Hail to the Chief of Clan Scott

[freddie]

There is a Clan Douglas to which the actual heir is the Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 16th Duke of Hamilton who is Chief of Clan Hamilton and is not allowed to be the actual Douglas Chief since the Lord Lyon King of Arms requires him to assume the single name Douglas. I assume that if he were to do so then his Chieftainship of Clan Hamilton would be then affected.

I thought the Earl of Home, presently David Douglas-Home, had precedence over the Douglas-Hamilton line, as Elisabeth Countess of Home was the elder sister at the time of the death of the last Lord Douglas (her Father). Her younger sister married into the Hamilton family.