Marquessate of Dorchester

The Marquessate of Dorchester is an hereditary title in the Peerage of England, created after the Battle of Ramilies in the war of the Spanish Succession. The title and its subsidiary title of the Earldom of Thropton are held by the Shaftoe family, of whom the younger son Primrose Shaftoe is an officer in the Coldstream Guards in Spain.