There has been one baronetcy granted to the Lauder family. The baronetcy of Lauder of Fountainhall, Haddingtonshire, was created for John Lauder, last surviving male representative of the Lauders of that Ilk, a rich merchant-burgess and sometime Treasurer and baillie of the City of Edinburgh, and an armiger. He purchased the estate of Newington, Edinburgh, and subsequently the lands of Woodhead and Templehall near Pencaitland, which along with others in Edinburghshire and Haddingtonshire, were erected by Crown charter into the feudal barony of Fountainhall on 13 August 1681. John Lauder was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 17 July 1688. The first Letters Patent was successfully contested by his eldest surviving son, Lord Fountainhall, and "reduced", and a second Patent with a new destination issued, dated 25 January 1690; the first Patent was formally annulled in 1692.
Sir George William Dalrymple Dick-Lauder, 10th Baronet
Sir John North Dalrymple Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet
Sir George Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet
Sir Piers Robert Dick Lauder, 13th Baronet, born 3 October 1947 at Nicosia, Cyprus, where his father was an officer serving in the British Army. From 1974 until 2006, Lauder was a programmer and Computer Systems Officer in the Basser Department of Computer Science at Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia. His main interests are in the areas of networking and operating systems. With Judy Kay he co-authored the Fair Share Scheduler, now being sold by Aurema under the name "ARMTechShareExpress". With Professor Robert Kummerfeld he co-authored the Message Handling Systems network used, amongst others, by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Professor Kummerfeld and Piers Lauder were jointly elected to the Australian Internet Hall of Fame in 1998. Sir Piers Lauder is a founding member of AUUG, the Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group. He has twice been appointed Programme Chairman at AUUG Conferences in Sydney and has taken leave from the university to work overseas on three separate occasions, twice at the invitation of Bell Laboratories to work in the lab that originated UNIX, and once at the invitation of UUNET to work in the burgeoning ISP business. He is an enthusiastic proponent of the Python programming language. He has, by his partner Jane Elix, a natural child, Angus Thomas Lauder Elix. They also have a foster-daughter, Akira Crease. By coincidence, the great-great-grandmother of Sir Harry Lauder was Janet, daughter of William Crease.
The heir presumptive to the baronetcy is Mark Andrew Dick Lauder, second and youngest son of the 12th Baronet. He was born in Berlin at the British Military Hospital. His heir apparent is his only son, Martin Dick-Lauder.
Quarterly: for Lauder, 1st and 4th: Gules, a griffin rampant within a bordure, Argent; and for Dick, 2nd and 3rd Argent, a fesse, wavy, Azure, between three mullets, Gules.
Crests
1st, a tower, with portcullis down, and the head and shoulders of a sentinel appearing above the battlements, in a watching posture, Proper; 2nd A stag’s head, erased, Proper, attired, Or.
