Dalyell Baronets

The Dalyell Baronetcy is a baronetcy in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, which was created 7 November 1685 for the Scottish General, Thomas Dalyell of the Binns. The succession of the title is interesting in that it was created with remainder to his eldest son and heirs male, yet failing that, could pass to tailzie succeeding him in the estate of The Binns. The former politician Tam Dalyell is the current baronet however the actual heir male is William Anstruther Dalyell of St Ives in Sydney, Australia^[why?].

Dalyell of the Binns, Linlithgow (1685)

• Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 1st Baronet (d. c. 1700)
• Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 2nd Baronet (d. 1719), dormant.
• Sir James Dalyell of the Binns, 3rd Baronet (c. 1690-1747), claimed between 1723 and 1728.
• Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns, 4th Baronet (d. 1791)
• Sir James Dalyell of the Binns, 5th Baronet (1774–1841)
• Sir John Graham Dalyell of the Binns, 6th Baronet (c. 1775-1851)^[1]
• Sir William Cunningham Dalyell of the Binns, 7th Baronet (1787–1865)
• Sir Robert Alexander Osborne Dalyell of the Binns, 8th Baronet (1821–1886), dormant.
  • His sister, Elizabeth Grace Cornwall-Dalyell, (d. 1913) inherited the Binns, but not the baronetcy.
• Sir James Bruce Wilkie-Dalyell of the Binns, 9th Baronet (1867–1935), cousin of the above, as son of Harriet Wilkie, née Dalyell, aunt; claimed 1914, dormant.
• Sir Thomas "Tam" Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (b. 1932), claimed 1973, son of preceding.

The heir apparent is Gordon Wheatley Dalyell, Esq. (b. 1965)

References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Baronetage page.

1. ^  Leslie Stephen, ed (1888). "Dalyell, John Graham". Dictionary of National Biography. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.