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. He was a younger brother of Alexander Erskine, 3rd Earl of Kellie.
The 2nd Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Fife. 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. The overlapping Erskine baronets of Cambo (second creation, 1821) was set up in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Erskine baronets, of Cambo (1666)
- Sir Charles Erskine, 1st Baronet (c. 1620–1677), Lord Lyon
- Sir Alexander Erskine, 2nd Baronet (c. 1663–1727), Lord Lyon
- Sir Charles Erskine, 3rd Baronet (died 1753), Bute Pursuivant then Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records
- Sir John Erskine, 4th Baronet (died 1754)
- Sir William Erskine, 5th Baronet (died 1780)
- Sir Charles Erskine, 6th Baronet (died 1790)
- Sir William Erskine, 7th Baronet (died 1791)
- Sir Charles Erskine, 8th Baronet (1764–1799)
See Earl of Kellie for further history.
Notes
- 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.
- ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 255–256.
- "Areskine (Erskine), Sir Alexander, 2nd Bt. (c.1663-1727), of Cambo, Fife., History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk.
- Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 212.
- John H. Stevenson's Heraldry in Scotland (1914).