Graham baronets of Kirkstall (1808)

The Graham baronetcy, of Kirkstall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 October 1808 for the lawyer James Graham. He sat as Member of Parliament for Carlisle between 1812 and 1825.[1] The fifth Baronet was Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada from 1875 to 1877. On his death in 1895 the title became extinct.[2]

Escutcheon of the Graham baronets of Kirkstall

Graham baronets, of Kirkstall (1808)

Notes

  1. "Graham, James (1753-1825), of Kirkstall, nr. Leeds, Yorks. and Edmond Castle, nr. Carlisle, Cumb., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  2. "Graham, Cyril Clarke (or Clerke) (GRHN851CC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. pp. 270–271.
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