Landed families of Britain and Ireland

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Saturday, 6 April 2019

(370) Barclay of Ury House

Barclay of Ury

The Barclays have been established in Scotland from a very early date, though their origins are disputed: a summary of the conflicting views can be found on Wikipedia. One Alexander de Berkeley was granted the estate of Mathers on the Kincardineshire coast in 1351, and his descendants continued to hold that estate down to the time of David Barclay (1580-1660), with whom the genealogy below begins. Having acted as surety for his father-in-law, David Barclay was plunged into debt and was obliged to sell more and more of his patrimony between 1611 and 1632. His third son, David Barclay (1610-86) became a soldier of fortune on the Continent, fighting for Protestant causes in the Swedish and later Prussian armies in the Thirty Years War. He seems to have demonstrated considerable military prowess and was well rewarded by his employers, so that when he was recalled by his family in 1638 because of the increasingly troubled situation in Scotland, he may have harboured the hope of recovering possession of Mathers. The property had, however, been much divided by his father's dispersal and subsequent re-sales, and the troubled years of the Civil War meant that he was occupied with military affairs at home. In 1647-48, however, he seized the opportunity to buy the Ury (or Urie) estate not far from his ancestral home, where the original fortified house had been burnt by Royalist troops in 1645. Here he was eventually successful in putting down new roots, building a new house in 1670 and apparently improving it a few years later.

In the 1660s, David Barclay and his son, Robert Barclay (1648-90) embraced Quaker beliefs, and Robert emerged in the 1670s as one of the leaders of the Society of Friends and one of its most active and effective literary advocates. Although both he and his father experienced periods of imprisonment for their faith, Robert managed to secure the effective intercession of a number of powerful people on their behalf. He seems to have had the knack of making friends even with those who did not share his religious views, and his unlikely friendship with James, Duke of York (later James II) no doubt helped to shape the Duke's views on religious toleration.

Robert died aged just forty-two, and was succeded at Ury by his eldest son, Robert Barclay (1672-1747), while his second son, David Barclay (1682-1769) went to London to seek his fortune in about 1698, and founded the great banking and brewing families which I have written about in my previous posts. The Quaker faith was now an established part of the family's identity and both Robert and David adhered to it, without achieving the national profile and reputation of their father. It remained the faith of their descendants well into the 19th century and in some cases into the 20th century. In later life, Robert (1672-1747), who stayed in Scotland and lived quietly at Ury, became increasingly interested in the history of his own family, and wrote a book on the subject which was published in 1740. At his death he was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert Barclay (1699-1760), who was noted more for his size and physical strength than for anything else. Although he was brought up to assist in the management of the Ury estate, however, he was not much interested in agriculture, and his son, yet another Robert Barclay (1732-97) inherited a badly run-down property. Fortunately, this Robert, was an energetic and enlightened agricultural improver, and quickly turned the situation round. Through his second marriage in 1776 he acquired control (at least until they divorced in 1793) of his wife's family Allardice Castle estate and he added her surname to his in recognition of this. He was also able to contemplate additions to Ury House, although these were never carried out, perhaps because his marriage broke down. When he died in 1797 the estate passed to his son, Robert Barclay-Allardice (1779-1854), who preferred to live at a rented property in England, and Ury was sold after his death to Alexander Baird, who demolished the Barclays' house and built a new one.

Ury House, Kincardineshire

This house was written up in 2018 in my post on the Baird family, who purchased Ury from the Barclays after death of Capt. Robert Barclay-Allardice in 1854.

Barclay family of Ury (or Urie)

Barclay, David (1580-1660). Son of Thomas Barclay and his wife Janet Straiton of Lauriston, and grandson of George Barclay (d. 1607) of Mathers, born 1580. According to his great-grandson, he was 'a very polite well-bred man, but by the easiness of his temper, and living much at Court, he brought himself into such difficulties as obliged him to sell his estates, first Mathers, after they had kept it near 300 years and then the old estate after they had kept upwards of 500 years'. In fact, his embarrassments, which were real enough, derived partly from acting as surety for his father-in-law, Sir John Livingstone. In 1617 he was accused of a violent assault on George Ogilvie and when he did not appear to defend himself was 'denounced as a rebel', but this seems to have been quickly reversed or forgotten because he had become a JP for Kincardineshire by 1623. In 1634 he was finally 'put to the horn' for debt (i.e. made bankrupt), but the debt was still owed in 1643 when he was briefly imprisoned. He was admitted as a burgess of Glasgow, 1651. He married 1st, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Livingstone of Dunipace, and 2nd, Margaret, daughter of John Keith, and had issue:
(1.1) John Barclay (b. c.1607), born about 1607; he became embroiled in his father's financial woes and was himself proceeded against for debt in February 1643; he was probably unmarried and may have died soon after this as he does not appear in the records again;
(1.2) Alexander Barclay (b. c.1608), born about 1608; married, before 1631, Anna, perhaps the daughter of Matthew Ross of Haining Ross, but died without issue before 1652;
(1.3) David Barclay (1610-86) (q.v.);
(1.4) Rev. Robert Barclay (1611/2-82); educated at Aberdeen University (MA 1633), the Scots College in Paris and the College of St Nicolas du Chardonnet; became a Roman Catholic priest in about 1640; rector of the Scots College in Paris, 1655-82, and rebuilt the college buildings; had the reputation of being rather difficult and quarrelsome; died 7 February 1682 and was buried at the Scots College, Paris;
(2.1) Capt. James Barclay (d. 1645); an officer in his brother David's troop of horse (Capt.); died unmarried when he was killed at the Battle of Philliphaugh, 1645;
(2.2) Anne Barclay; married 1st, John Douglas of Tilliwhilly, and had issue one daughter; married 2nd, Robert Irvine of Drum; and married 3rd, 1649, Rev. David Strachan, afterwards Bishop of Brechin.
He inherited the Mathers estate in Kincardineshire and his family's ancient lands in the Mearns from his grandfather in 1607 but sold it all between 1611 and 1632.
He died in Edinburgh in 1660, and was buried in Canongate kirkyard, Edinburgh. His first wife's date of death is unknown. His second wife's date of death is unknown.

