Denham baronets

The Denham of Westshield Baronetcy (after the family estate of Westshield in Lanark) was created on 31 January 1693 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia for William Denham.

The Denham baronetcy was created for Sir William Denham, Master of the Mint for Scotland; he had purchased the estate of Westshield from the Earl of Carnwath. He had no children, and the patent of the baronetcy permitted him to assign the baronetcy, in default of natural heirs. In 1711, he entailed his property and title to the children of his sisters, as follows.

With the death of the sixth baronet, the entail expired, since nobody was left with a claim under it. At this point, the baronetcy presumably became extinct, since the first baronet's assignment was exhausted; Sir William Lockhart Denham was free to bequeath his property, and left the Westshields estate to Sir James Steuart, 3rd & 7th Baronet (of Goodtrees and Coltness), who then adopted the name of Denham.

G. E. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, Vol. IV, p. 363 ff.

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