who d. s. p. at Lyons, 2d January 1790, when the title became EXTINCT. Arms-Gu. a lion rampant, reguardant, or. MOIR. In 1636 a BARONETCY of Nova Scotia was conferred on SIR EDWARD MOIR, of Longford, in the county of Nottingham. MONTGOMERY, OF SKELMORLIE. SIR ROBERT MONTGOMERY, of Skelmorlie, descended from George, second son of Sir Alexander Montgomery, of Ardrossan, first Lord Montgomery, was knighted by JAMES VI., and afterwards, in 1628, created a BARONET by CHARLES I. He m. Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, by whom he had a son, ROBERT, of whom afterwards. He died in 1651, after enjoying the estate of Selmorlie during a period of sixty-seven years. His son, ROBERT, younger, of Skelmorlie, m. Lady Mary 1. ROBERT, successor to his grandfather. 3. Margaret, m. to Sir James Halkett, bart., He died in the life-time of his father. Sir Robert was s. by his graudson, SIR ROBERT MONTGOMERY, second bart. of Skelmorlie, who m. Antonia, one of two daughters and coheirs of Sir James Scott, of Rossie, in Fife, and by her had four sons. SIR ROBERT MONTGOMERY, third baronet, of Skelmorlie, s. to the title and estates. He was governor of a garrison in Ireland, and died in August, 1731. Hem. Frances, eldest of the two daughters of Colonel Francis Stirling, of the family of Keir, and by her, who d. at Skelmorlie, 9th June, 1759, had three daughters, of whom afterwards. Sir Robert, d. in 1731, and was s. by his uncle, SIR HUGH MONTGOMERY, of Busbie, fourth baronet, of Skelmorlie, one of the first merchants in Glasgow, and provost of that city, which he represented in parliament. He was commissioner for the treaty of Union, and took an active part in the discussions that then ensued, opposing several of the clauses. Before his accession to the title, he had acquired the estate of Skelmorlie from his nephew, and made an entail of his extensive landed property in 1728. He m. Lilias, daughter of Peter Gemmil, merchant, and baillie, in Glasgow, by Christian, his wife, daughter of William Boyd, of the family of Portincross, but d. without issue, in 1735, when, in terms of the above settlement, he was s. by the eldest daughter of his nephew, Sir Robert, who, as above noticed, left three daughters, of whom the second and third d. unmarried; the eldest, LILIAS MONTGOMERY, of Skelmorlie, was served heir to her grand-uncle, the above Sir Hugh, on the 4th October, 1735, and m. in 1738, Alexander Montgomery, of Coilsfield, to whom she had a numerous issue, and d. in 1783. Her eldest son, Hugh Montgomery, succeeded his kinsman as twelfth EARL OF EGLINTON, Arms.-Az. three fleurs-de-lis, or. MOUAT, OF INGLISTOUN. The surname of MOUAT was anciently written in charters," de Monte Alto," ,"* as appears from the perambulation of the lands of Cleish, co. Fife, "per Michaelum de Monte alto et Philippum de Melgedrum, tunc justiciarios Scotiæ, anno 1252." There flourished many eminent families of the name,-the Mowats of Balquhollie, Inglistoun, &c. On the latter a baronetcy was conferred in 1664, but soon became EXTINCT. SIR ALEXANDER MOWAT, Baronet, of Inglistoun, bore for Arms.-Arg. a lion rampant, sa. armed gu, within a border of the second. MURE, OF ROWALLAN. The Mures of Polkelly, Rowallan, and Caldwell held, for a considerable period, a leading influence in North Britain, and the last-named branch, that of Caldwell, still continues in high repute in the shires of Renfrew and Ayr, represented by the present WILLIAM MURE, Esq., of Caldwell (See BURKE'S Commoners). In 1662, a Baronetcy was conferred on SIR PATRICK MURE, of Rowallan, but did not long endure. The heir female of the family, Jane, daughter and heir of William Mure, Esq., of Rowallan, m. David Boyle, first Earl of Glasgow, and d. 3rd September, 1724, having had two daughters, the younger, ANNE, d. unmarried, the elder, JANE, heir of Rowallan, m. Sir James Campbell, K.B., of Lawers, slain at Fontenoy, by whom she was mother of John, fifth Earl of Loudon. Arms.