Don-Wauchope Baronets
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The Don, later Don-Wauchope Baronetcy, of Newton, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 7 June 1667 for Alexander Don. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament
for Roxburghshire
The seventh Baronet was an actor. On his early death in 1862 the title passed to his kinsman John Wauchope, the eighth Baronet, who resumed the surname of Don in addition to that of Wauchope. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Wauchope, great-great-grandson of Patrick Don (husband of Anne, sister of Andrew Wauchope), third son of the first Baronet.
The "ch" in Wauchope is pronounced as in "Loch".
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for Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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The seventh Baronet was an actor. On his early death in 1862 the title passed to his kinsman John Wauchope, the eighth Baronet, who resumed the surname of Don in addition to that of Wauchope. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Wauchope, great-great-grandson of Patrick Don (husband of Anne, sister of Andrew Wauchope), third son of the first Baronet.
The "ch" in Wauchope is pronounced as in "Loch".
Don, later Don-Wauchope Baronets, of Newton (1667)
- Sir Alexander Don, 1st Baronet (d. 1687)
- Sir James Don, 2nd Baronet (d. c. 1710)
- Sir Alexander Don, 3rd Baronet (d. 1749)
- Sir Alexander Don, 4th Baronet (d. 1776)
- Sir Alexander Don, 5th Baronet (d. 1815)
- Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet (1779-1826)
- Sir William Henry Don, 7th BaronetSir William Don, 7th Baronet-Biography:Don was born on 4 May 1825. His father, Sir Alexander Don, sixth baronet of Newtondon, Berwickshire, "the model of a cavalier in all courteous and elegant accomplishments", was an intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott, and one of the most constant attendants at his social dinner parties....
(1825-1862) - Sir John Don-Wauchope, 8th Baronet (1816-1893)
- Sir John Douglas Don-Wauchope, 9th Baronet (1859-1951)
- Sir Patrick George Don-Wauchope, 10th Baronet (1898-1989)
- Sir Roger Hamilton Don-Wauchope, 11th Baronet (b. 1938)