Craik baronets

Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

The Craik Baronetcy, of Kennoway in the County of Fife, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 January 1926 for the politician Sir Henry Craik, KCB, PC.[1] The title became extinct in 1955 on the death of his younger son, the 3rd Baronet.

Incumbents

  • Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet (1846–1927)
  • Sir George Lillie Craik, MC, 2nd Baronet (1874–1929)
  • Sir Henry Duffield Craik, KCSI 3rd Baronet (1876–1955), Governor of the Punjab 1938–41

Arms

Coat of arms of Craik baronets
Crest
An anchor Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent on a sea in base undy Azure and of the firs a three masted ship under full sail Proper flagged Gules on a chief indented of the last a book expanded of the first leaved Or between two antique lamps of the last.
Motto
Tendimus [2]

References

  1. ^ "No. 33131". The London Gazette. 9 February 1926. p. 982.
  2. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

Sources

  • Leigh Rayment's Baronetage page[usurped]
  • "thePeerage.com: Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet". Retrieved 10 August 2007.