The Preston baronetcy, of Airdrie in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 22 February 1628 for John Preston. He was the son of John Preston, Lord Fentonbarns and his first wife Elizabeth Fawside.
The descent after the death of the 4th Baronet sometime after 1701 and the accession of Robert Preston in 1784 is uncertain. The title became dormant on the latter's death c.1792.
Preston baronets, of Airdrie (1628)
- Sir John Preston, 1st Baronet (1583 – c. 1655)
- Sir John Preston, 2nd Baronet (died 1660)
- Sir John Preston, 3rd Baronet (died 1675)
- Sir John Preston, 4th Baronet (died after 1701)
Succession then unclear until 1784.
- Sir Robert Preston, ? Baronet (c. 1706 – c. 1792)
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. Wm. Clowes & Sons for the Publishers, Burke's Peerage, in conjunction with Shaw Publishing Company. p. 823.
- ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 346–347.
- ^ Murray, Athol. "Preston, John, of Penicuik, Lord Fentonbarns (d. 1616)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22726. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)