Barclay, David (1610-86). Third son of David Barclay (1580-c.1660) and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Livingstone of Dunipace, born at Kirktounhill on the estate of Mathers in 1610. Educated at King's College, Aberdeen (admitted 1628 but did not graduate) and then travelled abroad, visiting Germany. He then became a soldier of fortune and served in the army of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (Captain, 1630) in fighting against Ferdinand of Styria during the Thirty Years War, and later in the Prussian army (Maj., 1632/3). In 1638 he was summoned home to Scotland but his arrival was delayed by his arrest off the coast of Yorkshire by a Royalist privateer in May 1639; he was apparently still in custody in October 1641. Soon afterwards, however, he gained his freedom and joined the moderate Presbyterian army in the three-way struggle of the Civil War in Scotland (Maj., c.1642; Lt-Col.; Col. by 1646). When the Scots again took up arms against the English parliament in 1648 he was made responsible for recruiting cavalry in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross-shire, and although he had not been actively engaged in the fighting he lost his position in the army when the Scots were defeated. He then retired to Gordonstoun. In 1651 he was deprived of his lands at Ury for his support of the Royalist cause in the second Civil War, but he recovered his property in 1654 after getting himself appointed as one of the Scottish MPs at Westminster (first for Sutherland and later for Kincardineshire and the Mearns) and as Commissioner for Forfeited Estates; in the latter capacity he succeeded in persuading the Government 'to restore all the Nobility and Gentrey to their fortunes, which made him so popular... that he had their publick thanks'. He seems to have withdrawn from public life in 1658 and lived quietly at Edinburgh or Gordonstoun until 1665, when he was arrested and imprisoned for acting as a commissioner under Cromwell. Although this was technically true, he might have expected that his use of the role to assist Royalists and his own sufferings under Cromwell might have protected him, and the real reasons for his arrest have never been satisfactorily explained. He was at first in Edinburgh Castle and was later under house arrest in Edinburgh, at Montrose and finally at Ury, but he was released only in 1670 after the intervention of the Earl of Middleton. He joined the Society of Friends in 1666, and his refusal as a Quaker to swear a 'bond of peace' extended his imprisonment by at least three years. He then lived peacefully at Ury until in 1676 he and many others were arrested at the instigation of the provost and clerics of Aberdeen for holding conventicles at Ury, and he was held prisoner for a further year. He married, 26 January 1648/9, Katherine (1620-63), daughter of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st bt., of Gordonstoun, and had issue:
(1) Robert Barclay (1648-90) (q.v.);
(2) John Barclay (1659-1731); emigrated in about 1684 to East New Jersey (USA), where he received from his elder brother the grant of an estate of 500 acres called Plainfields; married, c.1700 in New Jersey, Catherine [surname unknown] (d. 1703) and had issue one son, from whom descended the Barclays of New York; died in April 1731;
(3) David Barclay (d. 1685); merchant; emigrated in 1685 to East New Jersey (USA) on board the 'America', but died at sea during the voyage;
(4) Lucy Barclay (d. 1686); died unmarried, October 1686;
(5) Jean Barclay; married, 1685, as his 3rd wife, Sir Ewan Cameron (c.1629-1719), kt., of Lochiel, and had issue.
He purchased the lands and barony of Ury (Kincardineshire) in 1647-48 (where the old tower had been burned by Royalist troops in 1645). Although the old castle may have been repaired in the 1650s sufficiently for him to occupy it, he did not build a new house until 1670. As soon as it was finished, he handed it over to his eldest son, although he seems to have lived there too, and in 1679 employed James Smith to 'cover with freestone the house of Urie'.
He died on or about 10 October, and was buried in the Quaker burial ground he established at Ury, 12 October 1686. His wife died in March 1663.

Barclay, Robert (1648-90). Eldest son of David Barclay (1610-86) and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st bt., of Gordonstoun, born at Gordonstoun (Morays.), 23 December 1648. He was brought up at Gordonstoun by his grandparents on strict Presbyterian principles, but as he showed academic promise he was in 1659 sent to Paris to be educated by his uncle, the rector of the Scots College there; he was younger than the other pupils but studied alongside them, learning French and Latin, rhetoric and divinity, honing his debating skills, and acquiring fencing and other gentlemanly accomplishments. In 1663, reputedly at the request of his ailing mother, he was brought home by his father and returned to the household at Gordonstoun. When his father was imprisoned in 1665, he visited him at Edinburgh castle, and was exposed to the conversation and beliefs of the Quaker, John Swinton. Although his father is said not to have tried to influence him in his religious beliefs, believing this should be a matter of individual conscience, he followed his father into the Society of Friends in 1666. He soon began publishing pamphlets containing reasoned defences of the Quaker position, the earliest of which was Truth Cleared of Calumnies (1671), and these led him on to write what came to be regarded as the text-book of Quaker theology, An apology for the true Christian divinity...preached by the people... called Quakers (1676); a collected edition of his writings was published in 1692. In 1672, he helped to found the Quaker meeting house in Aberdeen, and four years later he went with George Fox, William Penn, George Keith and other Quaker leaders on a mission to organise Yearly Meetings of the Society of Friends in Holland and Germany; while there he met Princess Elizabeth, Princess Palatine of the Rhine, and they remained friends until she died in 1679. In 1676-77, when his father and later Robert himself were imprisoned for 'holding conventicles' at Ury, she secured the help of Prince Rupert in persuading the King to order their release. In 1677 he struck up a rather unexpected friendship with the Catholic Duke of York (later King James II), and he no doubt encouraged James' inclination to religious toleration; although he took no part in politics, he remained an informal counsellor to the king, and after the revolution of 1688 was a rather suspect figure to the new regime because of this friendship, and even had to defend himself from attacks that he was a closet Papist. In 1681, William Penn purchased East New Jersey in America and made Barclay one of the council of 24 proprietors of the scheme, settlement of the new lands beginning in 1682. Robert was appointed Governor of East Jersey in that year, but made it a condition that he should not be required to go to America himself, instead appointing one of the other proprietors as his deputy. Some of the land he was allotted he assigned to his two brothers, who went to America in 1684 and 1685. He married, February 1669, Christian (c.1651-1723), daughter of Gilbert Mollison of Aberdeen, and had issue:
(1) David Barclay (1670-71), born 8 September 1670; died in infancy, 1671;
(2) Robert Barclay (1672-1747) (q.v.);
(3) Margaret Barclay (1673-85), born 4 October 1673; died young, 1685;
(4) Patience Barclay (1676-1757), born 25 November 1675/6; married, 8 April 1707, Timothy Forbes (d. 1743), son of Alexander Forbes of Aquorthes; died 22 June 1757;
(5) Katherine Barclay (1678-1758), born 26 June 1678; married, 17 June 1703, James Forbes (d. 1734), son of Alexander Forbes of Aquorthes; died 9 November 1758;
(6) Christian Barclay (1680-1751), born 15 May 1680; married, 1700 (contract 10 April), Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells; died 1751;
(7) David Barclay (1682-1769) [for whom see my previous post]
(8) Jean Barclay (b. 1683), born 27 December 1683; married, 12 April 1707, Alexander Forbes (d. 1740), son of John Forbes; living in 1740;
(9) John Barclay (1687-1751), born 20 October 1687; settled in Dublin; married 1st, 26 June 1709, Margaret Wilson and 2nd, 19 May 1713, Anne (1694-1771), daughter of Amos Strettell of Dublin, merchant, by who he had two sons and nine daughters; died in Dublin, 8 June and was buried at Corke St. burial ground, 11 June 1751;
He was given the Ury House estate by his father in c.1672, and in 1679 King Charles II erected the lands of Ury into a free Barony.
He died at Ury, 3 October, and was buried in the Quaker burial ground there, 6 October 1690. His widow died in March 1723.

