Lord Cranstoun
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Lord Cranstoun was a title in the Peerage of Scotland
. It was created on 17 November 1609 for Sir William Cranstoun of that Ilk, sometimes designated 'of Morristoun', Berwickshire
. On the death of the eleventh lord, unmarried, in 1869, the peerage became extinct.
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
. It was created on 17 November 1609 for Sir William Cranstoun of that Ilk, sometimes designated 'of Morristoun', Berwickshire
Berwickshire
Berwickshire or the County of Berwick is a registration county, a committee area of the Scottish Borders Council, and a lieutenancy area of Scotland, on the border with England. The town after which it is named—Berwick-upon-Tweed—was lost by Scotland to England in 1482...
. On the death of the eleventh lord, unmarried, in 1869, the peerage became extinct.
Lords Cranstoun (1609)
- William Cranstoun, 1st Lord CranstounWilliam Cranstoun, 1st Lord CranstounWilliam Cranstoun, 1st Lord Cranstoun was a Scottish Lord of Parliament, who played a prominent part in the pacification of the Anglo-Scottish border in the early 17th century.-Origins:...
(d. June 1627) - John Cranstoun, 2nd Lord CranstounJohn Cranstoun, 2nd Lord CranstounJohn Cranstoun, 2nd Lord Cranstoun was a Scottish Lord of Parliament.-Origins:Cranstoun was the son of William Cranstoun, 1st Lord Cranstoun, and Sarah Cranstoun, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Cranstoun...
(d. 1570–c.1648) - William Cranstoun, 3rd Lord CranstounWilliam Cranstoun, 3rd Lord CranstounWilliam Cranstoun, 3rd Lord Cranstoun was a Scottish Lord of Parliament and a renowned Cavalier.-Origins:...
(d. after July 1664) - James Cranstoun, 4th Lord Cranstoun (d. between 1685–88)
- William Cranstoun, 5th Lord Cranstoun (d. 1727)
- James Cranstoun, 6th Lord Cranstoun (d. 1773)
- William Cranstoun, 7th Lord Cranstoun (1749–1778)
- James Cranstoun, 8th Lord CranstounJames Cranstoun, 8th Lord CranstounJames Cranstoun, 8th Lord Cranstoun was an officer of the Royal Navy.The third son of James Cranstoun, 6th Lord Cranstoun, he succeeded to the title on 1 August 1778 on the death of his elder brother William Cranstoun, 7th Lord Cranstoun....
(1755–1796) - James Edmund Cranstoun, 9th Lord Cranstoun (1780–1818)
- James Edward Cranstoun, 10th Lord Cranstoun (1809–1869)
- Charles Frederick Cranstoun, 11th Lord Cranstoun (1813–1869)