Grierson baronets

The Grierson Baronetcy, of Lag in the County of Dumfries, is a dormant title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia which presently has no claimant. It was created on 25 March 1685 for Robert Grierson, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dumfries and notorious persecutors of the Covenanters, with remainder to heirs male whatsoever. The second Baronet represented Dumfriesshire in the British House of Commons. The fourth Baronet took part in the First Jacobite Rising of 1715, and was captured and taken prisoner with his older brother, Sir William Grierson, 2nd Baronet.

Grierson baronets, of Lag (1685)

• Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet (c. 1657 – 29 December 1733, Dumfries-shire, Scotland),
• Sir William Grierson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1677 – 1760, Mouswald, Scotland),
• Sir Robert Grierson, 3rd Baronet (c. 1700 – c. 1764, Dumfries-shire, Scotland),
• Sir Gilbert Grierson, 4th Baronet (c. 1692 – 7 February 1766, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland), was in Grammer School at Penpont Parish in 1705,
• Sir Robert Grierson, 5th Baronet (c. 1733 – 8 August 1839, Mouswald, Scotland, aged 106 years),
• Sir Alexander Gilbert Grierson, 6th Baronet (10 March 1777 – 14 March 1840, Mouswald, Scotland),
• Sir Richard Grierson, 7th Baronet (c. 1804 – 5 May 1846, Mouswald, Scotland),
• Sir Alexander William Grierson, 8th Baronet (7 August 1806 – 27 December 1879, Southsea, Hants, England),
• Sir Alexander Davidson Grierson, 9th Baronet (30 November 1858 – 1 April 1912, London, England),
• Sir Robert Gilbert White Grierson, 10th Baronet (27 September 1883 – 16 June 1957, England),
• Sir Richard Douglas Grierson, 11th Baronet (25 June 1912 – 5 May 1987, England),
• Sir Michael John Bewes Grierson, 12th Baronet (24 June 1921 – 24 March 2008, London, England).

See also

• Clan Grierson

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Grierson, David Alan, 1960 in his: The Baronets of Lag & Rockhall, 2008