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There's also footage of Angélil's time with his Canadian pop rock group The Baronets in the 3s.
Born in Montreal, Angélil began his career as part of the Canadian pop rock group The Baronets in the 1960s.
In the mid-0003s, Angélil and Pierre Labelle co-founded Les Baronets, a French-language boy band known for Beatles covers.
Her husband, Arnulf Baring, is one of the country's foremost political scientists and the scion of an Anglo-German line that has produced dozens of peers and baronets.
People should write about what they know and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (pictured, right), the writer of the series, is a descendant of baronets and a product of Saint Augustine Priory, a posh Catholic school.
He once sang as part of the French-Canadian pop group the Baronets and previously managed the career of another Quebecois child star, Ginette Reno, but he was soon firmly in the business of Celine Dion.
Accordingly, the event at which I found myself on April 5—a panel discussion entitled 'Art as Defiance in the Middle East'—ranked pretty highly on the fish-out-of-water scale, taking me to London's impossibly-exclusive St James's Square, a locale once populated by prime ministers, bishops and baronets and now the domain of oil companies and private gentlemen's clubs.
From him were descended the Peyton baronets of Isleham (1611), the Peyton baronets of Knowlton (1611) and the Peyton baronets of Doddington (1660 and later creations).
The Premier Baronets of Nova Scotia (Scotland) were the Gordon baronets of Gordonstoun and Letterfourie until the title's extinction in 1908.Cokayne, vol ii, pp277-280 Subsequently, the Premier Scottish Baronets are the Innes baronets of that Ilk (cr. 28 May 1625),Cokayne, vol ii, p 280 the present Premier Baronet being Charles Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe.
As a result of the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, all future creations were styled baronets of Great Britain. Following the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, new creations were styled as baronets of the United Kingdom. Under royal warrants of 1612 and 1613, certain privileges were accorded to baronets. Firstly, no person or persons should have place between baronets and the younger sons of peers.
Among her descendants were those ennobled as the Burke Baronets.
For more information on this creation, see Horsbrugh- Porter baronets.
They were the ancestors of the Leighton Baronets of Wattlesborough.
His second son Herbert was the first of the Lloyd baronets.
II, p. 281. He was a member of the Innes baronets.
Jane, wife of Sir George Abercromby, 4th Baronet (see Abercromby baronets).
He went on to become the first of the Halsey Baronets.
George Selby (b. 1627) became the first of the Selby baronets in 1664 but the baronetcy was short-lived. It became extinct when both the first and second baronets died in the month of September 1688.
Colonel John Cameron was another distinguished military commander, whose family became baronets.
2259 and subsequently inherited the estates of Hutton that were then in the possession of the Fletcher-Vane baronets under the control of trustees.Hutton in the Forest Guide Book, no date Inglewood was a distant cousin of the Fletcher-Vane baronets (they shared descent from Sir Henry Vane the Elder) but Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 5th and last of the Fletcher-Vane Baronets of Hutton, was still alive in 1931 when Inglewood inherited. In 1883, the estate of the Fletcher-Vane baronets comprised some 7,194 acres,The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland.
The public house in Ludford (the Charlton Arms) is named after the baronets.
The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms, by Rev. William Betham, London, 1805, vol.1, p.403.
Like knights, baronets are accorded the style "Sir" before their first name. Baronetesses in their own right use "Dame", also before their first name, while wives of baronets use "Lady" followed by the husband's (marital) surname only, this by longstanding courtesy. Wives of baronets are not baronetesses; only women holding baronetcies in their own right are so styled. Unlike knighthoods – which apply to the recipient only – a baronetcy is hereditarily entailed.
The Groton Avery Clan, page 13. 1912 (and whose descendants would become the Every Baronets), the other of whom would become a considerable landowner, siring the Everys of Wycroft Castle.Betham, William " The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms, Volume 5" Burrell and Bransby, 1805. p50, ftnote 1.
Tim Couzens 2001 It was the third-largest holding of the Tylney-Long baronets.
He was made a baronet in June 1918, the first of the McAlpine baronets.
He was a descendant of Sir Edmund Trafford KB of the de Trafford baronets.
He is the patrilinear ancestor of the Cotter baronets of Rockforest in County Cork.
Ufford Hall was most recently the home of descendants of the Barrett-Lennard baronets.
Dr Claire Booth, wife of Alex Ulster, also descends from this family. The Gore-Booth Baronets are descended in the maternal line from the Salford branch of the ancient Booth family of Dunham Massey; see Gore baronets for more information on this title.
The fourth Baronet was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1846. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1931. The Wilmot baronets of Chaddesden and Osmaston both share a common ancestry with the Eardley-Wilmot baronets of Berkswell Hall.
It was the location of Osmaston Hall the residence of the Wilmot baronets of Osmaston.
The Piers Baronets, of Tristernagh Abbey is an extant peerage in the Baronetage of Ireland.
Secondly, the right of knighthood was established for the eldest sons of baronets (this was later revoked by George IV in 1827), and thirdly, baronets were allowed to augment their armorial bearings with the Arms of Ulster on an inescutcheon: "in a field Argent, a Hand Geules (or a bloudy hand)". These privileges were extended to baronets of Ireland, and for baronets of Scotland the privilege of depicting the Arms of Nova Scotia as an augmentation of honour. The former applies to this day for all baronets of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom created subsequently. The title of baronet was initially conferred upon noblemen who lost the right of individual summons to Parliament, and was used in this sense in a statute of Richard II. A similar title of lower rank was banneret.
Baronets of Nova Scotia, unlike other baronets, do not use the Baronet's Badge (of Ulster), but have their own badge showing the escutcheon of the arms of Nova Scotia: Argent, a Saltire Azure with an inescutcheon of the Royal Arms of Scotland. From before 1929 to the present it has been customary practice for such baronets to display this badge on its own suspended by the order's ribbon below the shield of arms.
The Cooke baronets bought much of their early estate from the Levett family, and the Copley baronets of Sprotborough also dealt extensively with the two brothers. Perhaps not surprisingly for two sibling barristers, the two Levetts often found themselves embroiled in lawsuits in connection with their property dealings.Estate papers of the Copley Family, Baronets, of Sprotborough including Nottinghamshire deeds of the Cromwell Family (Lords Cromwell) 1299–1516, Sheffield Archives, The National Archives, nationalarchives.gov.
The family estates at Hutton-in-the-Forest passed to William Vane, a distant kinsman of the Fletcher-Vane baronets, who took the surname Fletcher- Vane in 1931 and was created Baron Inglewood in 1964.Hutton in the Forest Guide book, no date The surname reflects descent from the Fletcher baronets of Hutton, but Inglewood was not a descendant of the Fletcher family, unlike the Fletcher-Vane baronets who were direct descendants.
William Duncan, uncle of the first Viscount, was created a baronet in 1764 (see Duncan baronets).
Sir Donald Martin Stewart, 1st Baronet There have been seventeen baronetcies for persons with the surname Stewart, ten in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and six in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. See also Steuart baronets, Henderson-Stewart baronets, MacTaggart-Stewart baronets and Stewart- Clark baronets. The Stewart Baronetcy, of Ramelton in the County of Donegal, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 2 May 1623 for the soldier William Stewart. The third Baronet served as Master-General of the Ordnance for Ireland and was created Baron Stewart of Ramelton and Viscount Mountjoy in the Peerage of Ireland in 1683.
The work is divided into five sections, containing an account of the institution of the order by King James I, the descents, creations, successions, and public employments of the baronets; correct lists of existing and extinct baronets, exact tables of precedence, and an account of the institution of the order in Nova Scotia and Ireland. An explanatory index of terms in heraldry is appended. The baronets are listed by date of creation, not by alphabetical order.
She had already borne two sons, including Thomas, destined to become the third of the Wolryche baronets.
His father was Simon Cayley, seventh son of Sir William Cayley, the second of the Cayley baronets.
In 1905 he was created a Baronet in his own right (see Monson Baronets for more information).
In 1884 to 1885, the Vice- Chairman was Sir William Robert Clayton, 6th of the Clayton baronets.
The Harington baronets owned Merton until Sir James Harington, 6th Baronet ran up large sporting debts and in 1740 mortgaged Merton to Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet of the neighbouring parish of Ambrosden. Sir James was a Jacobite who supported the Stuart claim to the United Kingdom. In 1747, he joined Charles Edward Stuart in exile and in 1749 Sir Edward Turner (later Page-Turner) obtained Merton by foreclosing the mortgage. The Page-Turner baronets (later Dryden baronets) retained Merton until 1930.
Aston was the seat of the Aston baronets of the County of Chester (baronetcy created 1628, extinct 1815).
He and his wife are buried in the Hope Baronets' plot at St. Michael's Parish Church, Inveresk, Scotland.
The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1955. See also Morrison-Bell baronets.
Robinstown (Levinge) is a townland in Mullingar in County Westmeath, Ireland. The townland is named for the Levinge baronets.
Sir Alexander Maitland Sharp Bethune, tenth baronet, was the last of the Bethune Baronets, a title dating from 1683.
His son and heir, another Sir John Garrard, or Gerrard, was created a baronet in 1623 (see Garrard baronets).
There have been a number of creations of baronets with the surname Smith (as distinct from Smyth and Smythe).
Stewart adopted the additional surname Shaw, and his succession continued as the Shaw Stewart baronets of Greenock and Blackhall.
His younger brother was James "Spanish" Blake (died 1635). He is the ancestor of the Blake baronets of Menlo.
Shabbington then descended to the 9th and 10th Baronets, and was still in the Blount family in the 1920s.
Sir Charles Wolseley, 7th Baronet (20 July 1769 - 3 October 1846) was one of the Wolseley baronets of Staffordshire.
Other Worthington descendants would later become the Worthington-Evans baronets and the Craven baronets.St. George, Henry. The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the year 1623. London, 1876 They have connections through marriage to the Earl of Aylesford, the Lawson Baronets, the Baron Jeffreys, the Baron Stafford, and the Baron Feversham.
Date accessed: 16 October 2010. The family was created as the Crawley-Boevey Baronets (originally Barrow Baronetcy) on 22 January 1784. During this time the house was substantially rebuilt by the designs of architect Anthony Keck. As baronets the manor and the estate continued to pass down from father to eldest son.
745 It passed to the Ireland family in the fourteenth century, and subsequently to the family of the Foljambe baronets.
Speed's daughter and heiress, Hannah, married Thomas Goldney II whose successors were made baronets of Beechfield and Bradenstoke Abbey, Wiltshire.
Sir Charles Maltby Wells, 2nd Baronet (1908–96) was a British baronet, the second of the Wells baronets of Felmersham.
Dum spiro spero is used as a motto by armigerous families including the Corbet baronets of Moreton Corbet (both creations), the Hoare baronets of Annabella, co. Cork, and the Viscounts Dillon.The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Bernard Burke, Harrison & Sons, 1884, pp. 228, 286, 494 The Williamson Clan from Co Donegal,Ireland.
87 One reviewer said that the production supplied "Belly laughs, baronets and more than a touch of Blackadder".Hanning, Elaine. "The Ghosts of Ruddigore: Belly laughs, baronets and more than a touch of Blackadder", Jersey Evening Post, 19 June 2002Darvell, Michael. "Theatre Reviews: The Ghosts of Ruddigore", What's On (London), 4 September 2002, p.
Syston Park Hall, built in 1775 to the designs of John Lanwith, for Sir John Thorold. The hall was demolished in 1925.Revival Heritage It was the seat of the Thorold baronets, who had relocated from Cranwell Manor. The 9th and 10th baronets both served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, in 1778 and 1822 respectively.
Lady Celia Hermione, daughter of the first Marquess, married Sir Edward Clive Coates, 2nd Baronet. In 1946 she and her husband assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Milnes (see Milnes Coates baronets). Richard Milnes, great-great-grandfather of the first Baron, was the uncle of Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet (see Milnes baronets).
Williams-Wynn Baronets, Burkes. He was succeeded in command by his nephew, Sir William Granville Williams, 4th Baronet of Bodelwyddan,Williams Baronets, Burkes. who in turn was followed on 2 February 1889 by his cousin, Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet of Wynnstay. Sir Herbert was awarded a CB in 1902London Gazette, 26 June 1902.
The second and third Baronets were also heads of Jardine, Matheson and Co. The latter assumed the additional surname of Buchanan.
Newtown Anner or Newtownanner House is a historic country house in Clonmel, County Tipperary, previously a residence of the Osborne baronets.
Who's Who 2009 A relative of the Strachey Baronets, he is the great-great-grandson of Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie.
Mary was the mother of the first of the Leventhorpe Baronets, and Anne was the mother of the first Viscount Brouncker.
Sir John Gay Alleyne, 1st Baronet (28 April 1724 – 1801) Barbadian politician and the first Alleyne baronets which still exists today.
The Peyton baronets were in special remainder to the Baronetcy of Kirtlington Park until the extinction of the title in 1962.
The third and fourth Baronets were headmasters of St Ronan's School, Kent from 1957 to 1971 and 1971 to 1998 respectively.
He was the great- nephew of the first and second Baronets and the brother of Sir Robert Synge, 1st Baronet, of Kiltrough (see Synge baronets for more information on this branch of the family). In 1844 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1906.
The third and fourth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for Lancashire. The fifth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Preston and East Looe while the sixth and seventh Baronets represented Preston. The eighth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Bold. In 1892 the ninth Baronet resumed, by Royal licence, the ancient family surname of de Hoghton.
The Victoria & Albert Museum has a bust of the London society hostess, Catherine, Lady Stepney, posing as Cleopatra. Maria Justina Stepney, sister of the eighth and ninth Baronets, married Andrew Cowell. Their son John Cowell succeeded to the Stepney estates, assumed the additional surname of Stepney and was created a baronet in 1871 (see Cowell-Stepney baronets).
He married Frances Hickie, daughter of James Jephson Hickie of Carrick-on-Suir and his second wife Anne Salisbury Jephson. They had three daughters, Annabella, who married Sir George Pigott, first of the Pigott baronets, Harriet, who married Sir Richard Bligh St George, the second of the St George baronets, and Charlotte, and one son, Thomas Kelly (1769–1855).
The family history of the baronets can be traced to the lineage of Welsh kings and princes, as well as Owain Glyndŵr.
The first Baron was the nephew of Sir Robert Lyle, 1st Baronet, and of Sir Alexander Lyle, 1st Baronet (see Lyle Baronets).
Sir John Charles Josslyn Ramsden, 9th Baronet (born 19 August 1950) is a retired British diplomat and one of the Ramsden baronets.
Boileau baronets have resided in Australia since 1942, when Francis Boileau became the 5th baronet.Trove The current holder is the 9th baronet.
Hoskyns married Jane, daughter of Sir Gabriel Low, and his two sons, Bennet and Hungerford (d. 1766), were third and fourth baronets successively.
There have been two separate creations of Elliot baronets: The first has merged with a higher title, and the second has become extinct.
Pakington died on 24 September 1748. He had two sons, John and Herbert Perrott, who became the sixth and seventh Pakington baronets, respectively.
Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet (3 September 1734 – 10 January 1805) was an English landowner and politician, and one of the Wray baronets.
She married into the Forster baronets' family from Northumberland. Stephen Forster, an ancestor, had previously become the Lord Mayor of London in 1454.
287 Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1235 but Baronets of Nova Scotia use the shield of the arms of Nova Scotia as a canton.
Burke's Peerage (2005) 'Woolesley Baronets' Nevertheless, the Tyndales married and integrated into the Norman nobility within the earliest period of their recorded history.
The term baronet has medieval origins. Sir Thomas de La More (1322), describing the Battle of Boroughbridge, mentioned that baronets took part, along with barons and knights.Stubbs, Vol. II, Part IV, p 303 Edward III is known to have created eight baronets in 1328. Present-day baronets date from 1611 when James I granted letters patent to 200 gentlemen of good birth with an income of at least £1,000 a year; in return for the honour, each was required to pay for the upkeep of thirty soldiers for three years amounting to £1,095, in those days a very large sum.
Creedy Park Creedy Park was long the seat of the Davie Baronets and their heirs the Ferguson-Davie Baronets, influential in the life of the parish of Sandford, to many members of which family survive monuments in the parish church. Sandford School was built in 1825, in the form of a classical Greek temple, by Sir Humphrey Phineas Davie, 10th Baronet (1775–1846).
The Tirell, later Tyrrell Baronetcy, of Springfield in the County of Essex, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 October 1666 for John Tirell. They were members of the same family as the Tyrrell Baronets of Thornton. The second and subsequent baronets used the surname Tyrrell. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1766.
Arms of St Aubyn, as quartered by the Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets of Pencarrow: Ermine, on a cross sable five bezantsDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.709 Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet (30 June 1758 – 22 February 1798) was one of the Molesworth baronets of Pencarrow, Cornwall and a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1784 and 1790.
Gloddaeth Hall, Conwy: the hall, with Mostyn family portraits The Mostyn baronets are two lines of Welsh baronets holding baronetcies created in 1660 and 1670, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2015. The two lines are related and both claim descent from Edwin of Tegeingl, an 11th-century lord of Tegeingl, a territory which approximates modern Flintshire.
1235 Baronets of Nova Scotia, unlike other baronets, do not use the Red Hand of Ulster, but have their own badge showing the Royal Arms of Scotland on a shield over the Saltire of St Andrew. The left-hand version has also been used by the Irish National Foresters, the Irish Citizen Army and the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland.
Thus, wives of Knights Grand Cross follow Dames Grand Cross. Wives of baronets go immediately above all Dames Grand Cross, but are below (though not immediately below) Ladies and Wives of Knights of the Garter, the Thistle, and St Patrick. Baronets' widows follow rules similar to dowager peeresses; a widow of a previous baronet comes immediately before the wife of the present baronet.
Thomas Crooke, the noted sixteenth-century preacher, was a native of Cransley; he was the ancestor of the Crooke baronets of Baltimore, County Cork.
Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet (28 April 1719 – 31 October 1766) was one of the Turner baronets of Ambrosden and a Member of Parliament.
The estate was the home successively of the families of Peryam, Tuckfield, Hippisley and lastly the Shelley baronets, in whose possession it remains today.
Sir William Edward Douglas Crosbie, 8th Baronet (1855-1936) was an Irish baronet, the eighth of the Crosbie baronets of Maryborough in Queen's County.
Children by his first marriage to Margaret Hamilton include Sir David, Sir William and Sir Robert, in turn the third, fourth and fifth baronets.
Arthur Lever (who had assumed the surname of Lever), younger brother of the first Baronet, was created a baronet in 1911 (see Lever baronets).
The eighth and ninth Baronets used the surname Pechell only. On the death of the ninth Baronet on 29 January 1984 the baronetcy became extinct.
His eldest brother Sir Walter Dongan (1579-1626) was created the first of the Dongan Baronets, and was the ancestor of the Earls of Limerick.
After his death she remarried, as his third wife, Sir Erasmus Borrowes, first of the Borrowes baronets. Erasmus died about 1650; Rebecca died in 1682.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Clifton Baronets): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent Sir Gervase Clifton (1612–1675) was 2nd Baronet Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.
The second baronet was a judge and also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Warwickshire South. Another member of the family to gain distinction was Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot, second son of the first baronet. He was a Major-General in the army. The Eardley-Wilmot family shares a common ancestry with the Wilmot baronets of Osmaston and the Wilmot baronets of Chaddesden.
Baronets of England, Ireland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom (i.e. all except baronets of Nova Scotia) can display the Red Hand of Ulster (sinister (left) hand version) as a heraldic badge, being the arms of the ancient kings of Ulster.Collins, 1741, p.287 This badge (or augmentation of honour) is blazoned as follows: Argent a Hand sinister couped at the wrist extended in pale Gules.
The Premier Baronetcy of Ireland was created for Sir Dominic Sarsfield in 1619, and was held by his successors until the attainder of the 4th Viscount Sarsfield in 1691.Cokayne, vol i, pp223-224 Since then the descendants of Sir Francis Annesley Bt., the Annesley baronets, have been the Premier Baronets of Ireland;Cokayne, vol ii, p 224 presently Francis William Dighton Annesley, 16th Viscount Valentia.
The Colquhoun Baronetcy, of Luss in the County of Dumbarton, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 June 1786 for James Colquhoun. He was the fourth son of the sixth Baronet of the 1625 creation. The third and fourth Baronets both represented Dunbartonshire in the House of Commons. The fourth, fifth and seventh Baronets all served as Lord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire.
Canting arms of Hampson: Argent, three hemp-brakes sableBetham, William, History of the English Baronets, Volume 2, London, 1802, pp.5-8, Hampson Baronets Sir Robert Hampson (1537-1607) was one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London in 1599. He was an Alderman of the City of London and was knighted by King James I on his entry into EnglandWotton, p.295 in 1603.
Sir Henry Echlin, 1st Baronet (1652–1725) was an Irish barrister, judge, and bibliophile. He was the first of the Echlin Baronets of Clonagh, County Kildare.
George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 Not to be confused with the Dalison baronets of Laughton in the County of Lincoln, created in 1611.
Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet (11 August 1874 – 5 March 1946) was a British politician and a member of the Cooper Baronets, of Shenstone Court.
Sir Henry Meux, 1st Baronet. Sir Henry Meux, 1st Baronet (1770–1841) was a British brewer and baronet of the second creation of the Meux baronets.
Sir James Chatterton, 1st Baronet (c. 1750 – 9 April 1806), was an Irish lawyer and politician, and the first of the Chatterton Baronets of Castle Mahon.
Owners included the Prestwich and the Mosley baronets prior to the property being bought from George Lloyd in 1764 by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.
The 17th-century lawyer Sir Isaac Thornton is buried in the church, as is Sir Arthur Clarke (1715-1806), the last of the baronets of Snailwell.
Two baronets with the surname Arbuthnot have been created for members of the Arbuthnot family—both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and still extant.
Downing College heraldic shield The arms of the Downing baronets—Barry of eights, argent and vert, over all a gryphon rampant or—were adopted by Downing College.
The 7th and 8th baronets are buried together in North Berwick Cemetery in East Lothian, Scotland. The very modest graves lie in the extreme south-east corner.
Hew Elphinstone, second son of the first Baronet, was the grandfather of Robert Dalrymple-Horn- Elphinstone, who was created a baronet in 1828 (see Elphinstone-Dalrymple baronets).
Several of the later baronets enjoyed distinguished political careers. The ninth and tenth Baronets represented Wexford and County Waterford respectively in the House of Commons, the ninth additionally serving as High Sheriff of Wexford in 1840. The eleventh Baronet was also a Member of Parliament as well as a Senator of the Irish Free State. The twelfth Baronet was Cumann na nGaedheal TD for Wexford from 1923 to 1936.
Arms of Strickland baronets Arms of Strickland-Constable baronets The Strickland, later Cholmley, later Strickland-Constable Baronetcy, of Boynton in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 30 July 1641 for the politician William Strickland. The first baronet was summoned to Oliver Cromwell's House of Lords as Lord Strickland. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Beverley during the Commonwealth.
260–261 The Hay Baronetcy, of Alderston, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 22 February 1703 for John Hay, with remainder to heirs male forever. He was a member of the same family as the Hay Baronets of Smithfield and Haystoun and the Marquesses of Tweeddale. The third and fourth Baronets used the surname of Hay-Makdougall. The ninth Baronet never proved his succession or used the title.
The Alexander, later Cable-Alexander Baronetcy, of the City of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 December 1809. For more information on this creation, see Cable- Alexander baronets. The Alexander, later Hagart-Alexander Baronetcy, of Ballochmyle in the County of Ayr, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 January 1886. For more information on this creation, see Hagart- Alexander baronets.
Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Baronet (28 October 1796 – 13 October 1871)Leigh Rayment baronets was an English printseller and publisher and served as Lord Mayor of London.
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain.
1585, at which time a document contains his named, crossed out, with 'mortuus' written beside it. Hales was the ancestor of the Baronets Hales of Thanington and Bekesbourne.
His illegitimate daughter Elizabeth married Sir Walter Calverley-Blackett, 2nd Baronet, who assumed the additional surname of Blackett (see Calverley-Blackett baronets for more information on this title).
