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DEESIDE BURNETTS : XXII. SIR JAMES. 99
Aberdeenshire polled cattle. He held the post of Lord Lieutenant of
Kincardineshire from 1847 till his death. He died, unmarried, i6th
February, 1 849, and was succeeded by his brother.
XXI.
SIR ALEXANDER BURNETT OF LEYS, 9th BARONET (1849-56).
Born 1 7th December, 1789. In the H.E.I.C. Service. Died, unmarried,
20th March, 1856.
XXII.
SIR JAMES HORN BURNETT OF LEYS, loth BARONET (1856-76).
The youngest son of Sir Robert Burnett, 7th Baronet. He was born
22nd June, 1801, admitted a member of the Society of Writers to the
Signet, 9th July, 1824, and succeeded his brother, Sir Alexander, 2Oth
March, 1856. He held the post of Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
from December, 1863, till his death, I7th December, 1876. He married
(ist), 3rd February, 1831, Caroline Margaret, daughter
Spearman of Thornley Hall, Co. Durham, by whom he had :
I. ROBERT, nth Baronet.
of Charles
II. CHARLES SPEARMAN, born 6th July, 1835 ; died 2ist June, 1836.
He married (2nd), on the I2th July, 1837, his cousin-german, Lauderdale
(who died 4th November, 1888), youngest daughter of Sir Alexander
Ramsay of Balmain, and widow of David Duncan, Esq., of Rosemount,
Co. Forfar, by whom he had :
I. THOMAS, I2th Baronet
II. ALEXANDER EDWIN, born I7th December, 1842; died 8th August,
1897. Member of the Society of Writers to the Signet.
I. ELIZABETH BANNERMAN, married, 2nd February, 1869, George
John Pitt Taylor, 78th Highlanders, and has one son and three
daughters. She died 22nd February, 1877.
Sir James died I7th September, 1876.