
tracts of the Liveries
Sable and Argent with
the Arms of the
Petitioner in the hoist
bearing his Motto
counterchanged.
Grant:
The Lord Lyon King of
Arms and registered on
14th December 2022
upon the 75th page of
the 94th Volume of The
Public Register of All
Arms and Bearings in
Scotland.
Artist:
Garry Millie.
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The
arms are based
on the Arms of
Peter Young of
Auldbar,
registered upon
the 226th page
of the 1st
Volume in 1672
and annotated
“which coat is
declared ye
paternal of the
name Young”. He
was the grandson
of Sir Peter
Young of Seaton
who was tutor to
King James VI of
Scotland.
Upon the centre
pile is a Naval
crown to signify
that the armiger
is a Naval
officer, and
below it is a
fleam, or
barber-surgeon’s
knife, to
signify that the
armiger is an
orthopaedic
surgeon. The
crest of a
demi-lion is
based on the
crest of Peter
Young of
Auldbar, with
the sword as an
emblem of
military honour
pointing
downwards to
represent peace,
rest, or the end
of conflict.
The armiger was
appointed as a
Member in the
Military
Division of the
Order of
Australia on
26th January
2019.
He is a Fellow
of the Royal
Australian
College of
General
Practitioners,
Fellow of the
Royal
Australasian
College of
Surgeons, Fellow
of the
Australian
Orthopaedic
Association,
Fellow of the
Royal College of
Surgeons of
Edinburgh, and a
Fellow of the
Society of
Antiquaries of
Scotland. He
holds the
degrees of
Bachelor of
Science, Doctor
of Medicine, and
Master of Health
Administration.
He has served as
an officer in
the Royal
Australian Navy
for over 25
years up to the
rank of Captain
and in the
Canadian Forces
for over 8
years.
The Dignity of
the Barony of
Kilbirnie was
registered in
the Scottish
Barony Register
on 12th
September 2024,
Volume 6 Folios
17-19. The Baron
of Kilbirnie was
recorded in the
Registry of
Scots Nobility
on 12th December
2024, Registry
No. 00713.
The Barony of
Kilbirnie is one
of three
baronies,
Kilbirnie,
Glengarnock and
Ladylands, that
form the parish
of Kilbirnie in
Ayrshire. The
earliest owners
were the
Barclays of
Ardrossan who
settled there in
the twelfth
century.
Kilbirnie was
erected as a
Barony by a
Charter of
Confirmation
recorded in the
Register of the
Great Seal of
Scotland dated
1st April 1600
by King James
VI. The barony
has been with
the Crawfurds,
the Lindsay
Crawfurds, the
Lindsays, the
Boyles (Earls of
Glasgow), and
the Cochranes.

The
Pennon of Ian
James Young AM,
Baron of
Kilbirnie
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