Sir James Nasmyth, 1st Baronet (1656 - 1720), also known as James Naesmith, was a successful Scottish lawyer.
Life
He was the son of John Nasmyth and his wife, Isabella, daughter of
Sir James Murray, Lord Philiphaugh. He was admitted
advocate
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in 1684. He acquired the estate of Dawick from the last of the Veitch family. He had a crown charter of the barony of Dawick in 1703, ratified in parliament in 1705, and was created a
baronet of Scotland on 31 July 1706. He undertook a new phase of planting on the Dawyck estate, including the introduction of
European larch
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(''Larix decidua'').
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, p. 3, ,
He died in July 1720.
Family
Nasmyth married three times:
# To Jane Stewart, widow of Sir Ludovic Gordon, bart., of
Gordonstoun
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, Elgin;
# To Janet, daughter of Sir William Murray of Stanhope, Peeblesshire; and,
# To Barbara (d. 1768), daughter of Andrew Pringle of Clifton, Roxburghshire.
Sir James Nasmyth, 2nd Baronet was the eldest son by the third marriage.
Notes
Attribution
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1720 deaths
Scottish lawyers
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Tweeddale
Peeblesshire
1656 births