-Arg. on a bend az. three mullets of the first, within a border engrailed gu. MURRAY. Baronetcies, now extinct or dormant, were conferred on the following members of the family of Murray: SIR WILLIAM MURRAY, of Blebo, in 1637. From the same derivation comes the surname of Maude, in Yorkshire. That distinguished family was founded by EUSTACE DE MONTE ALTO, surnamed the Norman Hunter, one of the soldiers of the Conquest, in the immediate train of the Palatine Earl of Chester, the potent Hugh Lupus. At the present time, the representation vests in Cornwallis Maude, Viscount Hawarden, but many eminent families of the name (derived from the same common ancestor, Christopher Maude, Esq., of Holling Hall) still remain in the county of York, of which are FRANCIS MAUDE, Esq., Recorder of Doncaster; JOHN MAUDE, Esq., of Moor House, a magistrate and deputy lieutenant, author of an interesting work, "A Visit to the Falls of Niagara;" THOMAS HOLME MAUDE, Esq., of Kendal; WARREN MAUDE, Esq., of Sunnyside, &c." See BURKE'S "History of the Commoners." SIR RICHARD MURRAY, of Cockpool, in 1625. Sir Richard, who was elder brother of John Murray, Earl of Annandale, the favourite of King JAMES I., d. s. p., in 1636. SIR THOMAS MURRAY, of Glendoick, in 1676. Sir Thomas, who held the office of Clerk Register, was son of Sir Robert Murray, of Woodend, a scion of Murray of Auchtertyre, who derived from Tullebardine. The Murrays of Balmanno, also elevated to the Baronetage, at length became heirs male of this branch. SIR JOHN MURRAY, Bart., of Glendoick and Balmanno, m. 23rd July, 1703, Mary, daughter of Sir Patrick Murray, Bart., of Auchtertyre, and dying, 8th January, 1714, was s. by his son, SIR PATRICK MURRAY, Bart., of Balmanno, b. in 1706, who m., in 1751, Anne, eldest daughter of Alexander Hay, Esq., of Drummelzier, and dying in 1756, left a son and successor, SIR ALEXANDER MURRAY, Bart., of Balmanno, who d. s. p., in 1766, and was s. by his eldest sister, MARY, wife of John Hepburn Belsches, Esq., of Invermay. SIR WILLIAM MURRAY, of Dynnerne, in 1630. SIR JOHN MURRAY, of Arberinont, in 1631. MYRTON. SIR ANDREW MYRTON, of Gogar, co. Edinburgh, was created a BARONET in 1701. His eldest daughter, Euphame, b. in 1699, m. in 1720, William Earl of Dumfries and Stair, and d. 8th July, 1761, leaving issue. The heiress of the family, FRANCES, daughter of SIR ROBERT MYRTON, bart, of Gogar, m. in 1768, Sir William Augustus Cunynghame, bart. and was mother of the present SIR DAVID CUNYNGHAME, bart. of Milncraig, co. Ayr. SIR WILLIAM NAIRN, second Baronet, of Dunsinan, who m. Emilia Graham, and by her (who d. 14th December, 1767) he had two daughters (the elder m. Henry Smith, merchant in London, and the younger d. in 1768) and two sons, THOMAS and WILLIAM. Sir William d. at Scorn, in Perthshire, 26th June, 1754, and was s. by his son, SIR THOMAS NAIRN, third Baronet, of Dunsinan, who d. 14th December, 1760, having had issue, NORTON. SIR WALTER NORTON, of Chester, in the county of Suffolk, obtained a BARONETCY of Nova Scotia in 1635. PIERS. SIR THOMAS PIERS, of Stonepit, in the county of Kent, who was created a BARONET in 1638, died 7th April, 1680, and was buried at Stonepit. He m. 1st, Jane, daughter of Sir James Oxenden, knt, of Deane, by whom he had Thomas, Margaret, and Jane; and 2dly, Awdry, daughter of Sir Edward Master, knt. of Canterbury, by whom he had Edward, Richard, Streynsham, and Martha. His grandson, SIR GEORGE PIERS, baronet, of Stonepit, d. 7th May, 1720, aged fifty. After his decease, Stonepit was sold to Richard Goodhugh, esq. and subsequently passed by a female heir, Sarah, to Richard Round, esq. POLLOCK, OF THAT ILK. SIR ROBERT POLLOCK, of that Ilk, in the shire of Renfrew, M. P. for that county, and representative of one