Since John Trelawny, son of the original purchaser, who was created a baronet in 1628, there has been an unbroken series of 14 Trelawny or Salusbury-Trelawny baronets.
Ball, F. Elrington, The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.307 He was the second of the O'Neill Baronets of Upper Claneboys.
The first and second Baronets sat as MPs for Cambridgeshire in 1782 and 1802 respectively. The baronetcy became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1962.
Sir Brodrick William Charles Elwin Hartwell, 5th Baronet (1909-1993) was a British baronet, the fifth of the Hartwell baronets of Dale Hall in the County of Essex.
Arms of Wills baronets "of Northmoor" (1897) (Barons Dulverton (1929)): Gules, three estoiles flammant fesswise between two griffins passant wings expanded and inverted orMontague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.381 Arms of Wills baronets "of Hazelwood" (1904): Gules, three suns in splendour fesswise between two griffins passant orDebrett, 1968, p.860 Arms of Wills baronets "of Blagdon" (1923): Gules, a sun in splendour between two griffins passant orDebrett, 1968, p.861 There have been four baronetcies created for members of the Wills family, owners of W. D. & H. O. Wills and major shareholders and directors of the Imperial Tobacco Company.
Shelley married, in 1869, Lady Mary Jane Jemima Stopford (1851–1937), daughter of the 5th Earl of Courtown. They had nine children, including the 6th, 7th and 8th baronets.
Hope's grandson, Charles Dunbar Hope-Dunbar, proved his claim to the Dunbar Baronetcy of Baldoon (created in 1664) in 1916 and became the 6th Baronet (see Hope-Dunbar Baronets).
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Archer of Umberslade, Warwickshire, by whom he had two sons: Archer, his successor and Francis, the grandfather of the 5th and 6th baronets.
There have been three creations of baronets with the surname Duff, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extinct while one is extant.
Gerard married, in 1877, Mary Milner, daughter of Henry Beilby Milner, of West Retford, a descendant of the Milner baronets. Their son Frederic John Gerard succeeded as Baron Gerard.
Arthur Collins, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing (Tho. Wotton, 1741), p.400. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Barnardiston, of Brightwell Hall, Suffolk on 8 November 1707, on the death of his uncle, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet.Arthur Collins, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing (Tho. Wotton, 1741), p.400.
Since 1611, the British Crown has awarded a hereditary title in the form of the baronetcy. Like knights, baronets are accorded the title Sir. Baronets are not peers of the Realm, and have never been entitled to sit in the House of Lords, therefore like knights they remain commoners in the view of the British legal system. However, unlike knights, the title is hereditary and the recipient does not receive an accolade.
Seaton Delaval Hall near Newcastle upon Tyne. Captain Francis Blake Delaval (27 December 1692 - 9 December 1752) was a Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Edward Delaval (related to the Delaval baronets) and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Blake of Cogges (related to the Blake baronets). He inherited Seaton Delaval Hall from his uncle Admiral George Delaval, and Ford Castle from his mother's family.
The surname of Page-Turner was also borne by the fourth, fifth Baronets and sixth Baronets. On the latter's death in 1874 the title was inherited by Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet, of Canons Ashby (see below). The titles have remained united ever since. The Dryden Baronetcy, of Canons Ashby in the County of Northampton, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 2 May 1795 for John Dryden.
Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet, PC FRS (9 July 1752 – 2 October 1822)Sparrow (n.d.) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He was the first of the Nepean Baronets.
A third daughter Elizabeth married Duke Gifford of Castlejordan, County Meath. Duke was the heir, most likely the nephew, of Sir Thomas Gifford, first and last of the Gifford baronets.
The Broun Baronets are a branch of the ancient Broun of Colstoun family whose estate near Haddington, East Lothian, remains to this day in the possession of a cadet family.
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (18 April 1740 – 11 September 1810), was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.
In 1615 he had extensive self-interested discussions with the king on the privileges of baronets. Dying in 1617, he was buried in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. He had two sons.
Much later, the family provided the Dungan Baronets and two Earls of Limerick, the most notable of which Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick was a Governor of New York.
Although a badge was worn in the 17th century, it was not until 1929 that King George V granted permission for all baronets (other than those of Scotland) to wear badges.
The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th-century origins in Vernon, Normandy, France. Their extant titles include Baron Vernon and Vernon baronets of Shotwick Park.
Rivett-Carnac is the ancestor of the Rivett-Carnac baronets, of whom the most well-known member today is the bag designer Lulu Guinness (born 1960), daughter of the ninth baronet.
Leighton Hall, seat of the baronets Middleton of Leighton Hall Belsay Castle, the former seat of the Middleton baronets of Belsay Castle There have been six baronetcies created for persons with the surname Middleton, four in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2008. The Middleton (or Myddleton) Baronetcy, of Ruthyn in the County of Denbigh, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 October 1622 for Sir Hugh Middleton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament for Denbigh Boroughs. The second, third and fourth Baronets also represented Denbigh in the House of Commons. The title became dormant on the death of the sixth Baronet in circa 1757.
Canting arms of Hampson: Argent, three hemp-brakes sableBetham, William, History of the English Baronets, Volume 2, London, 1802, pp.5-8, Hampson Baronets These arms occurred frequently repeated in the cornice of the screen of the now demolished Hampson Chapel, built in the 1630s, in the north aisle of St Nicholas's' Church, TaplowLysons, Magna Britannia, 1806 The Hampson Baronetcy, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created by King Charles I on 3 June 1642 for Thomas Hampson, second son of Sir Robert Hampson (1537-1607) one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London in 1599, knighted by King James I in 1603.Wotton, Thomas, The English Baronets, Volume 2, London, 1741, pp.
The Coat of Arms of the Every Baronets Sir Simon Every, 1st Baronet (1603–1647) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He was a supporter of the Royalist cause in the English Civil War, and the first of the Every Baronets. Every was born at Chardstock (then in Dorset, located in Devon since 1896) to John Every of Wycroft Castle, and his wife Elizabeth Lambert.William Betham, The Baronetage of EnglandCollins, Arthur.
There have been five Dunbar Baronetcies; the first four in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, and the last in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. There is also a Hope-Dunbar Baronetcy of Baldoon. The Dunbar baronets of Mochrum are notable as the 11th Baronet held that title for only two days before his death. The Dunbar baronets of Hempriggs are notable as the 8th Baronetess was one of only four (or possibly five) baronetesses in history; i.e.
The Jones, later Lawrence-Jones Baronetcy, of Cranmer Hall in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831. For more information on this creation, see Lawrence-Jones baronets. The Jones, later Prichard-Jones Baronetcy, of Bron Menai, Dwyran, in Llangeiwen in the County of Anglesey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 July 1910. For more information on this creation, see Prichard-Jones baronets.
Arms of Vernon of Shotwick Park baronets The Vernons descended from the ancient Cheshire family and from William Vernon (1434–1507) of Cogshall, Great Budworth, Cheshire who was a grandson of Richard Vernon of Lostock. Thirteen generations of the family resided in Great Budworth and then Mutlow, Gawsworth. In 1914, William Vernon, Chairman of W Vernon & Son (Millers) of London and Liverpool was created the first of the Vernon baronets of Shotwick Park. The Baronetcy remains extant.
James Lowther, younger brother of the first Earl of the second creation, was created a Baronet in 1824 (see Lowther baronets). Henry Lowther, second son of the first Earl of the second creation and father of the third Earl, was a Conservative politician. His third son William Lowther was a diplomat and politician. He was the father of James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (see Viscount Ullswater), Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet (see Lowther baronets) and Sir Cecil Lowther.
"Jester Walk" itinerary, TetcottDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.709, Molesworth-St. Aubyn baronets, seats: Pencarrow & Tetcott, Holsworthy The 7th and 15th Molesworth-St Aubyn baronets had as a first-name "Arscott". In 1831, whilst retaining the original manor house used some time later as a farmhouse, they demolished the adjacent Queen Anne mansion, an act much resented by the local population, and built in its place a "Gothic cottage"Hawker, Appendix to serve as a hunting lodge.
The Burdett, later Weldon Baronetcy, of Dunmore in the County of Carlow, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 11 July 1723. For more information on this creation, see Weldon baronets.
He married Alice de Hiltoft of Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire. They had several daughters and two surviving sons, William, who died without issue, and John (died 1422), ancestor of the Skipwith Baronets of Metheringham.
Llantrithyd is a rural villageGenuki and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The Aubrey Baronets were lords of the manor of Llantrithyd for centuries: the family died out in the 1850s.
The third son, Theobald, was created Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim. This title died with the first bearer. The Cloughgrenan line survives to the present day through the illegitimate line of the baronets.
Benacre Hall is a Grade II listed country house and estate in Benacre, Suffolk. The current house is Georgian and dates to around 1764. It is the seat of the Gooch baronets.
The Mackenzie, later Inglis Baronetcy, of Gairloch in the County of Ross, was created in Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 22 February 1703. For more information on this creation, see Inglis baronets.
Sir Charles Buckworth-Herne-Soame, 9th Baronet (1830-1906) was a baronet in the Baronetage of England, the ninth of the Buckworth-Herne-Soame baronets of Sheen in the County of Surrey.
Sir John Colman Rashleigh, 1st Baronet (23 November 1772 – 4 August 1847) was the first of the Rashleigh baronets and known as a leading figure among the gentry in the parliamentary reform movement.
Sir Samuel Walker, 1st Baronet, PC (Ire), KC (19 June 1832 – 13 August 1911) was an Irish Liberal politician, lawyer and judge. He was the first of the Walker baronets of Pembroke House.
The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1974. Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, 1st Baronet, of Morfield, was the first cousin of the first Baronet (see Hill-Wood baronets).
They were seated at Homme House. Sir James Kyrle-Money, 1st Baronet, a descendant of the Kyrle Baronets, assumed the additional surname of Kyrle in 1809 and was created a baronet in 1838.
The Baronetage Committee was established by a 1910 Order in Council, during Edward VII's reign, to scrutinise all succession claims (and thus reject doubtful ones) to be placed on the Roll of Baronets.
They had four children, Nicholas, Edward, Anne and Jane.Bolton Bolton Families of Ireland Nicholas's descendants remained at Brazil until 1810. Anne, through her second husband Alexander Pigottt, was ancestor of the Pigott Baronets.
The Cooper Baronetcy of Gadebridge in the County of Hertford was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 August 1821. For more information on this creation, see Astley-Cooper baronets.
Featherstone Castle, the seat of the Fetherstonhaugh baronets The Fetherstonhaugh baronetcy, of Fetherstonhaugh in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 3 January 1747 for Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, of Featherstone Castle, Northumberland, and of Uppark, Sussex, later Member of Parliament for Morpeth and Portsmouth. He had previously succeeded to the estates of his kinsman, Sir Henry Fetherston, 2nd Baronet (see Fetherston baronets). He was succeeded by his minor son, Henry Fetherstonhaugh (known as Harry).
The coat of arms of the Every Baronets The heraldic crest of the Every Baronets The Every Baronetcy, of Egginton in the County of Derby, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 26 May 1641 for Simon Every, Member of Parliament for Leicester in 1640 and a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War. Born into the Every family of Dorset and Somerset, and a cousin to the Brice family of Somerset,St. George, Henry.
Sir Francis Ottley with his wife, Lucy, and children, Richard and Mary. Sir Francis was the royalist military governor of Shrewsbury at the beginning of the English Civil War and Wolryche's brother-in-law. As tensions between Charles I and Parliament mounted in 1641, Charles courted support and raised funds simultaneously by creating numerous knights and baronets. Wolryche was knighted at Whitehall Palace on 22 July 1641Shaw, p.210 and created the first of the Wolryche baronets on 4 August 1641.
Collins, Arthur, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets now Existing, Volume 4, London, 1741, p.287 King James I of England established the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, in the words of Collins (1741): "for the plantation and protection of the whole Kingdom of Ireland, but more especially for the defence and security of the Province of Ulster, and therefore for their distinction those of this order and their descendants may bear (the Red Hand of Ulster) in their coats of arms either in a canton or an escutcheon at their election". Such baronets may also display the Red Hand of Ulster on its own as a badge, suspended by a ribbon below the shield of arms.Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.
Many baronets also hold peerage titles; these have been listed below. The baronetcies below are listed in order of precedence (i.e. date order). For a complete list of all baronetcies, see List of Baronetcies.
The Smith, later Eardley Baronetcy, of Hadley in the County of Middlesex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 December 1802. For more information on this creation, see Eardley baronets.
Sir William Williams, 6th Baronet (c. 1668 – 23 December 1696) was a Welsh politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire from 1689 until his death. He was one of the Williams baronets.
The Wilson, later Maryon-Wilson Baronetcy, of Eastbourne in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of England on 4 March 1661. For more information on this creation, see Maryon-Wilson Baronets.
Sir John Chambers White (died 1845), grandfather of the first Baronet, was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. He married Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, 1st Baronet (see Dalrymple baronets).
He died without issue on 3 June 1755 and was buried at Lampeter. Dictionary of Welsh Biography LLOYD family, of Peterwell, Cardiganshire He was succeeded by his brother Herbert, the first of the Lloyd baronets.
The subsequent baronets maintained the gardens (though the hothouse did not survive) for generations. In 1723 Sir John Rawdon, 3rd Baronet helped fund the construction of the Anglican Moira Parish Church, dedicated to St. John.
In 1669 his descendant John Shaw bought the barony of Easter Greenock from the Crawfords, and the conjoined baronies were inherited in 1752 by John Shaw Stewart. The lands remain under the Shaw Stewart baronets.
Similar provision was made for subsequent Parsee baronets. All holders of the title relinquish their own names and assume that of the first Baronet. After the incumbent's assumed name, we show his given name, below.
He was married to Anna (1813–1877). They had five daughters and one son, Frank McClean. Through Frank, their descendants include Francis McClean, Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington, and the twelfth and subsequent Eliott baronets.
His brother John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie, advocate, was father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk-Maxwell. His sister Isabella married the sometime Solicitor General for Scotland, James Wedderburn (1782-1822) of the Wedderburn baronets.
Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gulesDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.877, Wrey Baronets Arms of Wrey Baronets, with quarterings and crests, shown on mural monument in Tawstock Church to Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet. The heir of the Bourchiers was the Wrey family of Trebeigh Manor, St Ive, Cornwall. On the death of Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath (died 1654), the last in the male line, the title became extinct.
However, the Nova Scotian Baronetcy of Foulis (1634) could only pass to a direct male descendant of the Baronets and was succeeded to by a cousin of the 11th Bart. Sir George Hamilton Munro, 12th Baronet (1864–1945). In 1954 Sir Arthur Herman Munro, 14th baronet, registered the Arms and Designation of Foulis-Obsdale to distinguish them from those of Munro of Foulis. The current Baronet Munro of Foulis is listed as Dormant: Exant under research by the Standing Council of Baronets at www.barotonage.
On the death of the fifth Baronet in 1905 the two titles separated. The Scott baronetcy of Great Barr was inherited by Douglas Edward Scott (see Scott baronets for later history of this title) while the baronetcy of Hartington was inherited by Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 4th Baronet, of St Audries, who became the fifth Baronet. He was the grandson of Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Amelia Anne Bateman. See Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets for further history of the title.
Baronets are conventionally seen to belong to the lesser nobility, even though William Thoms claims that "The precise quality of this dignity is not yet fully determined, some holding it to be the head of the nobiles minores, while others, again, rank Baronets as the lowest of the nobiles majores, because their honour, like that of the higher nobility, is both hereditary and created by patent."William J. Thoms (1844). The Book of the Court (2nd edition). London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, p.
Angélil started out in 1961 as a pop singer in Montreal. He formed a pop rock group, Les Baronets (fr), with childhood friends Pierre Labelle and Jean Beaulne. Les Baronets had some hits during the 1960s, mostly translations of English-language pop hits from the United Kingdom or the United States, such as "C'est fou, mais c'est tout" in 1964 (a translation of The Beatles' song "Hold Me Tight"). After the dissolution of the group in 1972, Angélil and best friend Guy Cloutier began managing artists.
Hall Place, the seat of the Austen baronets of Bexley There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Austen, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Both creations are extinct. The Austen Baronetcy, of Bexley in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 10 July 1660 for Robert Austen of Hall Place, Bexley, Kent, High Sheriff of Kent in 1660 and 1661. The second and third Baronets both represented Rye in Parliament.
Arms of Vernon of Hanbury baronets The Vernons of Hanbury descend from the ancient Cheshire family of Shipbrook and Whatcroft. In 1584 Richard Vernon of Audley, Staffordshire married Frances Wylde the heiress of Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire and in 1701 Thomas Vernon rebuilt the house in grand style. In 1885, Harry Foley Vernon of Hanbury, Member of Parliament for Worcestershire East 1861-68, was created the first of the Vernon Baronets of Hanbury. The Baronetcy was extinct in 1940 and the family relinquished the estate in 1953.
Portrait of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th Baronet, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton Wynnstay the family seat, 1793 Sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1768 Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts. The Williams-Wynn baronets had been begun in 1688 by the politician Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, but had inherited, in the time of the 3rd baronet, Sir Watkin's father, the estates of the Wynn baronets, and changed their name to reflect this.
The family seat was Burton Agnes Hall, Burton Agnes, Yorkshire. Frances Griffith, daughter and sole heiress of the first Baronet, married Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, through which marriage the house came into the Boynton family (see Boynton baronets). The Griffith, later Waldie-Griffith Baronetcy, of Munster Grillagh in the County of Londonderry and of Pencraig in the County of Anglesey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 April 1858. For more information on this creation, see Waldie-Griffith baronets.
Arms of Wake: Or, two bars gules in chief three torteauxMontague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.815, Wake baronets Crest of Wake: The Wake knotMontague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.815, Wake baronets The Wake Baronetcy, of Clevedon in the County of Somerset, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 5 December 1621 for Baldwin Wake.
The Smith, later Prince-Smith Baronetcy, of Hillbrook in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 February 1911. For more information on this creation, see Prince-Smith baronets.
Hillington is the traditional home of the ffolkes baronets. Francis ffolkes, 5th Baronet was Rector of Hillington from 1912 until his death. His nephew, the intelligence officer and conservationist Tracy Philipps, was born here in 1888.
Membership of the organisation is restricted to baronets and their heirs apparent. In order to be recognised by the society as a baronet an individual's name must be entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.
The Champneys, later Dalrymple- Champneys Baronetcy, of Littlemeads in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 13 July 1910. For more information on this creation, see Dalrymple-Champneys baronets.
Arms of Corbet baronets of Moreton Corbet, cr. 1808: Or, a raven sableDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 204. Arms of Corbet of Chaddesley Corbett: Or a raven proper within a bordure engrailed gules.Burke's General Armory, p. 228.
St Dunstan's Church, Cheam, Surrey: Ermine, on a bend sable three bezants James Boevey (1622–1696) (pronounced "Boovey")Debrett's Peerage, 1968, Crawley-Boevey Baronets, p.89 was an English merchant, lawyer and philosopher of Huguenot parentage.
The church has retained its sculptures and stained glass from the 14th and 15th centuries respectively. Around 1800 Thomas Champneys of the Mostyn-Champneys Baronets who owned the estate had a moat dug around the church.
The last two Lords Duffus were also baronets, of Hempriggs in the County of Caithness (3rd and 4th). The lordship became extinct on the death of the 6th (titular 7th) Lord Duffus on 28 August 1875.
He was created a baronet on 25 November 1612,One of 17 baronets created on that day . and was elected M.P. for Stockbridge, 1621–22. He died 5 August 1627 and was buried at Great Braxtead.
For peers, see Forms of address in the United Kingdom. For baronets, the style Sir John Smith, Bt (or Bart) is used. Their wives are styled Lady Smith. A baronetess is styled Dame Jane Smith, Btss.
His second wife was Jane Auder, the widow of William Turner, the botanist and Dean of Wells Cathedral. One of his grandsons, Richard, moved to Ireland in about 1600, and was the ancestor of the Cox Baronets.
From 1628 to 1633 he sat in the Parliament of Scotland as shire commissioner for Tarbert.Joseph Foster (1882). Members of Parliament, Scotland, page 235. From his rule onward, all Maclean clan chiefs are successive Baronets of Movern.
Sir Thomas Molyneux (1531–1597) was a French-born statesman in Ireland during the Elizabethan era. He founded a dynasty which produced several men of distinction. His descendants became the Molyneux baronets of Castle Dillon, County Armagh.
A kinsman of the Cooke- Yarborough baronets and the son of Clive Cooke, a stockbroker, Tristan is married to Vanessa née White; the couple have one daughter and divide their time between homes in London and Somerset.
The Bellew, later Grattan-Bellew Baronetcy, of Mount Bellew in the County of Galway, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 August 1838. For more information on this creation, see Grattan-Bellew baronets.
The Honourable Laurence Harman King-Harman, younger son of the first Viscount Lorton, was the father of Edward King- Harman, a politician (see also Stafford-King-Harman baronets), and Sir Charles King-Harman, High Commissioner to Cyprus.
Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 1st Baronet. (1847–1913) "Creator of Frinton-on- Sea, Captain of Industry and Farmer to the World" The Cooper Baronetcy, of Shenstone Court in the parish of Shenstone in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 December 1905 for the agriculturalist Richard Powell Cooper. The family business, in which the first four baronets were heavily involved, was notable for the invention of insecticides related to veterinary products, today known as Sheep dip. To date there have been six baronets.
Note: his name is spelt "Gould" in The Times He was the ninth child of Sir George Goold, 2nd baronet, and Lady Charlotte Browne, daughter of Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare and Hon. Charlotte Dillon.The Peerage: Sir Henry Valentine Goold Retrieved 3 February 2014 The family motto was Deus mihi providebit, or "God will provide".William Betham, The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings, Volume 5, (Miller 1805) p.
Unlike the Eustace baronets of the 16th and 17th centuries, the five Borrowes baronets who spanned the 19th century played no part in public life. This quiet aristocratic reign ended with the flamboyant Sir Kildare, 10th Baronet (1852–1924), whose father Rev. Sir Erasmus, 8th Baronet, had significantly modified the residence in a medieval, romantic, asymmetrical style. In 1918, the Borrowes family having left Ireland, Barretstown was purchased by Sir George Sheppard Murray, a Scotsman who converted the estate into a stud farm, and planted many of the exotic trees that dominate the landscape.
Arms of Carew: Or, 3 lions passant in pale sableDebrett's Peerage, 1968, Carew Baronets, p.155 were the arms shown on the seal of "Nicholas de Carreu" (c. 1255 – 1311), appended to the Barons' Letter, 1301, which he joined as "Lord of Mulesford" and which were blazoned for the same bearer in the Caerlaverock Poem or Roll of Arms of 1300, when he was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle. From him are descended the Carew baronets of Antony and of Haccombe, the Earl of Totnes and Baron Carew.
The Coates Baronetcy, of Haypark in the City of Belfast, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom (see also Milnes Coates baronets, which is a separate baronetcy in England and Coats baronets, which is a separate baronetcy in Scotland). It was created on 15 July 1921 for William Coates. He was a senior partner of William F. Coates & Co, stockbrokers, of Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1929 and 1930 and a Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet.
1768) were sons of Thomas Halford (1696–1766). His connection to Sir Henry Halford is not clear. The first baronetcy was created in 1641 for Sir Richard Halford d. 1658. The next baronets were Sir Thomas Halford d.
Sir Henry Goring, 4th Baronet (baptized 16 September 1679 – 12 November 1731), of Highden, Washington, Sussex, one of the Goring baronets of Highden, was an English politician who had a part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot of 1721.
The house is constructed of Keuper sandstone ashlar with a slate roof and lead flashings in three storeys. It is in neoclassical style with an entrance front of nine bays. It is the seat of the Broughton baronets.
The St John, later St John-Mildmay Baronetcy, of Farley in the County of Southampton, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 9 October 1772. For more information on this creation, see St John-Mildmay baronets.
