Macdonald baronets of Sleat (1625)

The Macdonald baronetcy, later Bosville Macdonald Baronetcy, of Sleat (also Slate) in the Isle of Skye, County of Inverness, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 14 July 1625 for Donald Macdonald.^[2] The 9th baronet was created Baron Macdonald in 1776.

Escutcheon of the Macdonald baronets of Sleat^[1]

The title holder as of 2025, the 17th baronet, is chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat.^[3]

Macdonald baronets, of Sleat (1625)

• Sir Donald Gorme Og Macdonald, 1st Baronet (died 1643)^[2]
• Sir James Mor Macdonald, 2nd Baronet (died 1678)^[2]
• Sir Donald Macdonald, 3rd Baronet (died 1695)^[2]
• Sir Donald Macdonald, 4th Baronet (died 1718)^[2]
• Sir Donald Macdonald, 5th Baronet (c. 1697–1720)^[2]
• Sir James Macdonald, 6th Baronet (died 1723)^[2]
• Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet (1711–1746)^[2]
• Sir James Macdonald, 8th Baronet (c. 1742–1766)^[2]
• Sir Alexander Macdonald, 9th Baronet (c. 1745–1795) (created Baron Macdonald in 1776)^[2]

Barons Macdonald (1776)

• Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald (c. 1745–1795)
• Alexander Wentworth Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald (1773–1824)
• Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate (1775–1832)
• Godfrey William Macdonald, 4th Baron Macdonald of Slate (1809–1863)^[4]
• Somerled James Macdonald, 5th Baron Macdonald of Slate (1849–1874)^[4]
• Ronald Archibald Macdonald, 6th Baron Macdonald of Slate (1853–1947)^[4]
• Alexander Godfrey Macdonald, 7th Baron Macdonald (1909–1970)^[4]
• Godfrey Macdonald, 8th Baron Macdonald (born 1947)^[4]

The heir apparent is the present holder's only son Hon. Godfrey Evan Hugo Thomas Macdonald, Younger of Macdonald (born 1982).^[5]

Bosville Macdonald baronets, of Sleat (1625); reverted 1832

Bosville arms, quartered 2nd and 3rd with the arms of Macdonald of Sleat in the Bosville Macdonald escutcheon^[6]

• Sir Alexander William Robert Bosville Macdonald, de jure 12th Baronet (1800–1847)
• Sir Godfrey Wentworth Bayard Bosville, de jure 13th Baronet (1826–1865)
• Sir Alexander Wentworth Macdonald Bosville Macdonald, 14th Baronet (1865–1933) (recognised in baronetcy in 1910).^[7] With this revival of the 1625 title, granted precedence as second of the Nova Scotia baronets at the time, the holder became the premier baronet.^[8] To 1908, the Gordon baronets of Letterfourie, created 28 May 1625, had been premier.^[9]
• Sir Godfrey Middleton Bosville Macdonald, 15th Baronet (1887–1951)^[10]
• Sir Alexander Somerled Angus Bosville Macdonald, 16th Baronet (1917–1958)^[11]
• Sir Ian Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 17th Baronet (born 1947)^[12]

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Somerled Alexander Bosville Macdonald, Younger of Sleat (born 1976).^[12]

Notes

1. Burke, Bernard (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Harrison & Sons. p. 637.
2. Cokayne, George Edward (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 291–292.
3. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 449–451. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
4. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, volume 2, page 1799, 1999
5. "Macdonald 8th Baron cr 1776 (Godfrey James Macdonald of Macdonald)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London: Debrett's Peerage. 2000. p. B662. ISBN 033354577X.
7. "Macdonald of the Isles, Sir Alexander Wentworth Macdonald Bosville". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
8. Stirling, Anna Maria Wilhelmina (1914). Macdonald of the Isles; A romance of the past and present. London: J. Murray. p. 51 note 1.
9. Macdonald, Donald J. (18 January 2008). Clan Donald. Pelican Publishing. p. 417. ISBN 978-1-4556-0233-9.
10. "Macdonald of the isles, Sir Godfrey (Middleton) Bosville". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. "Macdonald of sleat, Sir (Alexander) Somerled (Angus Bosville)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
12. "Bosville Macdonald of Sleat, Sir Ian Godfrey". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)