Ayrshire, under the name the County of Ayr, is a registration county.

In 1912 Beale was created a baronet, of Drumlanford in the County of Ayr.

Paterson, James (1899), History of the County of Ayr with a Genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire.

He obtained the traditional life peerage, taking the title Baron Morton of Henryton, of Henryton, in the County of Ayr.

Baron Glenarthur, of Carlung in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He had already been created a baronet, of Carlung in the County of Ayr, on 10 January 1903.

In 1961 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Fleck, of Saltcoats in the County of Ayr.

Moore was created a Baronet, of Kyleburn in the County of Ayr, in 1956.

Paterson, James, History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton.

Thomas Boyd, son of Bryce, was a Commissioner of Supply for the County of Ayr in 1695 and 1703.