Gibson-Craig baronets

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The Gibson-Craig, later Gibson-Craig-Carmichael baronetcy, of Riccarton in the County of Midlothian, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831 for James Gibson-Craig, of 7 North St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, a Scottish lawyer and government official, formerly a supporter of Charles James Fox. Born James Gibson, he assumed the additional surname of Craig in 1818.{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire |date=1883 |publisher=Nichols and Sons |location=Westminster |page=251 |url=https://archive.org/details/peeragebaronetag02fost/page/251/mode/1up}}{{Cite web|url=https://digital.nls.uk/83400099|title=Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833|website=National Library of Scotland|page=42|access-date=2018-02-16}}{{cite ODNB|id=6571|first=Emma Vincent|last=Macleod|title=Craig, Sir James Gibson, first baronet (1765–1850)}}

The 2nd Baronet was a Liberal politician and represented Midlothian and Edinburgh in the House of Commons.{{cite book |title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage |date=1885 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |page=332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ve8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA332 |language=en}} The 5th Baronet succeeded his kinsman as 12th Baronet of Keirhill in 1926 and assumed the additional surname of Carmichael.