Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet

[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.

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.

[3] Together, they lived at Kirkhill in Aberdeenshire and were the parents of:[1] Sir Alexander died in Aberdeen on 29 December 1813.

[6][7] Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of the diplomat Sir Alexander Bannerman, 9th Baronet (1823–1877),[8] who married Lady Arabella Diana Sackville-West, the youngest daughter of Lord Chamberlain George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr in 1860.

[11] Sir Alexander bought back part of the Elsick estate sold by the 4th Baronet.