Dalrymple baronets of Cranstoun (1698)

Escutcheon of the Dalrymple baronets of Cranstoun[1]

The Dalrymple baronetcy of Cranstoun was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 28 April 1698, for James Dalrymple, second son of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, a clerk of the Court of Session and antiquarian.[2] The 5th baronet, Sir John, succeeded as eighth Earl of Stair (and 9th baronet of the 1664 creation) in 1840, and the titles remain merged.

  1. ^ Rietstap, J. B. (1965). Armorial général, précédé d'un dictionnaire des termes du blason. Vol. I. London: Heraldry Today. p. 505I. ISBN 0900455187.
  2. ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 379–381.