of its oldest families, was created a BARONET in 1703. By Annabel, his second wife, daughter of Walter Stewart, of Pardovan, he had, with three daugh ters, Elizabeth, m. to Hamilton of Grange, Jean, wife of James Pollock, esq. of Arthurlie, and Annabella, m. to James Hamilton, of Newton, four sons. of whom the eldest died v. p. unm. The second, Walter, who also predeceased his father, left a son, SIR ROBERT POLLOCK, second Baronet, whom. Anne Crawford, of the Jordan family, and had a daughter, Cornelia. Arms-Vert, a saltier gu. between three bugles or, stringed of the second. PATERSON, OF BANNOCKBURN. SIR HUGH PATERSON, of Bannockburn, was created a BARONET in 1686, but the title is long EXTINCT. Arms Arg. three pelicans vulned, gu. on a chief embattled, az. as many mullets of the field. PICKERING, of TICHMARSH. SIR GILBERT PICKERING, of Tichmarsh, in the county of Northampton, eldest son of Sir John Pickering, of Tichmarsh, by Susannah, his wife, daughter of Sir Erasmus Dryden, bart., was created a BAROSET. He m. Elizabeth, sister of Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, and left, with other issue, a son and suc cessor, SIR JOHN PICKERING, second Baronet, b. in 1640, m. Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Alston, of Odell in Bedfordshire, bart. and by her he had issue, I. GILBERT, b. in 1670, eleven years of age at the Restoration, 1681. 11. John, who d. an infant. Robina, only child of Captain John Pollock, of Balgray, by Anne, his wife, daughter of John Lockhart, esq. of Lee, m. Sir Hew Crawfurd, bart. of Jordan Hill, and was mother of Sir Robert Crawfurd Pollock, bart. of Pollock and Kilbirnie. THE surname of Prettyman is of considerable antiquity in the county of Suffolk, where it is to be met with upon record in the thirteenth century. The family was seated at Bacton, and came to be represented in 1490 by WILLIAM PRETTYMAN, of Bacton, from whom descended SIR JOHN PRETYMAN, who was knighted at the coronation of King James the First, and acquiring Duffield, in Gloucestershire, was s. therein by his son, JOHN PRETYMAN, esq. of Lodington, in the county of Leicester, who was created a BARONET of Nova Scotia in 1641, and was s. by his second but eldest surviving son, SIR GEORGE PRETYMAN, M.P. for Leicester, who, dissipating the family fortune, left nothing but the title to his brother and successor, SIR WILLIAM PRETYMAN, at whose decease the Baronetcy reverted to his nephew, SIR THOMAS PRETYMAN, who d. without issue in 1749, when the title became DORMANT. At the demise of Sir Thomas, the male representation of the family devolved upon the collateral line of Thomas Pretyman, of Old Newton and Bacton, (younger son of the common ancestor, William Pretyman, of Bacton, first mentioned as living in 1490) from whom, by undoubted evidence, descended GEORGE PRETYMAN, esq. of Old Newton and Bacton, who d. in 1727, leaving two sons, George, who d. in 1732, and whose male line failed in 1758, and PETER PRETYMAN, esq. merchant in London, who was father of GEORGE PRETYMAN, esq. the father of the RIGHT REV. GEORGE PRETYMAN-TOMLIN, RAMSAY, OF ABBOTSHALL. ANDREW RAMSAY, of Abbotshall, in the county of Fife, was elected provost of Edinburgh, and created a BARONET in 1669. His son and heir, SIR ANDREW RAMSAY, one of the senators of the College of Justice, under the title of Lord Abbotshall, who m. the heiress of Hepburn, of Waughton, in the county of Haddington, d. in 1642, and was s. by his son, SIR ANDREW RAMSAY, of Abbotshall and Waughton, who m. Lady Anne Montgomerie, daughter of Hugh, seventh Earl of Eglinton, d. s. p. in 1709. Arms-Quarterly, 1st and 4th, arg. an eagle displayed sa. and a chief gu. for Ramsay; 2d and 3d, grand quarter, quartered 1st and 4th gu. on a chev. arg. a rose between two lions rampant, 9th field: 2d and 3d arg. three martlets, two and one, gu. RAMSAY, OF WHITEHILL. SIR