Barclay, Robert (1672-1747). Eldest surviving son of Robert Barclay (1648-90) and his wife Christian, daughter of Gilbert Mollison, born 25 March 1672. Educated at Theobalds Palace, Cheshunt (Herts), 1683-88. Like his father and grandfather, he became a Quaker in religion. In 1698 he was briefly imprisoned after a friend sought to involve him in a Jacobite plot which was reported to the authorities, but he was soon released through the intervention of the Earl of Huntly with the king. In 1714 he became a burgess of Aberdeen. In his later years he became interested in the history and genealogy of his family, and published A genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie (1740; 2nd edn, 1812), which also contained a biographical sketch of his father and grandfather. He married, 1696 (contract 6 July), Elizabeth, daughter of John Brain, merchant of London, and had issue:
(1) Margaret (1697-1707), born 23 March 1697; died young, 13 May 1707;
(2) Robert Barclay (1699-1760) (q.v.);
(3) John Barclay (1701-14), born 19 July 1701; died young, 16 July 1714;
(4) Mollison Barclay (b. 1703), born 21 November 1703; married 1st, 1724, John Doubleday (1695-1736), son of John Doubleday of Alnwick Abbey (Northbld), and had issue one son and two daughters; married 2nd, 19 July 1739, Abel Strettell of Manchester; living in 1758;
(5) Elizabeth Barclay (b. 1708), born 11 May 1708; married, by 1729, Sir William Ogilvie (d. 1791), 4th bt., of Barras, and had issue two sons and several daughters;
(6) David Barclay (1710-83), born 29 April 1710; apparently a merchant in London, he was obliged in 1761 to stop payment, but his debts were discharged by his creditors without being paid in full, after which, 'by unremitting attention to business, and the strictest economy, he acquired, late in life, a competency', the greatest part of which he bequeathed to his former creditors; he married, 10 January 1737, Mary (1712-72), daughter of John Pardoe of Worcester, by whom he had issue one daughter; died 10 October 1783;
(7) Katharine Barclay (b. 1713), born 1 April 1713; died unmarried;
(8) Jean Barclay (1719-20), born 23 April 1719; died in infancy, 12 June 1720.
He inherited the Ury estate from his father in 1690, and enlarged the property by repurchasing lands known as Finlayson and Redcloak which had formerly been part of the estate. He also laid out 'very fine gardens' around the house before 1722.
He died 27 March 1747. His wife's date of death is unknown.

Barclay, Robert (1699-1760). Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1672-1747) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Braine, merchant, of London, born 20 May 1699. He possessed a physical strength that led him to be known as "Robert the Strong", and which was demonstrated in a number of picaresque episodes recorded by the family historian. He was a Quaker in religion, and author of several religious tracts and essays. Although he assisted his father with the management of the Ury estate he was not much interested in agriculture, and the by the time of his death the estate was in poor condition. He married, 28 July 1725, his cousin, Une (1701-62), daughter of Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel, and had issue:
(1) Jean Barclay (1726-50), born 22 March 1726; died unmarried, July 1750.
(2) Robert Barclay (1731-97) (q.v.);
(3) David Barclay (1737-62), born 24 September 1737; brought up as a Quaker but left the Society of Friends on joining the army as an officer in the 42nd Highlanders; died unmarried when he was killed at the taking of Martinique in 1762;
(4) Ewan (aka Evan) Barclay (1738-1805), born 1 October 1738; lived in Marylebone (Middx); died unmarried, 23 August, and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 28 August 1805;
(5) Alexander Barclay; probably died in infancy;
He inherited the Ury estate from his father in 1747.
He died 10 October 1760 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground at Ury. His widow died in March 1762 and was also buried at Ury.

Barclay (later Barclay-Allardice), Robert (1732-97). Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1699-1760) and his wife Une, daughter of Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel, born 17 November 1732. Like his father he was over six feet tall and very strong, but unlike him he was ‘possessed of an enterprising spirit and extensive knowledge in agriculture, which he acquired by reading ... and by his own observations in the different tours which he made on foot in his younger years through Scotland and a great part of England’. He became a pioneer of the new farming methods in Scotland and 'was the first man who ever sowed a turnip in a field or artificial grasses north of the Firth of Forth'; he brought 2,000 acres into a high state of cultivation, reclaimed 800 acres from moor, and planted 1,200 acres with forest trees. A popular and philanthropic landlord, he laid out a new town at Stonehaven, and during the famine of 1783 organized ‘a benevolent society for purchasing meal and grain to be retailed at an underprice’. Despite being a Quaker, he became MP for Kincardineshire, 1788-97, and must have had to bend his Quaker principles to take the parliamentary oath. He was a keen pedestrian, and is said to have walked from Ury to London (some 510 miles) to take his place in Parliament, on one occasion accomplishing this feat in ten days. In 1776, on his second marriage, he formally took his wife's surname in addition to his own, although he seldom seems to have used the double-barrelled form. In 1785 his wife’s claim for recognition as heir of line to her ancestor the Earl of Airth and Menteith was successful and thereafter Barclay’s ‘great object’ was to secure the peerage for his family, although he never achieved this and he and his wife were divorced in 1793. His portrait was painted by Raeburn and perhaps also by Beechey. He married 1st, 3 June 1756 at Tottenham Monthly Meeting (Middx), Lucy (1737?-57), daughter of David Barclay (1682-1769) of London, and 2nd, December 1776 (div. 1793), Sarah Anne (1757-1833), only daughter and heiress of James Allardice, and had issue:
(1.1) Lucy Barclay (1757-1817), born 22 March 1757; married, 7 October 1777 at Hertford, Samuel Galton FRS (1753-1832) of Duddeston House, Aston juxta Birmingham (Warks), banker, and had issue six sons and four daughters; died 16 November and was buried at Quaker burial ground, Birmingham, 21 November 1817;
(2.1) Anne Barclay-Allardice (1777-82), born 13 September and baptised 30 November 1777; died young, 29 October 1782;
(2.2) Une Cameron Barclay-Allardice (1778-1809), born 13 September and baptised 27 September 1778; married 25 July 1802, John Innes (1776-1832) of Cowie (Kincardines.) and had issue; died 26 September 1809;
(2.3) Capt. Robert Barclay-Allardice (1779-1854) [for whom see my post on the Allardice family];
(2.4) twin, Margaret Barclay-Allardice (1780-1855), born 14 October and baptised 16 November 1780; married, 27 September 1809, Hudson Gurney (1775-1864) of Keswick Hall (Norfolk); died without issue, 16 December 1855;