Lawrence had a long and successful career as a surgeon. He reached the top of his profession, and just before his death the Queen rewarded him with a baronetcy (see Lawrence baronets) shortly before his death in 1867.
Sir George Douglas Dixie, 12th Baronet (18 January 1876 - 25 December 1948), known as Sir Douglas Dixie, was the second to last of the Dixie baronets. He served in the Royal Navy and the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Three Peers And Five Baronets, Many Knighthoods., The Times, 4 June 1928, p.8 He married Maud Mary Hudleston in 1897, and they had three children. They lived together at Inholmes in Lambourn in Berkshire for several years.
In 1925, the latter assumed the surname and arms of Forbes-Leith of Fyvie, for himself, his wife and son, according to the terms of his father-in-law's will (see Forbes baronets for more information on the baronetcy).
The Brydges, later Egerton-Barrett-Brydges Baronetcy, of Denton Court in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 May 1815. For more information on this creation, see Egerton-Barrett-Brydges baronets.
There have been two Hudson Baronetcies, both of which are now extinct. A third, which began with Sir Charles Hudson, 1st Baronet of Wanlip Hall on 21 June 1791, changed name with the second Baronet becoming the Palmer baronets.
Sir Lionel Charles Patrick Milman, 7th Baronet (23 February 1877 - 2 November 1962) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer, first-class cricketer, and the seventh of the Milman baronets of Levaton-in-Woodland in the County of Devon.
Sir Dermot Lionel Kennedy Milman, 8th Baronet (24 October 1912 – 13 January 1990) was an English first-class cricketer and rugby union international, and the eighth of the Milman baronets of Levaton-in-Woodland in the County of Devon.
Sir Michael Smith, 1st Baronet (1740–1808) was an Irish judge. He was the founder of a judicial dynasty, several of whose members were noted for eccentricity. He was also the first of the Cusack-Smith baronets of Tuam.
He succeeded his cousin, Sir Harry Freeling, as the 7th Baronet of the Freeling baronets in 1914. Freeling died at Brussels in October 1916 and upon his death, he was succeeded as the 8th Baronet by Sir Clayton Freeling.
His eldest son, the second Baronet, was also a prominent soldier. The latter's two younger brothers, the third and fourth Baronets, both succeeded in the title. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1836.
Sir James Dick of Prestonfield (1644-1728) was a 17th/18th century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1679 to 1681. He was the first Baronet of Prestonfield and was progenitor to the Dick baronets.
Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a Grade I listed manor and private residence, near the village of Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is the former seat of the Crawley-Boevey Baronets.
He was the son of Colonel John Eden, a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War. The second and fourth Baronets also represented County Durham in the House of Commons. The fifth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Johnson.
150px The Earldom of Warrington is a title which has been created twice in British history, in 1690 and 1796 respectively. For information on the 1690 creation, see Booth baronets. For information on the 1796 creation, see Earl of Stamford.
The Palmer Baronets, of Grinkle Park in the County of York and of Newcastle upon Tyne, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 July 1886 for Charles Palmer, a coal and shipping magnate and Liberal politician.
A few have since been donated to Towneley Hall, and (at least) four were donated to Stonyhurst College in the 19th Century. Edward Widdrington, cousin of the first Baron, was created a baronet in both 1635 and 1642 (see Widdrington baronets).
Sir Cecil Denny, 6th Baronet (14 December 1850 – 24 August 1928), was born in Hampshire, England, as one of the Denny baronets of Tralee Castle. He moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and worked as a police officer, Indian agent, and author.
295-7, Hampson Baronets The third Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe in 1685.History of Parliament biography The tenth Baronet was an entomologist. The title became extinct on the death of the twelfth Baronet in 1969.
Sir Charles Mordaunt, 8th Baronet (5 January 1771 – 30 May 1823) was an English politician. He represented the constituency of Warwickshire in 1804–1820. He was one of the Mordaunt Baronets, succeeding Sir John Mordaunt, 7th Baronet to the title.
General Sir Thomas Musgrave, 7th Baronet (1737 – 1812) was an English soldier. He rose to the rank of general in the British Army and was noted for his service during the American Revolutionary War. He is one of the Musgrave baronets.
The second, third and fifth Baronets also represented both Banbury and Oxfordshire. In 1699 The sixth Baronet purchased Bramshill House, Hampshire which became the family seat. He was member for Plymouth and Tavistock. The seventh Baronet represented Banbury and Newport, IOW.
The second and third Baronets represented Yorkshire in the House of Commons. The fourth Baronet represented York and served as Mayor of York. He was also a well-known Jacobite supporter. The fifth baronet was sheriff of Yorkshire in 1761.
Her nephew Sir Thomas Pope Blount (d. 1638) inherited the estate at Tittenhanger on her death.The English Baronetage, Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets now existing Vol 3 Pt 2. Arthur Collins (1741) pp665-77.
Edward Dering.Edward Dering was from a branch of the Surrenden Manor, Pluckley, Dering family. His relations were the Dering baronets. She died in 1701 and is buried with other members of the Dering family within the church of Charing, Kent.
Sir Robert Charles Sinclair, 9th Baronet DL (1820–1899) was a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, the ninth of the Sinclair-Lockhart baronets of Murkle in the County of Caithness and of Stevenson in the County of Haddington.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Clifton Baronets): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent Sir Robert Clifton, 5th Baronet (1690–1762) KB of Clifton Hall, Nottingham was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1741.
Entrance gates to Cappoquin House Cappoquin House also known as Belmont is an 18th-century classical-style mansion overlooking the town of Cappoquin in County Waterford, Ireland. The house is the seat of the Keane Baronets of Belmont and of Cappoquin.
10 Four years later, Ord Tidbury married Joan Windham, daughter of Ashe Windham. After her husband's death, she married Major Hugh D'Oyly Lyle (died 1977), son of Colonel Thomas Lyle and a descendant of the D'Oyly baronets, and died in 1990.
He married Margaret Culquhoun, daughter of Sir James Culquhoun of Luss in 1768. In 1803 he married again, to Janet Sinclair, sister of Sir John Sinclair, and a cousin to his first wife. The Baillie baronets were descended from Lord Polkemmet.
He was born at Muddlescombe, Carmarthenshire, the third son of Sir Francis Mansel (died 1628), first of the Mansel baronets, and his first wife Catherine Morgan.Mosley, Charles ed. Burke's Peerage 107th Edition 3 Volumes Wilmington, Delaware 2003 Vol. 2 p.
The Pechell, later Brooke-Pechell, later Pechell Baronetcy, of Paglesham in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 1 March 1797 for Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Pechell, a retired army officer of Huguenot descent. The second baronet, whose mother was the only daughter and heir of Thomas Brooke of Paglesham, Essex, took by royal licence the additional surname of Brooke. The first and second baronets were army officers, the third and fourth rose to flag rank in the Royal Navy, and the second through fourth baronets were also Member of Parliament.
The Turner Arms in Merton Road is named after the baronets In 1729 the manor was bought by Edward Turner, who had already bought one of the manors of Bicester from Sir Stephen in 1728. In 1733, Turner was made the first of the Turner and Page-Turner baronets of Ambrosden. In around 1740, Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet replaced the Glynnes' manor house with a large square house of eleven bays. In its construction, the house reused stone from the manor house, mixed with local limestone from the Stone Pitts quarry at Blackthorn, Oxfordshire and Cotswold stone from Bibury in Gloucestershire.
Letter > dated Oct 28 1754 : Despite Wesley's admonitions, Lowther divided his estates and property largely among other Lowther baronets (although a thousand pounds was left to John Spedding, and five hundred pounds to Carlisle Spedding). > The late Sir James Lowther has left the Bulk of his great Fortune, amounting > to near £600,000 to the two Baronets of his name, distant relations. His > Estate in Cumberland, with the Coal-Mines, which produce £15,000 per Annum > to Sir William Lowther [of Marske], Bart. His Estates in Westmoreland and > Middlesex, with his Stocks, Mortgages, &c;, to a great Value to Sir James > Lowther [of Lowther].
Baronets of Scotland or Nova Scotia were allowed to augment their armorial bearings with the Arms of Nova Scotia and the privilege of wearing a neck badge signifying "of Nova Scotia", suspended by an orange-tawny ribbon. This consists of an escutcheon argent with a saltire azure, an inescutcheon of the Royal Arms of Scotland, with an Imperial Crown above the escutcheon, and encircled with the motto Fax Mentis Honestae Gloria. This badge may be shown suspended by the ribbon below the escutcheon. Baronets of England and Ireland applied to King Charles I for permission to wear a badge.
The presumed sixteenth Baronet never successfully proved his succession and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. The presumed 17th and present Baronet has also not successfully proven his succession and is not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1996. The Baronets were also Chiefs of Clan Munro until the death of the eleventh Baronet in 1935 when the chieftancy passed to his daughter and was separated from the baronetcy. From 1954, the baronets were styled "of Foulis-Obsdale" to distinguish their Arms and Designation from those of Munro of Foulis.
The Baronetcy was created for the third time on 18 September 1776 for Henry Dashwood, son of Margaret Peyton, daughter of Sir Sewster Peyton, second Baronet of the second creation. Dashwood, who was related to the Dashwood baronets changed his name by Act of Parliament to Henry Dashwood Peyton. From about 1830 the family was seated at Swifts House, Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire. The second baronet served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1808 and the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Baronets served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1871, 1881, 1896 and 1928 respectively.
Merevale Hall, Warwickshire now seat of the Dugdale Baronets. The Manor of Merevale in north Warwickshire (including the original Merevale Hall and estate) was purchased in the mid-seventeenth century by Edward Stratford (died 1665), 9x great grandson of Sir Stephen de Stratford of Farmcote. A History of the County of Warwick - Volume 4 (1947) pp142-147 from British History Online In 1749 the property was inherited by Penelope Bate Stratford (the daughter and co-heiress of Francis Stratford of Merevale) who married into the (now) Dugdale baronets, who still possess the estate.Stratford, Gerald "A History of the Stratford Family" Chapter 11.
Monument in St Mary the Virgin parish church, Culworth, Northamptonshire to Sir John D'Anvers (died 1642) and his descendants, the five D'Anvers Baronets of Culworth There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Danvers, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Both creations are extinct. ancient): Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or Arms of the Danvers baronets of Swithland: Argent, on a bend gules three martlets of the field.Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, by John Burke, Bernard Burke, p.
The term gentry, some of whom were landed, included four separate groups in England:Canon, John, The Oxford Companion to British History, p. 405 under the heading "Gentry" (Oxford University Press, 1997) # Baronets: a hereditary title, originally created in the 14th century and revived by King James in 1611, giving the holder the right to be addressed as Sir. # Knights: originally a military rank, this status was increasingly awarded to civilians as a reward for service to the Crown. Holders have the right to be addressed as Sir, as are baronets, but unlike baronet, the title of knight is not hereditary.
Branston Hall Grounds were the inherited estate of Sir Cecil Wray 11th Baronet (1678–1736) (a descendant of Catherine Parr), whose family had been Baronets and parliamentarians in Lincolnshire since 1611GeniCracrofts Peerage – WrayA Genealogy of the Selwyn Family (see also Wray Baronets), and whose main residence was in Fillingham, north of Lincoln. Busts of Sir Cecil and his wife Mary can be seen in Branston All Saints Church. The property was inherited from Sir Cecil by his daughter out of wedlock, Anne Casey. Anne Casey married Lord Vere Bertie (1712–1768), the son of the 1st Duke of Ancaster.
Edward Gore was descended from Sir John Gore (d. 1636), Lord Mayor of London in 1624 (The common ancestry with the Gore baronets and the other two peerages held by the family goes back further to Sir John Gore's elder brother Sir Paul Gore (1567-1629), who received a baronetcy in 1622. Paul was ancestor of the Earls of Arran via his second son Arthur, the barons Harlech via the third son of this same second son, and the Gore-Booth baronets via his fourth son Francis). However, John Temple Gore is not in remainder to any of these titles.
292 After his father's death, he was brought up by guardians as a Protestant and educated at Midleton College, a Church of Ireland boarding school in County Cork. Cotter served as a Member of Parliament for Askeaton in the Irish House of Commons between 1761 and 1768. On 11 August 1763 he was created a baronet, of Rockforest in the County of Cork, in the Baronetage of Ireland.William Betham, My library My History Books on Google Play The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families, Volume 5 (Miller, 1805), p.
Sir John Frederick, 5th Baronet (1750–1825), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807. Frederick was the son of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet of Burwood Park, Surrey and his wife Susanna Hudson.The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families William Betham 1803 He was born on 18 March 1750, educated at Westminster School from 1760 to 1765 and at Trinity College, Oxford in 1767. From 1769 to 1772 he made the Grand Tour of Europe.
4d.) towards the plantation of the colony. Four years later (17 November 1629) the king wrote to the contractors for baronets, recognising that they had advanced large sums to Sir William Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of Scotland and the motto Fax mentis honestae gloria (Glory is the torch that leads on the honourable mind). As the required number, however, could not be completed, Charles announced in 1633 that English and Irish gentlemen might receive the honour, and in 1634 they began to do so. Yet even so, he was only able to create a few more than 120 in all.
London, 1771 His nephew was James Harrington (1611–1677), English political philosopher, best known for his controversial work, Oceana. His grandson was William Samwell (1628–1676), English architect. The Samwell baronets were created for his great-grandson Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet.
Shipley was born at Copt Hall, Luton, Bedfordshire, the son of a captain of cavalry, Richard Shipley. His mother was born Jane Rudyerd, and was distantly descended from Benjamin Rudyerd and the Maddox baronets of Wormley, Hertfordshire.Burke's Peerage, London 1832, p.169.
Willis was born on his parents' farm in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, where his father held the stewardship of the Manor. He was a kinsman of the Willys baronets of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire. He graduated M.A. from Christ Church, Oxford in 1642.Willis, Thomas.
Lissan House is a historic house and tourist attraction in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that was the seat of the Staples baronets. Lissan lies nestled at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains amid ancient woodland near the historic market town of Cookstown.
Pole-Carew was the son of William Pole-Carew (1811–1888) by his wife Frances Anne Buller (d.1902), daughter of John Buller. His father was a descendant of the Pole baronets, of Shute, and served as Member of Parliament for East Cornwall.
He spent his later years with limited means. However Alexander's settlement provided the basis for Scottish claims to Nova Scotia, and his baronets provided the Coat of arms of Nova Scotia and Flag of Nova Scotia which are still in use today.
He died in London circa 1699. He had married Isabella, daughter of Sir Robert Bolles, Bart, of Scampton, Lincolnshire. His grandson Cyril Wyche also became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia and was created a baronet in 1729 (see Wyche baronets).
The founder of the family's fortunes was Jamshedji Tata. The Tatas are the original founders of the Tata Sons. The Tata family is related to the prominent Petit baronets, a Parsi through Sylla Tata, who married Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd Baronet.
Sir Sydney Richard Wells, 1st Baronet, DL (3 August 1879 – 16 November 1957) was a British baronet, the first of the Wells baronets of Felmersham, and a Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1922 to 1945.
George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 The Gage, later Rokewode-Gage Baronetcy, of Hengrave in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 15 July 1662. For more information on this creation, see Rokewode-Gage baronets.
The younger son, Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith, was created a baronet in 1911. He sold 30 farms from the estate in 1914. Western Mail 1 August 1914 His son and grandson the 2nd and 3rd baronets, reverted to the name of Duff.
He was made a Baronet on 12 March 1766.It remains the seat of the Blunden baronets with the 8th Baronet Blunden taking over the title on 9 April 2007 though he had to wait until 2017 to take over the house itself.
His son, the then elderly Sir Wolstan Dixie, 1st Baronet was also appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1660 and created the first of a line of the Dixie baronets by Charles II of England when the King returned from exile in France.
He married Amy Trigge, daughter of physician William Trigge, of Highworth, Wiltshire. Sir Gervase Elwes died in April 1706 around the age of 77 and was buried at Stoke. (See Elwes baronets and Elwes for his descendants.) His grandson inherited the baronetcy.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Clifton Baronets): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent Sir Robert Clifton (1767–1837Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 19. p. 64) was 7th Baronet Clifton of Clifton, NottinghamshireThe Baronetage of England. William Courthope 1839 and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1820.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Clifton Baronets): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet (1769—1852) was 8th Baronet Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.The Baronetage of England. William Courthope 1839 and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1820.
The second Baronet briefly represented Coventry in Parliament. The third Baronet served as Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. In 1886, he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Mather. This surname was also used by the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Baronets.
The sons of Sir Ralph and Lady Conyers succeeded as the 6th and 7th Baronets, their grandson George as the 8th Baronet who upon his death, left the baronetcy to be inherited by Thomas, their third son; Sir Thomas was the 9th and last Baronet.
He was succeeded as CO by Lt-Col Tom Naylor- Leyland of Nantclwyd Hall, Ruthin (also late of the 2nd LG).Naylor-Leyland portrait at Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum.Naylor-Leyland Baronets, Burkes. The regimental headquarters was at Llangollen, moving to Ruthin in the 1870s.
Lines of baronets bearing the surname Stirling have existed since the 17th century in several distinct localities of Scotland. The earlier baronetages were created within the Baronetage of Nova Scotia (shown here as NS) and those after 1707 within that of Great Britain (GB).
Robinstown (Tyrrell) is a townland in Mullingar in County Westmeath, Ireland. The townland is named for the Tyrrell baronets. The Royal Canal passes through the townland, and the area is bordered by Culleen Beg to the east, Mullingar and Robinstown (Levinge) to the west.
Culturally, the campaign captured the public imagination in Britain and France: the Battle of Grand Port is the only naval battle that appears on the Arc de Triomphe, while in Britain Rowley and Bertie were both made baronets for their services in the Indian Ocean.
Edward Tollemache is the eldest son and heir apparent of Timothy Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache. His mother is Alexandra, Lady Tollemache. He has a brother, James, and a sister, Selina. On his maternal side, he is related to the Goschen baronets and Viscounts Goschen.
He held the seat until 1886. Pulley was created baronet of Lower Eaton, Hereford in 1893. He died at the age of 78 without issue and the baronetcy became extinct.Leigh Rayment Baronets He married Mary Jane Burgess in 1860, but they had no children.
After the English Reformation, the Catholic community in Canterbury survived through the Hales baronets. Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet helped Catholics after the 1688 Revolution. They had Masses said for them at their chapel in Hales Place. Masses were said at the chapel until 1923.
The family seat is Irnham Hall in Irnham, Lincolnshire. The Jones, later Probyn-Jones Baronetcy, of Rhyll in the County of Flint, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 January 1926. For more information on this creation, see Probyn-Jones baronets.
The third baronet was a politician and racehorse owner. The fourth baronet was also a politician and served as Secretary at War from 1730 to 1735. The first through fifth baronets all sat in Parliament. The seventh baronet was a barrister and Whig politician.
Escutcheon of the Sitwell baronets Arms: Barry of eight Or and Vert, charged with three Lions rampant Sable; Crest: A Demi-Lion rampant erased Sable, holding between the paws an Escutcheon per pale Or and Vert; Motto: Ne cede malis (Latin: Yield not to misfortune).
Sir Roger Martin, 1st Baronet (c. 1639 – 8 July 1712) was son of Richard Martin and Jane, daughter of Sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxborough. He was created a baronet 28 March 1667 and was the first of the five Martin Baronets of Long Melford.
There is a plaque on St Patrick's Bridge in Cork that commemorates its opening by Arnott on 12 December 1861. He married Mary, the daughter of John James McKinlay. See Arnott baronets for his descendants. Arnott Street in Portobello, Dublin, is named for Arnott.
On 11 March 1789 in Calcutta, he married Maria-Tryphena (d. 8 Oct. 1789), daughter of Sir Charles William Blunt, 3rd Baronet of the Blunt baronets. He married secondly on 13 February 1808 the Honourable Harriet Rushout, daughter of John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick.
The family seats were Wycroft Castle, Wootton Abbotts manor house, and Egginton Hall. On 26 May 1641 a branch of the family developed into the Every baronets, and the late 17th-century English pirate Henry Every is believed to have descended from an earlier line.
Panworth Hall is the seat of the Ralli baronets. A notable person to have hailed from Ashill is the former Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion, Charlton Athletic and once Premiership player Andy Hunt. He was most notable for his spell with Charlton in the Premiership.
Sir Gerald Grove, 3rd Baronet (18 December 1886 - 3 March 1962) was a British military leader and filmmaker.Desmond Hawkins (1995). The Grove diaries: the rise and fall of an English family, 1809-1925. University of Delaware Press, He was one of the Grove Baronets.
An early collector of bookplates, he purchased in 1859 the collection of Miss Maria Jenkins, and published examples of the bookplates of baronets in 1895. Howard married in 1862 Ellen Clare West, the daughter of Joshua and Ann West. His body rests in Twickenham Cemetery.
Most of the present day farms surrounding the current hamlet of Rookley were first noted in the Middle Ages, but all were associated with the original manor house. At some point, the estate fell into the ownership of the Worsley baronets of Appuldurcombe House.
Robin Cayzer was born on 12 March 1954. He is the son of Herbert Cayzer, 2nd Baron RotherwickHerbert, 2nd Lord Rotherwick at www.npg.org.uk and Sarah Jane Slade, of the Slade baronets. He spent his early childhood at Bletchingdon Park, a Palladian country house in Oxfordshire.
The Browne Baronetcy, of The Neale in the County of Mayo, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 21 June 1636. For more information on this creation, see Baron Kilmaine. See also the Browne baronets of Palmerston below and the Marquess of Sligo.
The arms of the Osborne of Ballentaylor baronets: Gules, on a fess or cotised argent two fountains proper, over all a bend of the last Sir Thomas Osborne, 5th Baronet, of Tichenor, County Waterford (1639 – 10 October 1715) was an Irish baronet and landowner.
Subsequent Bishopp baronets carried the name Cecil in recognition of this influential ancestor. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother in 1652. In 1662, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bramber in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament.
In 1584, he married Sarah Bathow (died 1650), who remarried Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus after his death. Their elder son, Sir Robert Meredith (1585–1668) M.P., was Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer and married as her third husband Ann (Loftus) Colley Blount; he was ancestor of the Baronets of Greenhills and Shrowland, Co. Kildare. Their younger son, Sir Thomas Meredith (died 1677), was the Member of Parliament for Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow, and ancestor of the Baronets of Dollardstown, Newtown and Carlandstown, Co. Meath. A large monument in black and White marble stands in the North Transept of St. Patrick's Cathedral to Bishop Meredith.
The Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from William, second son of Sir John Forbes of that Ilk, in the time of Robert II. Alexander, fourth Lord, was attainted after the battle of Culloden; living long secretly in one of his own gate lodges, he died in 1762. Three families now claim the title. The Forbeses, Baronets of Craigievar, a branch of the old House, Craigievar Castle, sprang from Patrick Forbes of Corse, armour-bearer to James III; and the Stuart-Forbesses of Pitsligo, Baronets, from Duncan of Corsindae, second son of James, second Lord Forbes. The Edinglassie Forbeses are also a branch of the parent stock.
Coat of Arms of the Martin baronets of Long Melford (1667) with the badge of a Baronet of England. King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707.
The eldest son of a baronet who is born in wedlock succeeds to a baronetcy upon his father's death, but will not be officially recognised until his name is recognised by being placed on the Official Roll. With some exceptions granted with special remainder by letters patent, baronetcies descend through the male line. A full list of extant baronets appears in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, which also published a record of extinct baronetcies. A baronetcy is not a peerage; so baronets, like knights and junior members of peerage families, are commoners and not peers of the realm (in the UK, all people save the sovereign and peers are considered commoners).
Collins, Arthur, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets now Existing, Volume 4, London, 1741, p.287 King James I of England established the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, in the words of Collins' Peerage (1741): "for the plantation and protection of the whole Kingdom of Ireland, but more especially for the defence and security of the Province of Ulster, and therefore for their distinction those of this order and their descendants may bear the badge (Red Hand of Ulster) in their coats of arms either in canton or an escutcheon at their election".Collins, 1741, vol.4, p.
