Keith baronets

There have been three baronetcies for the surname Keith, all in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and all now extinct.

  • Keith baronets (1625): see Earl Marischal
  • Keith baronets of Ludquharn (1629)
  • Keith baronets of Powburn (1663): a title created for a descendant James or George Keith of William Keith, 2nd Earl Marischal, with seat at lands near Laurencekirk, for a Royalist. It became extinct on his death, perhaps in 1690, with leaving an heir.[1]

See also

  • Earl of Kintore, where the title of the Baird baronets of Urie is now held with the surname Keith

Notes

  1. ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1903). Complete Baronetage. Vol. III. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 339–340.
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