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Born on 28 January 1729 in St Andrews, [1] he was the only surviving son of Sir Alexander Sharp, 5th Baronet, (1697-1769) and his wife Margaret Hamilton (1697-1783). [2] While he was studying at the University of St Andrews, the 1745 Rebellion broke out and he joined the rebel forces.
Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet, FRS, LL.D (1736–25 December 1809) was an English peer, churchman and scientist. He was Dean of Lincoln from 1783, and inherited the baronetcy from his elder brother Sir John Lister Kaye, 5th Baronet in 1789.
The title was granted in 1625 to Sir George Calvert (1580–1632), and it became extinct in 1771 on the death of Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore. [1] The title was held by six members/generations of the Calvert family, who were Lord proprietors of the palatinates Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and Maryland Palatinate (later the Province of Maryland and subsequent American State of Maryland).
He was the son of George Johnstone, who died in 1787, and his wife Charlotte Dee. [1] His mother married again, in 1790, to Charles Edmund Nugent. [2]Johnstone was brought up in the expectation of inheriting from his paternal uncle, the wealthy Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, a property developer who died in 1805, and who had changed his surname from Johnstone.
Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet (1791–1865) Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet (1818–1878) Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet (1866–1956) Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, 11th Baronetess (1906–2011) [3] Sir John Ronald Maxwell Macdonald, 12th Baronet (1936–2023) [4] Sir John Ranald Maxwell Macdonald, 13th Baronet (born 1965)
Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore. In 1751 Charles Calvert died, and Frederick, aged just 20, inherited from his father the title Baron Baltimore and the Proprietary Governorship of the Province of Maryland, becoming at once both a wealthy nobleman in England and a powerful figure in America.
Sir Charles Andrew Gladstone, 6th Baronet (28 October 1888 – 28 April 1968) was a Master at Eton College and a British baronet. Gladstone was the son of the Reverend Stephen Edward Gladstone and Annie Crosthwaite Wilson, and the grandson of the former Prime Minister , William Ewart Gladstone . [ 1 ]
Sir Charles Holte, 6th Baronet (bapt. 25 November 1721 [1] – 13 March 1782) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780. Holte was the second son of Sir Clobery Holte, 4th Baronet, of Aston Hall and his wife Barbara Lister, daughter of Thomas Lister of Whitfield, Northamptonshire.