Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet

Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th Baronet (22 December 1741 – 29 December 1813) was a Scottish medical doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

Early life Alexander was born in Scotland on 22 December 1741. He was the eldest son of Aberdeen merchant Alexander Bannerman (1715–1782) and Margaret (née Burnett) Bannerman (b. 1719). He was the brother of merchant Thomas Bannerman (father of colonial governor Sir Alexander Bannerman, MP and grandfather of Sir George Bannerman, 10th Baronet), Anne Bannerman (the wife of Alexander Garioch, Esq.) and advocate Charles Bannerman. On 16 April 1777, his name was legally changed to Alexander Burnett. Together, they lived at Kirkhill in Aberdeenshire and were the parents of:

Thomas Bannerman (1768–1813), who died unmarried in India. James Bannerman (1774–1838), who was also a physician and professor; he married Helen Burnett (1784–1864), a daughter of Alexander Burnett, Esq. of Kemnay.

Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of the diplomat Sir Alexander Bannerman, 9th Baronet (1823–1877), who married Lady Arabella Diana Sackville-West, the youngest daughter of Lord Chamberlain George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr and Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr in 1860. After her death, he married Lady Katherine Ashburnham, daughter of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham and Lady Katherine Charlotte Baillie (a sister of George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington), in 1874. With his first wife, he was the father of Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman (1868–1947), the wife of Charles Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk (a son of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk). Sir Alexander bought back part of the Elsick estate sold by the 4th Baronet.