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There have been twelve '''baronetcies''' created for people with the surname '''Scott''', one in the [[Baronetage of England]], two in the [[Baronetage of Nova Scotia]], and nine in the [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom]]. |
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[[File:Sir Henry Raeburn - Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford]] |
[[File:Sir Henry Raeburn - Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Kew Green (1653)]] |
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There have been twelve '''baronetcies''' created for people with the surname '''Scott''', one in the [[Baronetage of England]], two in the [[Baronetage of Nova Scotia]], and nine in the [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom]]. |
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* Scott baronets, of Thirlestane (1666): see the [[Lord Napier]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Ancrum (1671)]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Great Barr]] 1806 |
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* Sibbald, later Scott baronets, of Dunninald (1806): see [[Sibbald baronets of Dunninald (1806)]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Abbotsford (1820)]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Lytchet Minster (1821)]] |
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* Scott baronets of Connaught Place (1899): see [[Sir John Scott, 1st Baronet of Connaught Place]] (1847–1912) |
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* [[Scott baronets of Beauclerc (1907)]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of the Yews (1909)]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Witley (1913)]] |
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* [[Scott baronets of Rotherfield Park (1962)]] |
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== History == |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Kew Green in the County of Middlesex, was created in the [[Baronetage of England]] on 9 August 1653 for William Scott. The title became either extinct or dormant on the death of the fourth Baronet in circa 1775. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Thirlestane in the County of Selkirk, was created in the [[Baronetage of Nova Scotia]] on 22 August 1666 for Francis Scott. The third Baronet had already succeeded his grandmother as [[Lord Napier]] when he inherited the baronetcy in 1725. The baronetcy has remained a subsidiary title of the Lords Napier ever since, currently (2018) held by [[Francis Napier, 15th Lord Napier]]. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Ancrum in the County of Roxburgh, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 27 October 1671 for John Scott. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1902. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Great Barr in the County of Stafford, was created in the [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom]] on 30 April 1806 for [[Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet|Joseph Scott]] of [[Great Barr Hall]], [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Worcester (UK Parliament constituency)|Worcester]] The third Baronet had already succeeded to the [[Bateman baronets|Bateman Baronetcy of Hartington Hall]] when he inherited the Baronetcy in 1851. However, the two titles separated on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1905, when the Bateman Baronetcy was inherited by the fourth [[Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets|Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets of St Audries]]. The current status of the title is uncertain. See also [[Scott baronets of Great Barr]] |
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# The '''Sibbald''', later '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Dunninald in the County of Forfar, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 13 December 1806 for James Sibbald. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1945. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 April 1820 for the author [[Walter Scott]]. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1847. See also [[Constable Maxwell-Scott baronets]]. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Lytchet Minster in the County of Dorset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 September 1821 for Claude Scott. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1961. |
