Clerk Baronets

Clerk Baronets

There has been one creation of baronets with the surname Clerk (as distinct from Clark and Clarke and Clerke). It was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia by Letters Patent dated 24 March 1679, for John Clerk of Pennycuik (or Penicuik), whose father, also John Clerk of Penicuik, had returned from Paris in 1647 with a considerable fortune and purchased the lands of Penicuik in Midlothian. The 1st Baronet acquired the lands of Lasswade, Midlothian, in 1700.

The 3rd Baronet, James, laid out plans for a new town in 1770, inspired by the local plans for a New Town in Edinburgh which were by then coming into reality[1]. The rebuilding included a new church, St Mungos, in 1771, reputedly by Sir James himself.

The family are said by Anderson (1867) to date from at least 1180 AD when one of them appeared as a witness to a donation to Holyrood Abbey by William The Lion. John Scougal is known to have painted at least two portraits of the first baronets.

A number of the lineage are buried in Penicuik Old Parish Churchyard, with both a memorial gateway and a mausoleum to their memories.

Clerk of Penicuik (1679)

  • Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet (d. 1722)
  • Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet (1676 - 1755)
  • Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet (d. 1782) without issue.
  • Sir George Clerk-Maxwell, 4th Baronet (1715 - 1784) succeeded his brother.
  • Sir John Clerk, 5th Baronet (d. 1798) without issue.
  • Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet (b. 1785) nephew of the 5th Bt.
  • Sir James Clerk, 7th Baronet
  • Sir George Douglas Clerk, 8th Baronet
  • Sir George James Robert Clerk, 9th Baronet
  • Sir John Dutton Clerk, 10th Baronet
  • Sir Robert Maxwell Clerk, 11th Baronet

References

  1. ^ Buildings of Scotland: Lothian, by Colin McWilliam

See also

Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets


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