1. The 5th Duke and 23rd Earl of Sutherland died without issue. The earldom went to his niece, Mrs Elizabeth Janson, by right of primogeniture and inheritance through the female line. The dukedom, which had no such recognition of women’s rights, passed to a collateral male descendant of the first duke. Thus, for the first time in two centuries, there was once more a Countess of Sutherland in her own right.

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2. Looking Back, the Autobiography of the Duke of Sutherland, London, 1957.

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