The Leith, later Leith-Buchanan Baronetcy, of Burgh St Peter in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 21 November 1775 for Alexander Leith

Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet

Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet MC was a British benefactor.Leith was the son of Walter Leith, of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, and Walmer Court, Kent and was educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford. He served in World War I and was awarded the Military Cross...

, Member of Parliament

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 for Tregony

Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)

Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act....

. The third Baronet married Jemima, daughter of Hector Macdonald Buchanan. Their son the fourth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Buchanan in 1877. The presumed seventh Baronet never successfully proved his succession and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage

Official Roll of the Baronetage

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. Likewise, as of 13 June 2007 the presumed eighth and present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1973. For more information, follow this link.

The Leith family is of Scottish origin and descends from William Leith, Provost of Aberdeen in the 14th century.

Leith, later Leith-Buchanan Baronets, of Burgh St Peter (1775)

• Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet
  Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet
  Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet MC was a British benefactor.Leith was the son of Walter Leith, of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, and Walmer Court, Kent and was educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford. He served in World War I and was awarded the Military Cross...
  
  (1741–1780)
• Sir George Alexander William Leith, 2nd Baronet (c. 1765-1842)
• Sir Alexander William Wellesley Leith, 3rd Baronet (1806–1842)
• Sir George Hector Leith-Buchanan, 4th Baronet (1833–1903)
• Sir Alexander Wellesley George Thomas Leith-Buchanan, 5th Baronet (1866–1925)
• Sir George Hector Macdonald Leith-Buchanan, 6th Baronet (1889–1973)
• Sir Charles Alexander James Leith-Buchanan, 7th Baronet (1939–1998)
• Sir Gordon Kelly McNicol Leith-Buchanan, 8th Baronet (b. 1974)