Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

1 8 Memorials of tJic Families of Slrachan and Jf^ise.
his native county in Parliament along with Sir Robert
Graham of Morphie ; and not long afterwards he was
appointed a Commissioner for the Plantation of Churches.^
He was one of three notable persons who were together
created baronets of Nova Scotia on the :28th May 1G25.
The two others were Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie,
son of Alexander, Earl of Sutherland, and William Earl
Marischal. The succession to tlie title was restricted to
heirs-male. Thus, in the Strachan patent Avere these words :
•' Ordinavimus et promisimus, tenore que prgesentium,
pro nobis, nostrisque successoribus cum avisamento et
consensu predictorum, concedimus, ordinamus et pro-
mittimus dicto domino Alexandro suisque heredibus
masculis in perpetuum quod numerus baronettorum tani
in dicto regno nostro tam in patria Nove Scotie nee nunc,
nee uUo tempore futuro in totum numerum centum et
quinquaginta excedet."
Each Nova Scotia baronet paid on his creation, three
thousand merks, or £166, 13s. 4d. sterling. Of this amount
one-third became the property of Sir William Alexander,
Lieutenant-General of Nova Scotia, while the other two-
tliirds were handed to the same official for ]m1)lic purposes
' Acta Pail. iv. 52:), f).-}!.