Montgomery-Cuninghame Baronets

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The baronetcy of Cuninghame of Corsehill was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and conferred upon Alexander Cuninghame of Corsehill, a Scottish baron and landowner in Dumfriesshire and a great-great-great-grandson of the 5th Earl of Glencairn. The fourth baronet's father added the name Montgomery before his own on inheriting estate of Kirktonholm.

[edit] Cuninghame, later Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill Baronets, of Corsehill (1672)

• Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 1st Baronet (c. 1643-1685)
• Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 2nd Baronet (d. 1730)
• Sir David Cuninghame, 3rd Baronet (d. 1770)
• Sir Walter Montgomery-Cuninghame, 4th Baronet (d. 1814)
• Sir David Montgomery-Cuninghame, 5th Baronet (d. 1814)
• Sir James Montgomery-Cuninghame, 6th Baronet (d. 1837)
• Sir Alexander David Montgomery-Cuninghame, 7th Baronet (d. 1846)

• Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 8th Baronet (d. 30 August 1870). Montgomery-Cuninghame claimed the title of Earl of Glencairn as the lineal male descendant of Andrew Cunningham, second son of William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn. He married in 1832, Charlotte, only child of Hugh Hutcheson, Esq., by whom he had at least one child: William James.

• Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet (1834-1897)
• Sir Thomas Andrew Alexander Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 10th Baronet (1877-1945)
• Sir (William) Andrew Malcolm Martin Oliphant Montgomery Cuninghame of Corsehill, 11th Baronet (1929-1959)

• Sir John Christopher Foggo Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 12th Baronet of Corsehill (b. 24 July 1935). Montgomery-Cuninghame is a British businessman. He is the second son of Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 10th Baronet, and his second wife, Nancy née Foggo. He was educated at Fettes College and Worcester College, Oxford and after graduating, he served with The Rifle Brigade. On 9 September 1964, he married Laura Nicholson, the second daughter of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt. and they have three daughters: Christian Elizabeth (b. 1967), married David McDonald; Georgiana Rose "Nina" (b. 1969), married former BBC world affairs correspondent, Rageh Omaar; Elizabeth Clara (b. 1971). Montgomery-Cuninghame is currently a director of Ronald A Lee plc., Euromax Ltd., Artemis Energy Co., Purolite International Ltd., Ryobi Lawn and Garden Ltd and Bedford Capital Financial Corporation and claims the title of Earl of Glencairn.

There is no heir to the baronetcy.

[edit] See also

• Earl of Glencairn
• Benslie Doura Hall

[edit] References

• Burke's Peerage & Gentry
• The Peerage of the British Empire, with The Baronetage, by Edmund Lodge, Norroy King of Arms, 27th edition, London, 1858, p.644.
• Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page.