JAMES RAMSAY, of Whitehill, in the county of Edinburgh, descended from a second son of Ramsay, of Cockpen, a second son of Dalhousie, was created a BARONET in 1665. The Ramsays of Whitehill termi nated in a heiress, married to Balfour, of Balbirnie. Arms—Arg. an eagle displayed sa. within a border of the second, charged with eight roses of the first. RAYNEY. (See Extinct Baronetage of England, p. 436.) ROCHEAD, OF INNERLEITH. A BARONETCY was conferred in 1704, on the ancient family of Rochead, of Innerleith; MARY, daughter and co-heir of SIR JAMES ROCHEAD, bart. with whom the title EXPIRED, m. Sir Francis Kinloch, bart. of Gilmerton, and had issue. Arms-Arg. on a fesse az. a boar's head erased, between two mullets of the field. SETON, OF WINDYGOUL. THE HON. SIR ROBERT SETON, of Windygoul, b. 10th November, 1641, youngest son of George, third Earl of Wintoun, was created a BARONET 24th January, 1671, but d. s. p. before 20th February, 1672, when Sir John Seton, of Garletoun, his brother, was served heir. Arms-Or, three crescents, within a double tressure, flory, counterflory gu. SETON, OF GARLETOUN. THE HON. SIR JOHN SETON, of Garletoun, b. 29th September, 1639, a younger son of George, Earl of Wintoun, was created a BARONET 9th December, 1661. He m. Isabel, daughter of John Home, of Renton, and had several children. He d. in 1686, and was s. by his son, SIR GEORGE SETON, of Garletoun, father of SIR GEORGE SETON, of Garletoun, who engaged in the rising of '15, and was taken prisoner at Preston. He d. at Versailles, 9th March, 1769, aged eighty-four. The family still subsists it is supposed in the male line, but the title lies DORMANT. Arms-As SETON, of Windygoul. SHARP, OF SCOTSCRAIG. Sir George Mackenzie, in his learned Science of Heraldry, remarks that the Fesse represents the Scarf of a warrior en Esharp, and that, from bearing "Arg. a fesse az.," one of the attendants who came from France with King David was called Monsieur de Esharp, and, in process of time, the name became corrupted into Sharp, of which several respectable families have flourished in North Britain. On one of them, that of Scotscraig, a Baronetcy was conferred in 1683, in the person of SIR WILLIAM SHARP, but has long been EXTINCT. SIBBALD, OF RANKEILOUR. The family of Sibbald was one of great antiquity in Fifeshire, and so far back as the reigns of WILLIAM, and ALEXANDER II. we find the name occurring in charters. The Sibbalds of Balgony, who intermarried with the illustrious house of Douglas, and in the time of JAMES 11. produced a distinguished statesman, SIR THOMAS SIBBALD, of Balgony, principal treasurer to that monarch, failed in the direct male line at the decease of SIR ANDREW SIBBALD, of Ballyony, Sheriff of Fife, temp. JAMES IV., who left an only daughter, Helena, m. to Robert de Lundin, a younger son of Lundin of that Ilk. The next family of the name to Balgony, were the Sibbalds of Rankeilour, of whom was ANDREW SIBBALD, of Rankeilour, who m. Margaret, daughter of George Lermouth, of Balcomie, and had three sons, JAMES (SIR), of Rankeilour, father of SIR DAVID SIBBALD, of Rankeilour, with whom the family ended. George, M.D. David, Keeper of the Great Seal, under Chancellor Hay. He was father of Sir Robert Sibbald, of Kips, M.D., a learned antiquary. The date of the creation of the Baronetcy was 1630. Arms-Arg. a cross moline, moline square pierced gu., within a bordure az. SKENE, OF CURRIEHILL. The Skenes are of great antiquity in the north of Scotland, and have ever been of honourable repute and estimation with their king and country, particu larly in Aberdeenshire, where the house of Skene, their principal seat, stands, about eight miles west of the town of Aberdeen, betwixt the rivers Dee and Don, it being, by all traditionary accounts, the first stone built house in Marr. Tradition asserts that about the year 1014, Malcolm