Usher baronets

The Usher baronetcy, of Norton in Ratho in the County of Midlothian, and of Wells in Hobkirk in the County of Roxburgh, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 August 1899 for , a whisky distiller and benefactor, brother of Andrew Usher (1826–1898). The brothers founded Andrew Usher & Co, and later the North British Distillery Company. John Usher was a founder of the John Usher Institute of Public Health, and of a chair in public health, at the University of Edinburgh in 1898.