The office of Knight Marischal was first created for the ScottishcoronationofCharles I in 1633, at Scone. Unlike the separate office of Marischal, the office of Knight Marischal is not heritable, and has continued to be filled up to the death of the 11th Duke of Hamilton in 1863. The office is vacant but has not been abolished.
At the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715, the Knight Marischal was a Keith, and with his kinsman George, the 10th Earl Marischal, was in rebellion. However, as the office is non-heritable, it could not be forfeited, although the holder was stripped of office.
The salary attached to the post was £400 in 1660.[1] The Public Offices (Scotland) Act 1817 provided that no person thereafter appointed as Knight Marshall should receive a salary.[2]
^The Scott Newsletter. Department of English, University of Aberdeen. 1982. p. 15. Retrieved 30 April 2019. ... refers directly to the appointment of Alexander Keith as Knight Marischal, which was gazetted on 22 July 1819, it seems reasonable ...
^MacVeigh, J. (1889). Dal-Mac. The Scottish Nation: Or, The Historical and Genealogical Account of All Scottish Families and Surnames. p. 588. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^Doyle, J.E. (1886). Abercon-Fortescue. The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations (in Spanish). Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 217. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
