SCOTTISH TITLES

Evening Post, Volume CVIV, Issue 2, 3 January 1925, Page 7

SCOTTISH TITLES

CLAIMANT'S LAST GESTURE I HOUSE NOW PURELY ITALIAN. -. (ONIIED PHE9S ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ' LONDON, Ist January. Mr. H. W. Colclough, aged 67, a retired rope manufacturer, who had spent years in trying to prove his claim to th 6 Earldom of Newburgh, is dead. He was buried at Manchester in a coffin inscribed,- "The Right Honourable Herbert' Wynward Colclough, eleventh Earl of Newburgh, Viscount of Kynnaird, and Baron Levingstone."

The present holder of the three titles claimed by the late Mr. Colclough is described in Whitaker's ■ "Peerage" asthe ninth Earl. Though the titles are Scottish, the holder is an Italian, Prince Giustiniani-Bandini, who succeeded his father in 1908. The latter was the first Prince of the family, and the title of Prince, granted by the Papal States. was in part a revival of an older title. The present Earl,, though, the second Pnnce Giustiniani-Bandini, is the eighth Prince Giustiniani, and the fifth Marquess Bandini. The Scottish titles descended to him through his mother, her father having been sixth Earl of Newburgh. The fact that the seventh Countass married an Italian accounts for the line having become, as the "Peerage" remarks, "what it is now—distinctly foreign." The Earldom will pass to the present holder's daughter. In the list of the family there is only \ one English name. . There are six sisters of the Earl; and the second youngest of these, Lady Maria Isabel, 13 the wife of Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador in Washington.