Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
Just want to point out that we have a Baron on this forum who purchased his title, and whom I've known for decades. We first met during the Vietnam war when we were in different branches of American military service, he being in the Army and I being a Marine. I later fell to the Dark Side and got an Army commission, and at one point we ended up serving as officers in the same unit for several years.

Anyway, I can state unequivocally that most of the above description does not apply to him. The Barony was originally associated with his clan. He's passionate about it, and uses the name and his personal funds to support sanctuaries and other conservation efforts for endangered and exploited animals. He is a person of all-too-rare integrity who gives, materially, far more than anything he gets in prestige from being a Scottish Baron.
I dont think we even mentioned the purchase of Scottish Feudal Baronies which can indeed be purchased, if you have a spare £50,000 + and is the only title that can be, although since the abolition of feudal tenure in 2004 they are no longer attached to the land and no longer listed in the Land Registry of Scotland.