The title Duke of Atholl was created several times in British history. Queen Anne created the present title in 1703.
The Duke holds numerous subsidiary titles. These include: Marquess of Atholl (created 1676), Marquess of Tullibardine (1703), Earl of Atholl (1629), Earl of Tullibardine (1606 and 1676), Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle (1703), Viscount of Balquhidder (1676), Lord Murray of Tullibardine (1604), Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask (1676) and Baron Percy (1722). The Barony of Percy forms part of the peerage of Great Britain; all other titles belong in the peerage of Scotland. The Duke's eldest son and heir has the courtesy title of Marquess of Tullibardine. Before 1963, the Duke of Atholl had the dubious honour of being the highest ranking peer without a seat in the House of Lords. The holder of the title also commands the only legal private army in Europe, the Atholl Highlanders.
David of Strathbogie, 10th Earl of Atholl (d. 1326)
David of Strathbogie, 11th Earl of Atholl (1309–1335)
David of Strathbogie, 12th Earl of Atholl (1332–1369)
(Only in England did the last three Earls listed above gain recognition as Earls of Atholl; the Kings of Scots during this period considered the title forfeited.)
Heir Apparent: Bruce George Ronald Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine (b. April 6, 1960) Lord Tullibardine's Heir Apparent: Michael Bruce John Murray, Earl of Strathtay (b. March 5, 1985)
The earl accordingly surrendered the title of Earl of Tullibardine into the king's hands, 1st April 1626, to be conferred on his brother Sir Patrick Murray as a separate dignity, but before the patents could be issued, his lordship died the same year.
This Earl of Athole was a zealous royalist, and joined the association formed by the Earl of Montrose for the king at Cumbernauld, in January 1641.
Sir David Murray, 6th of Tullibardine had ten sons: William succeeded as 7th Laird; and Patrick was ancestor of the Earls of Dysart, the Murray baronets of Ochtertyre and the Earls of Mansfield (whose family seat is Scone Pal ace).
The Earl married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Buchan and is said to have died in 1442.
The Earl’s second wife was apparently Fingole, daughter of William of Calder, Thane of Cawdor, widow of John Monro of Fowlis, who died in or before 1591, a divorce between her and the Earl was being prepared in 1497-98 and he married thirdly Catherine, named Countess of Sutherland in 1509-12.
John son of John and ninth Earl of Sutherland, at an early age was taken with his father in the presence of King James IV in 1493 and succeeded in 1508 as ward of the Crown, the Earldom being administered by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness.
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