Baron Ross
| Earldom of Glasgow | |
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Quarterly, 1st and 4th: or a double headed eagle displayed gules, armed and beaked azure; 2nd and 3rd: parted per bend embattled argent and gules; over all an escutcheon or, charged with three stag's horns gules
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| Creation date | 12 April 1703 |
| Monarch | George II of Great Britain |
| Peerage | Peerage of Scotland |
| First holder | David Boyle, Lord Boyle |
| Present holder | Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow |
| Heir apparent | David Boyle, Viscount of Kelburn |
| Remainder to | Heirs male of the first earl's body lawfully begotten |
| Subsidiary titles | Viscount of Kelburn Baron Fairlie Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry |
| Seat(s) | Kelburn Castle |
| Former seat(s) | Stanely Castle |
| Armorial motto | Dominus providebit ("The Lord will provide") |
Earl of Glasgow is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for David Boyle, Lord Boyle. The Earl of Glasgow is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Boyle.
The first earl was subsequently one of the commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union uniting the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. He had already been created Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbrae, Finnick, Largs and Dalry in 1699, and was made Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Fenwick, Largs and Dalry and Viscount of Kelburn at the same time as he was granted the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of Scotland.
The fourth Earl was created Baron Ross, of Hawkhead in the County of Renfrew, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, a title which became extinct on the death of the sixth Earl in 1890. The seventh Earl served as Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1897 and was created Baron Fairlie, of Fairlie in the County of Ayr, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1897.
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae and Sir James Fergusson, 8th Baronet were grandsons of the 7th Earl.
The family seat is Kelburn Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The heir apparent is the present holder's son David Michael Douglas Boyle, Viscount of Kelburn (b. 1978).
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