The Mar Case reprint listed at the head of the list below is an authoritative, concise and utterly pellucid account of the events surrounding the retrospective creation of the 1565 earldom.

Doubleday, The Mar Case, reprinted from The Complete Peerage, Vol.IX, 1936
Doubleday, The Complete Peerage, Vol.VIII, 1932
The Scots Peerage, Vol. V, 1908
The Earldom of Mar in Sunshine and Shade, 2 vols.  Earl of Crawford, 1882
The Province of Mar, W. Douglas Simpson, Aberdeen University Press, 1943
The Earldom of Mar, W. Douglas Simpson, Aberdeen University Press, 1949
Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage, 2008
Burke’s Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Vol. 1, 2001
Cracroft’s Peerage online

We are grateful to Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, editor of Cracroft’s Peerage.  His website, which runs to over 3000 pages, is an invaluable source of information on peerages and baronetcies.  See website link below.   

LINKS

Cracroft’s Peerage  www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk
Court of the Lord Lyon  www.lyon-court.com
Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage  www.debretts.com
Burke’s Peerage    www.burkespeerage.com

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The digital image of Lady Mar’s arms was produced by A & M Sproson Picture Framers, St. Andrews, Scotland, who also mounted and framed the original painting by Mark Dennis, Ormond Pursuivant of Arms.

We would like to hear from anyone that we have so far been unable to contact regarding reproduction of photographs.  We wish to give full acknowledgement wherever appropriate or to remove an image if required.