Steuart Baronets

Three baronetcies were given to three brothers, the first, fourth, and seventh of the seven sons of Sir James Steuart, knight, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who died in 1681. (In one case, reliable sources differ; see below.)

Contents

Family

The following table is incomplete, including only the holders of the three Steuart baronetcies and their immediate ancestors.

All three baronetcies are dormant, and probably extinct. If, however, there is a cadet branch of the family of Allanbank, they would have inherited the Allanbank title in 1849 and the other two in 1851.

Notes

Coltness

These men are conventionally referred to, in the Scottish manner, by the names of their estates. The baronetcies are also distinguished by the estates of the original grantee. These do not agree because the second baronet of Coltness sold the estate of Coltness, near Edinburgh, to his uncle, the Lord Advocate.

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th baronets of that line, since they had no estate, did not use their title.

Denham

The 6th baronet of Coltness, the last survivor of Sir Thomas's fourteen sons, inherited the Denham baronetcy and their estate of Westshield from his mother; he took the name of Denham, becoming Sir Archibald Steuart Denham.

On his death in 1773, the baronetcy of Coltness passed to his cousin, Sir James Steuart, already Baronet of Goodtrees. The Denham baronetcy and estate passed by entail to his nephew, the last surviving Denham heir. He, however, died in 1776, and left Westshield to the same Sir James Steuart, who thereupon took the name of Sir James Steuart Denham for the last four years of his life.

Goodtrees

Sources differ when, and for whom, the baronetcy of Goodtrees was created. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says it was created in 1695 for the Lord Advocate; the Complete Baronetage says it was created for his son, the future Solicitor-General, on the occasion of the son's marriage in 1705. The Lord Advocate was Sir James Steuart in either case, having been knighted; the chief effect of this is to change the numbering of the Goodtrees baronets.

The 2nd or 3rd Goodtrees baronet sold the estate of Goodtrees after he returned from France in 1766.

See also

References

  1. ^ Complete Baronetage, p. 375ff
  2. ^ Complete Baronetage, pp. 375ff, 435
  3. ^ Complete Baronetage, p. 353

External links

Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets