Sir Alexander Craufurd, 1st Baronet (c. 1729 – 15 December 1797), of Kilbirney, was a Scottish baronet.
Early life
editCraufurd was born in c. 1729 at Kilwinning, Scotland. He was the son of Quintin Craufurd of Newark and Ann Robinson. His father was Justiciary Baillies for the West Seas of Scotland.[1] His younger brother, also named Quintin Craufurd, was an author who helped Queen Marie Antoinette escape in the Flight to Varennes.[2]
His paternal grandparents were James Craufurd of Newark Castle and Ann Kennedy (a daughter of Quentin Kennedy of Drummellane).[3] His paternal grandfather was merchant James Robinson of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland.[1]
Career
editCraufurd had sasine of the merkland of Pennyglen (near Maybole), "on a charter of adjudication by Thomas, Earl of Cassilis, dated 4th March 1762; and another of the threepenny lands of Wester Newark, forty penny land of Easter Newark, twenty penny land of Hillend, the lands of Drummelling, which are part of Hillend, all in Maybole parish, on a charter of adjudication from Chancery, dated 20th February 1762."[3] On the advice of his mother, he sold these lands to the Earl of Cassilis.[3]
He was created 1st Baronet Craufurd, of Kilbirney, Ayrshire on 8 June 1781.[4]
Personal life
editOn 30 May 1760, Craufurd was married to Jane Crokatt (d. 1794), daughter of James Crokatt of Luxborough House, Essex.[5] Together, they were the parents of:[1]
- Sir James Gregan-Craufurd, 2nd Baronet (1761–1839), who married Maria Theresa Gage, a daughter of Margaret Kemble Gage and Gen. Hon. Thomas Gage (a son of the Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage), in 1792;[1] he served as British Resident at Hamburg and Minister at Copenhagen.[6]
- Sir Charles Gregan Craufurd (1763–1821), a Lieutenant-General and MP for East Retford who married Anna Mary, widow of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, in 1800.[1]
- Robert Craufurd (1764–1812), a Major-General and MP for East Retford who married Mary Frances Holland, a daughter of Henry Holland of Hans Place, and granddaughter of the landscape designer Lancelot "Capability" Brown, in 1800.[1]
- Quintin Craufurd (b. 1767)[7]
- Daniel Craufurd (1768–c. 1810), who married Bridget Holland, also a daughter of Henry Holland, in 1798. He was lost at sea in c. 1810.[1]
Lady Craufurd died in 1794.[8] Sir Alexander died on 15 December 1797. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, James.[9]
Descendants
editThrough his son Daniel, he was a grandfather of Charlotte Anne Craufurd, who married Lt.-Col. Sir James John Fraser, 3rd Baronet, and after his death, Sir Ralph Howard, 1st Baronet, son of Hon. Hugh Howard (a son of the 1st Viscount Wicklow and 1st Countess of Wicklow).[7][10]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 946.
- ^ Rogister, J. M. J. (2004). "Craufurd, Quintinlocked (1743–1819)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6629. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c Paterson, James (1864). History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton. J. Stillie. p. 447. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "No. 12172". The London Gazette. 20 March 1781. p. 5.
- ^ Drawings, British Museum Department of Prints and; Howe, Edward Russell James Gambier (1903). Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. Order of the Trustees, Sold at the British Museum. p. 254. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT CRAUFURD". Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard. XLII (241). W. Mitchell: 225. 1898. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 538. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Burney, Fanny (13 October 2011). The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787. OUP Oxford. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-19-926280-9. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Betham, William (1804). The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings. Miller. p. 15. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Disraeli, Benjamin; Conacher, J. B.; Matthews, John; Gunn, John Alexander Wilson; Wiebe, M. G. (1 January 1982). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851. University of Toronto Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-8020-2927-0. Retrieved 17 April 2024.