Sir Alexander Craufurd, 1st Baronet

[1] His younger brother, also named Quintin Craufurd, was an author who helped Queen Marie Antoinette escape in the Flight to Varennes.

[3] His paternal grandfather was merchant James Robinson of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland.

[1] Craufurd had sasine of the merkland of Pennyglen (near Maybole), "on a charter of adjudication by Thomas, Earl of Cassilis, dated 4th March 1762; and another of the threepenny lands of Wester Newark, forty penny land of Easter Newark, twenty penny land of Hillend, the lands of Drummelling, which are part of Hillend, all in Maybole parish, on a charter of adjudication from Chancery, dated 20th February 1762.

"[3] On the advice of his mother, he sold these lands to the Earl of Cassilis.

[9] Through his son Daniel, he was a grandfather of Charlotte Anne Craufurd, who married Lt.-Col. Sir James John Fraser, 3rd Baronet, and after his death, Sir Ralph Howard, 1st Baronet, son of Hon.