Betham was born at Stradbroke in Suffolk on 22 May 1779, the eldest son, by his wife Mary Damant, of Rev. William Betham (1749–1839) a clergyman and antiquarian, and author of the five volume work The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland as are of English Families, with Genealogical Tables and Engravings of their Armorial Bearings, published 1801-1805. Betham took an active part in the proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, from the period of his admission to it as a member in 1820. He became one of its governing body, acted as secretary, and made contributions to its publications.
The children of this other son, through commerce, became holders of significant estates (including Wycroft Castle in Axminster and the manor of Wooton Abbotts). After the deaths of William and Alexander Every the estates, through inheritance, merged. The line continued as the Everys of Wycroft Castle, named for what was now the family seat of Wycroft (or Wicroft) Castle in Devon, previously the seat of the Creuse family.Betham, William " The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms, Volume 5" Burrell and Bransby, 1805.
Duart Castle, the seat of the Maclean Baronets of Morvaren There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Maclean, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extant as of 2010. The Maclean Baronetcy, of Morvaren (or Morvern) in the County of Argyll, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 3 September 1631 for Lachlan Maclean,Ephraim Lockhart, Statement with Reference to the Knights Baronets of Nova Scotia: Their Creations, Privileges, and Territorial Rights of Property in that Colony, &c.;, W. Tait, 1831 p. 26MACLEAN of Morvaren,Argyll, , 3 September 2008.
The Mordaunt Baronetcy, of Massingham Parva in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 June 1611 for Lestrange Mordaunt, who had earlier distinguished himself in the Wars of the Low Countries during the reign of Elizabeth I. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Baronets all represented Warwickshire in the House of Commons. The ninth and tenth Baronets sat as Members of Parliament for Warwickshire South. In addition to the Massingham seat, the Mordaunts acquired Walton Hall, Warwickshire, near Wellesbourne, Warwickshire by the marriage in 1541 of Robert Mordaunt to Barbara Lestrange, heiress of Walton.
Sir Richard Kennedy, 2nd Baronet, of Newtownmountkennedy (c.1615-1685) was an Irish politician, landowner and judge who held the office of Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). He was the second of the Kennedy baronets. His family gave their names to the village of Newtownmountkennedy.
The second and third Baronets both served as Members of Parliament for Derbyshire. The male line of the family became extinct on the decease of the 3rd Baronet in 1719. However, his nephew John Eyre (d. 1739) took the name of Gell upon inheriting the estate.
The arms are also borne as a heraldic badge by the Baronets of Nova Scotia, a chivalric order of Great Britain. They fell out of use when Nova Scotia joined the Confederation in 1867, but were restored in 1929 by royal warrant of King George V.
Arms of St Aubyn, as quartered by the Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets of Pencarrow: Ermine, on a cross sable five bezantsDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.709 Sir Lewis William Molesworth Bt. (31 October 1853 – 29 May 1912) was an English landowner from Cornwall and Liberal Unionist Party politician.
He also removed the de facto 9th and 10th Baronets, Norman Hamilton Pringle and his son Steuart Robert Pringle, from the Roll, in accordance with the Royal Warrant of 1910. Certificates of succession to this effect were issued to Sir Murray Pringle on 1 July 2016.
Glorat House is a 19th-century mansion house in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located east of Lennoxtown, in the former county of Stirlingshire. The house is a category B listed building. Glorat was the home of the Stirling family of Glorat, created baronets in 1680.
He had a son and heir Richard and a daughter, Sybil. His brother Thomas (Esquire of the body of King Edward IV) was mentioned in his will. Richard's descendants became the Fowler baronets of Harnage Grange. He bequeathed money to rebuild St Rumwold's shrine in Buckingham.
Forrest was born in Perth as one of five children born to Amy Eliza (née Barrett-Lennard) and Alexander Forrest.Anthony Alexander Forrest – Royal Ancestry File. Retrieved 4 April 2012. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of the Barrett-Lennard baronets and the Barons Dacre.
Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet (c. 1714 – 21 May 1777), was a British Tory Member of Parliament. Wodehouse was the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, and Mary Fermor. His unusual first name reflects his connection with the Airmine Baronets through his grandmother Anne Airmine.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth Baronets all served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. The family surname is pronounced "Guys", as in the "Guy's" of "Guy's Hospital".Charles Kidd, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage (London, 2015), p. B355 The family seat is Elmore Court, in the parish of Elmore, Gloucestershire.
He also removed the de facto 9th and 10th Baronets, Norman Hamilton Pringle and his son Steuart Robert Pringle, from the Roll, in accordance with the Royal Warrant of 1910. Certificates of succession to this effect were issued to Sir Norman Murray Pringle on 1 July 2016.
Guy Campbell in Kenya, 1953 Colonel Sir Guy Theophilus Halswell Campbell, 5th Baronet OBE, MC (18 January 1910 - 19 July 1993) was a British soldier. Sir Guy's branch of the Campbell baronets, of St Cross Mede, were created in 1815 with Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet.
Osmaston Hall was built in 1696 in extensive grounds of what is now Osmaston, a part of Derby. The house was the home of the Wilmot baronets, and the Fox family before being used for a golf club and railway business. The house was demolished in 1938.
He married Sept. 1642, Euphan (died 27 March 1668), daugh. of Samuel Cunningham, min. of Ferry-Port-on- Craig, and had issue – John ; Robert, ancestor of the Honyman Baronets of Armadale, died 9 December 1679 ; Euphan (married 8 April 1669, Harry Graham of Breckness), died 17 Oct.
The baronetcy was extinct on his death. The estate passed to his daughter Mary who married Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford and later also by marriage to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet. For other branches of the family see Baker Wilbraham baronets and Baron Skelmersdale.
Miller was the second son of The Rev. Sir Thomas Combe Miller, 6th Baronet (see Miller Baronets) and his wife Martha Holmes, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Holmes, of Bungay, Suffolk. He was educated at Eton College and admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge on 8 July 1848.
Canting arms of Shelley Baronets of Michelgrove: Sable, a fesse engrailed between three whelk shells or with inescutcheon of the Red Hand of Ulster.Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 729 Detail from heraldic window c. 1924 in Crediton Church, Devon, south wall of south transept, bequeathed by Rev.
His son William Duff-Gordon was Member of Parliament for Worcester. In 1815 he succeeded his uncle as second Baron of Halkin according to a special remainder and assumed the additional surname of Duff (see Duff-Gordon baronets for further history of this branch of the family).
The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1847. See also Constable Maxwell-Scott baronets. # The Scott Baronetcy, of Lytchet Minster in the County of Dorset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 September 1821 for Claude Scott.
Gwasg Careg Gwalch (2005) pg. 27. One of these was the Dalis Horse Fair. The town was ruled by a local aristocracy who lived in elegant mansions, including Brynhywel, Maesyfelin and the Lloyd baronets of Peterwell. As magistrates, they handed out the severest of penalties to offenders.
Mercaston Hall is a 16th-century timber framed farmhouse near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The Kniveton family owned Mercaston from the 14th century. They were Kniveton Baronets from 1611 and several members of the family served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
Sir William MacMahon, 1st Baronet (1776–1837) was an Irish judge of the early nineteenth century. He was a member of a Limerick family which became politically prominent through their personal influence with the Prince Regent. He was the first of the McMahon Baronets of Dublin.
9 The Thorold Baronetcy, of Harmston in the County of Lincoln, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 14 March 1740 for Nathaniel Thorold; he was the nephew of the baronets of the 1709 creation. The title became extinct on his death in 1764.
Coat of arms of the Agnew baronets (1629) with the badge of a Baronet of Nova Scotia. The Baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of settling the plantation of that province. King James VI announced his intention of creating 100 baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2000 marks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1000 marks to Sir William Alexander, to whom the province had been granted by charter in 1621.Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "BARONET" § 2 James died before this scheme could be implemented, but it was carried out by his son Charles I, who created the first Scottish baronet on 28 May 1625, covenanting in the creation charter that the baronets of Scotland or of Nova Scotia should never exceed 150, that their heirs apparent should be knighted on coming of age (21), and that no one should receive the honour who had not fulfilled the conditions, viz, paid 3000 marks (£166, 13s.
Healey is descended from the Chadwyck-Healey baronets; her father Nicholas is a son of the 4th Baronet. She has three brothers. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College until 1999. She has a Degree in Drama Education/Drama for Social Change from the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Foremarke Hall, the former seat of the Burdett baronets of Bramcote There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Burdett, two in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Ireland. As of 2008 two of the creations are extant while one is dormant.
Alfred Harmsworth (3 July 1837 – 16 July 1889) was a British barrister, and the father of several of the United Kingdom's leading newspaper proprietors, five of whom were honoured with hereditary titles – two viscounts, one baron and two baronets. Another son designed the iconic bulbous Perrier mineral water bottle.
He married (1) Susanna (born 20 July 1657, Tyninghame), daughter of John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington. They had several children, of whom notably the MP John Cockburn of Ormiston. Two of his daughters married baronets. He married (2) Anne (died 1721) daughter of Sir Patrick Houstoun, 1st Baronet.
The fourth, fifth and sixth Baronets all sat as Members of Parliament for Flintshire. The fifth Baronet was also Lord- Lieutenant of Flintshire. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1831. Elizabeth, sister of the sixth Baronet, married Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd, 2nd Baronet.
Also in the area is the ruins of Ballynakill Abbey, which dates from the early 13th century. See Burke Baronets. The services found in Glinsk include a church, a shop, a pub and a GAA pitch. The community centre also houses a childcare centre which opened in 2009.
Arms of the baronets Mannock of Gifford's Hall. Recreated from the blazon: "sable, cross flory, argent". The Mannock Baronetcy, of Gifford's Hall near Stoke-by-Nayland in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 1 June 1627 for Francis Mannock.
Capheaton Hall, near Wallington, Northumberland, is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and a childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne. It counts among the principal gentry seats of Northumberland.National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868. It is a Grade I listed building.
He also began amassing plantation lands. Wright returned to London as an agent for the South Carolina colony in 1757. On one of his England visits, or on all of them, he stayed with his cousin William Rugge, the ancestor of the Rugge-Price baronets, on Conduit Street.
Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford (20 December 1572 - 3 May 1627) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Sir Francis Russell, Lord Russell and his wife, Eleanor Forster.Collins, A. (1720). The Baronettage of England: Being an Historical and Genealogical Account of Baronets (Vol.
Thomas Arthur Bellew (1820 – 24 July 1863) was an Irish landowner and politician. Bellew was the son of Sir Michael Bellew, 1st Baronet (see Grattan-Bellew Baronets), and Helena Maria Dillon. He married Pauline Grattan, daughter of Henry Grattan, in September 1858. The family resided at Mountbellew, County Galway.
British Museum Collection Capheaton Hall, is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and the childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne. It counts among the principal gentry seats of Northumberland.National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868. It is a Grade I listed building.
The Townsends held the estate until 1905 when it passed by marriage to Sir Grey Skipwith Bt ( see Skipwith baronets). Later the estate became the seat of the Wiggin family. The house is not generally open to the public but may be available for visitations by prior group arrangements.
Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet (c. 1599 – c. 1657) was a 17th-century English Baronet and politician from the extended Littleton/Lyttelton family, the first of a line of four Littleton baronets with Pillaton Hall as their seat.The Baronetage of England, Edward Kimber and Richard Johnson, (1771) Vol.
Of these, the most prominent was the branch descended from Edward Ernle, son of Michael Ernle, Esq., of Bourton (died 1595), by his second wife, Susan Hungerford, daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford, Kt, of Farley Castle, Somerset, a granddaughter of the executed Walter, Lord Hungerford. Baptised at Calne in 1587, Edward Ernle, and his wife Gertrude St Lowe, were progenitors of the Ernle Baronets of Etchilhampton, alias Ashlington, Wiltshire, and the 'self- styled' Ernle baronets of Brimslade Park. It was their son, Sir Walter Ernle, Knight, of Etchilhampton, who was created a baronet shortly after the Restoration by King Charles II on 2 February 1660/1, as Sir Walter Ernle, 1st Baronet.
The arms of the Viscount Brookeborough indicate the viscount is also a baronet: Or, a cross engrailed per pale gules and sable, a crescent for difference. A left (sinister) Red Hand is an option for baronets to add to their arms to indicate their rank. The College of Arms formally allowed this in 1835, ruling that the baronets of England, Ireland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom may "bear either a canton in their coat of arms, or in an escutcheon, at their pleasure, the arms of Ulster (to wit) a Hand Gules or a Bloody Hand in a Field Argent." It is blazoned as follows: A hand sinister couped at the wrist extended in pale gules.
The two highest orders of chivalry in England and Wales, and in Scotland, are the Orders of the Garter, and the Thistle, respectively. Knights of the Order of the Garter precede baronets. After the baronets come the members of all the other orders of chivalry in the following order of their ranks: Knight or Dame Grand Cross, Knight or Dame Commander, Commander or Companion, Lieutenant or Officer, and Member. For individual members with equivalent ranks but of different orders, precedence is accorded based on the seniority of the orders of chivalry: the Order of the Bath, the Order of St Michael and St George, the Royal Victorian Order, and the Order of the British Empire.
There has been one creation of baronets with the surname Delves. The Delves family originated in Staffordshire and the Baronets were descended from Sir John Delves, Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire and three times High Sheriff of Staffordshire, and Sir John Delves, twice High Sheriff who was killed during the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.A Survey of Staffordshire, Containing the Antiquities of that County Sampson Erdeswick and Thomas Harwood (1820) p. 382 Google Books The Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of England on 8 May 1621 for Thomas Delves the great grandson of Sir Henry Delves Kt of Dodington, Cheshire, High Sheriff of Cheshire on two occasions.
John Kendrick was the son of Hugh Kendrick, of Chester, and his wife Anne Moulson.Sanders, Francis, Irvine, William Ferguson, and Brownbill, J. "The Cheshire Sheaf" pg. 41 His paternal family was kin to the Kendrick baronets as well as the merchant John Kendrick.Coates, Charles "The History and Antiquities of Reading" pg.
The third and fourth Baronets represented Tralee in the House of Commons. The sixth Baronet was a founder of the North-West Mounted Police in Canada, Indian agent and author. The third son of the seventh Baronet was the artist Robyn Denny. There is no such place as Castle Moyle.
Clarges was the son of John Clarges and his wife Anne Leaver. He was an apothecary in London.William Betham, The Baronetage of England: or The History of the English baronets ..., Volume 2 His sister Anne Clarges was the wife of the royalist General George Monck, later 1st Duke of Albemarle.
Grosvenor Baronets Lettice, Lady Grosvenor, and her sister, Mary, Lady Calveley, ca. 1604 Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet (c. 1604 – 31 January 1665) was an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. He was the son of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet and Lettice Cholmondley, daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley.
Sir Edward Lake (1600 \- 18 July 1674 ) was an eminent Lawyer who became Advocate general of Ireland. He was a Royalist, badly wounded in the Battle of Edgehill, and was the first of the Lake baronets. Sir Edward also became Chancellor and Vicar General of the diocese of Lincoln, England.
The hereditary chief of Clan Hope is Sir Alexander Archibald Douglas Hope, vOBE, 19th Baronet of Craighall, Chief of the Name and Arms of Hope, Chief of Clan Hope. The chiefly line of the Hope family survives through the Baronets of Craighall who are the senior line of the Clan Hope.
In 1633 it was sold to the Robinson family, who later sold it to Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton in 1676. It then passed to Wharton's son Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, before passing through his sister to Robert Byerley. By 1779 the estate belonged to the Legard Baronets.
All three Baronets represented Carmarthenshire in Parliament. Charles Hamlyn-Williams, younger son of the second Baronet, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy. Susan Hester Hamlyn-Williams, eldest daughter of the third Baronet, inherited the family seat of Clovelly Court and married Henry Fane, who assumed the surname Hamlyn-Fane.
Renishaw Hall and garden The Sitwell family became baronets and George Sitwell's descendants, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell were members of the intelligentsia in the 20th century. The family still own Renishaw Hall, although it is no longer owned by the Sitwell baronet.Resresby Sitwell, Obituary, Daily Telegraph, accessed March 2009.
The fifth Baronet's legacy also continued through his daughter and co-heir, the mother of Reverend Hender Molesworth, who in 1844 assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of St Aubyn and was the father of Sir St Aubyn Hender Molesworth-St Aubyn, 12th Baronet of the Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets.
Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, CB (22 January 1786 – 26 January 1849) was a British Army officer, the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Colin Campbell and his wife Mary, daughter of Guy Johnson (or Johnstone). His branch of the Campbell baronets is referred to as St Cross Mede.
Sir Henry Dutton Colt, 1st Baronet (–1731), of St. James's, Westminster, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) for Newport, Isle of Wight in the period 2 December 1695 – 1698 and for Westminster in December 1701 – 1702 and 1705–1708. He was the first of the Colt baronets.
The fifth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Haddington. The eighth Baronet assumed the surname of Hamilton before that of Dalrymple. The tenth Baronet was Lord-Lieutenant of East Lothian from 1987 to 2001. Hew Dalrymple, grandson of the first Baronet, was created a baronet in 1815 (see Dalrymple baronets).
Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet (c. 1651 – November 1704) was a Welsh Member of Parliament, representing the constituencies of Monmouth Boroughs (February 1689 – 1690) and Monmouthshire (1698–1704). He was one of the Williams baronets. He succeeded Sir Trevor Williams, 1st Baronet and was succeeded by Sir Hopton Williams, 3rd Baronet.
However, in 1719 he resumed the surname of Grant in lieu of Colquhoun. On 24 June 1721 he was created Lord Grant in the Jacobite peerage. Grant notably sat as Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire and Elgin Burghs. The seventh and eighth Baronets also sat as Members of Parliament.
Sir John Mordaunt, 9th Baronet (24 August 1808 – 27 September 1845) was an English politician. He was appointed High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1833 and represented the constituency of South Warwickshire. from 1835 to 1845. He was one of the Mordaunt Baronets and was succeeded by Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet.
The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Westmorland. He assumed the surname of le Fleming, an ancient version of the family surname. This version of the surname has also been borne by the Baronets from the seventh Baronet onwards. The sixth Baronet, an ordained priest, served as Rector of Windermere.
All titles became extinct on the death of his grandson, the sixth Earl, in 1798. Another member of the Hicks family was Sir Michael Hicks (1543–1612), elder brother of the first Viscount Campden. He was the ancestor of the Hicks baronets of Beverston and of the Earls St Aldwyn.
Alleyne, a younger brother of the first Baronet, was created Baron St Helens in 1791 (Peerage of Ireland) and in 1801 (Peerage of the United Kingdom). Successive baronets served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1815, 1865, 1866 and 1940. Tissington Hall has been the family seat since the 15th century.
He was succeeded by his grandson, who left an only daughter and was succeeded by his uncle, the fourth Baronet. The third Baronet assumed the additional surname of Clarke, a surname also held by the fifth, sixth and seventh Baronets. The title became extinct on the latter's death in 1933.
Coat of Arms of the Martin baronets of Long Melford (1667) with the badge of a Baronet of England. This is a list of baronetcies in the Baronetage of England. The first Baronetage was created in 1611. The Baronetage of England was replaced by the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1707.
During the Civil War, like his father, he was an active Royalist and fought for the King's cause with much bravery,Betham, William, Baronetage of England, Vol.1, 1771, pp.300-303, Wrey Baronets and was knighted by King Charles I at Bristol Castle on 3 August 1643.Vivian, 1887, p.
Delevingne is married to Pandora Anne Stevens (born 1959), daughter of Sir Jocelyn Edward Greville Stevens and wife Jane Armyne Sheffield of the Sheffield baronets. Pandora is a personal shopper for Selfridges. They have three daughters, Chloe, Poppy and Cara. He also has an older son, Alexander, from a previous relationship.
There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname of White. All are in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The baronets include Tuxford and Wallingwells in the County of Nottingham, Cotham House in Bristol, Salle Park in the County of Norfolk and Boulge Hall in the County of Suffolk.
He acquired Tintern Abbey which later passed to the Colclough Baronets. Croft was all his life a double-dealer. He was imprisoned in the Tower at the accession of Mary, for his support of Lady Jane Grey. He had been arrested by an officer of the Council of Wales on 21 February 1553.
Leigh Rayment Baronets He was then at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1894 he rowed in the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race. He was known as a capable sharpshooter and big game hunter. Ross became a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders and served in the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Charles Hope, third son of the fourth Earl, proved his claim to the Dunbar Baronetcy of Baldoon (created in 1664) in 1916 and became the 6th Baronet (see Hope- Dunbar baronets). Lord John Hope, younger twin son of the second Marquess, was a prominent Conservative politician and was created Baron Glendevon in 1964.
Much of the village was built as an 'Estate Village' in the 19th century, based on a Swiss design by the local landlords - the Fetherston baronets. The village was awarded the Prix d'Honneur of the Entente Florale and won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition on three occasions in 1989, 1996 and 1998.
136 They had two sons, Thomas St Lawrence, 1st Earl of Howth, and a younger son William (died 1749), who became a professional soldier; and one daughter Mary (1729-1787), who married Sir Richard Gethin, 4th Baronet, and was the mother of Sir Percy Gethin, 5th Baronet of the Gethin Baronets of Gethinsgrott.
Sir Ernest William Elsmie Holderness, 2nd Baronet CBE (13 March 1890 – 23 August 1968) was an English amateur golfer and one of the Holderness baronets. He won The Amateur Championship in 1922 and 1924 and the Golf Illustrated Gold Vase in 1925. He played in the Walker Cup in 1923, 1926, and 1930.
Alexander Burgess, Memoir of the life of the Right Reverend George Burgess, D. D., p. 243 With the death of Algernon, the seventh duke of Somerset in 1750, the Seymour Baronets of Berry Pomeroy Castle inherited the title of Duke of Somerset. Consequently, the present Duke of Somerset is descended from Catherine Filliol.
He served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1661. His likeness painted by Sir Peter Lely is exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait by Lely, National Portrait Gallery Blount married Hester Mainwaring, née Wase and had seven sons including Thomas Pope Blount The Peerage website (see Blount baronets) and Charles Blount.
The Drake Baronetcy of Prospect, in the County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 28 May 1782 for Rear Admiral Francis Samuel Drake, son and brother of the Sir Francis Henry Drakes, fourth and fifth Baronets of Buckland. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1789.
The Fenwick Baronetcy, of Fenwick in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 9 June 1628 for Sir John Fenwick, of Wallington Hall, Northumberland. He sat as Member of Parliament for Northumberland and Cockermouth. The second and third Baronets also represented Northumberland in Parliament.
Beach was the son of William Beach of Oakley Hall, Hampshire and his wife Jane Henrietta Browne, daughter of John Browne of Salperton Park, Gloucestershire. His paternal grandfather was Michael Hicks Beach, ancestor of the Hicks Beach baronets. Beach was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford where he excelled as an athlete.
By 1606 Jenkinson was living in a manor house in Ashton. His wife died before him from a bad case of palsy. Jenkinson was buried on 16 February 1611 at Holy Trinity Church in Teigh, Rutland. Anthony's son Sir Robert was the father of the first of the Jenkinson Baronets of Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire.
Vernon of Hodnet arms Humphrey Vernon (d1542), 3rd son of Sir Henry Vernon (d1515) of Haddon, married Alice Ludlow heiress of Hodnet, Shropshire and settled there. His great-grandson Henry Vernon was created the first of the Vernon baronets in 1660. This baronetcy expired on the death of the third baronet in 1725.
He married the heiress of an estate in Downton, Shropshire and thereafter the family seat was at Downton Hall near Ludlow. The 11th, 12th and 13th Baronets all served as High Sheriffs of Shropshire. Both baronetcies remained united until they became extinct on the death of the 13th/5th Baronet in 1963.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 8th Baronet (c. 1707 – 1 December 1762), was a British politician. He inherited the title on the death of Sir Alfred Lawson 7th Bart in 1752. He was one of the Lawson Baronets of Isell, Cumberland. Sir Wilfrid Lawson 8th Bart (1712–63) became High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1756.
