Earl Glasgow, Peerage of Scotland 1703

Arms: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, or, an eagle displayed, with two heads, gules (a coat of augmentation); 2nd and 3rd, per bend, embattled, argent and gules (for Boyle); over all an escutcheon, or, charged with three stags' horns, erect, gules, two and one (for the paternal coat of Boyle of Kelburne).

Crest: An Eagle, displayed, with two heads, per pale embattled gules and argent.

Supporters: Dexter, a savage, wreathed about the loins, holding in the dexter hand a branch of laurel, all proper; Sinister, a lion, per pale, embattled argent and gules.

According to Burke's Peerage: "Although documentary evidence is lacking, it is probable that the ancestors of this family have held their lands of Kelburn since the 12th century."

David Boyle was raised to the Peerage of Scotland, in 1699, as Lord Boyle of Kelburn, &c. Lord Boyle was was one of the commissioners appointed to affect the treaty of union between England and Scotland. Then, in 1703, Lord Boyle was advanced in the Peerage of Scotland as Earl of Glasgow, Viscount Kelburn, and Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, &c.

George, 4th Earl of Glasgow, was was created Baron Ross in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1815. This was a fairly common practice often done to allow Scottish and Irish Peers a permanent seat in the House of Lords. The Ross Barony fell extinct in 1890 when the Earldom passed to a distant cousin.

David, 7th Earl of Glasgow was created Baron Fairlie, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1897 (likely again so as to secure a seat in the House of Lords).

David William Maurice Boyle, 9th Earl of Glasgow, served in World War II and was present at both Dunkirk and at the sinking of the German Battleship Bismark.

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