The title Earl of Kintore was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1677 for Sir John Keith, along with the title of Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall. At the death of William, the fourth Earl, in 1761 the earldom became dormant as no-one could prove a claim to it. In 1778, it was decided that the earldom should pass to Anthony Adrian Falconer, Lord Falconer of Halkerton, who changed his surname to Keith-Falconer. The Lordship of Falconer of Halkerton and the Earldom of Kintore remained united until 1966, when, at the death of the tenth Earl, the Lordship became dormant. The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. ...
The eleventh holder of the title, Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer, married John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven. At the death of Lord Stonehaven, the titles Viscount Stonehaven (created 1938), and Baron Stonehaven (1925), both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, passed to the couple's son, James, who later changed his name to Keith upon inheriting his mother's title. The Rt Hon. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...
In 1651 the 7th Earl Marischal removed the Regalia of Scotland to Dunnottar for safety, but when the castle was besieged by the English the priceless relics were hidden in the nearby church of Kinnedd.
During the reformation the 7th Earl was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London until the restoration.
The 9th Earl of Kintore, Governor General of South Australia from 1889 to 1895, decimated the Kintore estates.
Kintore forms one of the Elgin group of parliamentary burghs, the others being Banff, Cullen, Elgin, Inverurie and Peterhead.
One mile to the southwest are the ruins of Hallforest Castle, of which two storeys still exist, once a hunting-seat of Robert Bruce and afterwards a residence of the Keiths, earls marischal.
Kintore gives the title of earl in the Scottish, and of baron in the British peerage to the head of the Keith-Falconer family.
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