Sir George Seton of Garletoun, 3rd Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir George Seton, Baronet [S. 1664], of Garletoun, s. and h., b. in 1685 ; joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715, was taken prisoner at Preston 13 Oct. of that year, and was attainted in 1716 ; suc. to the right to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1718, 1719 or 1720, and on the death, 19 Dec. 1749, of his cousin, George, 5th Earl of Wintoun [S.], (who, however, by attainder in 1716, had forfeited his peerage dignities), became, apparently, heir to that Earldom, and is sometimes said to have assumed the same. He d. unm. at Versailles, in Prance, 9 March 1769, in his 84th year."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1903; Vol. III; page 350

Other References

• The Scots peerage, Vol. VIII, page 600