(2.5) twin, Mary Barclay-Allardice (1780-99), born 14 October and baptised 16 November 1780; died unmarried, 28 June and was buried at the Quaker burial ground, Birmingham, 5 July 1799;

(2.6) Rodney (f.) Barclay-Allardice (1782-1853), born 29 April and baptised 6 June 1782; died unmarried, 1853;
(2.7) James Barclay-Allardice (1784-1804), born 3 July 1784; collector of customs at Trincomalee (Ceylon); died at Madras, 3 March 1804;
(2.8) Maj. David Stuart Barclay-Allardice (1787-1826), born 3 and baptised 29 March 1787; an officer in 42nd Highlanders and later the 28th Foot (Lt., 1811; Capt., 1813; Maj. 1822); died unmarried at Otranto (Italy), 1826.
He inherited the Ury estate from his father in 1760. Soon afterwards, he bought the property of Arduthie and laid out the new town of Stonehaven on this estate. In 1789 he obtained plans from James Playfair for enlarging Ury House but nothing was done.
He died 8 April 1797. His first wife died 23 March and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 29 March 1757. His second wife married 2nd, 1795, John Nudd (c.1764-1828), and was buried at Sprowston (Norfk), 12 July 1833.

Sources

Burke's Landed Gentry - The Kingdom in Scotland, 2001, pp. 55-59; H.F. Barclay, A history of the Barclay family, vol. 3: the Barclays in Scotland and England from 1610-1933, 1934; ODNB entry for Robert Barclay (1648-90).

Location of archives

Barclay family of Ury and Allardice: title deeds, estate papers, genealogical and misc family papers, 1201-20th cent. [National Records of Scotland, GD49]; miscellaneous estate and family papers, 1724-1843 [Norfolk Record Office, RQG]

Coat of arms

Azure, a chevron ermine, in chief three crosses patée argent.

Can you help?

Is anyone able to provide fuller or more detailed genealogical information about David Barclay (1580-1660) and his children?
I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.
As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.

Revision and acknowledgements

This post was first published 6 April 2019.

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

(363) Bannerman of Elsick and Crimonmogate, baronets

Bannerman of Elsick

According to tradition, this family derived their name from the hereditary office of being standard-bearers to the Kings of Scotland, an office which they lost after being accused of cowardice on the battlefield by King Malcolm III (or King Alexander I - versions of the story vary) in the 11th century. However this sounds like a story based on the associations suggested by the name which both imparts a desirable antiquity to the lineage and explains away the awkward fact that another family - the Scrymgeours - held the office of standard-bearer from at least 1384. The first Bannerman of whom any authentic historical record is known was in fact Donald Bannerman, one of the King David II's doctors in 1364, who had a grant of lands at Waterton (Aberdeens.) and elsewhere in 1368. His son, Alexander Bannerman (fl. 1387), had a charter of Elsick (Kincardines.) in 1387, and thereafter his descendants held both estates until Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1638), with whom the genealogy below begins, sold Waterton to the family of his first wife in 1611. Thereafter, the Bannermans were settled at Elsick only.

Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1638) was succeeded by his son Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666), who was a constant supporter of the Royalist cause during the Civil War, and whose estates were sequestrated until 1652. Little is known about his part in the war, but his sufferings were sufficiently remembered for Charles II to grant his son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), a baronetcy in 1682. Sir Alexander's brother, George Bannerman (d. 1691) was an advocate, and was also rewarded by being made one of two solicitors to the King in 1683. The family were thus closely identified with the Stuart cause, and seem to have found it difficult to reconcile themselves to the removal of King James II and his replacement by King William III and Queen Mary II in 1688-89. Another brother, the Rev. Robert Bannerman (d. 1719), who was minister of Newton and Woomet, was swiftly deprived for refusing to pray for the new king, and was obliged to take up a new career as a merchant in Edinburgh. There seems little doubt that Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt. had Jacobite sympathies, but I have not found clear evidence that he took up arms during the 1715 rebellion. His brother Patrick Bannerman (1678-1733) was, however, more actively involved, being appointed Provost of Aberdeen in 1714 as part of a Jacobite putsch of the city council. In 1715 he welcomed the Pretender to Scotland and was knighted on that occasion, although his knighthood was not recognised outside Jacobite circles. Following the failure of the rebellion, he was removed from office in Aberdeen, but he seems to have continued to operate as a merchant in the city and it is not clear that he suffered any further penalty.

Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt., was active in the 1745 rebellion, when he raised around 160 men for the Jacobite army and fought at Culloden. He is said to have fled from the battle to Elsick, where he was surprised and nearly captured by Hanoverian troops sent to arrest him, but he managed to hide from them and escape to France, where he died the following year.

Harlsey Hall, East Harlsey, recorded by Samuel Buck, c.1720.

In his absence, Sir Alexander was named in a bill of attainder, but he died before his estates could be seized. His property and his debts devolved upon his teenage son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (c.1731-73), 4th bt., who was eventually pressured into selling Elsick in about 1754, retreating to his mother's estate at East Harlsey in the North Riding of Yorkshire, where he died without surviving sons in 1773. His title then passed to his brother, Sir Edward Trotter Bannerman (d. 1796), 5th bt., who was a Major in the army until his retirement in 1780, and who was unmarried and without issue.

On the death of Sir Edward in 1796, the baronetcy passed to his kinsman, Professor Sir Alexander Bannerman (1741-1813), 6th bt. who was a grandson of Patrick Bannerman, the Jacobite Provost of Aberdeen and thus a great-grandson of the 1st baronet. The 6th baronet was a doctor in Aberdeen, and from 1793 professor of medicine at the University there, but his father and grandfather had been prosperous wine merchants in the city. He came into modest landed property at Kirkhill through his mother's family in 1777, and for a time took the name Burnett in recognition of this inheritance, but he reverted to Bannerman on inheriting the baronetcy. His eldest son, Thomas Bannerman, went to work for a London merchant house trading with China and India, and died in China at the age of 21, so when the Professor died in 1813 his property devolved on his oldest surviving son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (1769-1840), 7th bt., who may have been a merchant in Aberdeen. He left a substantial estate, but had no children, and when he died he left a complex and unusual will dividing his property among his relatives, the interpretation of which occupied the lawyers for four years before a final decision was made by the Court of Session in 1844.

