Preston baronets of Airdrie (1628)

Escutcheon of Preston of Airdrie[1]

The Preston baronetcy, of Airdrie in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 22 February 1628 for John Preston. He was the son of John Preston, Lord Fentonbarns and his first wife Elizabeth Fawside.[2][3]

The descent after the death of the 4th Baronet sometime after 1701 and the accession of Robert Preston in 1784 is uncertain. The title became dormant on the latter's death c.1792.[2]

  1. ^ 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. Wm. Clowes & Sons for the Publishers, Burke's Peerage, in conjunction with Shaw Publishing Company. p. 823.
  2. ^ a b Cokayne, George Edward (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 346–347.
  3. ^ Murray, Athol. "Preston, John, of Penicuik, Lord Fentonbarns (d. 1616)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22726. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)