Lay Priors

1595-1611
Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1611-1633
Colin Mackenzie, 2nd Lord Kintail, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1633-1649
Thomas Mackenzie of Kintail, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1649-1655
Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbet, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1655-1662
Sir George Mackenzie, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1662-1664
George Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, and Major George Bateman lay-Priors of Pluscarden.

 

1664-1687
Major George Bateman, sole lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1687-1709
James Grant of Grant, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1709-1763
William Duff of Dipple, later 1st Earl of Fife, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1763-1809
James, 2nd Earl of Fife, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1809-1811
Alexander, 3rd Earl of Fife, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1811-1857
James, 4th Earl of Fife, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1857-1879
James, 5th Earl of Fife, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

1879-1889
Alexander, 6th Earl & 1st Duke of Fife, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1889-1900
John Patrick, 3rd Marquess of Bute, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1896
Aelred Carlyle founds an Anglican Benedictine community.

 

1900-1945
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart, lay-Prior of Pluscarden.

 

1913
Abbot Aelred Carlyle and the monks of Caldey received into the Catholic Church.

1928
The monks of Caldey move to Prinknash

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