The heir to the 7th baronet's title was his younger brother, Sir Charles Bannerman (1782-1851), 8th bt., who was explicitly excluded from the 7th baronet's will on the grounds that he was already much richer than his brother. This seems to have been less the result of his mysterious early career as a 'manufacturer' in Aberdeen, than of his inheritance in 1820 of the Crimonmogate estate and personal property of his cousin Patrick Milne. At the time of his inheritance, Milne had recently commissioned plans from the leading local architect, Archibald Simpson, for the erection of a new house at Crimonmogate, and Bannerman decided to proceed with the scheme, building the house which exists in altered form today. His son, Sir Archibald Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt. inherited the house and enlarged it by building an attic storey concealed within a mansard roof. He also bought back part of the Elsick estate in Kincardineshire, sold by the 4th baronet in 1754, and enlarged this house too. Ironically, Sir Archibald had no son to succeed him, so on his death the baronetcy and the estates were again separated - the title passing to his cousin, Sir George Bannerman (1827-1901), 10th bt., while the estate passed to his daughter, later the Countess of Southesk. Her descendant, the 4th Duke of Fife, owns Elsick today, but Crimonmogate was sold out of the family in 1996. The Bannerman baronetcy still exists, being now held by a descendant of the youngest brother of the 6th baronet.

Elsick House, Kincardineshire

Elsick House: the rear (south elevation) contains walling from the house of the Bannermans.
Image: Anne Burgess. Some rights reserved.

The site of a fortified house built for Bannermans after they acquired the land in 1387, and perhaps altered or rebuilt after this became their sole estate in 1611. Only the thick masonry of the south wall and a resited 17th century doorway survive from this building, which was otherwise entirely rebuilt after a fire in 1754. The present house is a long low two-storeyed building consisting of the house of 1754 and a late 19th century cross-wing with single-storey canted bays and dormer windows breaking through the eaves line. The pedimented porch was built by Walker & Duncan in 1937. The house was restored and extended to the west by Thomson, Taylor, Craig and Donald in 1968-74, and is now marketed as a wedding venue.

Elsick House: the house as rebuilt in 1754, with the porch added in 1937 and the late 19th century east wing on the left. Image: Elsick House.

Descent: Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1638); to son, Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666); to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt; to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt.; to Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt.; to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (c.1731-73), 4th bt. who sold 1754 to Master & Brethren of Aberdeen Guild Hospital...James Monson, who sold 1775... sold to Sir Alexander Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt.; to daughter, Ethel Mary Elizabeth (d. 1947), wife of Charles Noel Carnegie (1854-1941), 10th Earl of Southesk; to son, Charles Alexander Carnegie (1893-1992), 11th Earl of Southesk; to son, James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie (1929-2015), 3rd Duke of Fife; to son, David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife.

Crimonmogate House, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire

A Greek Revival house designed by Archibald Simpson for Patrick Milne (d. 1820), who made a fortune as a merchant trading with India and China, but Milne died before work began and it was built for his heir, Sir Charles Bannerman, 8th bt. It replaced an earlier three bay, three storey house of c.1760, parts of which are perhaps incorporated at the rear of the building.

Crimonmogate House: an early photograph by Sir Alexander Bannerman, showing the house as first built.

The south-facing entrance front consists of a massive Greek Doric hexastyle portico projecting between two-storey end bays, executed in Kemnay granite. The hardness of this stone encouraged the architect to rely for his effect on the proportions of the design and the boldness of the forms, for there is almost no superficial decoration: the columns are unfluted, the entablature has no ornament, and the pediment has no sculpture. Under the portico, the central doorway and flanking windows have no architraves. The source of the design is thought to be Sir Robert Smirke's County Buildings, Perth, built in 1815-19, where there is a similar portico, originally carved for Broomhall (Fife). The six bay side elevations of the house are even plainer than the entrance front: the east side, behind which lie the principal reception rooms, is enlivened by a central bow, but the west side has a less successful two-bay projecting centre rising to a blank panel above the parapet. At the rear, there is an open service court.

Crimonmogate House: the entrance front as altered in 1864. Photographed in 2013 by Sagaciousphil. Some rights reserved.

The roofs were originally shallow-pitched with low coped chimneystacks, but were replaced in 1864 with mansard roofs with richly detailed round-headed dormers that are uncomfortably juxtaposed with the spareness and horizontality of the original design. At the same time as the roofs were altered, the house was extended to the north to provide space for a new dining room-cum-ballroom and additional service accommodation.

Inside, the planning of the house is elegantly simple. The portico leads into a grand double-height entrance hall in the form of a cube, with the walls articulated by fluted pilasters that have only vestigial capitals, and a coffered ceiling with a shallow central cupola. This opens on the east and west sides into corridors which provide access respectively to the principal reception rooms and the private apartments. The reception rooms were originally a drawing room, morning room (behind the bow) and dining room, but after the additions of 1864 the original dining room was refurnished as a library. A large billiard room lay immediately behind the hall. The main stair, which is squeezed into a modest space, has very fine cast iron balusters.

The building programme continued after 1825 with the estate buildings. The octagonal dovecote, and the seven bay, one and a half storey stable block to the west, are survivals from the mid 18th century house, but the stables were remodelled and extended to the east by Simpson, c.1825. One of the first things to be built was the chunky obelisk east of the house, which commemorates Patrick Milne and was designed c.1821. Also by Simpson are the game larder, laundry, octagonal dairy, corn mill (and mill house), a bridge over the Logie Burn, and the two gate lodges, to the west and south-east of the house. The walled garden, south-west of the house, was not completed until about 1840.

The house fell into decay during the 20th century and was restored for Christopher Monckton after he bought it in 1996, with further work being done by the current owners. The house was operated for some years as a wedding and events venue, but this use has now ceased. It appears that some of the estate buildings are being converted into an hotel and restaurant.

Descent: John Hay (d. 1704), 12th Earl of Erroll; to son, Charles Hay (d. 1717), 13th Earl of Erroll; to sister, Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll, who sold in 1730s to Abernethy family; sold to Alexander Milne, Aberdeen merchant; to son, Patrick Milne (d. 1820); to first cousin once removed, Sir Charles Bannerman (1782-1851), 8th bt.; to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt.; to daughter, Ethel Mary Elizabeth (c.1869-1947), later the wife of Charles Noel Carnegie (1854-1941), 10th Earl of Southesk; to younger son, Cmdr. the Hon. Alexander Carnegie (1894-1989); to son, Maj. Raymond Alexander Carnegie (1920-99), second husband of Diana Hay (1926-78), 23rd Countess of Erroll; gifted to son, the Hon. Jocelyn Jacek Alexander Bannerman Carnegie (b. 1966), who sold 1996 to Christopher Monckton; sold 2001 to William Stanhope (b. 1967), Viscount Petersham and his wife, Candida Bond.

Bannerman family of Elsick, baronets

Bannerman, Alexander (d. by 1638). Only recorded son of George Bannerman (d. c.1608) of Waterton and his wife Elizabeth, apparently the daughter of John Johnstone of Caskieben. He married 1st, Margaret, daughter of William Forbes of Tolquhoun and 2nd, Marjory*, daughter of Sir John Leslie of Wardis, 2nd bt., and had issue:
(1.1) Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666) (q.v.).
He inherited the Elsick estate from his father c.1608. In 1611 he was styled 'late of Wattertoun and now of Elsick'.
He died in or before 1638. His first wife's date of death is unknown. His widow married 2nd, Sir John Fletcher, advocate of New Cranston; her date of death is unknown.
*Some accounts give her name as Elizabeth.

