Quote Originally Posted by EagleJCS;720328Also, the current Chief of Clan Scott, His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, has apparently elected - I don't know for certain, it hasn't been announced to the Society - to use the Buccleuch title as his family name (i.e. Richard Buccleuch). The late Duke preferred 'Scott' as his family name, although he was also known as 'Johnny Dalkeith', as Lord Dalkeith was his courtesy title until [I
his[/I] father passed away.
It is usual--and the law--that peers of the Realm sign their name with the title only; hence the Duke would sign his name simply as "Buccleuch." I doubt very much that the late Duke of Buccleuch signed anything "Scott" or "Dalkeith," except the latter when he had not inherited and went by the courtesy title of the Earl of Dalkeith. The "family name" is Scott.