W. Betham. The baronetage of England, or The History of the English baronets 1805, p 426. The position was one of the highest to which an attorney could aspire. From 1383 through 1387, Hanmer was summoned to and sat in Parliament as one of the triers of petitions in the House of Lords.
The Newcomen Baronetcy, of Kenagh in the County of Longford, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 30 December 1623 for Robert Newcomen. The sixth, seventh and eighth Baronets also represented County Longford in the Irish House of Commons. The eighth Baronet also represented Longford Borough in Parliament.
This surname was also used by the seventh Baronet but not by any subsequent Baronets. The title became extinct on the death of the eleventh Baronet in 1870.George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 The records of Broxham manor (Westerham) show that Sir John Rivers, 3rd baronet, was dead in 1678.
Podmore, 1998, p. 146 Ingham disapproved of the imposing buildings, describing them as "finer than my Lord Huntingdon's house". Podmore ascribes this grandeur to Zinzendorf's aristocratic sense of style and notes that the buildings attracted a stream of distinguished visitors including "gentry, baronets, peers, MPs and the Dean of Carlisle".Podmore, 1998, pp.
Butler Publishing 2004. . Page 37 Other early forms included Kyrkeherle (c.1250), Kyrkherll (1346) and Kirkehirle (1428), the "kirk" element denoting a "church". The Loraine Baronets acquired it by marriage the manor from the De Harles who owned it in the 14th century, and derived their name (literally "of Harle") from the village.
The Meyer Baronetcy, of Shortgrove in the parish of Newport in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 July 1910 for Carl Meyer, former governor of the National Bank of Egypt. The second and third Baronets were both Conservative politicians.
It is the seat of the Shaw Stewart baronets, currently Sir Ludovic Houston Shaw Stewart, 12th Baronet of Greenock and Blackhall. The house is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.
The son Henry bequeathed the estate in his power to his sister Ann, who married Sir Henry Lee 3rd Baronet of the Lee Baronets of Ditchley in 1655, and had a daughter, Eleanor, wife of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon. Lord Abingdon thus ultimately came into possession of the property at Chelsea.
Brooke was the son of Sir John Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet (1844–1920) by his marriage to Blanche Weston. His father was the first of the Brooke baronets of Almondbury, and his brother Sir Robert Weston Brooke was the 2nd Baronet (1885–1942).Charles Mosle (editor) (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, p. preface.
The arms of the Tritton baronets The Tritton Baronetcy, of Bloomfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 August 1905 for Ernest Tritton, Conservative Member of Parliament for Norwood from 1892 to 1906.
Hamilton played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1976, making twelve appearances. He scored a total of 308 runs in his twelve matches, at an average of 12.83 and a high score of 45. He succeeded his father as the 10th Baronet of the Hamilton baronets upon his death in September 2001.
The Crooke estates later passed by inheritance to the Warren baronets. The other Shurley daughter Penelope married Francis Selwyn. While In Ireland Sir George Shurley took an Irish wife named Anna. After his time as Chief Justice he went back to England without Anna, returning to Mary and their family in England.
Arms of Colleton: Or, three stag's heads couped properWotton, Thomas, Baronetage of England, 1771, Volume 2, Arms of Colleton Baronets; given elsewhere as roebuck's heads, frequently interchangeable Sir Peter Colleton, 2nd Baronet, FRS (17 September 1635 – 24 March 1694) was an English baronet of the Colleton Baronets and an MP. He was the eldest son of Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet, of Exeter, Devon, whom he succeeded in 1667. He became a merchant and was a Member of the council of the Barbados in 1664–1684. He was a member of the Royal Adventurers into Africa in 1667–1672 and a member of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1670 to his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1677.
According to the Home Office there is a tangible benefit to the honour of baronet: according to law, a baronet is entitled to have "a pall supported by two men, a principal mourner and four others" assisting at his funeral. Originally baronets also had other rights, including the right to have the eldest son knighted on his 21st birthday. However, at the beginning of George IV's reign, these rights were eroded by orders-in-council on the grounds that sovereigns should not necessarily be bound by acts of their predecessors. Although never having been automatically entitled to heraldic supporters, baronets were allowed them in heredity in the first half of the 19th century if the title holder was also a Knight Grand Cross of a Crown order.
He first married Hannah-Maria, the daughter of Sir William Barker, 3rd Baronet of the Barker baronets of Bocking Hall and later then married Jane Hewetson, daughter and heir of Christopher Hewetson, Esq., of Thomastown, (grandson of Col. Christopher Hewetson), by Sarah, sister (or daughter) of Col. John Flood, of Flood Hall, County Kilkenny.
Philpot, Glyn Warren; Sir Thomas Hutchison, Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1921–1923) Carlowrie Castle, built by the Hutchison family in the mid 19th century. The Hardiston Hutchison baronets grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866 – 1925) was a Scottish landowner and politician. He served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1921 to 1923.
He served as a Recorder of Richmond and sat as Member of Parliament for Penryn from 1774 to 1780 and Hedon from 1780 to 1790. Chaytor married Jane Lee. Their son William, who was born before his parents' marriage, was created a Baronet in 1831 (see Chaytor baronets). Chaytor died in May 1819, aged 87.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, the fifth Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1906. Lord Colebrooke had no surviving male issue and on his death in 1939 both the baronetcy and barony became extinct. Robert Colebrooke, elder brother of the first and second Baronets, sat as Member of Parliament for Maldon.
Eustace's descendant, another Sir Herbert, was created Lord Maxwell in about 1440. He took a seat as a Lord of Parliament. A branch of the clan, the Maxwells of Monreith descend from his second son and they were later created baronets in 1681. The fifth Lord Maxwell intrigued with King Henry VII of England.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1599 and was knighted in January 1600. In 1601 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancashire and was re-elected MP for Lancashire in 1604. Houghton was one of the first ten baronets created, on 22 May 1611. Sir Richard was a suspected Crypto-Catholic.
William's son Arthur Purey-Cust was Dean of York. Edward Cust, another younger son of the first Baron, was a soldier and politician. He was created a Baronet in 1876 (see Cust Baronets, of Leasowe Castle). Henry John "Harry" Cockayne-Cust, (1861 – 1917), a brother of the fifth baron, was a politician and newspaper editor.
He has served on the governing bodies of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-1975), the Society of Authors (1973-1976) and the Royal Society of Literature (2001-2007). He is married to Emily Boothby (of the Boothby baronets). They have two sons, including Albert Read (executive), and two daughters. Read lives in London.
The Hildyard family was a land owning family from Yorkshire, England. Winestead was among their primary estates. The earliest member of the family was Robert Hildyard of Normanby, who was living in 1109. Sir Robert Hildyard, son of Sir Christopher and Elizabeth (Welby) Hildyard, was created baronet, and was the ancestor of the Hildyard baronets.
Sir Thomas Gage, 7th Baronet, of Hengrave (1781 – 27 December 1820, in Rome) was an English botanist from Rokewode-Gage baronets. The woodland flower Gagea is named in his honour. He married Mary-Anne Browne, the daughter of Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare. In his herbarium he had various plant specimens including Iris subbiflora.
This is an incomplete list of Australians who have been appointed a knight or a dame, being entitled to be known as "Sir" or "Dame" respectively. It includes Living Australian knights and dames as well as dead appointees. The list excludes Australian baronets; they have the title Sir, but are not knights per se.
James Isham was born in 1716 in Holborn, London, to Whitby Isham and Ann Scrimshire, and was christened at St. Andrew Holborn . He had a brother, Thomas, and a sister, Ann. James Isham shared a common ancestry with the Baronets of Lamport. In the late 1500s, Eusby Isham and Anne Pulton had ten children.
Instead the French term of noblesseInnes of Learney, T. (1956) Scots Heraldry , Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., p. 22. has been used by the Court of the Lord Lyon as this term not only includes peers but also the non-peerage minor-nobility, which includes baronets, knights, feudal barons, armigers with territorial designations, esquires and gentlemen.
He was the eldest son of Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet (1755–1839), the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grampound, and his wife Hon. Louisa Susan Ingram-Shepheard (–1857), daughter of the 9th Viscount of Irvine. His younger brother, Captain Henry James Ramsden (1799–1871), is the direct ancestor the 8th and 9th Ramsden Baronets.
Teddesley Hall was a large Georgian English country house located close to Penkridge in Staffordshire, now demolished. It was the main seat firstly of the Littleton Baronets and then of the Barons Hatherton. The site today retains considerable traces of the hall, gardens and other buildings, while the former home farm remains a working farm.
He was survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter, one son and one daughter having predeceased him. His son, also Robert, was created the first of the Filmer baronets in 1674. His other son, Beversham Filmer, became the owner of Luddenham Court, near Faversham, who then passed it on through his family.
Blackham of London Blackham was from an Anglo-Irish Protestant family. In his book 'London - Forever The Sovereign City' he stated that he was a descendant of the Blackham Baronets. In 1897 Blackham married Charlotte Ellenora Mahoney in Twickenham, London 1897. They had a daughter Veronica Ellenora Blackham-(Butterfield) born in Umbala India (1900-1992).
Sir John Prideaux (fl. 1433) of AdestonVivian, pp. 306, 618 in the parish of Holbeton and of Orcheton in the parish of Modbury, Devon married Amey (or Maude) French, heiress of Sharpham. Her daughter and heiress was Joane Prideaux, who married firstly to William Drewe, secondly to Baldwin Acland of Acland, Landkey, Devon, ancestor of the Acland Baronets.
Arms of St Aubyn, as quartered by the Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets of Pencarrow: Ermine, on a cross sable five bezantsDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 709, ASIN: B00NISIWNI Sir Hender Molesworth, 1st Baronet (ca. 1638 – 27 July 1689), was made 1st Baronet of Pencarrow after serving as acting Governor of Jamaica from 1684 to 1687 and from 1688 to 1689.
His son Prideaux John Selby (1789–1867), was an eminent naturalist who improved the Twizell property and sold the Beal estate in 1850. His daughter Lewis Marianne married Charles Bigge (1803–1846) son of Charles William Bigge in 1833. After his death she remarried Robert Luard at Ightham Mote in 1850. For later descendants see Selby-Bigge baronets.
Norwich, 1793) at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, gentleman, of the family of Barnard of Wansford Manor, Yorkshire, Iselham Hall, Cambridgeshire, Abington Hall, Northamptonshire, and Brampton Hall, Huntingdonshire, Baronets. Together they had 10 children between 1819 and 1830. Frances Hinderly was baptized in 1819, and Mary, in 1820. Their eldest son was Alfred Francis Barnard (1821–1894).
He was born in County Meath, a member of the Crickstown branch of the prominent Barnewall family, which held the title Baron Trimlestown. His grandfather, Patrick Barnewall, was the first of the Barnewall Baronets; John was the second son of Sir Richard Barnewall, 2nd Baronet, and Julia, daughter of Sir Gerald Aylmer,1st Baronet of Donadea, County Kildare.
The inescutcheon featured a red, open hand, with the fingers pointing upwards, the thumb held parallel to the fingers, and the palm facing forward. This is known as the 'Red Hand of Ulster' (), which is usually shown as a right hand, but is sometimes a left hand, such as in the coats of arms of baronets.
He was a diplomat and politician. In 1824 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Noel, which was that of his maternal grandfather, William Noel, younger son of Sir John Noel, 4th Baronet, of Kirkby Mallory (see Noel Baronets). Lord Berwick died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baron. He was a clergyman.
Lynch married firstly, Vere, daughter of Sir George Herbert, by whom he had a daughter Philadelphia, wife of Sir Thomas Cotton of the Cotton baronets of Combermere. He married secondly, Mary, daughter of Thomas Temple of Frankton in Warwickshire, but does not seem to have left any children. His widow afterwards married his successor, Colonel Hender Molesworth.
Spencer-Nairn married Josh Glover in 2008. Together, they have sons Foster (born 2011) and Carson (born 2014). Spencer- Nairn is the younger daughter and youngest of the three children of John Chaloner Spencer-Nairn, the Old Etonian second son of Scottish politician Douglas Spencer-Nairn of the Spencer-Nairn baronets, and his second wife Lucie (née Belanger).
In 1388, Richard II granted the manor to William of Guldeford, the first of the Guldeford baronets of Hemsted who made changes to the original house.Burke J, Burke JB (1838) Guldeford of Hemsted, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, pp.230–231. London: London: John Russell Smith. (Available online.
Glinsk Castle was built in the mid-17th century (begun c. 1628) and is reputed to be the last castle built in Ireland (obviously this depends on one's definition of "castle", for example Glenveagh Castle was constructed in 1870). It was the seat of the Burke baronets of Glinsk. It was gutted by fire, leaving it well preserved.
He was succeeded by his oldest surviving son, Sir Wroth Acland Lethbridge, who pursued an army career, as did the 5th and 6th baronets. The current holder of the title is Sir Thomas Periam Lethbridge (7th baronet). In 1767 the Lethbridge family moved from Westaway to Sandhill Park, Bishops Lydeard in Somerset, which they occupied until 1913.
He was also Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire and Sussex. He married twice, firstly in 1815 to Catherine Juliana Bateman by whom he had three sons, and secondly in 1848 to Lydia Gisborne. He was succeeded by his son Edward Francis, who had, at birth in 1824, succeeded to the Baronetcy of Bateman of Hartington (see Bateman baronets).
His eldest surviving son Henry was several times MP for Thirsk, once for Aldborough and High Sheriff for 1603–04. In 1611, he became one of the first baronets. His son Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, also MP for Thirsk, succeeded him and took the title of Fauconberg when created a baron in 1627 (and viscount in 1643).
He was a junior member of the Clifton family of Nottinghamshire, descended from the 11th century Alvaredus de Clifton, warden of Nottingham Castle "in the time of William Peverell, bastard son of William the Conqueror".Betham, William, The Baronetage of England: or The History of the English Baronets, Volume 1, Ipswich, 1801, p.49 et seq.
In 1619 James I established the Baronetage of Ireland; Charles I in 1625 created the Baronetages of Scotland and Nova Scotia. The new baronets were each required to pay 2,000 marks or to support six colonial settlers for two years. Over a hundred of these baronetcies, now familiarly known as Scottish baronetcies, survive to this day.
Arms of Lord Willingale and the de Beaumont-Spain baronets The de Beaumont- Spain Baronetcy, of Willingale in the County of Essex, England, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1723 for Henry de Beaumont, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to the heirs male of his father.
The original moat surrounds the house today, crossed by listed Late Georgian bridges. The site within the moat is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The manor of Sodington came to the Blount family (later Blount baronets) in the 14th century when Walter Blount married the heiress Johanna de Sodington. A History of the County of Worcester Vol 4.
The Falkiner Baronetcy, of Abbotstown in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 21 December 1812 for Frederick Falkiner, who had earlier represented County Dublin in the House of Commons. The title became extinct on his death in 1824. He was a distant cousin of the earlier Falkiner baronets.
Moreton Corbet is a village in the civil parish of Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst in Shropshire, England. The village's toponym refers to the Corbet baronets, the local landowners. It is just north of the larger village of Shawbury near Stanton upon Hine Heath and the River Roden. Moreton Corbet lies about NNE of the market town of Shrewsbury.
The house continued to pass down the Liston-Foulis baronets of Colinton until it was sold to Professor Stanley Patrick Davidson.Woodhall House 1858-1959 from JuniperGreencc.org.uk accessed 24 March 2013 In 1921, Professor Davidson became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh from 1953 to 1957.
The estate passed to the Mainwaring family in 1519, through the descendants of a Boterel heiress, Alice Boghay. Their descendants have owned the estate ever since. The Mainwarings of Whitmore are descended from the Mainwarings of Over-Peover, Cheshire (see the 20th century Mainwaring Baronets). Five Edward Mainwarings served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire between 1645 and 1767.
The Hon. Guy Dawnay, fourth son of the seventh Viscount, was a soldier and Conservative politician. The first Viscount of the second creation was the brother of Sir Christopher Dawnay, 1st Baronet, of Cowick, a title which became extinct in 1644 (see Dawnay baronets, of Cowick). The family seat is Wykeham Abbey, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
John Malcolm of Balbedie was chamberlain of Fife during the reign of Charles I. He had four sons: Sir John Malcolm who was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia (see: Malcolm baronets), Alexander Malcolm, Lord Lochore who became a judge, James Malcolm who fought for John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee at the Battle of Killiecrankie and Michael Malcolm.
Members of the order may encircle their heraldic arms with the Garter. Members are assigned positions in the order of precedence, coming before all others of knightly rank, and above baronets. The wives, sons, daughters and daughters-in-law of Knights Companion are also assigned precedence. Relatives of Ladies Companion are not, however, assigned any special positions.
The third and fourth Baronets both represented Huntingdon and Huntingdonshire in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1752. The Cotton Baronetcy, of Landwade in the County of Cambridge, was created in the Baronetage of England on 14 July 1641 for John Cotton. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge.
Barnardiston was the son of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 1st Baronet and Anne Airmine, daughter of Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet.A. Collins, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing, Volume III Part II (Thomas Wotton, London 1741), p. 400 (Google). He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 19 June 1667.
His eldest son Ralph succeeded to the baronetcy and was ancestor of the Earl of Ross. His son Arthur was himself created a baronet and was ancestor of the Irish creation of the Earls of Arran, the Barons Harlech as well as the Irish Barons Annaly. His fourth son Francis was progenitor of the Gore-Booth Baronets.
In the 18th century, Jane Dugdale sole heiress of Blyth married Richard Geast of Handsworth. Their son, also Richard Geast, married Penelope Stratford heiress of neighbouring Merivale Hall in 1767. He inherited Blyth from his maternal uncle John Dugdale and changed his name to Dugdale in 1799. Later Dugdales became Dugdale baronets of Blyth and Merevale.
The St John family is today represented by the Viscounts Bolingbroke. The castle is still in use as a private residence. The present owners, the Boothby baronets, are descendants of Colonel Philip Jones, who bought the house in 1654. In 1762 the castle was renovated by Thomas Paty of Bristol for its owner at the time, Robert Jones.
His second son Benjamin (1842–1900) married Henrietta, daughter of Thomas St Lawrence, 3rd Earl of Howth; they moved to England where he was a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards.Link to thepeerage.com, seen Sept 2012 His daughter Anne married William, Lord Plunket in 1863. The present-day Guinness Baronets descend from his second son Benjamin.
Charles Robert Sydenham Carew JP (7 June 1853 – 23 March 1939) was a British Conservative politician. Carew was the son of Reverend Robert Baker Carew, Rector of Bickleigh, Devon, grandson of Sir Thomas Carew, 6th Baronet (see Carew baronets). His mother was Augusta Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Daniel. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.
Arms of Savile: Argent, on a bend sable three owls of the field Stained glass window, St Michael's Church, Dunchideock, Devon, commemorating Bourchier Wrey Savile, Rector 1872-88. Bottom two shield display the arms of the Wrey baronets and Savile Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile (11 March 1817-14 April 1888) was a Church of England clergyman and theological writer.
Arms of Davie of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, Devon: Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gulesDebrett's Peerage, 1968, Baronets, p. 232 Sir John Davie, 2nd Baronet (1612–1678) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, Devon, was Member of Parliament for Tavistock, Devon, in 1661 and was Sheriff of Devon from 1670 to 1671.
Details are provided at Australian peers and baronets. Individual Australian states, as well the Commonwealth Government, were full participants in the Imperial honours system. Originally there was bipartisan support, but Australian Labor Party (ALP) governments, both national and state, ceased making recommendations for Imperial awards – in particular, appointments to the Order of the British Empire mainly after 1972.
Pyrland Hall was built around 1760 for Sir William Yea of the Yea baronets. It is a brick building with Bath stone dressings under hipped slate roofs. After the death of Sir Henry Lacy Yea, 3rd Baronet in 1864, the house was sold to Arthur Malet. It was then acquired by a Mr G. R. Withington.
The school is based at Barlborough Hall, a Grade I listed 16th-century country house, located in Barlborough, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. Originally built by Sir Francis Rodes (see Rodes Baronets) circa 1583–84,Barlborough Hall School website as the family seat, the hall’s Elizabethan design is attributed to Robert Smythson, one of a noted family of architects.
360 Charlton Mackrell Church- Gorges was a native of the village. He married in 1669 Margaret Pointz (or Poyntz), daughter of Sir Robert Pointz of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire and his first wife Frances Gibbons, and widow of Sir Richard Hastings, first and last of the Hastings baronets, of Redlinch. She died without issue in 1685.Ball p.
The Abercromby baronets descend from Humphrey Abercromby of Pitmedden (died circa 1457) and the title was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 20 February 1636.Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1959. London: Burke, 1959. Abercromby was born in 1886, the elder son of Sir Robert Abercromby, 7th Baronet and his wife Florence, daughter of Eyre Coote.
Clan Marjoribanks web site accessed 29 April 2010 In 1834 Marjoribanks married Marianne-Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Haggeston of the Haggeston baronets and co-heir of her mother, Margaret (d. 1823), herself the heiress of William Robertson of Ladykirk. After the marriage Marjoribanks changed his name to Robertson in order to keep his wife's money and property.
The Verner Baronetcy, of Verner's Bridge in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 July 1846 for the soldier and politician William Verner. The second and fourth Baronets both represented County Armagh in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1975.
The author Anthony Trollope, a grandson of a younger son of the fourth Baronet and the ancestor of the fourteenth and subsequent Baronets. The Trollope Baronetcy, of Casewick in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 5 February 1642 for Thomas Trollope. The seventh Baronet was a Conservative politician.
Two years before Booth's death in 1786, the taxable land was documented at .Maryland State Archives, Indices (MSA A 1437, Assessment of 1783). Delemere or Delamere references the Booth family of Dunham Massey, the Booth baronets and George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer who was grandson of the first baronet. There is a putative connection to Batholomew Booth.
Frank Russell was twice divorced, and separated permanently from his third and last wife three years after they married. He also had extramarital affairs. His first wife was Mabel Edith Scott, daughter of "adventuress" Lady Selina (Lina) Scott and her husband Sir Claude Edward Scott (1840-1880) of the Scott baronets of Lytchet Minster. They married in 1890.
Ben Macintyre's father was Angus MacIntyre, the son of Major Francis MacIntyre, of the 14th/20th King's Hussars. His paternal grandmother was related to the ancestral line of Viscount Netterville. He has an elder sister, born 1962, and a younger brother, born 1971. On his mother's side he is related to the Harvey baronets and Berkeley Paget.
The Thornhill, later Compton-Thornhill Baronetcy, of Riddlesworth Hall in the Parish of Riddlesworth in the County of Norfolk and of Pakenham Lodge in the Parish of Pakenham in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 August 1885. For more information on this creation, see Compton-Thornhill baronets.
On the death of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1735, the titles became extinct. The Sheffield family estates passed to the 2nd Duke's half-brother Charles Herbert Sheffield, the illegitimate son of the 1st Duke by Frances Stewart. He was created a Baronet in 1755 and is the ancestor of the Sheffield Baronets, of Normanby.
Francis Burdett (1743–1794) was a member of the Burdett Family of Bramcote which had a lineage of Baronetcy. He failed to inherit the hereditary baronetcy, as he died in 1794, before his father did, in 1797. Thus he was only the son and father of two Bramcote Burdett baronets. He is the subject of two notable paintings.
He served as an Alderman of the City of London. He then served as Sheriff of the City of London in 1966, and as Lord Mayor of London from 1971 to 1972. He also served as Lieutenant of the City of London from 1976 to 1990. He became the 2nd Howard baronets of Great Rissington in 1967.
The third Baronet is a writer on nature and wildlife. Maurice Levy, elder brother of the first Baronet, was created a baronet in 1913 (see Levy baronets). The Lever Baronetcy, of Thornton Manor, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 July 1911. For more information on this creation, see the Viscount Leverhulme.
Tremeirchion (previously known as Lleweni) is a small residential community in Denbighshire, Wales. It is located on the B5429 road, to the north east of Denbigh and to the east of St Asaph. The community includes the village of Rhuallt. The town was part of the traditional lands of the Salusbury family and the Cotton baronets.
