“Imagined revenge for the Clearances and the totem abolition of private lairdship is the prevailing fantasy on The Mound.”

“Then came a career switch to stand-up comedy, TV acting, movie roles and, finally, the lairdship of Candacraig.”

“But it is getting ever harder to take his lairdship seriously.”

“What most people seem to really want is a kind and benevolent laird with a can-do attitude and deep pockets.”

“As baronies survived after 1747, it is still possible to buy laird status with an estate which is a barony.”

“Then along came the man she thought she would be spending the rest of her life with, dashing Scottish laird Archie Stirling.”

“Lairds may come and lairds may go, but the long-running BBC series Monarch of the Glen has retained its setting at the heart of Badenoch.”

“In 1427, James I of Scotland passed an Act requiring all lairds to seek out and destroy wolves.”

“Whenever the local lairds tried to graze their beasts on the Selkirk commons hundreds of folk would turn out to drive them off.”