House of Howard Earls of Arundel in the 4th quarter. Earl Marshal is a hereditary royal officeholder and chivalric title under the sovereign of the United Kingdom used in England (then, following the Act of Union 1800, in the United Kingdom). It is the eighth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Constable and above the Lord High Admiral. The Earl Marshal has responsibility for the organisation of State funerals and the monarch's coronation in Westminster Abbey. He is also a leading officer of arms. The office is hereditary in the Howard Family in their
Earl of Mansfield Margaret Thatcher as a Minister of State at the Scottish Office from 1979 to 1983 and at the Northern Ireland Office from 1983 to 1984. The family seat is Scone Palace, near Scone, Perthshire. Lord Mansfield, the Earl of Mansfield, is the Hereditary Keeper of Bruce’s Castle of Lochmaben The heir apparent is the present holder's son William Philip David Mungo Murray, Viscount of Stormont (b. 1988). William David Murray and his heirs (as Earls of Mansfield and Mansfield) are identical with Earls of Mansfield, County of Middlesex. Earl of Mansfield Earl of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, and