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[[File:John Murray Scott.jpg|thumb|Sir John Murray Scott, 1st Baronet, "of Connaught Place", portrait by Herman Herkomer (1863–1935), Wallace Collection]] |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Connaught Place in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 23 February 1899 for John Edward Arthur Murray Scott (1847–1912), the eldest son of Dr. John Scott, a physician at Boulogne-sur-Seine, France.<ref>Wallace Collection, Reference: GB 1807 MURR [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/2ccb34eb-0772-3a3c-b966-0ec3258eabdc]</ref> The title became extinct on his death in 1912. He spent much of his life in France and became the private secretary of the art collector [[Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet]] (d.1890),<ref>In 1877 Scott's brother Rev. Edward Scott was appointed Rector of Orford Church on Wallace's Sudbourne estate, and played a major role in the restoration of the church in 1892. Sir John Scott was buried in Orford Churchyard (Steven Russell, "Vast wealth - and an exotic gold-digger", East Anglian Daily Times, November 25, 2008[https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/vast-wealth-and-an-exotic-gold-digger-7559976]) </ref> whose widow bequeathed to Scott much of his huge fortune and art collection, part of which she donated to the nation as the [[Wallace Collection]], supposedly on Scott's advice.<ref>Higgott, Suzanne (Wallace Collection), “Unmasking an Enigma: Who Was Lady Wallace and What Did She Achieve?”, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2021[https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/3006/]</ref> He inherited the lease of [[Hertford House]], Wallace's London townhouse, which he sold to the government as a home for the Wallace Collection, and was awarded a baronetcy for his services in connection with the establishment of the Wallace Collection<ref>Wallace Collection, Reference: GB 1807 MURR [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/2ccb34eb-0772-3a3c-b966-0ec3258eabdc]</ref> which opened as a museum in 1900. He also inherited the [[Château de Bagatelle]] in Paris, with its 60 acre garden,<ref>Vita Sackville-West, ''Pepita'', Hogarth Press, 1937, p.197</ref> which he sold to the City of Paris in 1904/5,<ref>Taha Al-Douri, "The Constitution of Pleasure: François-Joseph Belanger and the Château de Bagatelle" ''RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics'', 200. (note 2).</ref> and Wallace's estates in [[Lisburn]], [[Ulster]] and the house at 2 rue Laffitte, Paris,<ref>Wallace Collection |
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Reference: GB 1807 MURR [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/2ccb34eb-0772-3a3c-b966-0ec3258eabdc]</ref><ref>The house and contents at 2 rue Laffitte are described by Vita Sackville-West in ''Pepita'', Hogarth Press, 1937, pp.194-5, quoted in: Robert Cecil, "The Remainder of the Hertford and Wallace Collections", www.jstor.org |
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[https://www.jstor.org/stable/870419] and Scott is described in pp.189-200; also in ''The Connoisseur'', August, 1910, p.231; April 1911, p.218; The Sphere, 9 March, 1912, pp.278-9; L'Illustration, 20 June 1914, p.551; 27 June 1914, p.573 (all quoted in Robert Cecil, note 2</ref> with its valuable art collection ("A vast apartment ... a treasure-house which brought visitors from every part of Europe").<ref>Vita Sackville-West, ''Pepita'', p.194</ref> He moved his London residence to 5 Connaught Place<ref>Wallace Collection, Reference: GB 1807 MURR [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/2ccb34eb-0772-3a3c-b966-0ec3258eabdc]</ref> and between 1903 and 1909 he built Nether Swell Manor in Gloucestershire as his country house, to the design of the architect Sir E Guy Dawber.<ref>Gloucestershire Archives, D7332, Nether Swell Manor [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/601a4ddc-ae32-4133-ae94-11039edfda16]</ref> He served as chairman of the trustees of the Wallace Collection and as a trustee of the National Gallery. He died of a heart attack whilst attending a meeting at Hertford House,<ref>Vita Sackville-West, ''Pepita'', Hogarth Press, 1937, p.246</ref> unmarried and without issue, and bequeathed to his mistress [[Victoria Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville|Victoria Sackville-West]] (Baroness Sackville) much of his property together with the sum of £150,000. She sold the art collection in the rue Laffitte apartment to the Paris art dealer Jacques Seligmann<ref>Wallace Collection, Reference: GB 1807 MURR [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/2ccb34eb-0772-3a3c-b966-0ec3258eabdc]</ref> for £270,000.<ref>Vita Sackville-West, ''Pepita'', Hogarth Press, 1937, p.246</ref> It was believed by Scott's relatives that Victoria had exerted undue influence over him, and they challenged the will in court "in a blaze of publicity", but were unsuccessful.<ref>Vita Sackville-West, ''Pepita'', Hogarth Press, 1937, pp.240-6, death of Scott, his will and the trial</ref> Jane Allen (2008)<ref>Jane Allen, The Wallace Connection - The Story of the Restoration of Orford Church, published by Orford Museum, 2008</ref> believes that "Lady Wallace had left her fortune to John Murray Scott simply because the family had become supportive friends. 'I don't attribute any evil motives to the Scotts; I don't think they were gold-diggers in the way that Victoria Sackville was'"<ref>Steven Russell, "Vast wealth - and an exotic gold-digger", East Anglian Daily Times, November 25, 2008[https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/vast-wealth-and-an-exotic-gold-digger-7559976]</ref> |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Beauclerc in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1907 for the businessman Walter Scott. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of the Yews in the County of Westmorland, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1909 for the businessman James William Scott. His grandson [[Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott|Sir Oliver Scott]], 3rd baronet, was a [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] who worked as a [[Radiobiology|Radiobiologist]] in cancer therapy research.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2016/dec/29/sir-oliver-scott-obituary ''The Guardian'', Obituary, published 29 December 2016]</ref> |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Witley in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 February 1913 for the naval commander Admiral [[Percy Scott]]. |
