Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
The Skene Baronetcy, of Curriehill, was a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 22 February 1628 for James Skene, Lord Curriehill. He was the son of John Skene, Lord Curriehill, Lord Clerk Register and a Lord of Session under the judicial title Lord Curriehill. The title became dormant on the death of the second Baronet in circa 1680.
second Baronet in circa 1680. Sir James Skene, 1st Baronet (1579 - 15 October 1633) buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir John Skene, 2nd Baronet (died c...
(and created for Scottish nobleman William Duff, 1696–1763), and Baron Skene in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (created in 1857 for his father The...
Scott's friend, James Skene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and his wife, Jane Forbes, daughter of Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet of Pitsligo. The...
James Skene of Rubislaw FSA Scot FRSE FGS (1775–1864) was a Scottish lawyer and amateur artist, best known as a friend of Sir Walter Scott. The second...
Clan Skene is a Scottish clan. The traditional origin of the Clan Skene is found in a legend of the Clan Robertson in the eleventh century. It is said...
his death in 1857. Later that year, the 5th Earl was created Baron Skene, of Skene in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In...
era. Skene was born on 23 May 1821 in Aix-en-Provence, France, the youngest daughter of Jane Forbes, daughter of Sir William Forbes, sixth baronet of Pitsligo...
Southesk also holds the Scottish feudal title of Baron of Kinnaird and is a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, has been the...
used to put one to sleep. Dr Simpson and two of his assistants, Dr George Skene Keith (1819–1910) and James Matthews Duncan (1826–1890), used to sit every...
political officer, Captain Alexander Skene, for permission to raise a body of armed men for her protection; Skene agreed to this. The city was relatively...
friend: William Stewart Rose, The Rev. John Marriot, William Erskine, James Skene, George Ellis, and Richard Heber: the epistles develop themes of moral positives...
Siddons, husband of Harriet Siddons Sir James Skene (died 1633), President of the College of Justice John Skene, Lord Curriehill (died 1617) William Smellie...
United Kingdom List of baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain Leigh Rayment's list of baronets Baronetcies to which no Succession has been proved...
Entries in the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, collected by William Forbes Skene, provide the account of Finnguala killing Kenneth II in revenge, but not...
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was James Skene. He resigned from the Society in 1839. In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of...
'Ina' Liddell (11 May 1849 – 29 October 1930); married William Baillie Skene in 1874. James Arthur Charles Liddell (28 December 1850 – 27 November 1853)...
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