Bannerman, Alexander (d. c.1666). Only recorded child of Alexander Bannerman and his first wife, Margaret, daughter of William Forbes of Tolquhon. He fought a duel with, and wounded, his cousin Sir John Gordon of Haddo in 1644. His estates were sequestrated following the Civil War but the sequestration was discharged in 1652. He married, May 1633, Marion, eldest daughter of Alexander Hamilton of East Binning (West Lothian) and had issue:
(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt. (q.v.);
(2) Rev. Robert Bannerman (d. 1719); educated at Edinburgh University (MA 1675); minister of Newton and Woomet (deprived for refusing to pray for King William and Queen Mary, 1689); afterwards a merchant in Edinburgh by 1694; burgess of Edinburgh in right of his wife, 1697; married Margaret (d. 1725), daughter of Sir Mark Carse of Cockpen, and had issue five sons and one daughter; died 24 January 1719;
(2) George Bannerman (d. 1691), of Dunboig (which he acquired in 1687); educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen (MA 1659); admitted advocate, 1671 and re-admitted 1676; chamberlain of Fife, 1682-91; solicitor to King Charles II, 1683-85; married Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Oliphant of Bachilton (Perths.) (who m2, Henry Balfour of Dunboig), but had no issue; buried at Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 20 March 1690/1;
(4) William Bannerman (fl. 1661); apprenticed to George Jaffray of Edinburgh, merchant, 1661;
(5) John Bannerman (fl. 1715); apprenticed to William Patton of Edinburgh, merchant, 10 March 1669, but was afterwards an officer in the Earl of Orkney's royal regiment of foot (Capt.);
(6) Mary Bannerman; married George Leslie (fl. 1666) of Findrassie, but had no issue;
(7) Margaret Bannerman; married Sir Alexander Keith (d. c.1680), 2nd bt., of Ludquhairn, and had issue one son and one daughter;
(8) Elizabeth Bannerman; married, 11 September 1670 at Edinburgh, James Reid of Northbrae, son of William Reid, bailie of Edinburgh, and had issue.
He inherited the Elsick estate from his father and had a charter of Pitmedden (Kincardines.) in 1641. His estates were sequestrated following the Civil War but the sequestration was discharged in 1652.
He died about 1666. His wife's date of death is unknown.

Bannerman, Sir Alexander (d. 1711), 1st bt. Eldest son of Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666) and his wife Marion, eldest daughter of Alexander Hamilton of East Binning (West Lothian). He registered his coat of arms with Lord Lyon about 1672, and added supporters in 1692, having been created a baronet, 28 December 1682, in recognition of "his constant loyalty during the rebellion and the heavy calamities he [but really his father] suffered on that account". He married, 1670 (contract 15 February), Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Scott of Thirlestaine (Selkirks.), and had issue:
(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt. (q.v.);
(2) George Bannerman (fl. 1692); attended Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1688-92; died unmarried;
(3) Sir Patrick Bannerman (1678-1733), kt. (q.v.);
(4) Isabella Bannerman (fl. 1692); married, 1692 (contract 3 November), John Scott MP (1671-1732) of Logie and Castlested (Angus), son of James Scott of Logie, and had issue three sons and six daughters.
He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in about 1666 and Dunboig from his younger brother in 1691. He sold Dunboig to Maj. Henry Balfour of Starr, 1694.
He died 11 April 1711. His wife was living in 1691.

Bannerman, Sir Alexander (d. 1742), 2nd bt. Eldest son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt., and his wife Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Scott of Thirlestaine, born c.1670-75. Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1688-92. He succeeded his father as 2nd bt., 11 April 1711, but accumulated enormous debts (totalling £35,413 by 1737). He married, 1699, Isabella (d. 1743), daughter of Sir Donald Macdonald of Sleat, 3rd bt. and had issue:
(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt.;
(2) Isabel Bannerman (d. 1777); married John Hope (1707-80) of Edinburgh, merchant, second son of Sir Thomas Hope, 8th bt. of Craighall, and had issue five sons and three daughters; died 24 April 1777;
(3) Margaret Bannerman; married, before 1737, Peter? Turnbull of Stracathro (Angus);
(4) A daughter.
He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in 1711.
He died 31 January 1742. His widow died 31 August 1743.

Bannerman, Sir Alexander (d. 1747), 3rd bt. Only son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt., and his wife Isabella, daughter of Sir Donald Macdonald of Sleat, 3rd bt, born c.1700-05. He succeeded his father as 3rd bt., 31 January 1742. He pledged his support for the 1745 uprising soon after the battle of Prestonpans, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the Mearns, 1745-46; he then led a small regiment of 160 men to join the Jacobite army at Stirling, and fought in the second line of battle at Culloden, 1746, after which he fled to France; he was one of the forty-four Jacobite commanders named in a bill of attainder, 1746. He married, 5 September 1728 at Kirby Sigston (Yorks NR), Elizabeth Trotter (d. 1746?), heiress of the Trotter family of East Harlsey (Yorks NR), and had issue:
(1) Alexander Bannerman (b. & d. 1729), baptised at East Harlsey, 19 August 1729; died in infancy and was buried at East Harlsey, 19 December 1729;
(2) Eleanor Bannerman (b. 1730), baptised at Northallerton, 2 August 1730; died in infancy and was buried at Kirby Sigston, August 1730;

(3) Sir Alexander Bannerman (c.1731-73), 4th bt. (q.v.);
(4) Isabella Bannerman (b. 1732), baptised at Kinnell (Angus), 9 January 1732/3; mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Eleanor Trotter, in 1759;
(5) Sir Edward Trotter Bannerman (d. 1796), 5th bt. (q.v.).
He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in 1742, and the East Harlsey estate in right of his wife.
He died in Paris in about June 1747. His wife was probably the woman of this name buried at Northallerton, 13 February 1745/6.