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# The '''Scott Baronetcy''', of Rotherfield Park in the County of Southampton, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16 February 1962 for Jervoise Bolitho Scott. He was for many years a member of the [[Hampshire County Council]]. His son, the second Baronet, served as [[Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire]] from 1982 to 1993. |
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==Scott baronets, of Kew Green (1653)== |
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*Sir William Scott, 1st Baronet (died 1681) |
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*Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet (died {{circa|1700}}) |
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*Sir William Scott, 3rd Baronet (died 1723) |
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*Sir William Scott, 4th Baronet (died {{circa|1775}}) |
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==Scott baronets, of Thirlestane (1666)== |
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*see the [[Lord Napier]] |
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==Scott baronets, of Ancrum (1671)== |
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*[[Sir John Scott, 1st Baronet of Ancrum]] (died 1712) |
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*Sir Patrick Scott, 2nd Baronet (died 1734) |
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*Sir John Scott, 3rd Baronet (died 1746) |
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*Sir William Scott, 4th Baronet (died 1769) |
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*Sir John Scott, 5th Baronet (died 1812) |
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*[[Sir William Scott, 6th Baronet]] (1803–1871) |
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*Sir William Monteath Scott, 7th Baronet (1829–1902) |
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==Scott baronets, of Great Barr (1806)== |
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See [[Scott baronets of Great Barr]] |
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==Sibbald, later Scott baronets, of Dunninald (1806)== |
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*[[Sir James Sibbald, 1st Baronet]] (died 1819) |
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*[[Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet|Sir David Scott Scott, 2nd Baronet]] (1782–1851) |
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*[[Sir James Sibbald David Scott, 3rd Baronet]] (1814–1885) |
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*Sir Francis David Sibbald Scott, 4th Baronet (1851–1906) |
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*Sir Francis Montagu Sibbald Scott, 5th Baronet (1885–1945) |
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==Scott baronets, of Abbotsford (1820)== |
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*[[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet]] (1771–1832) |
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*Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet (1801–1847) |
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==Scott baronets, of Lytchet Minster (1821)== |
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*Sir Claude Scott, 1st Baronet (1742–1830) |
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*[[Samuel Scott, 2nd Baronet of Lytchet Minster|Sir Samuel Scott, 2nd Baronet]] (1772–1849) Member of Parliament for [[Malmesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Malmesbury]] 1802–1806, and [[Camelford (UK Parliament constituency)|Camelford]] 1812–1818 |
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*Sir Claude Edward Scott, 3rd Baronet (1804–1874) |
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*Sir Claude Edward Scott, 4th Baronet (1840–1880) |
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*Sir Edward Henry Scott, 5th Baronet (1842–1883) |
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*[[Sir Samuel Scott, 6th Baronet|Sir Samuel Edward Scott, 6th Baronet]] (1873–1943) |
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*Sir Robert Claude Scott, 7th Baronet (1886–1961) |
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==Scott baronets, of Connaught Place (1899)== |
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*[[Sir John Scott, 1st Baronet of Connaught Place|Sir John Edward Arthur Murray Scott, 1st Baronet of Connaught Place]] (1847–1912) |
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==Scott baronets, of Beauclerc (1907)== |