Sir Stephen Loftus Egerton (1932–2006) (son of William le Belward Egerton, son of William Egerton, son of Philip Henry Egerton, son of William Egerton, third son of Philip Egerton, father of the eighth and ninth Baronets), was a prominent diplomat; he served as HM Ambassador to Iraq from 1980 to 1982 and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1986 to 1989. Sir Robert Eyles Egerton (1827–1912), youngest son of William Egerton, third son of Philip Egerton, father of the eighth and ninth Baronets, was Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. His son Sir Raleigh Gilbert Egerton (1860–1931) was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army. A cadet branch of the family is settled in Australia (see Peter Egerton Warburton): one of the present-day members of the family, Richard Egerton-Warburton AO LVO,www.bloomberg.
Descendants in the male line of peers and children of women who are peeresses in their own right, as well as baronets, knights, dames and certain other persons who bear no peerage titles, belong to the gentry, deemed members of the non-peerage nobility below whom they rank. The untitled nobility consists of all those who bear formally matriculated, or recorded, armorial bearings. Other than their designation, such as Gentleman or Esquire, they enjoy only the privilege of a position in the formal orders of precedence in the United Kingdom. The largest portion of the British aristocracy has historically been the landed gentry, made up of baronets and the non-titled armigerous landowners whose families hailed from the medieval feudal class (referred to as gentlemen due to their income solely deriving from land ownership).
Dr Henry Godolphin, third son, Dean of St Paul's and Provost of Eton College. Elizabeth Godolphin (died August 30, 1707), eldest daughter, second wife of Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet (1628–1688), of Hayne, Newton St Cyres and King's Nympton Park, King's Nympton, Devon. She was the mother of the 3rd and 4th Baronets and founding mother of the Earls of Iddesleigh.
Clay was born on 7 February 1911, to Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet, one of the Clay Baronets, and Rachel Hobhouse Clay. Clay had four siblings, older sisters Margaret and Janet, older brother Henry, and younger brother Anthony. Clay's family lived at No. 18 Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill, London, and she attended at St Paul's Girls' School.
It was through the Perry family that Molly met Bobby Keane, whom she married in 1938. He belonged to a Waterford squirearchical family, the Keane baronets. The couple went on to have two daughters, Sally and Virginia. After the death of her husband in 1946, Molly moved to Ardmore, County Waterford, a place she knew well, and lived there with her two daughters.
The Vyvyan family still owned the manor in the early 1800s. The Vyvyans were a prominent Cornish family who were members of Parliament, baronets, and landowners in Penwith and Kerrier since the 15th century. They have owned the large estate called Trelowarren in the parish of Mawgan-in-Meneage for nearly 600 years. The living of the rectory is attached to the manor.
The British nobility consists of two, sometimes overlapping entities, the peerage and the gentry. The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles, granted by the Sovereign. Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron). The gentry are untitled members of the upper classes, however, exceptions include baronets, knights, Scottish barons and Lairds.
Bennett married Jane Lovett, daughter of Jonathan Lovett senior, of the prominent landowning family of Kingswell, County Tipperary, and his wife Ellen Mansergh. Jane was the sister of Sir Jonathan Lovett, first and last of the Lovett baronets. They had several children, including John Bennett junior of Hiverston, and Jane, who married Richard Pennefather (1773-1859), Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland).
Lady Congreve's Garden of Verse, The New York Times, 13 August 1922 They were the parents of Major William La Touche Congreve, VC – they are one of only three father and son pairs to win a VC. Their younger son Geoffrey Cecil Congreve was created a baronet, of Congreve in the County of Stafford, in July 1927 (see Congreve baronets).
In about 1626 Bishopp married Mary Tufton, daughter of Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet and Lady Frances Cecil. Lady Frances Cecil was the daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and Dorothy Neville. Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter was the son of William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Subsequent Bishopp baronets carried the name Cecil in recognition of this influential ancestor.
He married Sophia Crofton, daughter of Sir Marcus Lowther Crofton of Mote, County Roscommon, first of the Crofton Baronets, and his wife Catherine Crofton. They had two children, a son Peter who died at 17, and a daughter who died young. Sophia died in 1777. A few years afterwards, Peter began a lifelong relationship with a woman named Eleanor Archdeacon.
On his marriage Sir William assumed the surname of Pulteney in lieu of Johnstone. His only child, Laura, inherited the Pulteney estates and was created Countess of Bath in 1803 (see this title for more information). The sixth, seventh and eighth Baronets all represented Weymouth in Parliament. The sixth Baronet twice declined a peerage offered to him by Spencer Perceval.
Sir William Talbot, 3rd Baronet (c.1643-1691) was the last of the Talbot baronets of Carton: his title was forfeited on account of his loyalty to King James II of England. He was an Irish politician and judge, who served briefly as Master of the Rolls in Ireland.Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926 Vol.
Elizabeth Clare McLaren-Throckmorton (née d'Abreu; 18 August 1935 - 31 October 2017), known professionally as Clare Tritton, QC, was a British barrister and descendant of the Throckmorton baronets. She was the tenant of the Throckmorton family's main residence, Coughton Court near Alcester in Warwickshire, England, now owned by the National Trust. She was also the owner of the Molland Estate in North Devon.
The fourth and fifth Baronets were both succeeded by cousins. The Shropshire estate was sold following the death of the sixth Baronet. The family seat is now at Bishops Waltham, Hampshire Several other members of the family have also gained distinction. William Frederick Curtis, eldest son of Timothy Abraham Curtis, third son of the first Baronet, was a lieutenant- general in the Army.
Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet (1858–1936), of Tawstock Court.Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p. 790 Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gulesDebtett's Peerage, 1968, p.877, Wrey Baronets John Wrey (died 1597) of North Russell, Sourton, and BridestowePole, p.
In 1877 Sir Henry and Lady Dashwood had the chancel restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott. At the same time the organ was installed in the Dashwood Chapel, obscuring a 1724 memorial to the first three Dashwood baronets and other members of the family. St Mary's is a Grade I listed building. The rebuilt bell tower has a ring of eight bells.
By the 12th century Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of Henry I, was Shelswell's feudal overlord. Shelswell remained part of the honour of Gloucester during the 13th century and apparently as late as 1560. Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet of Hanwell, Oxfordshire bought Shelswell in 1595 and it remained with the family of the Cope baronets until after 1675.
Thomas Levett was married to Wilmot Maria Gresley, daughter of Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, 7th Baronet of Drakelowe Hall, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1780,The Admission Register of the Manchester School, Vol. I, Jeremiah Finch Smith, Chetham Society, 1866 of the Gresley Baronets, a family seated at their Drakelow Derbyshire manor since the end of the eleventh century.Magna Britannia, Vol.
The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of 2020 there are 814 hereditary peers: 31 dukes (including 7 royal dukes), 34 marquesses, 193 earls, 112 viscounts, and 444 barons (disregarding subsidiary titles). Not all hereditary titles are titles of the peerage. For instance, baronets and baronetesses may pass on their titles, but they are not peers.
The Honourable Thomas Talbot, fourth son of the first Baroness, was a Canadian politician. Two of Lady Talbot of Malahide's brothers are also notable: Hugh O'Reilly took the surname of Nugent and was created a baronet in 1795 (see Nugent Baronets), while Andrew O'Reilly was a General der Kavallerie in the Austrian Army and made a Count of the Austrian Empire.
He won a gold medal in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics. The title became extinct on his death in 1954. Two other members of the Coats family also gained distinction. George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar, was the younger brother of the first Baronet, while Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet (see Coats baronets), was the first cousin of the first Baronet.
The Mauleverer Baronetcy, of Allerton in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 4 August 1641 for Thomas Mauleverer, Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge. The second and third Baronets also represented this constituency in the House of Commons. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1713.
Only on her wedding day had she discovered his true identity. Dame Hannah tells the bridesmaids about the curse of Ruddigore. Centuries ago, Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, the first Baronet of Ruddigore, had persecuted witches. One of his victims, as she was burnt at the stake, cursed all future Baronets of Ruddigore to commit a crime every day, or perish in inconceivable agonies.
As of 2008 the title is held by his grandson, Jack, the eleventh Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1986. The three most recent baronets have resided in Australia. Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph, was a descendant of Anthony Biddulph, uncle of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, 1st Baronet, of Westcombe (see Baron Biddulph for more information on this branch of the family).
Nicholas Ward, great-grandfather of the first Viscount, and Michael Ward, father of the first Viscount, both represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons. Robert Ward, uncle of Nicholas Ward, was created a Baronet in 1682 (see Ward Baronets). The Hon. Edward Ward, second son of the first Viscount, was also a member of the Irish Parliament for County Down.
His son by his second wife, The Honourable Robert Curzon, represented Clitheroe in Parliament for many years and was the father of Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche. Robert inherited Hagley Hall and various other unentailed properties. His daughter, The Hon. Charlotte Curzon, married Dugdale Stratford Dugdale of the historic Stratford Family, with their descendants becoming the Dugdale Baronets in 1936.
In the Domesday Book the village was recorded as Scheligate, possibly meaning 'the opening on the boundary'. At that time it was held by Robert de Gatemore under Roger Arundel along with another manor in the parish known as Milton. They passed in the 20th century to the Ferguson Davie baronets. The parish of Skillgate was part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.
1 (Cambridge, 1910), p. 230. Molyneux was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1609 and 1611, and became the first of the Molyneux baronets of Teversal on 29 June 1611. Molyneux's first wife was Isobel Markham of Sedgebrook.Isobel Markham was alive in July 1607 when John Markham included her in his will, Arthur Roland Maddison, Lincolnshire Wills: 1600-1617 (Lincoln, 1891), p. 22.
He married heiress Anne Duncombe. He was Member of Parliament for County Durham 1760-1768 and later for Downton, Wiltshire 1780–90. He was succeeded by his son Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto (1776-1848) at Whitworth and as Member for County Durham 1804–08. He added the additional surname of Eden following his marriage to Catherine Eden (see Eden baronets).
Elton was the eldest son of Abraham Elton (later created the first of the Elton baronets), and his wife Mary Jefferies. His date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 30 June 1679. He married Abigail Bayly, the daughter of Zachary Bayly of Charlcot House, near Westbury, Wiltshire and Northwood Park, near Glastonbury, Somerset, on 14 May 1702.
They had eight children. Through his mother-in-law, Gage came into the possession of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk which would later become the seat of his descendants, the Rokewode-Gage baronets. He was made a baronet, of Firle in Sussex in the Baronetage of England, by Charles I on 26 March 1622.John Debrett, The Baronetage of England (Volume 1, 1824), 315.
He scored 23 runs in his two first-class matches, with a high score of 12. Bruce succeeded his uncle, Sir Michael Bruce, as the 9th Baronet of the Bruce baronets upon his death in December 1862. He was a magistrate for Stirlingshire and served as a deputy lieutenant for the county. Bruce died in England at Windsor in May 1906.
Sir Wolstan Dixie Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet (1700–1767) was among the most colourful of the 13 Dixie baronets of Market Bosworth, descended from the second Sir Wolstan Dixie, knighted by James I in 1604, and Sheriff of Leicester (himself grand-nephew of the first Sir Wolstan Dixie, Lord Mayor of London in 1585, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I).
Sir William Fettiplace Lawrence, 5th Baronet, OBE (23 August 1954 – 10 February 2015) was an English baronet and politician. Lawrence was born on 23 August 1954, the son of Sir William Lawrence and his wife Pamela, Lady Lawrence. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon. He succeeded to his father’s baronetcy in 1986 (see Lawrence Baronets).
In 1949, Adams married Elizabeth (Barbara), daughter of R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Edward Fox Dyke Acland, son of the barrister and judge Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland, whose father, the scientist Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (himself created a baronet of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford) descended from the Acland baronets of Columb John.Burke's Peerage, 1999, vol. 1, pg 26.Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, vol.
Arms of Burdett of Bramcote: Azure, two bars orDaniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, 'General history: Baronets', in Magna Britannia: Volume 5, Derbyshire (London, 1817), pp. lxiii-lxxv (arms of their ancestor Sir William Burdet (died pre-1309) of Lowesby in Leicestershire) Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet DL (11 January 1640 - 18 January 1716) was an English baronet and Tory politician.
In 1416–17 John de Stanyngden or Stalkynden conveyed his rights in the manor to John Uvedale. William Uvedale inherited on his father's death in 1616. He conveyed the manor to a later Sir John Gresham (see Gresham baronets), before passing under his nephew, Marmaduke Gresham's will. From his son and co-heir, Sir Isaac Shard acquired it in 1717.
Stanway House, the seat of the Tracy baronets The Tracy Baronetcy, of Stanway in the County of Gloucester, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 June 1611 for Paul Tracy. He was the eldest son of the lay Protestant reformer Richard Tracy. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1678.
He was buried at Erith, Kent. His daughter the Honourable Charlotte Elizabeth married Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet, and their son Sir Culling Smith assumed the surname of Eardley in lieu of Smith in 1847 (see Eardley baronets). Charlotte's and Sir Culling Smith's daughter Maria Charlotte married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician Hugh Childers.
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Lord Fairfax of Cameron is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient Yorkshire family, of which the Fairfax Baronets of The Holmes are members of another branch. From 1515 to about 1700 the family lived at Denton Hall.
Mackay was born Donald Jacob baron Mackay in The Hague, Netherlands,Birth certificate, The Hague Municipal Archive the son of Aeneas Mackay, 10th Lord Reay,thepeerage.com Sir Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay a Dutch member of Parliament, and jonkvrouw Maria Catharina Anna Jacoba Fagel, daughter of mr. Jacob baron Fagel and jkvr. Maria Boreel, relative of the Boreel baronets.
The fourth Baronet discontinued the use of the surname Workman. In 1887 he was created a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary as Baron Macnaghten, of Runkerry in the County of Antrim. Both the sixth and seventh Baronets were killed in the First World War. Also William Hay Macnaghten was created a Baronet on 1840, but the Baronetcy became extinct upon his murder.
Brockham Warren was the family seat of the Brodie baronets. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783-1862) was a physiologist and surgeon, who performed pioneering research into bone and joint diseases. He served as sergeant- surgeon to both William IV and subsequently Queen Victoria. He was made a baronet in 1834 and was President of the Royal Society from 1858 to 1861.
Although John was married five times he had only one child, a son Robert (1706-1770), who succeeded John when he died in 1735. Robert was married twice, and he had one surviving son, Hercules (Herky, 1731-1811). Five of the eight Langrishe Baronets were named Hercules, and the current heir to the 9th Baronet title is also called Hercules (born 1988).
He was the son of the Rev. E. Hawkins and grandson of Sir Cæsar Hawkins, 1st Baronet (1711-1786), Serjeant- Surgeon to George II and George III (see Hawkins baronets); and was brother to Edward Hawkins (1789-1882), Provost of Oriel, Oxford. Hawkins was born at Bisley, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and entered St George's Hospital, London, in 1818.
Arms of Poore baronets: Argent a fess azure between three mullets gules The Poore Baronetcy, of Rushall in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 8 July 1795 for John Methuen Poore, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to his brother Edward Poore and the heirs male of his body.
The name is first recorded in Ireland in 1566 where Piers Forest was a merchant in Cork. The Forrest baronets of Comiston in Edinburgh had a coat of arms containing three oak trees and the motto "vivunt dum virent" (they live while green). The influential pioneer family of Western Australia also have this motto and similar arms in their history.
The Robinson family descended from William Robinson (d. 1616), a wealthy York merchant, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament for York. His grandson Sir William Robinson also represented York in Parliament and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1638. Sir William's elder son Metcalfe Robinson sat as Member of Parliament for York and was created a Baronet in 1660 (see Robinson Baronets).
He was restored to favour the following year, after Bingham himself suffered temporary disgrace and fled to England. He lived mainly at Curraghboy, County Roscommon, and suffered serious damage to his property during the Nine Years War. He died in 1606 and was buried in Dublin. He married Alice Shaen, sister of Sir Francis Shaen, ancestor of the Shaen Baronets.
In 1854, while stationed with his regiment in Quebec, Noble married Margery Durham Campbell. They had four sons and two daughters. Margery lived to the age of 101. Noble's first and second sons George and Saxton became successively second and third baronets, while his third son John Noble, also involved with Armstrongs, was created a baronet in his own right in 1923.
Adam Ashburnham, ancestor of the Ashburnham baronets of Broomham and half-brother of Lawrence Levett, inherited some of their mother Eve Adams Levett Ashburnham's property at Guestling. The school buildings were demolished circa 2017 and the land is earmarked for housing development.Hastings Borough Council Planning The Hollington Stream runs from Silverhill, Hastings, through Hollington Wood towards the sea at Bulverhythe.
In Germany, Baronets were known as (Ritter) or Knights. These were a title of nobility bestowed on people by the local lord. Following this, the title of Ritter was generally passed in a hereditary fashion until the end of the noble line. After which, the title and its holdings would revert to the lord to give out to someone else.
Arms of Trevelyan: Gules, a demi-horse argent hoofed and maned or issuing out of water in base properDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.798 Nettlecombe Court in Somerset, seat of the Trevelyan baronets Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (6 February 1735 – 18 April 1828), of Nettlecombe Court in Somerset, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1796.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Clifton Baronets): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, K.B. (25 November 1587 – 28 June 1666) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1666. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.
Ruperta later married Emanuel Scrope Howe, future MP and English general, and had five children, Sophia, William, Emanuel, James and Henrietta. Through William's daughter, Mary, Rupert is an ancestor of the Bromley baronets. Rupert's son, Dudley Bard, became a military officer, frequently known as "Captain Rupert", and died fighting at the Siege of Buda while in his late teens.Spencer, p.367.
The Nicolson baronets refer to one of four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Nicolson, all in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. Two of the creations remain extant as of 2008. The Nicolson Baronetcy, of Cockburnspath, in Berwickshire, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 17 December 1625 for James Nicolson. Nothing further is known of the title.
His eldest son, the third Baronet, also represented Wenlock in the House of Commons. The fifth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Warwickshire. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the sixth Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wenlock in 1831. The fourth and sixth Baronets served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1743 and 1797 respectively.
For this reason he chose Dacre of Glanton as the title of the life peerage which he was awarded in 1979 and which he held until it expired upon his death in 2003. Thomas Barrett-Lennard, illegitimate son of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre, was created a Baronet in 1801 (see Barrett-Lennard baronets of Belhus for more information).
His family had inherited the manor of Sydenham by marriage to the heiress of the prominent Westcountry Sydenham family, which had originated there,Collinson, Rev. John, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, Vol.3, Bath, 1791, p.547 junior branches of which were seated in Somerset at Combe Sydenham, Orchard Sydenham, Brympton D'Evercy (later Sydenham baronets) and elsewhere.
The present hall was built in 1825-30 to the designs of Robert Smirke for Sir Robert Sheffield (1786-1862). The Sheffield family had lived on the site since 1539 and the family's titles include Dukes of Buckingham and Normanby and Sheffield baronets. It replaced a previous 17th century building. John Sheffield became Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Drummond, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. The Drummond, later Williams-Drummond Baronetcy, of Hawthornden in the City of Edinburgh, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 February 1828. For more information on this creation, see Williams-Drummond baronets.
St Nicholas' Church Wasing is an agricultural and woodland village and parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by the Dugdale Baronets. In minor local administration such as footpaths and field sports facilities its few people convene their own civil parish occasionally but share many facilities with Brimpton which was its civil parish at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.
Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 15 Grace, the daughter of Sir Ralph Freke and sister of the 2nd and 3rd Baronets, married in 1741 (the second son of 1st Baron Carbery) John Evans (d. 1777) of Bulgaden Hall co. Limerick. The baronetcy of Freke of Castle Freke was created for their son, John and his son inherited the barony of Carbery.
Sir Laurence Esmonde, 1st Baron Esmonde (1570?–1646), was an Irish peer who held office as governor of the fort of Duncannon in County Wexford. He was a leading Irish Royalist commander in the English Civil War, but was later suspected of disloyalty to the English Crown when he surrendered Duncannon Fort to the enemy. He was the ancestor of the Esmonde Baronets.
Their memorial displays an incredible rendition of the grounding of HMS Associationwww.kenthistoryforum.co.uk - The legacy of Sir Cloudsley Shovel and has been attributed to Grinling Gibbons. The Narborough family seat was Knowlton Court. After the Narborough brothers' death, the family estates passed to their sister, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas D'Aeth, who was himself created a baronet in 1716 (see D'Aeth baronets).
He died in 1600 and was buried at Alberbury. He was described as "a worthy gentleman, well-beloved by his shire". He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Gerard, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Dorothy Barton; they had 4 sons and 3 daughters, including Robert, the eldest son and heir. Robert was the ancestor of the Leighton baronets of Wattlesborough.
One of Sir William's daughters by his second marriage, Anne (d. bef. March 1558), married Sir Robert Drury, of Thurston, and Hawstead, Suffolk. Another of Sir William's daughters by his second marriage, Elizabeth Calthrope married Francis Hasilden on 31 May 1494. They had a daughter, Frances Hasilden who married Sir Robert Peyton, of Isleham in January 1516, becoming ancestors of the Peyton baronets.
192 He married Catherine Sheldon, a niece of Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury; her father was Ralph Sheldon of Stanton, Staffordshire. He had two sons, Gilbert, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) and first of the Dolben baronets,Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 London John Murray Vol.2 p.17 and John Dolben, a well-known politician.
Megarry (1972) p.16 The Serjeants-at-Law also had social privileges; they ranked above Knights Bachelor and Companions of the Bath, and their wives had the right to be addressed as "Lady —", in the same way as the wives of knights or baronets. A Serjeant made a King's Counsel or judge would still retain these social privileges.Pulling (1884) p.
The fourth Baronet represented Newport and Cornwall in the House of Commons. The fifth and sixth Baronets sat as Members of Parliament for Cornwall. The eighth Baronet was a prominent Radical politician and served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from July to October in 1855. The eleventh Baronet, who had no children, represented Bodmin in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist.
He sat as Member of Parliament for Sussex and Steyning. The fourth Baronet represented Horsham and Steyning in the House of Commons and was created Viscount Goring and Baron Bullinghel in the Jacobite Peerage in 1722. The sixth and eighth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for New Shoreham. The seventh Baronet was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1827.
The Wyvill Baronetcy, of Constable Burton in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 25 November 1611 Marmaduke Wyvill, the former Member of Parliament for Richmond. The fifth and sixth Baronets also represented Richmond in the House of Commons. The title became dormant on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1774.
The fourth Baronet served as High Sheriff of Durham 1723–1747. The fifth (1747–88) and sixth Baronets (1789–1810) also served in that office. The seventh Baronet sat as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for County Durham 1831-2, and Sunderland 1847 and was High Sheriff in 1840. The eighth Baronet represented Durham North in the House of Commons 1864–74.
It contained 7 peers, a dowager countess (Ellen, Countess of Desart, who was Jewish), 5 baronets and several knights. The New York Times remarked that the first senate was "representative of all classes", though it has also been described as, "the most curious political grouping in the history of the Irish state".Article by Elaine Byrne, Irish Times, 30 July 2008.
He was the son of Thomas Bateson, the son from his father's first marriage. He notably served as High Sheriff of Donegal in 1822. However, he was childless and on his death in 1870 the baronetcy became extinct. Robert Harvey, illegitimate son of the first Baronet, was the father of Robert Harvey, who was created a baronet in 1868 (see Harvey baronets).
Rachel Lyttelton, daughter of Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, and they had eight children. He succeeded his father (Sir John Buchanan-Riddell, 11th Baronet) as 12th Baronet in the line of Riddell Baronets in 1924. He was appointed chairman of the University Grants Committee in 1930. He was a member of the Council of Keble College, Oxford from 1923 until his death.
McGregor was born on 18 October 1848 in Kilmun, Argyll, Scotland. He was the son of Jane and Malcolm McGregor. His father was a gardener, and in 1854 the family moved to County Tyrone, Ireland, where he became the chief gardener to Sir Gerald Aylmer (one of the Aylmer baronets). McGregor left school at a young age to join his father.
