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Menzies baronets

extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6817728 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Menzies Baronetcy, of Castle Menzies in the County of Perth, was a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 2 September 1665 for Alexander Menzies. The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1910. It was unsuccessfully claimed between 1914 and 1917 by David Prentice Menzies, of Plean Castle, Stirlingshire, who claimed to be the nearest lawful heir male of line of Captain James Menzies.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Menzies baronets” is extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Menzies, baronets and extinct, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1665, 1910, 1914, 1917—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Menzies, baronets and extinct is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Menzies baronets” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.