Sir James Smyth, 1st Baronet [SEP] noble title
Sir James Smyth, 1st Baronet
Sir James Smyth, 1st Baronet (c. 1686 – 28 February 1717) was a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
He was the only son of Alderman Sir James Smyth, a London draper and Lord Mayor of London, 1684–85, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Arthur Shirley of Isfield, Sussex. Alderman Smyth was the second son of Sir Robert Smyth, 1st Baronet of Upton, Essex. He married Elizabeth Shirley in June 1682,
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan (1442–1499) was a Scottish noble. He was the uncle of James III of Scotland who granted him the Earldom of Buchan. Buchan repaid his uncle by fighting for his cause against rebellious southern barons. Through his marriage to Margaret Ogilvie he acquired the title Lord Auchterhouse.
Life.
James Stewart was the second son of Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorne, and Joan Beaufort, the widow of James I of Scotland.