The Erskine baronetcy, of Cambo in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 20 August 1666 for Charles Erskine.[2] He was a younger brother of Alexander Erskine, 3rd Earl of Kellie.
The 2nd Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Fife.[3] The 8th Baronet succeeded to the earldom of Kellie in 1797. The baronetcy remained a subsidiary title of the earldom until the baronetcy's extinction in 1829, after the deaths of Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie and then his brother Methven in 1829.[2] The overlapping Erskine baronets of Cambo (second creation, 1821) was set up in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[4]
Erskine baronets, of Cambo (1666)
edit- Sir Charles Erskine, 1st Baronet (c. 1620–1677), Lord Lyon[2]
- Sir Alexander Erskine, 2nd Baronet (c. 1663–1727), Lord Lyon[2]
- Sir Charles Erskine, 3rd Baronet (died 1753), Bute Pursuivant then Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records[2][5]
- Sir John Erskine, 4th Baronet (died 1754)[2]
- Sir William Erskine, 5th Baronet (died 1780)[2]
- Sir Charles Erskine, 6th Baronet (died 1790)[2]
- Sir William Erskine, 7th Baronet (died 1791)[2]
- Sir Charles Erskine, 8th Baronet (1764–1799)[2]
See Earl of Kellie for further history.
Notes
edit- ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. London: Harrison & Sons. p. 329.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 255–256.
- ^ "Areskine (Erskine), Sir Alexander, 2nd Bt. (c.1663-1727), of Cambo, Fife., History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 212.
- ^ John H. Stevenson's Heraldry in Scotland (1914).