Viscount Stonehaven, of Ury in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1938 for the Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician and former Governor General of Australia, John Baird, 1st Baron Stonehaven

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL , known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth...

. He had already been created Baron Stonehaven, of Ury in the County of Kincardine, in 1925. The Baird Baronetcy of Urie, had been created in 1897 for his father Alexander Baird

Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet

Sir Alexander Baird of Ury, 1st Baronet, GBE was Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1889 to 1918 and later served as president of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt....

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The first Viscount married Lady Ethel Sydney Keith, daughter of Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore

Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore

Algernon Hawkins Thogond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore PC, GCMG, was a British politician and colonial governor.-Biography:...

, who in 1966 succeeded her younger brother as 12th Countess of Kintore. Their son James Ian Keith succeeded to his father's titles in 1941 and to his mother's titles in 1974. The baronetcy, barony and viscountcy of Stonehaven are now subsidiary titles of the Earldom of Kintore

Earl of Kintore

Earl of Kintore is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1677 for Sir John Keith, third son of William Keith, 6th Earl Marischal . He was made Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland...

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Baronets of Urie (8 March 1897)

• Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet
  Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet
  Sir Alexander Baird of Ury, 1st Baronet, GBE was Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1889 to 1918 and later served as president of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt....
  
   (1849–1920)
• Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet
  John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
  John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL , known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth...
  
   (1874–1941) (created Viscount Stonehaven in 1938)

Viscounts Stonehaven (1938)

• John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
  John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
  John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL , known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth...
  
   (1874–1941)
• James Ian Keith, 2nd Viscount Stonehaven (1908–1989) (succeeded as 12th Earl of Kintore in 1974)
• Michael Canning William John Keith, 13th Earl of Kintore, 3rd Viscount Stonehaven (1939–2004)
• James William Falconer Keith, 14th Earl of Kintore, 4th Viscount Stonehaven (b. 1976)

The heir presumptive to the viscountcy is Hon Alexander David Baird (Keith) (b. 1946)