Sir James Graham of Kirkstall, co. York, created a Baronet 3 October 1808, Recorder of Appleby, M.P. for Cockermouth 1802-5, for Wigtown Burghs 1805-6, again for Cockermouth 1807-12, and for Carlisle 1812-25. Bloody hell. No wonder they made the poor bugger a baronet. Married Anne Moore of Kirkstall, Yorks, and had issue. His son was sir Sandford Graham, 2nd Bt. etc etc. More issue. This baronetcy lasted only to the fifth generation, dying out in 1895. The Grahams of Kirkstall had the same coat-of-arms as the Grahams of Edmond Castle, but with the motto “Fideliter et diligenter”. It last appears in the 1895 edition of Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage.

Became a partner in James Couthard’s law firm.

James Graham planted the old cherry tree growing near the house when he first went as a boy to London, in November, 1769.

THB Graham [5] reproduces a story about James Graham (and his future brother-in-law Richard Graham) about how their workers found a keg of brandy while pulling down some old houses near Edmond Castle, most likely the result of smuggling.

Daughter of the Rev. John Moore of Kirkstall, Yorkshire.

According the obituary of her husband in the Gentleman’s Magazine, she was the “only daughter of the Reverend Thomas Moore, of Kirkstall, sole heiress of her only brother, Major Thomas Moore, of the fourth regiment of Cavalry, (who died unmarried in 1784), heir-general of the family of Arthington, co. York, and also one of the co-heiresses of the family of Sandford (a very ancient family, formerly of Sandford upon Eden, Westmoreland, and who may be traced to the reign of King John).”

That obituary, for what it’s worth, is taken word for word from Debrett’s Baronetage of England.