The Much Honoured (abbreviated to The Much Hon.) is an honorificstyle applied to various minor nobles in Scotland, including Scots barons.
The Much Honoured Cameron of Lochiel, an example of a hereditary clan chief, feudal baron and laird who is styled thus[2]
^Ruling of the Court of the Lord Lyon (26 February 1948, Vol. IV, page 26): "With regard to the words 'untitled nobility' employed in certain recent birthbrieves in relation to the (Minor) Baronage of Scotland, Finds and Declares that the (Minor) Barons of Scotland are, and have been both in this nobiliary Court and in the Court of Session recognised as a 'titled nobility' and that the estait of the Baronage (i.e. Barones Minores) are of the ancient Feudal Nobility of Scotland".