Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet
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22 December 1741
Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexander Bannerman 22 December 1741 |
| Died | 29 December 1813 (aged 72) Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Other names | Alexander Burnett |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, professor |
| Spouse |
Mary Gordon (after 1768) |
| Parent(s) | Alexander Bannerman Margaret Burnett |
| Relatives | Anthony Keith-Falconer, 7th Earl of Kintore (grandson) Sir Alexander Bannerman, 9th Baronet (grandson) |
Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet (22 December 1741 – 29 December 1813) was a Scottish medical doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen.
Alexander was born in Scotland on 22 December 1741. He was the eldest son of Aberdeen merchant Alexander Bannerman (1715–1782) and Margaret (née Burnett) Bannerman (b. 1719). He was the brother of merchant Thomas Bannerman (father of colonial governor Sir Alexander Bannerman, MP and grandfather of Sir George Bannerman, 10th Baronet), Anne Bannerman (the wife of Alexander Garioch, Esq.) and advocate Charles Bannerman.[1]
His mother, a great-granddaughter of Alexander Burnett, 1st Laird of Kirkhill, succeeded to the lands of Kirkhill.[2] On 16 April 1777, his name was legally changed to Alexander Burnett.[3] His paternal grandparents were Margaret (a daughter of Sir Charles Maitland, Bt of Pitrichies) and Sir Patrick Bannerman, a Provost of Aberdeen who was the second son of Sir Alexander Bannerman, who had been created a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1682 by King Charles II on account of his "constant loyalty during the rebellion, and of the heavy calamities he had suffered on that account."[1] His grandfather's elder brother, Sir Alexander Bannerman, 2nd Baronet, married Isabella Macdonald (a daughter of Sir Donald Macdonald of Sleat) and was the father of the 3rd Baronet (who raised a regiment that fought at the Battle of Culloden) and grandfather of the 4th and 5th Baronets (whom Sir Alexander succeeded in 1796).[1]
Career
A trained Doctor of Medicine, he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.[3]
On 1 October 1796, his name was legally changed back to Alexander Bannerman upon his succession as the 6th Baronet Bannerman of Elsick. He succeeded his unmarried cousin, Sir Edward Bannerman, the younger brother of Sir Alexander Bannerman, 4th Baronet, who was forced to sell the Elsick estate for a nominal price on account of his father's and his alleged participation in the Jacobite rising of 1745.[1]
