James Graham

Sir James Graham of Kirkstall, York (1753-1825). My 5G Uncle. Son of Thomas Graham of Edmond Castle and Margaret Coulthard. 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.