The title Earl of Glasgow was bestowed on David Boyle, Lord Boyle, one of the commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union uniting England and Scotland into Great Britain.
The titles held by the Earl are: Viscount of Kelburn (created 1703), Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry (1699), Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry (1703) and Baron Fairlie (1897). The earldom and all subsidiary titles are in the Peerage of Scotland, except that the barony of Fairlie is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Rear Admiral the Right Honourable Sir David Boyle, GCMG, was created BaronFairlie, of Fairlie, in the county of Ayr, in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1897.
The first Lord Fairlie is notable for having resigned as Governor of New Zealand in 1897 when he found himself unable to live on the salary.
The arms of Lord Fairlie, properly called the Earl of Glasgow (this being the senior title), reflect his family background, but also a distinguished office once held by a member of the family.
He was, in one critic's view, petulant, malicious, rash, and inclined to "fits of execrating every body and every thing." Accustomed by character and profession to being obeyed, he was increasingly frustrated by the more consultative and legalistic style of Virginia's political leadership and to local society's growing resistance to the revolutionary struggle.
Then there was the case of the well-dressed colonel of a local militia who rode into camp and announced to Steuben that he had brought a recruit (which made the colonel eligible for a bounty).
Before entering, the baron issued orders demanding the highest vigilance: "Soldiers are not allowed to lay down in the night but [should] remain as in the daytime with their arms in their hands.
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