A DNA test showed a baronet's grandfather was not his father's son, and the Privy Council gave the title to a cousin

Sir Norman Hamilton Pringle was born on 13 May 1903, seven months after his parents married on 16 October 1902. He inherited the Pringle of Stichill baronetcy as a teenager in 1919 from Sir Norman Robert Pringle, 8th Baronet, and died in 1961. His son, Lieutenant-General Sir Steuart Pringle, a former commandant general of the Royal Marines who lost a leg in an IRA car bomb in 1981^†, held the title until he died in 2013. His eldest son Simon claimed it. A cousin, Murray Pringle, an accountant born in 1941, opposed him. Murray had collected DNA samples in a project to identify the clan chief. The results showed Sir Steuart was not genetically related to the rest of the Pringles. The Crown referred the dispute to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council under the Judicial Committee Act 1833. After hearings in November 2015 and January 2016, seven judges ruled on 20 June 2016 ([2016] UKPC 16). They found Norman Hamilton Pringle was, with a high degree of probability, fathered by someone other than the 8th Baronet. Lord Hodge wrote that it was not for the Board to express any view on social policy. On 27 June 2016 Murray's father Ronald, who had died in 1968, was entered on the Official Roll as 9th Baronet and Murray as 10th. In 2026 Sir Murray holds the title, and his heir is his son Alastair, born 1972.