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*[[Walter Scott (1st Baronet of Beauclerc)|Sir Walter Scott]], 1st Baronet (1826–1910) |
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*[[Sir John Scott, 2nd Baronet]] (1854–1922) |
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*[[Sir Walter Scott, 3rd Baronet]] (1895–1967) |
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*[[Sir Walter Scott, 4th Baronet]] (1918–1992) |
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*[[Sir John Scott, 5th Baronet|Sir Walter John Scott, 5th Baronet (born 1948)]] |
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==Scott baronets, of the Yews (1909)== |
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*Sir James William Scott, 1st Baronet (1844–1913) |
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*[[Sir Samuel Haslam Scott]], 2nd Baronet (1875–1960) |
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*Sir [[Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott]], 3rd Baronet (1922–2016) |
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*Sir Christopher James Anderson Scott, 4th Baronet<ref name="OfficialRoll">{{cite web|url=http://www.baronetage.org/official-roll-of-the-baronets/|title=Official Roll of the Baronetage (as of 31 January 2017)|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306051137/http://www.baronetage.org/official-roll-of-the-baronets/|archivedate=6 March 2015}}</ref> (born 1955) |
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The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's son Edward James Saim Scott (born 1990) |
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==Scott baronets, of Witley (1913)== |
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*[[Percy Scott|Sir Percy Scott, 1st Baronet]] (1853–1924) |
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*Sir Douglas Winchester Scott, 2nd Baronet (1907–1984) |
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*Sir Anthony Percy Scott, 3rd Baronet (1937–2019) |
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*Sir Henry Douglas Edward Scott, 4th Baronet<ref name="roll">{{cite web|title=Official Roll of the Baronetage|url=https://www.baronetage.org/official-roll/ |publisher=Standing Council of the Baronetage|access-date=18 December 2019}}</ref> (born 1964) |
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==Scott baronets, of Rotherfield Park (1962)== |
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*[[Sir Jervoise Scott, 1st Baronet|Sir Jervoise Bolitho Scott, 1st Baronet]] (1892–1965) |
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*[[Sir James Scott, 2nd Baronet|Sir James Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet]] (1924–1993) |
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*Sir James Jervoise Scott, 3rd Baronet (born 1952) |
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The heir apparent is the present holder's son Arthur Jervoise Trafford Scott (born 1984) |
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The heir apparent's heir apparent is the former's eldest son Wilfred Jervoise Scott (born 2014) |
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|crest = Out of a circlet of pales Or a cubit arm erect habited Gules cuffed Ermine the hand Proper holding a paper scroll Argent. |
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|motto = In Christo Salus<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2000}}</ref>}} |
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==References== |
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*{{Rayment-bt|date=March 2012|S|1}} |
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[[Category:Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia]] |
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[[Category:Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom]] |
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[[Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England]] |
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[[Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia]] |
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[[Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom]] |
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[[Category:Scott family of Abbotsford]] |
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Latest revision as of 18:37, 15 September 2023
There have been twelve baronetcies created for people with the surname Scott, one in the Baronetage of England, two in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, and nine in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
- Scott baronets of Kew Green (1653)
- Scott baronets, of Thirlestane (1666): see the Lord Napier
- Scott baronets of Ancrum (1671)
- Scott baronets of Great Barr 1806
- Sibbald, later Scott baronets, of Dunninald (1806): see Sibbald baronets of Dunninald (1806)
- Scott baronets of Abbotsford (1820)
- Scott baronets of Lytchet Minster (1821)
- Scott baronets of Connaught Place (1899): see Sir John Scott, 1st Baronet of Connaught Place (1847–1912)
- Scott baronets of Beauclerc (1907)
- Scott baronets of the Yews (1909)
- Scott baronets of Witley (1913)
- Scott baronets of Rotherfield Park (1962)