II. returning from a battle he had gained over the Danes at Mortlack, was attacked, in the wood of Kilblain, by a ravenous wolf, and would have lost his life, but for the timely assistance of a younger son of Donald of the Isles, who, seeing the king's danger, despatched the enraged animal with his durk or skene, and thenceforward was called Skene. The last George Skene, of that Ilk, d. at Skene, 27th April, 1825, having made a disposition of his property in favour of his nephew, JAMES, EARL OF FIFE; but the male representation of the family still exists in the descendant of the SKINE of Halyards, the present Lieut. ANDREW MOTZ SKENE, R.N., of Kilmacow, co. Wicklow. (See BURKE'S Dictionary of the Commoners.) ROBERT SKENE obtained from King ROBERT I. a crown charter of the barony of Skene, dated 1st June, 1317, and in his descendants the barony remained until the end of the fifteenth century, when we find it in the possession of ALEXANDER SKENE, of Skene, who . Elizabeth Black, and d. in 1536, leaving two sons, ALEXANDER, who fell at the battle of Pinkie, in 1547, leaving, by Elizabeth Forbes, his wife, a posthumous child, JAMES SKENE, of that Ilk, who m. Jean, daughter of Douglas, of Glenbervie, and had five sons, viz. 1. ALEXANDER, ancestor of the SKENES of SKENE. 2. Andrew, ancestor of the SKENES of 3. Gilbert, of Tilliberloch, whose last male 5. William. JAMES, the progenitor of the family before us. JAMES SKENE, second son of Alexander Skene, of Skene, purchased the estate of Wester Corse, in Aberdeenshire, and had by Janet, daughter of Lumsden, of Cushine, seven sons, JAMES, ancestor of the Skenes of Wester Carse Robert, m. Janet Skene, only daughter of Arthur Duncan, of Balnaburies, d. unmarried. GILBERT, progenitor of the family of Skene, of Ru- The sixth son, JOHN SKENE, afterwards SIR JOHN SKENE, of Carriehill, lord clerk register, was a celebrated lawyer in the reign of JAMES VI., and well known for his connexion with the regiam magestatem. He m. Helen, daughter of Sir John Somerville, of Camnethan, related to the royal family; by whom he had a son and heir, SIR JAMES SKENE, of Curriehill, president of the College of Justice, who s. his father in 1617, and was by CHARLES I. created a BARONET of Nova Scotia, by a patent which is not dated, but which is recorded in the register of signatures, 16th January, 1630. He m. Janet, daughter of Sir John Johnston, of Hilton, and was s. in 1633, by his son, SIR JOHN SKENE, second baronet of Curriehill, whe sold the estate of Curriebill, in 1637, and having levied a regiment of men upon his own charges, went to Germany, and died there without issue. The representation of this family then devolved upon the descendants of Gilbert Skene, younger brother of Sir John Skene, first of Curriehill. This GILBERT SKENE was professor of medicine in He DAVID, who had two sons, Alexander and THOMAS, who carried on the line of this He m. secondly, a lady named Seton, by whom he had, George, who having realised a large fortune, became provost of Aberdeen, was knighted, and purchased the estate of Rubieslaw, Fintray, &c. He was s. by his grandnephew. The second son, THOMAS SKENE, of Pollerton, was father of GEORGE SKENE, inherited Rubieslaw from his grand-uncle. He m. Catherine, daughter of David Aedie, of Newark, by whom he had a son and successor, GEORGE SKENE, of Rubieslaw, who m. Helen, daughter of Alexander Thomson, of Partlethen, and was s. by his only son, GEORGE SKENE, of Rubieslaw, who m. Jean, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of James Moir, of Stoneywood, by whom he had two sons and three daughters, GEORGE, d. unm., 30th September, 1791, while on his way to take possession of his paternal estate. JAMES, of Rubieslaw, who m. in 1806, Jane, daughter of Sir William Forbes, Bart., of Pitsligo, and had issue. Margaret, m. to Colonel Ramsay, and has