[2] As the baronetcy was created "with remainder to heirs male whatsoever,"[3] the title became either extinct or dormant upon the death of the sixth baronet in 1916.
In 1729, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Kennedy, Baronet of Culzean, and had three sons.
[2] The sixth baronet was married to Emily Pringle Gordon, widow of the illegitimate son of the wealthy Capt.
[5] She inherited considerable land from her late husband and she and the sixth baronet resided at Cluny Castle in Scotland.
Their English country seat was Tittenhurst Park, later owned separately by John Lennon (1969–71) and Ringo Starr (1973–88).