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Erskine baronets of Cambo (first creation, 1666)

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Escutcheon of the Erskine baronets of Cambo[1]

The Erskine baronetcy, of Cambo in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 20 August 1666 for Charles Erskine.[2] He was a younger brother of Alexander Erskine, 3rd Earl of Kellie.

The 2nd Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Fife.[3] The 8th Baronet succeeded to the earldom of Kellie in 1797. The baronetcy remained a subsidiary title of the earldom until the baronetcy's extinction in 1829, after the deaths of Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie and then his brother Methven in 1829.[2] The overlapping Erskine baronets of Cambo (second creation, 1821) was set up in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[4]

Erskine baronets, of Cambo (1666)

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See Earl of Kellie for further history.

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  1. ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. London: Harrison & Sons. p. 329.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 255–256.
  3. ^ "Areskine (Erskine), Sir Alexander, 2nd Bt. (c.1663-1727), of Cambo, Fife., History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 212.
  5. ^ John H. Stevenson's Heraldry in Scotland (1914).