Burnett Baronets
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The Burnett Baronetcy, of Leys in the County of Kincardine, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 21 April 1626 for the leading Covenanter
Covenanter
The Covenanters were a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland, and to a lesser extent in that of England and Ireland, during the 17th century...
Thomas Burnett
Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet of Leys was a feudal baron and leading Covenanter who had represented Kincardineshire in the Scottish Parliament in 1621.-Early years:...
. He was the uncle of Gilbert Burnet
Gilbert Burnet
Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian...
, Bishop of Salisbury
Bishop of Salisbury
The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset...
. The third Baronet was one of the Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain
Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain
Scottish representatives to the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain were not elected but co-opted in 1707 from the Commissioners of the last Parliament of Scotland.-Legal background to the composition of the 1st Parliament:...
. The eighth, tenth and twelfth Baronets all served as Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire.*Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore 17 March 1794 – 30 August 1804*John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott 5 October 1804 – 1847...
. The thirteenth Baronet was a Major-General in the British Army
British Army
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. The title became dormant on the death of the fourteenth Baronet in 1959.
The sixth Baronet married Catherine, sister and heiress of Sir Alexander Ramsay-Irvine, 6th and last Baronet, of Balmain (see Ramsay Baronets
Ramsay Baronets
There have been five Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Ramsay, four in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010....
). Their second son Alexander Burnett succeeded to the Ramsay estates on his uncle's death in 1806 and assumed the surname of Ramsay in lieu of his patronymic. The same year the baronetcy of Balmain was revived in his favour. His descendant Sir Alexander William Burnett Ramsay, 7th Baronet, is presumed to be the heir to the Burnett Baronetcy of Leys.
The Burnett Baronetcy, of Selborne House in the County Borough of Croydon, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 October 1913 for Sir David Burnett, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London
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between 1912 and 1913. As of 2010 the title is held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baronet, who succeeded his father in 2002.
Burnett Baronets, of Leys (1626)
- Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Burnett, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet of Leys was a feudal baron and leading Covenanter who had represented Kincardineshire in the Scottish Parliament in 1621.-Early years:...
(d. 1653) - Sir Alexander Burnett, 2nd Baronet (d. 1663)
- Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Burnett, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 3rd Baronet, , Lord Clerk Register, PC, MP. He was, at Stonehaven, 21 April 1664, retoured as heir to his father, Sir Alexander Burnett, 2nd Baronet who had died the previous year...
(d. 1714) - Sir Alexander Burnett, 4th Baronet (d. 1758)
- Sir Robert Burnett, 5th Baronet (d. 1759)
- Sir Thomas Burnett, 6th Baronet (d. 1783)
- Sir Robert Burnett, 7th Baronet (1755-1837)
- Sir Thomas Burnett, 8th Baronet (1778-1849)
- Sir Alexander Burnett, 9th Baronet (1789-1856)
- Sir James Horn Burnett, 10th Baronet (1801–1876)
- Sir Robert Burnett, 11th Baronet (1833–1894)
- Sir Thomas Burnett, 12th Baronet (1840–1926)
- Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett, 13th Baronet (1880–1953)
- Sir Alexander Edwin Burnett, 14th Baronet (1881–1959)
Burnett Baronets, of Selborne House (1913)
- Sir David Burnett, 1st Baronet (1851–1930)
- Sir Leslie Trew Burnett, 2nd Baronet (1884–1955)
- Sir David Humphrey Burnett, 3rd Baronet (1918–2002)
- Sir Charles David Burnett, 4th Baronet (b. 1951)