Bannerman, Sir Alexander (c.1731-73), 4th bt. Elder son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt. and his wife Isabella, heiress of the Trotter family of East Harlsey (Yorks NR), born about 1731. He succeeded his father as 4th baronet, about June 1747. He married, 8 May 1764 at Brompton by Northallerton (Yorks NR), Elizabeth (1740-1812), daughter of Marmaduke Sedgewick, and had issue:
(1) Alexander Bannerman (b. & d. 1765), baptised at East Harlsey, 24 May 1765; died in infancy and was buried at East Harlsey, 27 May 1765;
(2) Elizabeth Bannerman (1766-1844), of Strachan, born 7 April and baptised at East Harlsey, 24 April 1766; inherited the East Harlsey estate from her uncle in 1796; married, 8 October 1782 at East Harlsey, Sir Alexander Burnett (later Ramsay) (1757-1810) of Balmain, 1st bt., advocate, son of Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 6th bt., and had issue nine sons and two daughters; died at Edinburgh, 11 December 1844;
(3) Mary Bannerman (1767-1838), born 30 August and baptised at East Harlsey, 1 September 1767; married, 27 January 1784 at Edinburgh, Francis Russell (d. 1806) of Blackhall (Kincardines.), advocate, and had issue one daughter; died at Finzean (the seat of her son-in-law), Kincardine O'Neil (Aberdeens.), 1 February 1838.
He inherited the Elsick and East Harlsey estates from his father in 1747, but after being involved in lawsuits and threatened with forfeiture following the 1745 rebellion, he sold Elsick to Aberdeen Corporation.
He died 13 June, and was buried at East Harlsey near Northallerton (Yorks NR), 17 June 1773. His widow died at Montrose, 16 May 1812.

Bannerman, Sir Edward Trotter (d. 1796), 5th bt. Younger son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt. and his wife Isabella, heiress of the Trotter family of East Harlsey (Yorks NR). An officer in the army (Capt-Lt.; Capt., 1764; Major 1778; retired 1780). He succeeded his brother as 5th baronet, 13 June 1773. He was unmarried and without issue.

He inherited the East Harlsey estate from his elder brother in 1773. At his death, it passed to his niece and her husband, who appear to have been living there by 1789.
He died at Kincardine Lodge, 1 October 1796, when the baronetcy passed to his second cousin, Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th bt; his will was confirmed 28 January 1797.

Bannerman, (Sir) Patrick (1678-1733), kt. Third son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt., and his wife Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Scott of Thirlestaine, born 23 February 1678. Apprenticed to John Hay of Edinburgh, merchant, 31 January 1694. Merchant in Aberdeen; Provost of Aberdeen, 1714-15. A Jacobite in politics, he welcomed the Old Pretender on his landing in Scotland and was knighted by him. He was subsequently arrested by the Hanoverian authorities and imprisoned at Carlisle, but escaped to France, although he seems to have returned within a few months. He married, 18 April 1714 at Edinburgh, Margaret (1683-1750), daughter of Sir Charles Maitland of Pitrichie (Aberdeens.), and had issue:
(1) Alexander Bannerman (1715-82) (q.v.);
(2) Jean Bannerman (1718-88?), baptised at Aberdeen, 19 March 1718; declared to have been insane since 1746 and placed in the care of her elder brother, 3 July 1755; probably the lady of this name buried at New Machar, 6 May 1788;
(3) Charles Bannerman (1719-46), baptised at Aberdeen, 10 October 1719; apprenticed to George Chalmers WS; admitted to Society of Writers to the Signet, 5 July 1742; died unmarried and without issue at Edinburgh, 6 February 1746; will confirmed 17 July 1750;
(4) Clementina Bannerman (1721-87), baptised at Aberdeen, 5 September 1721; died unmarried, June 1787, and was buried at St Nicholas, Aberdeen;
(5) Margaret Bannerman (1723-88), baptised at Aberdeen, 24 August 1723; married, 1752 (contract 7 July) Alexander Milne of Aberdeen, merchant, and had issue (including Patrick Milne (d. c.1820), who bequeathed Crimonmogate to Sir Charles Bannerman, 8th bt.); died April 1788 and was buried at St Nicholas, Aberdeen.
He lived in Aberdeen.
He died 4 June 1733. His widow died at Aberdeen, 31 October 1750 and was buried at St Nicholas, Aberdeen.

Bannerman, Alexander (1715-82). Elder son of (Sir) Patrick Bannerman (d. 1733) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Charles Maitland of Pitrichie, baptised at Aberdeen, 13 September 1715. A wine and spirit merchant in Aberdeen. He married, 1737, Margaret (1719-96), eldest daughter and heir of Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, and had issue:
(1) Patrick Bannerman (b. 1739), baptised at Aberdeen, 9 April 1739; probably died young;
(2) Sir Alexander Bannerman (later Burnett then Bannerman) (1741-1813), 6th bt. (q.v.);
(3) Thomas Bannerman (1743-1820), baptised at Aberdeen, 19 May 1743; successful wine merchant in Aberdeen; a director of the Aberdeen Banking Company; married, 29 April 1779 at Aberdeen, Jean (1753-1817), daughter of George Simpson of Hazelhead and had issue five sons (from whom descended the 10th and 11th baronets) and one daughter; died 4 January 1820; will confirmed 8 February 1821;
(4) Mordaunt Bannerman (1746-66?), baptised at Aberdeen, 1 May 1746; possibly the person of this name who was buried at Minster (Kent), 9 October 1766;
(5) Anne Bannerman (1747-72), born 14 November and baptised at Aberdeen, 23 November 1747; married, 1767, Alexander Garioch (1742-1802) of Aberdeen and had issue one son and one daughter; died August 1772;
(6) Charles Bannerman (1750-1813), baptised at Aberdeen, 7 June 1850; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen (MA 1767); apprenticed to William Thom; admitted advocate, 1776; practiced in Aberdeen in partnership with James Blaikie (Bannerman & Blaikie); joint Commissary Depute; director of Aberdeen Banking Company; guild burgess of Aberdeen from 1788; one of the assessors to the Rector of King's College, Aberdeen, 1798-1806; an officer in Royal Aberdeen Volunteers (Maj., 1806); a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, 1776-1813 (Treasurer, 1784-86; President, 1798-1800); married, 6 January 1785 at Aberdeen, Margaret (d. 1836), daughter of Patrick Wilson, formerly collector of customs on the island of St. Kitts, and had issue six sons (from whom descend the 12th and later baronets) and six daughters; died at Aberdeen, 24 September 1813.
He lived at Frendraught and later in Aberdeen. In 1748 he inherited part of the considerable property of Dr Charles Maitland of Aberdeen, physician.
He died in Aberdeeen, 27 June 1782. His widow died 31 August 1796.