issue. Helen Skene. Catherine Skene, m. to Sir Henry Jardine. Arms-Gu. three skenes or daggers paleways in fess arg. hilted and pommelled or, surmounted of as many wolves' heads of the third with a chev. arg. STEWART. THE following (EXTINCT) Baronetcies have been conferred on members of the great house of Stewart. In 1681, the title was given to SIR CHARLES STEWART, said to be son of the Earl of Moray. In 1682, to SIR THOMAS STEWART, of Blair. In 1687, to Sir ARCHIBALD STEWART, of Burray. (See that Dignity.) STEWART, OF BURRAY. WILLIAM STEWART, of Mains, in Galloway, second son of Sir Alexander Stewart, of Garlies, by Christian, his wife, daughter of Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, m. Barbara, daughter and heir of James Stewart, of Burray, (of the Moray family) and thus acquired that estate in Orkney. His grandson, SIR ARCHIBALD STEWART, of Burray, was created a BARONET in 1687, and died in 1689. He was grandfather of SIR JAMES STEWART, Baronet, of Burray, who d. in the New Goal, Southwark, a prisoner under suspicion of high treason, 24th August, 1746. In the following year the Earl of Galloway was served heir of Sir Archibald Stewart, of Burray. Arms-Or, a fess chequy az. and arg. surmounted with a bend, engr. within a double tressure, flowered and counterflowered, gu. STIRLING. On SIR HENRY STIRLING, of Ardoch, the representa. tive of a respectable branch of the ancient family of Stirling, a BARONETCY was conferred, 2nd May, 1666, and remained with his descendants until the demise of the late SIR WILLIAM STIRLING, bart. of Ardoch, whose eldest daughter and heir marrying Col. CHARLES MORAY, of Abercairny, in the county of Perth, conveyed to her husband the lands of Ardoch. Her issue were three sons and two daughters, viz. JAMES MORAY, now of Abercairny. WILLIAM MORAY-STIRLING, now of Ardoch. Charles Moray, d. in 1820. Christian, m. to Henry Home Drummond, esq. Arms Arg. on a bend engr. three buckles, or. quarterly with arg. a cross engr. az. for SINCLAIR of Hermanstoun. STRACHAN. The first of this ancient family upon record, SIR JAMES STRATHEYHAN, obtained the lands of Thorntoun, as a dowry with his wife, Agneta Quagie, an heiress, wherein he was confirmed by charter from King David the First, between the years 1134 and 1153 from this Sir James descended SIR JOHN STRACHAN, knight, of Thornton, who was nominated by the king and privy-council, in 1590, one of the commissioners of the county of Kincardine, for discovering priests and jesuits. The descendant of this gentleman, ANDREW STRACHAN, esq. of Thornton, who was a great favourite of King Charles the First, was created a BARONET of Nova Scotia, by that monarch, on the 28th May, 1625. Sir Andrew was one of the commissioners of the exchequer in 1630, and subsequently a commissioner for auditing the treasury accounts. He m. Sarah, daughter of Sir William Douglas, of Glenbervie, afterwards Earl of Angus, (in 1588,) by whom he had a son and successor, SIR ALEXANDER STRACHAN, second Baronet, at whose decease, without issue, the baronetcy, being to heirs male generally, devolved upon his kinsman, SIR JAMES STRACHAN, third Baronet, minister at Keith, in Moray, who was s. by his son, SIR FRANCIS STRACHAN, fourth Baronet, a jesuit; at whose decease the title devolved upon the next heir male, SIR JOHN STRACHAN, fifth Baronet, a post-captain in the royal navy, and commander, in 1771, of his majesty's ship Orford, of 70 guns, who d. 28th December, 1777, when the title devolved upon his nephew, SIR RICHARD-JOHN STRACHAN, sixth Baronet, admiral of the blue, and knight grand cross of the Bath (eldest son of Patrick Strachan, esq. lieut. R. N. by Miss Pitman, daughter of Captain Pitman, R. N.), b. 27th October, 1760, and d. 3rd February, 1828. Sir Richard Strachan attained the highest character as a gallant, able, and enterprising officer during the late |