Lauder Modern
This surname is a territorial one derived from the lands of Lauder in Berwickshire. The Lauders were of Norman descent. They possessed the Bass Rock, in the Firth of Forth, in the 13th century. Sir Robert de Lauder was Justicar of the Lothians in 1323, and his son possessed the Quarrelwood estate in Nairnshire. William Lauder, Bishop of Glasgow, was Chancellor of Scotland in 1423. John Lauder of Newington was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1688 and his son, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, was appointed on of the Senators of the College of Justice in 1689.
