Dundas family, Marquesses of Zetland

Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st baronet (d. 1781), a younger son of Thomas Dundas of Fingask (Perthshire) was Commissary-General and contractor to the army, 1748-59, and made extensive purchases of land. By 1770 he had acquired estates in the North Riding of Yorkshire (Aske, near Richmond, and Marske, in Cleveland) from the Darcy and Lowther families respectively, the Hope estate (Kerse etc.) in Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire, the Ballinbreich (Fife) lands of the Earls of Rothes, and the Orkney and Shetland estates of the Earls of Morton (see Douglas, Earls of Morton). Other estates, sold by 1883, included property in Surrey, Hertfordshire (Moor Park, acquired 1763, sold 1788), Ireland and the West Indies. His son was created Baron Dundas of Aske in 1794, and his grandson Earl of Zetland in 1838. The 3rd Earl was created Marquess of Zetland in 1892.

Estates in 1883: 11,614 acres in North Riding of Yorkshire; 5,566 acres in Fife; 4,656 acres in Stirlingshire; 2,726 acres in Clackmannanshire; 162 acres in Dunbartonshire; 29,846 acres in Orkney; 13,600 acres in Shetland; worth a total of £49,324 a year exclusive of mineral rights.