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Turner, all in the Baronetage of Great Britain, one of which became extinct after two holders, one after three and one of which is extant however became renamed in 1766 to match the new successor's new surname Page-Turner and subsequently devolved to the Dryden baronets. Arms of Turner Baronets of Warham, Norfolk (1727): Sable, a chevron ermine between three fers-de-moline or on a chief argent a lion passant gulesBurke, General Armory, 1884 The Turner Baronetcy, of Warham in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 April 1727 for Charles Turner, for many years Member of Parliament for King's Lynn. The second and third Baronet's also represented this constituency in Parliament. The title became extinct on the latter's death in 1780.
There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Gibson, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extinct. The Gibson Baronetcy, of Keirhill in the City of Edinburgh, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 31 December 1702. For more information on this creation, see Gibson-Craig- Carmichael baronets.
1652), a Carmelite friar – known as Elias à Jesu – was the fourth son of Roger Bradshaigh. Three brothers were Jesuits, and one brother a secular priest. Sir Roger Bradshaigh MP, was created a baronet in 1679 (see Bradshaigh baronets). Sir Roger Bradshaigh, the third Baronet, MP for Wigan for over 50 years, was Father of the House in the House of Commons from 1738 to 1747.
Sir William Samwell (1559–1628) of Northampton and Uptonsamwell1 - Stirnet Retrieved 2018-02-28. was an Auditor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was knighted at the coronation of King James I of England in 1603.Kimber, E. and Johnson, R. The Baronetage of England: Containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English Baronets, volume 2, page 248.
Wortley was a devoted supporter of the Royalist cause during the Civil Wars. At the outbreak of war on 22 August 1642, Wortley was one of four chief baronets chosen to raise the king's standard at Nottingham, effectively beginning the raising of the king's army. He raised a troop of horse and fortified his house at Wortley. He supported Charles II in the Siege of Hull (1642).
Sir Francis Head (1693–1768), 4th Baronet (1721–68) of Head baronets was an Anglican clergyman and landowner, of The [Great] Hermitage, Higham, in Kent. He was the younger brother of Sir Richard Head (1693–1721), 3rd Baronet (1716–21)'Sir Francis Head, 2nd Bt.' in Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
Farquhar was born in Brackley, Northamptonshire, in 1859 and grew up in London. Her parents were Harvie Morton Farquhar and Louisa Harriet Ridley-Colbourne. Harvie Morton Farquhar was a descendant of the Farquhar baronets and a director of Messrs Herries, Farquhar & Co, which was later acquired by Lloyds Bank. Farquhar lived in Chelsea during the 1860s and 1870s where she was educated by a governess.
Madeleine died in Clarges Street, Piccadilly, in April 1737, aged about 70. The second baronet married Anne Holmes, whose father Tempest Holmes was a Commissioner of the Victualling Office. The second baronet died aged 82 on 4 September 1772, and was in turn succeeded by his eldest son John (11 October 1728 – 21 May 1799), the third of the Lambert baronets of that name.
The 8th Baroness was succeeded by her kinsman Sir Edward Noel, 6th Baronet, of Kirkby Mallory, who became the ninth Baron (see Noel Baronets for earlier history of this title). He was the heir of the Hon. Margaret Noel, daughter of the 7th Baroness. In 1762 he was created Viscount Wentworth, of Wellesborough in the County of Leicester, in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Herbert Raphael Major Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Baronet (23 December 1859 – 24 September 1924) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician.Leigh Rayment (2006). Baronets R The second son of Henry Louis Raphael, banker, of Raphaels Bank and his wife and cousin, Henriette née Raphael. He was educated in Hanover, Germany and Vevey, Switzerland before attending Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he studied law.
Nugent was the younger son of Brigadier General George Colborne Nugent, eldest son of Sir Edmund Charles Nugent, 3rd Baronet, of Waddesdon (see Nugent Baronets), who was killed in action in 1915. His mother was Isabel Mary Bulwer, daughter of General Sir Edward Gascoigne Bulwer. Sir Guy Nugent, 4th Baronet, was his elder brother. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
This proved impossible so in 1768 he had the entire house demolished. Ambrosden remained with the Turner (later Page-Turner) baronets until 1874 when Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner, 6th Baronet died childless. The 6th Baronet left all his estates to his nephew, Frederick Augustus Blaydes. The Blaydes took the Page-Turner name and coat of arms in 1903, but sold the estate in 1930.
Rylands was born on 11 July 1961, the son of Michael Rylands and Denise née Bates. Michael was sometime Vicar of Wilton, Wiltshire, Rector of Malpas, Cheshire and honorary canon of Chester and Denise a scion of the Bates baronets (of Bellefield): her grandfather was Edward, 2nd Baronet.Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 1. (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's, 2003) p. 287.
The Debenham Baronetcy, of Bladen in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 January 1931 for Ernest Debenham, Chairman of Debenhams Ltd. As of 2014 the present baronet has not proved his succession and does not appear on the Official Roll of the Baronets. The Baronetcy has been considered dormant since 2001.
McAlpine was born at The Dorchester in Mayfair, London. His great grandfather was "Concrete Bob", Robert McAlpine, the first of the McAlpine baronets and the founder of the McAlpine construction firm. He was the second son of Ella Mary Gardner (Garnett) and Edwin McAlpine, the fifth Baronet, and the brother of William McAlpine, the sixth Baronet. He described his childhood as "idyllic" but not luxurious.
He left one surviving son and a daughter by his third wife. After his death, an irregularity was discovered in the register of baronets, which meant that the surviving son, Thomas, could not automatically inherit the baronetcy. On 27 October 1624 the baronetcy was therefore recreated for him but became extinct when the unmarried Sir Thomas was killed at the Battle of Naseby in 1645.
Gresham built a new house there near to the parish church, on the site of an older house. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1547. The house and estate passed through several generations of the Gresham family, who were created Baronets by Charles II at the time of his Restoration (1660). Sir John Gresham's heir was William Gresham, whose son was Sir Thomas Gresham (died 1630).
Sir Edward Graham Moon, 2nd Baronet (25 March 1825 – 21 February 1904),Leigh Rayment baronets was an English rower and clergyman. Moon was the son of Sir Francis Moon, 1st Baronet, and his wife Anne Chancellor. His father was a printseller and publisher and Lord Mayor of London.London City History – Biography Moon was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a leading oarsman.
The village was founded in the 1830s by the Barrington baronets of Limerick, who lived in the now Glenstal Abbey monastery and boarding school from 1926. Murroe once had eight primary schools in the area. Each of the schools, called Murroe, Clonkeen, Eyon, Kiskiquirk were split into a boys' and girls' school. John Canon Hayes, founder of Muintir na Tíre, was born in Murroe in 1882.
Jessel was the younger son of Sir George Jessel, Solicitor-General and Master of the Rolls, by Amelia Moses, daughter of Joseph Moses. Sir Charles Jessel, 1st Baronet, of Ladham House, was his elder brother (see Jessel Baronets). He was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford.thepeerage.com Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel Jessel was a member of the Westminster City Council, representing Grosvenor Ward.
The park was the seat of the Guldeford baronets until 1718. Hemsted House, which stands in the grounds and is the main building of the school, is a 19th century house. It was built in an Elizabethan style in the early 1860s and remodelled at the beginning of the 20th century. A single first-class cricket match was held on a ground at the park in 1843.
It was created on 28 February 1672 for William Lockhart. The fourth Baronet used the surname Ross-Lockhart, which was also borne by the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth Baronets. The sixth Baronet was an admiral in the Royal Navy and sat as Member of Parliament for Lanark and Lanarkshire. The seventh Baronet was Member of Parliament for Tain Burghs, Ross-shire and Linlithgow Burghs.
Arms of Blois baronets The Blois Baronetcy, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1686 for Charles Blois. He represented Ipswich and Dunwich in the House of Commons. The seventh Baronet was a Major in the 1st Dragoons and fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
It may be of Norman origin and derived from "Évreux", a county in Normandy. The Every baronets of Egginton, a branch of the Every family of southwest England, are claimed to be a branch of the noble house of Yvery, of Norman extraction. The earliest surviving records of the name "Every" date to 12 April 1591, when one John Every married Elizabeth Ouzely at St Dunstan's, Stepney.
Sir Michael Seymour, third son of the first Baronet, was an admiral in the Royal Navy. Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, son of Reverend Richard Seymour, fourth son of the first Baronet, was an admiral of the fleet. The Culme-Seymour baronets are members of a junior branch of the Seymour family headed by the Duke of Somerset (see Seymour family). The family surname is pronounced "Cullum-Seamer".
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Hunt, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. The Hunt, later de Vere Baronetcy, of Curragh in the County of Limerick, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 4 December 1784. For more information on this creation, see De Vere baronets.
1607–1628), whose brother, Sir John Stepney (b. c.1618), became the third baronet. (Some early histories of the family show only eight baronets rather than nine because they were unaware of Alban's brief tenure.) In April 1640 Sir John was elected MP for Pembroke in the Short Parliament, then for Haverfordwest in the Long Parliament from November 1640, and held the seat until disqualified in 1643.
The manor house still contains some of the structure which built in the late medieval period, however it was largely rebuilt between 1902 and 1905 for Sir Montague Style of the Style baronets. It is a Grade II listed building. The main range of the house, which is in a Jacobean style, is L shaped and consists of two storeys. The central gable has an oculus.
Glinsk Castle – the seat of the Burke Baronets of Glinsk There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Burke, both in the Baronetage of Ireland. As of 2014 one creation is extant. The Burke Baronetcy, of Glinsk in the County of Galway, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 2 August 1628 for Ulick Bourke. The third Baronet was a politician.
The Burke Baronetcy, of Marble Hill in the County of Galway, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 5 December 1797 for Thomas Burke. He raised an infantry regiment at his own expense during the Napoleonic Wars. The second and third Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for County Galway. The fifth Baronet served as High Sheriff of County Galway in 1883.
132 Comparisons with continental titles and ranks are tenuous due to the British system of primogeniture and because claims to baronetcies must be proven; currently the Official Roll of the Baronetage is overseen by the Ministry of Justice. In practice this means that the UK Peerage and Baronetage consist of about 1,200 families (some peers are also baronets), which is roughly less than 0.01% of UK families.
Monument to James Smith (1587–1667), St Paul's Church, Hammersmith. Drawn in 1839See photograph, flickr.com Arms of Smith of Isleworth, Middlesex (Smith Baronets): Azure, a lion rampant or on a chief argent a mullet gules between two torteauxSee photograph of Smith arms on monument to James Smith (1587-1667) in Hammersmith Church ; Blazon per pedigree of Smith of Isleworth: Wotton, Thomas, English Baronetage, Vol.4, 1741, p.
Baillargeon began creating arrangements for the group Les Baronets in the 1960s. He released three albums, including Viens, Mon Amour in 1970 and 1971's Soleil with Jean-Pierre Ferland. He arranged orchestrations for and directed Celine Dion's orchestra during her first tour, and composed her song "Une colombe"."Paul Baillargeon, le Québécois derrière la musique de Star trek". Ici Radio Canada, 3 August 2014L'Actualité. Vol. 11.
Vivian is the name of a British noble family of Cornish extraction that rose to wealth in various regions of the British Isles. Over time, several members of the Vivian family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the family include the Vivian barony as well as the Swansea barony. Several other members of the family have also risen to prominence.
The coat of arms of the Barons Chedworth. Lord Chedworth, Baron of Chedworth, in the County of Gloucester, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created on 12 May 1741 for John Howe, who had earlier represented Wiltshire in Parliament. In 1736 he had succeeded to the estates of his cousin Sir Richard Howe, 2nd Baronet (see Howe Baronets and below).
Her final post as a domestic servant was at Arley Hall, Cheshire, North West England, where she was housekeeper for Lady Elizabeth Warburton, from the family of the Warburton baronets. Starting work in December 1760, Raffald was paid £16 a year. In all she spent fifteen years in service. After a few years working for the Warburtons, Elizabeth married John Raffald, the head gardener at Arley Hall.
Sir James Charles Chatterton when Colonel of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers (1858-1868) General Sir James Charles Chatterton, 3rd Baronet, (10 December 17945 January 1874) was a British Army officer and politician; he was the third and last of the Chatterton baronets of Castle Mahon. He fought during both the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns, later becoming Member of Parliament (MP) for Cork, Ireland.
In 1695, ownership passed to John Bland, a member of the Bland baronets and Member of Parliament for Lancashire between 1713 and 1727. Bland had married Mosley's sole surviving heir, Anne. According to Edward Baines, around this time the hall was "among the most stately residences in the parish of Manchester". George Lloyd, a Fellow of the Royal Society, bought the hall in 1751.
Originally a small, L-plan tower house, the castle was extended in the 17th century into a U-plan house. A section of curtain wall closes the U, forming a courtyard. Two rooms within the castle are occupied by an exhibition commemorating the link between Menstrie, William Alexander, and Nova Scotia. One of the rooms is decorated with the arms of all the Baronets of Nova Scotia.
In 1611 Elizabeth I made Cope Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet. Drayton remained with the Cope Baronets of Hanwell until the death of Sir John Cope, 5th Baronet in 1721. It then passed to another branch of the Cope family, Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet of Bruern. When Sir Charles Cope, 3rd Baronet died in 1781, Drayton passed to one of his sisters, Catherine.
The Red Hand of Ulster () is an Irish symbol used in heraldry to denote the Irish province of Ulster. It is an open hand coloured red, with the fingers pointing upwards, the thumb held parallel to the fingers, and the palm facing forward. It is usually shown as a right hand, but is sometimes a left hand, such as in the coats of arms of baronets.
Captain Sir Quentin C.A. Craufurd, MBE, co-founded the Fairy Investigation Society. Crauford was a naval officer from an aristocratic background, a member of the Craufurd Baronets. While in the navy, he appeared to have picked up a fascination with wireless telephone communication. In the 1920s, he began to experiment with wireless technology to contact the spirit world, and became very well known in spiritualist circles.
The fourth Baronet was the son of George Oxenden, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, who was the third son of the 1st Baronet. He was Member of Parliament for Sandwich for over thirty years. The sixth Baronet inherited the Kentish estate of the Dixwell baronets at Broome Park which became the family seat. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1924.
The title became dormant on the death of the first Baronet's son, the second Baronet, in circa 1648. The Baillie, later Mackenzie Baronetcy, of Portman Square in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 December 1812 for Ewen Baillie. He obtained a new patent on 26 May 1819. For more information on these creations, see Mackenzie baronets.
Lilstock appears to have been the old port of the Saxon settlement of Stogursey. The Acland baronets were the lords of the manor. Around 1820 Sir John Acland built a boat house on the beach with a pier and breakwater to form Lilstock harbour. Coal was brought from Wales for domestic use on the Acland estate, and to fire the large limekiln on the cliff.
Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard is a civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, near the border with Shropshire in England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 654, increasing to 823 at the 2011 census. The parish includes Blymhill, Weston-under-Lizard, Brineton, Brockhurst and Orslow. In medieval times, the manor was held by the Brereton family, baronets of Handforth, Cheshire.
Sir Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 11th Baronet (1855-1917) in uniform of Lt- Col Royal North Devon Hussars Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gulesDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.877, Wrey Baronets Sir Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 11th Baronet (1855 – 16 January 1917) of Tawstock Court, North Devon, was a prominent member of the Devonshire gentry.
Upon her death in 1575 it passed to her son Richard Chetwood, who sold it to William Alston in 1633. The family were later created Alston baronets of Odell. By the time of the sale, the castle was already in ruins. Alston built a new residence, incorporating the remains of the keep, the oval motte of the old castle still held up by a retaining wall.
He died without issue in 1750 when and the baronetcy became extinct. He left his estate to his youngest nephew, Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet, through his sister Elizabeth Oxenden (see Oxenden baronets).,History of Parliament online as a condition of which his nephew was required to take on the surname of Dixwell.Deed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1751 (25 Geo. 2). c.
The Nightingale Baronetcy of Newport Pond is a title in the Baronetage of England and a rank in the British aristocracy. It was created by King Charles I of England, on the 1st of September (1628), and is one of the oldest baronetcies to remain active in the United Kingdom. To date, it has had seventeen baronets since its inception, beginning with Sir. Thomas Nightingale (d.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Champneys, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. The Champneys, later Mostyn- Champneys Baronetcy, of Orchardleigh in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 12 January 1767. For more information on this creation, see Mostyn-Champneys baronets.
The Baddeley Baronetcy, of Lakefield in the Parish of St Mary, Stoke Newington in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 November 1922 for Sir John Baddeley, head of Baddeley Brothers, wholesale stationers, and Lord Mayor of London between 1921 and 1922. The second and third Baronets were each Managing Director of Baddeley Brothers.
Young was the youngest son of Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet (see Young baronets), a noted classicist and charity commissioner.Williams, B. (1937) entry on Young, Sir George, Dictionary of National Biography, 1922–30, London: Oxford University Press, pp.926–8. Sir George's paternal grandmother was Emily Baring of the eponymous merchant banking dynasty.Hall, S.M. (2006), Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf, London: Peter Owen, p.
There have been five creations of Fletcher baronets from 1641 to 1919, three of which are extinct. The creations of 1782 and 1796 have descended to male descendants who have changed surnames to recognise further early inheritance and are the existing Fletcher hereditary titles in the Great British baronetcy. The first two creations were to first cousins (three times removed upwards or downwards respectively).
Over the north door are the carved and painted royal arms of Charles II. There is a hatchment in the chancel. The stained glass dates from the 1850s and 1860s and is by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. The church also contains monuments to members of the families who lived in Knowlton Court, including the Peyton Baronets. Later residents of the house were the Narborough family.
Tetcott Manor House in 2013, still a seat of the Molesworth-St Aubyn baronets. The brick building to the left with rusticated quoins may have been associated with the mansion demolished in 1831.Pevsner, p.802 Following the Arscotts, Tetcott was inherited by their distant cousins the family of Molesworth, later Molesworth- St Aubyn, of Pencarrow, Cornwall, who continue there until the present day.
Osborn was born on 17 November 1715, at Chicksands village (Shefford, Bedfordshire, England), which was the seat of the Osborn family. His father was John Osborn, eldest son of Sir John Osborn, 2nd Baronet (see Osborn baronets). Of the previous four generations of paternal relatives, two grandmothers (Lady Doroty Danvers and Lady Eleanor Danvers) had belonged to the Danvers lineage. Osborn's mother was Sarah Byng.
Sir Edward Pryce-Jones (1861-1926) was Conservative MP for Montgomery Boroughs. He won the seat in 1895, held it in 1900, lost it to the Liberals in 1906, tried to win it back in January 1910, and did win it back in December 1910. He stood down when the constituency was abolished in 1918. He was made a baronet in 1918 (see Pryce-Jones baronets).
The restoration work was funded by the Acland baronets who were the local Lords of the manor. The bell above the entrance door is believed to have come from their yacht Lady of St Kilda The chapel is within the parish of Selworthy which is part of the Porlock and Porlock Weir with Stoke Pero, Selworthy and Luccombe benefice within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
Coat of arms of the Agnew baronets (1895) with the badge of a Baronet of the United Kingdom This is a list of baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. They have been created since 1801, when they replaced the baronetages of Baronetage of Great Britain and Baronetage of Ireland. This list is not currently complete and has been split into sub articles, 1 per letter.
Udayan Chinubhai was born in an affluent and distinguished family of Runchorelal baronets and was the eldest son of Sir Girjaprasad Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal, 2nd Baronet and Lady Tanumati. He graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Bombay and soon joined his family business of textile mills.Gujarat College, Patron He married Muneera (Muneera Khodad Fozdar) in 1953 and had several issues including one son.
The fourth and fifth Baronets both sat as Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1791. The Alston Baronetcy, of Chelsea in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of England on 20 January 1682 for Joseph Alston. The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1819.
He was Member of Parliament for Salisbury and served as Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. The second Earl assumed the additional surname of Pleydell after succeeding to the estates of his maternal grandfather, Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell, 1st Baronet (see Pleydell Baronets). His son, the third Earl, represented Downton and Salisbury in the House of Commons. On his death the titles passed to his son, the fourth Earl.
1931), son of the Hon. John Montagu William North, second son of the eighth Earl, succeeded his maternal grandfather as second Baronet, of Southwell, in 1947 (see North Baronets). Lacking a different secondary title, the heirs apparent to the earldom have continued to use Lord North as a courtesy title. An unqualified reference to Lord North almost always refers to Frederick North, later second Earl of Guilford.
Finally, in August 1866 William Chandos-Pole became vicar, whose patrons were John Yarde Buller, Edward Levett and Rev. William Chandos-Pole. Several members of the Pole family served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire, including Samuel Pole (1651–1731), who was the father of Edward Pole, a lieutenant-general, and Charles Pole, a Member of Parliament. The Pole Baronets of Wolverton, Hampshire, descend from Charles Pole.
Having no issue by his second wife Elizabeth Butler, he bequeathed his immense property to Thomas Esmonde, the son of his first wife whom he had repudiated. Thomas could not inherit the barony, since his father, while willing to name him as his heir, would not admit his legitimacy, but he had already in 1629 been created the first of the Esmonde Baronets: the title still exists.
Pole-Carew was born in Eaton Place, Marylebone in 1811, the son of Reginald Pole-Carew and Hon. Caroline Anne Lyttelton, daughter of William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton. His father was a paternal descendant of the Pole baronets, of Shute House. He was educated at Charterhouse School from 1824 to 1828, and then at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining a BA in 1833 and an MA in 1864.
As with many castles at this time it was re-built as a large mansion house as we see it today. The castle was re-built as a large classical mansion between 1754 and 1792. Foulis Castle still remains the home of the Chief of Munro, Hector W Munro of Foulis. However the most recent baronets of Foulis-Obsdale have lived in Southern England.
Sir Thomas Boughey Academy (formerly Sir Thomas Boughey High School) is a co- educational secondary school located in Halmer End (near Newcastle under Lyme) in Staffordshire, England. The school is named after Sir Thomas Boughey of the Boughey baronets who donated land for the establishment of the school. The school can trace its origins to 1849. Today it is an academy administered by the United Endeavour Trust.
The third Baronet represented Ludgershall and Amersham in Parliament. The fourth and sixth Baronets also sat as Members of Parliament for Amersham. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1767. The Garrard Baronetcy, of Langford in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 16 August 1662 for Sir Jacob Garrard, a wealthy London merchant.
Sir Charles Gerald Stewkley Shuckburgh, 12th Baronet (28 February 1911 – 4 May 1988) was the 12th baronet of the Shuckburgh baronets of Shuckburgh Hall, Warwickshire. He was a first-class cricketer who played in a single match for Warwickshire in 1930. He was born at Lower Shuckburgh, Warwickshire, the elder son of the 11th baronet. Shuckburgh was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Oxford.
Anthony Vinchon Des Voeux (1710–92) was rector at Mansfieldstown from 1781 to his death in 1792. He was born in France, son of the President of the Parlement de Normandie, and wrote in defence of the Huguenot faith. He was chaplain to George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville's 6th Regiment. His son Charles became a baronet in 1787, the first of the Des Voeux baronets.
For more information, see Foulis baronets. The Primrose Baronetcy, of Redholme, Dumbreck, in Govan in the County of the City of Glasgow, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 July 1903 for John Primrose. He was a senior partner in the firm of William Primrose and Sons, flour millers, of Glasgow, and served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1903 to 1905.
Lord Pentland was the son of Captain George Sinclair, younger son of Sir John Sinclair, 6th Baronet, of Dunbeath, a descendant of George Sinclair of Mey, third son of George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness (see Sinclair Baronets and Earl of Caithness for earlier history of the family). The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, on 14 February 1984.
His grandson, the seventh Baronet, was High Sheriff in 1866 and Member of Parliament for Lichfield 1885–1892. His son, the eighth Baronet was High Sheriff in 1920. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1967. The Baronets were descended from the ancient Northumbrian family of Swinburne Castle which passed to the Heron family on the death of Sir Adam Swinburne.