Bannerman (later Burnett then Bannerman), Sir Alexander (1741-1813), 6th bt. Eldest son of Alexander Bannerman (1715-82) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, baptised at Aberdeen, 22 December 1741. Educated at Aberdeen University (MD). A well-known physician in Aberdeen; Professor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, 1793-1813 (jointly with his third son from 1797). He took the name Burnett in lieu of Bannerman on inheriting the property of his mother's family at Kirkhill in 1777, but reverted to Bannerman in 1796 on inheriting the family baronetcy from his second cousin, 1 October 1796. He married, 25 January 1768 at Aberdeen, Mary, daughter of James Gordon of Banchory and sister and heir of Thomas Gordon of Heathcot, and had issue including:
(1) Thomas Bannerman (1768-89), baptised at Aberdeen, 19 November 1768; merchant in China; died unmarried in China in or about December 1789; will proved in PCC, 27 February 1793;
(2) Sir Alexander Bannerman (1769-1840), 7th bt. (q.v.);
(3) Maria Bannerman (1771-1826), baptised at Aberdeen, 18 March 1771; married, 18 June 1793 at Aberdeen, William Keith-Falconer (1766-1812), 6th Earl of Kintore, and had issue two sons and one daughter; died in Bath (Somerset), 30 June 1826 and was buried in Bath Abbey, 13 July 1826;
(4) Ann (aka Margaret?) Bannerman (b. 1773), baptised at Aberdeen, 15 January 1773; no marriage or burial for an Ann Bannerman can be found, but a list of children living in 1794 includes a Margaret but no Ann, and she may therefore possibly be the 'Margaret, daughter of Dr Bannerman' buried at Aberdeen 10 May 1795;
(5) Prof. James Bannerman (1774-1838), baptised at Aberdeen, 5 October 1774; professor of medicine at King's College, Aberdeen, 1797-1838 (jointly with his father until 1813); married, 26 April 1805, Helen (c.1784-1864), eldest daughter of Alexander Burnett of Kemnay, but had no issue; died at Balgowie Cottage, Aberdeen, 17 February 1838;
(6) George Bannerman (1776-before 1840), baptised at Aberdeen, 18 December 1776; died unmarried and without issue before 1840;
(7) Sir Charles Bannerman (1782-1851), 8th bt. (q.v.);
(8) Edward John Bannerman (1786-1818), baptised at Aberdeen, 1 January 1786; served in the 6th Native Cavalry; died at Nagpur County (India), of a fever, November 1818.
He inherited the property of the Burnett family at Kirkhill in 1777, but lived in Aberdeen throughout his life.
He died at his house in Marischal Street, Aberdeen, 29 December 1813. His widow died in Aberdeen, 23 November 1820.

Bannerman, Sir Alexander (1769-1840), 7th bt. Elder surviving son of Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th bt. and his wife Mary, daughter of James Gordon of Banchory, born 19 December 1769. He succeeded his father as 7th baronet, 29 December 1813. A Whig in politics, 'but thoroughly independent, and as willing to censure the shortcomings of his own party as to blame the misdeeds of their opponents'. His diary for the years 1826-39 is in the National Library of Scotland. He married, 15 November 1800, Rachel (1779-1847), younger daughter of John Irvine of Aberdeen, a Gothenburg merchant, but had no issue.
He presumably inherited his father's property at Kirkhill.
He died 31 May 1840; he left an unusual and complex will which resulted in litigation over several years, finally determined by a ruling of the Court of Session in 1844. His widow died 13 November 1847 and was buried in Greyfriars kirkyard, Edinburgh, where she is commemorated by a monument.

Bannerman, Sir Charles (1782-1851), 8th bt. Fifth son of Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th bt. and his wife Mary, daughter of James Gordon of Banchory, born 18 August and baptised at Aberdeen, 22 August 1782. Manufacturer in Aberdeen. He succeeded his brother as 8th baronet, 31 May 1840. A Conservative in politics. He married, 11 August 1821 at Old Machar (Aberdeens.), his cousin Anne (1791-1838), third daughter of Charles Bannerman (youngest brother of the 6th bt.), and had issue:
(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt. (q.v.);
(2) Margaret Bannerman (1828-33); died young, 2 May 1833;
(3) Mary Elizabeth Bannerman (1830-38); died of scarlet fever at Crimonmogate, 30 August 1838.
(4) Anne Catherine Bannerman (1832-47), baptised at Lonmay (Aberdeens.), 25 February 1832; died young at Crimonmogate, 26 February 1847.
He also had issue an illegitimate son:
(X1) Charles Bannerman (fl. 1872?); living in Bombay (India), 1844, when he was mentioned in his father's will, and perhaps to be identified with the assistant chief engineer and inspector of machinery at HM Dockyard there, who retired to England; married and had issue; living in 1872.
He perhaps inherited the Kirkhill property from his brother in 1840. He inherited the Crimonmogate estate from Patrick Milne in 1820, and rebuilt the house there to the designs of Archibald Simpson.
He died in London, 18 June 1851 and was buried at Crimond, where he is commemorated by a monument; his will was proved 27 August 1851. His wife died of scarlet fever at Crimmondgate, 2 September 1838.

Sir Alexander Bannerman, 9th bt.

Bannerman, Sir Alexander (1823-77), 9th bt. Only son of Sir Charles Bannerman (1782-1851), 8th bt., and his wife Anne, daughter of Charles Bannerman, born 6 April and baptised at Old Machar (Aberdeens.), 9 April 1823. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1841). Joined the diplomatic service and was attached to the Legation at Florence, 1844-47, when he resigned. He succeeded his father as 9th baronet, 18 June 1851. DL for Aberdeenshire, 1849 and for Kincardineshire, 1856, and acted as Vice-Lord Lieutenant for his cousin, Lord Kintore. He was a Whig in politics, and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Aberdeenshire in 1842 (when he was defeated) and 1860 (when he withdrew). He took a keen interest in the management of his estates, doing personally much of the work normally delegated to a factor, and undertaking several building projects, which included the restoration of the old parish church at Crimond as well as remodelling Crimonmogate and Elsick. He was also a keen amateur photographer and kept a before-and-after record of his changes to the buildings on the Crimonmogate estate. He married 1st, 26 September 1860 at Withyham (Sussex), Lady Arabella Diana Sackville West (1835-69), daughter of 5th Earl de la Warre, and 2nd, 20 January 1874 at St Peter, Eaton Sq., London, Lady Katherine (1841-85), eldest daughter of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, and had issue:
(1.1) Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman (c.1869-1947), born 9 February 1869; married, 1 August 1891 at St Peter, Eaton Sq., London, Charles Noel Carnegie (1854-1941), 7th bt. (later 10th* Earl of Southesk), and had issue three sons and two daughters; died 10 December 1947.
He inherited Crimonmogate from his father in 1851 and remodelled it c.1864. He also repurchased part of the Elsick estate, including Elsick House. In 1883 his daughter's estate consisted of 7,660 acres in Aberdeenshire and 500 acres in Kincardineshire. The Kincardineshire property has passed by descent to his daughter's descendant, the 4th Duke of Fife. He also had a house in Grosvenor Place, London.
He died in London, 21 April 1877, when the baronetcy passed to his cousin, Sir George Bannerman (1827-1901), 10th bt, and was buried at Lonmay (Aberdeens.), 27 April 1877; his will was confirmed in Scotland, 4 February 1878 and sealed in London, 28 February 1878 (estate £32,784). His first wife died in childbirth in London, 9 February 1869, and was buried at Lonmay. His widow died at Eastbourne (Sussex), 30 September 1885, and was buried at Crimonmogate; her will was proved 18 December 1885.
* 7th Earl by some reckonings.