{{Short description|Scottish peerage title}} {{Redirect|Lord Boyle}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox hereditary title | name = Earl of Glasgow | image = 150px<br />180px | image_size = | alt = | caption = ''Quarterly, 1st and 4th: or a double headed eagle displayed gules, armed and beaked azure; 2nd and 3rd: parted per bend embattled argent and gules; over all an escutcheon or, charged with three stag's horns gules'' | creation_date = 12 April 1703 | creation = | monarch = Anne of Scotland | peerage = Peerage of Scotland | baronetage = | first_holder = David Boyle, Lord Boyle | last_holder = | present_holder = Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow | heir_apparent = David Boyle, Viscount Kelburn{{sfn|Mosley|2003|p=1563}} | heir_presumptive = | remainder_to = Heirs male whatsoever<ref>{{cite book |last1=Balfour Paul |first1=James |title=The Scots Peerage |author-link=James Balfour Paul |date=1904 |publisher=D. Douglas |location=Edinburgh |page=202 |url=https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun04paul/page/202/mode/2up |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref> | subsidiary_titles = Viscount Kelburn<br />Baron Fairlie<br />Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry<br />Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry | status = | extinction_date = | family_seat = Kelburn Castle | former_seat = Stanely Castle | motto = ''Dominus providebit'' ("The Lord will provide"){{sfn|Mosley|2003|p=1563}} | footnotes = }} '''Earl of Glasgow''' is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for David Boyle, Lord Boyle.
The first earl was subsequently one of the commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union uniting the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. He had already been created '''Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry''' in 1699, and was made '''Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry''' and '''Viscount Kelburn''' at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of Scotland.
The fourth Earl was in 1815 created '''Baron Ross''', of Hawkhead in the County of Renfrew, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, a title that became extinct on the death of the sixth Earl in 1890. The seventh Earl served as Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1897 and was created '''Baron Fairlie''', of Fairlie in the County of Ayr, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1897.<ref>{{cite book |first=George E. |last=Cokayne |first2=Peter |last2=Vicary Gibbs |first3=Harry |last3=Doubleday |first4=Lord David |last4=Howard de Walden |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, extant, abeyant, dormant and extinct |volume=XIV |date=1958 }}</ref>
Brigadier Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, and journalist Sir James Fergusson, 8th Baronet, were both grandsons of the 7th Earl.{{sfn|Mosley|2003|p=1556}}
The Earl of Glasgow is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Boyle.
The family seat is Kelburn Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland.
==Earl of Glasgow (1703)== *David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow (1666–1733) *John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow (1688–1740) *John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (1714–1775) *George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow (1766–1843) (created '''Baron Ross''' [UK] in 1815) **John Boyle, Lord Boyle (1789–1818) *James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow (1792–1869) *George Frederick Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow (1825–1890) *David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow (1833–1915) (created '''Baron Fairlie''' [UK] in 1897) *Patrick James Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow (1874–1963) *David William Maurice Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow (1910–1984) *Patrick Robin Archibald Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow (born 1939)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son, David Michael Douglas Boyle, Viscount Kelburn (born 1978).{{sfn|Mosley|2003|p=1563}}
===Title succession chart=== {{chart top|width=100%|Title succession chart, Earls of Glasgow.}} {{tree chart/start|align=center}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | |DB1E|DB1E='''David Boyle<br />1st Earl of Glasgow'''<br />1666–1733}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | |!| }} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | |JB2E|JB2E='''John Boyle<br />{{nowrap|2nd Earl of Glasgow}}'''<br />1688–1740}} {{tree chart| |,|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|^|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|.| }} {{tree chart|JB3E| | | | | | | | | | | | | |RPB|JB3E='''John Boyle<br />{{nowrap|3rd Earl of Glasgow}}'''<br />1714–1775|RPB=Rev.<br />Patrick Boyle<br />1717–1798}} {{tree chart| |!| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |!| }} {{tree chart|border=0|BR| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |!| | |BR=''Baron Ross''<br />''(1815, UK)''}} {{tree chart|GB4E| | | | | | | | | | | | | |DBLB|GB4E='''George Boyle<br />4th Earl of Glasgow'''<br />1766–1843|DBLB=David Boyle<br />Lord Boyle<br />1772–1853}} {{tree chart| |)|-|-|-|v|-|-|-|v|-|-|-|.| | | |!| }} {{tree chart|JBLB| |JCB5E| |HWB| |GB6E| |PB|JBLB=John Boyle<br />Lord Boyle<br />1789–1818|JCB5E='''James Carr-Boyle<br />{{nowrap|5th Earl of Glasgow}}'''<br />1792–1869|HWB=Hon.<br />William Boyle<br />1802–1819|GB6E='''George Boyle<br />{{nowrap|6th Earl of Glasgow}}'''<br />1825–1890|PB=Patrick Boyle<br />1806–1874}} {{tree chart|border=0| | | | | | | | | | | | |BRX| | |!| | |BRX=''Ross barony extinct''}} {{tree chart|border=0| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |BF| | |BF=''Baron Fairlie''<br />''(1897, UK)''}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |DB7E|DB7E='''David Boyle<br />7th Earl of Glasgow'''<br />1833–1915}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |!| }} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |PB8E|PB8E='''Patrick Boyle<br />8th Earl of Glasgow'''<br />1874–1963}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |!| }} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |DB9E|DB9E='''David Boyle<br />9th Earl of Glasgow'''<br />1910–1984}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |!| }} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |PB10E|PB10E='''Patrick Boyle<br />{{nowrap|10th Earl of Glasgow}}'''<br />born 1939}} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |!| }} {{tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |DBVK|DBVK=David Boyle<br />Viscount Kelburn<br />born 1978}} {{tree chart/end}} {{chart bottom}}
==See also== *Clan Boyle
== References == {{Reflist|30em}}
===Sources=== * {{cite book |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood |publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |edition=107th |year=2003 |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}} * {{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921 |title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/402 |location=London |publisher=Dean & Son |page=402}}
{{Extant British earldoms}}
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