Stobo Castle Stobo Castle is located at Stobo in the Scottish Borders, in the former county of Peeblesshire. The Manor of Stobo was originally owned by the Balfour family. It became the family seat of the Graham-Montgomery Baronets from 1767. The building of the present castle began in 1805 and was completed in 1811 under the supervision of architects Archibald and James Elliot.
Mawley Hall Mawley Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country mansion near Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.Heritage Gateway: architectural description of listed building The Blount family of Sodington Hall, Mamble, Worcestershire, wealthy coalowners and ironfounders, acquired estates in neighbouring Shropshire. They were prominent Roman Catholics and Walter Blount was created a baronet in 1624 (see Blount baronets).
Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, the second son of Sir William Murray, of Ochtertyre, 5th Baronet (see Murray Baronets), and was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh.Dictionary of Canadian Biography on- line His mother was Lady Augusta Mackenzie, youngest daughter of the Jacobite George, 3rd Earl of Cromartie. His elder brother was Sir Patrick Murray, 6th Baronet.
He married Elizabeth Morrison. Their eldest son and heir was John Dick of Braid (1610-1642) who died young. Other children included Alexander Dick of Heugh (1618-1663), Andrew Dick, William Dick (Baron Grange), Lewis Dick, Elizabeth Dick and Janet Dick. Alexander Dick was forefather to the Dick-Cunyngham baronets and the Dicks of Prestonfield, including James Dick of Prestonfield, Lord Provost 1679/81 .
Numerous other members of the Brooke family have also gained distinction. Arthur Brooke, uncle of the first Baronet, was created a baronet in 1764 (see Brooke baronets). Sir Arthur Brooke (died 1843), brother of the first Baronet, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army. Richard Prittie Brooke (died 1836), younger brother of the first Baronet, was a major-general in the British Army. George Brooke, grandson of George Frederick Brooke, brother of the first Baronet, was created a baronet in 1903 (see Brooke baronets, of Summerton). George Augustus Frederick Brooke, younger son of the first Baronet, was the father of 1) Arthur Thomas Brooke (died 1893), a captain in the Royal Navy, 2) Henry Francis Brooke (1836–1880), a brigadier-general in the British Army, 3) Lionel Godolphin Brooke (1849–1931), a brigadier-general in the Connaught Rangers, and 4) Frank Brooke (1851–1920), a businessman and public servant.
A plain, uncharged canton (sometimes a canton voided is also used this way) can be used as a mark of distinction, that is, not a mark of peculiar honour, but a mark denoting that the bearer is a stranger in blood. For example, a groom who does not descend from the bride's family but who adopts the bride's last name after the marriage might, upon receipt of a Royal Licence permitting this, use the bride's family's coat of arms with an uncharged canton or canton voided. Special cantons may be added to the coat of arms of baronets to indicate their rank and difference their arms from other members of the family. The canton is typically the Red Hand of Ulster (in sinister),Collins, Arthur, The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets now Existing, Volume 4, London, 1741, p.
In 1947 the regiment reformed as an artillery formation as 361st (Carnarvonshire and Denbigh Yeomanry) Medium Regiment. The CO was Lt-Col Owen Williams-Wynn, son of the regiment's Honorary Colonel and himself the former adjutant of the regiment 1936–39.Williams-Wynn Baronets, Burke's. In 1956 the regiment merged with the 384th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Light Regiment, Royal Artillery to become the 372nd (Flintshire and Denbighshire Yeomanry) Regiment.
The Wintringham Baronetcy, of Dover Street, St George's Hanover Square, in the County of London, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 7 November 1774 for Clifton Wintringham, Physician-in-Ordinary to George III, with remainder to Gervase Clifton, son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6th Baronet, of Clifton (see Clifton baronets). Wintringham outlived Clifton and the title became extinct on his death in 1794.
She had already in 1716 been made Baroness Coningsby, of Hampton Court in the County of Hereford, and Viscountess Coningsby in her own right. Both titles were in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lady Coningsby was the wife of Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet, of Barrs Court and Culverthorpe Hall, Lincolnshire (see Newton Baronets). She had no surviving male issue and the titles became extinct on her death in 1759.
The current baronet, Sir Tom Shakespeare, giving a speech at De Montfort University in 2017 The Shakespeare Baronetcy, of Lakenham in the City of Norwich, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the Liberal politician Geoffrey Shakespeare. The third and current Baronet is a geneticist and sociologist. The Shakespeare baronets descend from Richard Shakespeare, the grandfather of the playwright William Shakespeare.
Sir John Henry Grattan Esmonde, 16th Baronet of the Esmonde baronets, (27 June 1928 – 16 May 1987) was an Irish Fine Gael politician. A Senior Counsel by profession, Esmonde was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency at the 1973 general election. He lost his seat at the 1977 general election. The outgoing Government appointed him as a judge of the Circuit Court.
Habsburg was born on 21 June 1997, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and is an Austrian citizen. His parents are Karl von Habsburg and Francesca von Habsburg. His paternal grandparents are Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. His maternal grandparents are Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, descendant of the Campbell baronets.
There have been two Kerr baronetcies. The Kerr Baronetcy of Greenhead, Roxburgh, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1637 for Andrew Kerr. The first three baronets represented Roxburghshire in the Scottish parliament, and the third was sent as one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. The baronetcy became dormant on the death of the seventh baronet in 1776.
Cambell married Alice Bugle, daughter of Edward Bugle, merchant of London.John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies He was the father of James Cambell Lord Mayor in 1629 and Robert Cambell who was father of two baronets. His daughters married John Gore, Christopher Clitherow and Anthony Abdy. 'Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp.
The site occupied by the hospital was originally part of the Kilcreene House Estate, the home of the Evans baronets. After the house had been demolished, a modern medical facility was built and opened as Lourdes Orthopaedic Hospital in 1959. In March 2019 the Health Service Executive announced that it would transfer orthopaedic services from the hospital, by then known as Kilcreene Orthopaedic Hospital, to the University Hospital Waterford.
The Davers Baronetcy, of Rougham in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 May 1682 for Robert Davers, who had made a great fortune in Barbados before acquiring the Rougham estate in Suffolk. The second and fourth Baronets represented Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk in Parliament. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Bury St Edmunds.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Sullivan, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010. The Sullivan Baronetcy, of Thames Ditton in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 May 1804 for the writer and MP Richard Sullivan. The third and sixth Baronets were Admirals in the Royal Navy.
The grave of Sir Robert Dalyell, 8th Baronet, Abercorn churchyard Sir Robert Alexander Osborne Dalyell of the Binns, 8th Baronet DL JP (1821 - 1886) was a British diplomat, and one of the Dalyell baronets. In some sources, his middle name is spelled Osborn. He received an M.A. in 1847 from Trinity College, Cambridge. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1849.
Thomas Wright Blakiston (27 December 1832 – 15 October 1891) was an English explorer and naturalist. Born in Lymington, Hampshire, Blakiston was the son of Major John Blakiston, second son of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2nd Baronet (see Blakiston baronets for earlier history of the family). His mother was Jane, daughter of Reverend Thomas Wright, Rector of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. Blakiston explored western Canada with the Palliser Expedition between 1857 and 1859.
Arms of Welby: Sable, a fess between three fleurs-de-Lys argent The Welby Baronetcy, of Denton Manor in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 June 1801 for William Welby, Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1802 to 1806.William Welby at thePeerage.com The second and third Baronets also represented this constituency in the House of Commons.
The seventh Baronet assumed in 1925 by deed poll the surname of Pennington in lieu of his patronymic according to the will of the late Lord Muncaster (see Baron Muncaster). However, in 1958 he resumed the use of the surname of Ramsden after that of Pennington. The subsequent Baronets have used the surname of Ramsden only. The seventh Baronet notably served as High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1962.
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet The Downing Baronetcy, of East Hatley in the County of Cambridge, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 1 July 1663 for the Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and diplomat Sir George Downing, after whom Downing Street in London is named. The third baronet left his estate to create Downing College, Cambridge. The third and fourth Baronets represented Dunwich in Parliament.
The Stanley Baronetcy, of Alderley Hall in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 25 June 1660. For more information on this creation,see the Baron Stanley of Alderley. The Stanley, later Stanley-Massey-Stanley, later Errington Baronetcy, of Hooton in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 17 June 1661. For more information on this creation, see Errington baronets.
Charles I, even more rapacious for money than his father, was selling large numbers of baronetcies through favoured courtiers. There were to be four Littleton Baronets of Pillaton, the title lapsing in 1812. By this time, the king's need for money had led to deadlock with both Houses of Parliament and a political crisis that was to become systemic. Charles imposed a forced loan on the country arbitrarily.
In the early 1860s, Valpy Jr. was made a justice of the peace, and he acted as Sergeant-at-Arms in the Otago Provincial Council, during the time that Julius Vogel was Provincial Treasurer. Valpy married in 1858 to Penelope Caroline Every, the daughter of Simon Frederick Every, of Silver Acres, Andersons Bay, Dunedin. His wife was a descendant of the Every baronets. They had five sons and three daughters.
Coton is a village in Shropshire. It lies near the road from Whitchurch to Wem, about one mile southeast of Hollinwood. Coton Hall, once home to Viscount Hill, is an important English heritage site. In the early nineteenth century it belonged to Admiral George Bowen but it subsequently passed to the Honyman baronets after Admiral Bowen's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Essex Bowen, married the Scottish baronet Sir Ord John Honyman.
From him are descended the Carew baronets of Antony and of Haccombe, the Earl of Totnes and Baron Carew Baron Carew is a title that has been created three times. The first creation was in the Peerage of England in 1605. The first recipient, Sir George Carew (1555–1629), was later made Earl of Totnes in 1626. Both titles became extinct on his death as he left no heirs.
Cameron was created baronet Cameron of Balclutha, Renfrew, on 7 August 1893 for his journalistic and parliamentary services.Leigh Rayment Baronets He was subsequently elected as MP for Glasgow Bridgeton at a by-election in February 1897, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election. He was appointed CB in the 1899 New Year Honours. Cameron was an active member of the House of Commons.
A manor house known as Quy Hall had stood on the site since the late 15th century. In the 17th century the hall was occupied by the Whichcote baronets, the 3rd Baronet of whom sold it c.1720 to James Martin, a London banker. In 1854 the Martins sold it on to Clement Francis, a Cambridge solicitor, who carried out the substantial rebuilding to designs by William White.
The Barons Bicester are related to the Barons Carrington. The first Baron Bicester's great-grandfather, John Smith MP (1767–1842), was the youngest brother of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington. Also, John Smith's father, Abel Smith MP (1717–1788), had two elder brothers: George Smith (1714/15–1769), created a baronet in 1757 (see Bromley baronets), and John Smith (born 1716), the great-grandfather of Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote.
Graham Oxenden (1802 - 8 December 1826) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge University who was active in the 1820s. He is recorded in one match, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0. Oxenden was born at Broome Park, Kent, the family seat of the Oxenden baronets. His father was Sir Henry Oxenden, 7th Baronet; one of his brothers, Charles Oxenden, was also a cricketer.
In 1874 the tenth Lord's third son the Hon. Joseph married Mary Monica, daughter of J. Robert Hope Scott by his wife Charlotte Lockhart, granddaughter and heiress of Sir Walter Scott, the great author (see Scott baronets). Joseph's eldest son was created a baronet in his own right in 1932 (see below). Joseph's third son Malcolm Joseph Raphael Constable Maxwell-Scott was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Arms of the Corbet baronets of Moreton Corbet, based on the arms of the medieval Corbets.Sir Bernard Burke, The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, p.228, Harrison, London, 1884, accessed 29 November 2013 at Internet Archive The raven was used by most branches of the Corbet family, whose name means "little crow."Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, A.D. Mills, Adrian Room, The Oxford Names Companion, OUP, 2002, p.
The Jones Baronetcy, of Ramsbury in the County of Wiltshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 May 1774 for William Jones. The title became extinct on his death in 1791. The Jones, later Jones-Brydges Baronetcy, of Boultibrook in the County of Hereford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 9 October 1807. For more information on this creation, see Jones-Brydges baronets.
In 1685, he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord MacLeod and Castlehaven and Viscount of Tarbat. In 1703 he was further honoured when he was made Lord MacLeod and Castlehaven, Viscount of Tarbat and Earl of Cromarty. In 1704, Lord Cromartie resigned his baronetcy in favour of his second son the Hon. Kenneth Mackenzie (died 1728), who was created a baronet, of Cromarty and Grandvale (see Mackenzie baronets).
On 2 October 1827 Thomas married Gratiana, the third daughter of Lieutenant-General Robert Williams, Colonel- Commandant of the Royal Marines at Stonehouse, and had a son and daughter. His brother, Charles Thomas, M.D., was Physician to the Dispensary at Devonport. On 13 November 1850 his daughter Gratiana Mary Thomas (1831–1922) married Sir Mathew Wharton Wilson (1827–1909), son of Sir Mathew Wilson, 1st Baronet, one of the Wilson baronets.
Sir Matthew Wood (29 September 1857 - 13 July 1908) was an English first-class cricketer. Wood was a right-handed batsman who was an underarm slow bowler, though with which arm he bowled with is unknown. The son of Sir Francis Wood the 3rd Baronet of the Page Wood baronets, and Louisa Mary Hodgson, Wood was born at Newport on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester College.
The ninth and twelfth Baronets were both judges. Four other members of the family should be mentioned. Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897–1972), son of Reverend Charles Harington, second son of the eleventh Baronet, was Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of London and Director of the National Institute for Medical Research. John Harington (1873–1943), fifth son of the eleventh Baronet, was a Brigadier-General in the British Army.
Arms of Davie of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, Devon: Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets pierced gules. Quartered with arms of Davie of Crediton: Azure, three cinquefoils or on a chief of the last a lion passant gulesDebrett's Peerage, 1968, Baronets, p.232; Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.
The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers. The third, fourth and fifth Baronets all represented Leicestershire in the House of Commons. The fifth Baronet served as High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1782 and the eighth Baronet as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1871. The family seat for 500 years was East Carlton Hall, Northamptonshire until 1933 since when it has been Carlton Curlieu Hall, Leicestershire.
The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. The Anne of Exeter volume, Volume 2. Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994 Their daughter Mary Basil married Sir Samuel Hayes, 1st Baronet, and through this marriage it became the home of the Hayes baronets, of Drumboe Castle, from 1789 to 1912.
He was the son of Sir William Wrottesley, and lord of Wrottesley in Staffordshire. He participated in King Edward III's expedition to the Low Countries in 1338-1339. Sir Hugh's descendants by the second wife Isabel and son John became peers Baronets and Barons Wrottesley after several generations. His armorials were described as follows by George Wrottesley, in his History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co.
Simon was third son of Marioria (daughter of Simon Poley) and John Slingsby, son and heir of John Slingsby of Scriven, chief forester of Knaresborough, and Joan, daughter of Walter Calverley, of Calverley in Yorkshire.Slingsby, of Scriven. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets Now Existing ..., Vol. 3. By Edward Kimber and Richard A. Johnson, publ. G. Woodfall, 1771; page 355.
Sir Robert Eyles Egerton (1827–1912), youngest son of William Egerton, third son of Philip Egerton, father of the eighth and ninth Baronets, was Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. His son Sir Raleigh Gilbert Egerton (1860–1931) was a Lieutenant- General in the British Army. Rowland Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891) was a landowner from in Cheshire; he was the eldest son of Rev. Rowland Egerton BA and his wife, Emma.
In the 20th century Menabilly passed into the ownership of the Rashleigh baronets, descended from John Rashleigh (1742–1803) of Penquite, Cornwall, the fourth son of Jonathan III Rashleigh (1690–1764) of Menabilly. The owner in 2013 was Sir Richard Harry Rashleigh, 6th Baronet (born 1958), who in 1996 married Emma Felicity Clare McGougan (1961–2013), by whom he has two children, formerly a secretarial assistant to prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
The house was built as the country seat of the Le Fleming baronets, and was sold with its gardens to the Diocese of Carlisle in 1970. The estate remained in the ownership of the Le Fleming family as of 1997. The house plays host to retreats, conferences and courses, and holiday accommodation. There is also the Old School Room Tea Shop, located on the "Coffin Route" footpath, which leads to Grasmere.
The Fleming, later le Fleming Baronetcy, of Rydal, in the County of Cumberland was created in the Baronetage of England on 4 October 1705. For more information on this creation, see le Fleming baronets. The Fleming Baronetcy, of Brompton Park in the County of Middlesex, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 22 April 1763 for John Fleming. The title became extinct on his death later the same year.
The second and third Baronets respectively represented, Rochester and Kent. The fourth Baronet rebuilt Bradbourne House in the early 18th century. His brother the sixth Baronet also represented Kent. On the death of the sixth Baronet his next elder brother William was excluded from the succession in favour of his younger brother John Papillon Twisden who claimed to be the seventh Baronet and was succeeded by his son as eighth Baronet.
However, they had no children and Maria was succeeded by her first cousin once removed Sir William Forbes, 8th Baronet, of Craigievar, who became the seventeenth Lord Sempill (see Forbes baronets of Craigievar for earlier history of this title). He was the grandson of the Hon. Sarah Sempill, eldest daughter of the thirteenth Lord Sempill. In 1885 he assumed by Royal licence the additional and principal surname of Sempill.
Three of his six sons, the third, fourth and fifth Baronets, all succeeded in the title. The latter was succeeded by his son, the sixth Baronet. He was childless and on his death in 1981 at the age of 99, the title became extinct. The Dundas Baronetcy, of Arniston in the County of Midlothian, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1898 for Robert Dundas.
In 1066 the township was owned by Ailric. It was razed in 1069 in the Harrying of the North following the Norman Conquest; the Domesday Book described the settlement in 1086 as "waste". Sir Gyles Penyston (fl. 13th century), whose family seat was in Cornwall (perhaps at Truro) before his time, and who is an ancestor of the Penyston Baronets, was styled of Penyston, denoting that he resided in Penistone.
Aston was the son of Richard Aston, Esq., of Wadley House at Littleworth in Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), grandson of Sir Willoughby Aston, Bart., and great-grandson of Sir Thomas Aston, the first of the Aston baronets. The Astons derived their name from Aston in Cheshire, where the family had been settled since the time of Henry II. His mother, Elizabeth, was a daughter of John Warren, Esq.
They were both killed on 12 August 1915 during an abortive advance. The seventh Baronet was a missionary in China and one of the Cambridge Seven. Two other members of the family may also be mentioned. Edward Beauchamp, second son of Reverend William Henry Beauchamp, second son of the third Baronet, was a Liberal politician and was created a Baronet in his own right in 1911 (see Beauchamp baronets).
The second Baronet was Receiver-General of Excise and High Sheriff of Yorkshire. The third and fifth Baronets both represented York in the House of Commons, while the fourth served as High Sheriff. The seventh Baronet succeeded his brother who died young: he was Member of Parliament for York and Bassetlaw and joined the Privy Council in 1900. The eighth baronet was an architect with Milner and Craze.
In 1810 he married Isabella Calvert, daughter of Nicolson Calvert, of Hunsdon House, Hertfordshire, and had four sons, including the third and fourth baronets. #Sir James Matthew Stronge, 3rd Baronet, DL, JP (25 November 1811 – 11 March 1885), was a military officer and landowner, eldest son of the second baronet. He was succeeded by his brother. #Sir John Calvert Stronge, 4th Baronet DL JP, BL (21 February 1813 – 29 December 1899).
He was the younger brother of the above. His son, the second Baronet was Lord Mayor of London 1953-1954. Frederick Bowater (1856–1924), fourth son of William Vansittart Bowater and brother of the above Baronets was created a KBE (knight) in 1920. His son, Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater (1895–1962), was Director-General of the Ministry of Aircraft Production between 1940 and 1943 and was knighted in 1944.
Lissadell House, the former home of the Gore-Booth baronets. The fate of the Big House still remains undecided today as new challenges are faced in order or preserve them. Terence Dooley's work on fifty such houses outlines the different categories of 'big' houses, their modern functions, and statuses of ownership whether private or public. The work speaks of the desire to preserve and the feasibility of such practices.
The Charlton Arms The Charlton Arms is a historic public house, situated by Ludford Bridge, now also a restaurant and hotel.The Charlton Arms It was formerly called the Red LionWhatpub.com (CAMRA) Charlton Arms, Ludlow but is now named for the Charlton baronets, whose seat was Ludford House, of which the first baronet was speaker of the House of Commons. The building was significantly extended in the late 2000s.
Loyd-Lindsay was born in 1832, the second son of Lieutenant General Sir James Lindsay, 1st Baronet and Anne, daughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st Baronet. His elder brother Coutts Lindsay succeeded his maternal grandfather as second Baronet in 1837 (see Lindsay Baronets). In 1858, he married The Honorable Harriet Sarah Jones-Loyd, the only surviving child and heiress of Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st and last Baron Overstone,thepeerage.com Lt.-Col.
Baronetcies are hereditary titles granted by the Crown, but are not part of the peerage. Baronets are styled "Sir" with the suffix "Bt." or "Bart." after their surname. Baronetcies can no longer be purchased, and existing ones cannot be bought or sold. Persons who have been enrolled in an order of chivalry or dubbed are knights or dames, and are thus entitled to the prefix of "Sir" or "Dame".
The second baronet to live here was Charles Thomas Hudson Palmer who took the name of Palmer. The hall continued in the ownership of the Palmer baronets. Unlike many neighbouring manors, the Palmer family resisted the trend to sell of land to other families. The few families that did live at Wanlip eventually moved away leaving the Palmer family as the sole owners and occupiers of 900 acres of land.
Gibson-Craig was born on 12 March 1799 as the second son of Sir James Gibson- Craig (1765–1850), 1st Baronet of the Gibson-Craig baronets, and his wife Anne (d. 1837), née Thomson. James Gibson-Craig was a Clerk of the Signet and had married Anne in 1796. He double-barrelled his name with "Craig" on royal license in 1823, and was created a baronet in 1831.
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet (1623–1666) was an English lawyer, and one of the Bacon baronets. On 18 June 1639, he was admitted to Gray's Inn. On 7 February 1662, he was created 1st Baronet Bacon, of Gillingham in Norfolk, England.thepeerage.com His father, Nicholas Bacon of Gillingham, was the fifth son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave; his mother was Nicholas Bacon's second wife, Margaret D'Arcy.
Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet (c. 16861 September 1735), of Boynton, Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Whig politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1735. He was a Government Minister in Sir Robert Walpole's administration. Boynton Hall - seat of the Strickland baronets Strickland was the eldest son of Sir William Strickland of Boynton, a Yorkshire landowner and Member of Parliament, and his wife Elizabeth Palmes.
He had earlier represented Pontefract in the House of Commons. When he died the titles passed to his nephew, the tenth Baron, and then to the latter's brother, the eleventh Baron. On the eleventh Baron's death in 1913 the barony and baronetcy separated. The baronetcy was passed on to Sir Henry William Stafford Jerningham, 11th Baronet (on whose death in 1935 the title became extinct; see Jerningham Baronets).
Price was born in Ruscombe in Berkshire, the son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price (1875–1949) CMG DSOThe Times, 25 October 1949, p. 1 (who was a great-grandson of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet and, through his mother, a descendant of the Baillie baronets of Polkemmet, near Whitburn, West Lothian)Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p.
The Dillon Baronetcy of Lismullen, in County Meath was created in Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1801. It became extinct with the death of the 8th Baronet in 1982. The baronets also held the title of Baron Dillon, of the Holy Roman Empire, which was granted by Imperial Letters Patent of the Emperor Joseph II dated 4 July 1783. The ancestral motto is Whilst I breathe I hope.
Bartholomew Esmonde was born 12 December 1789, the second son of Dr. John Esmonde and Helen (née O'Callan) of Sallins, Co. Kildare. Bartholomews father John Esmonde (of the Esmonde baronets family, of Ballynastragh, Co. Wexford) was executed by hanging, following his role in the United Irishmen, 1798 Rebellion in Prosperous, Co. Kildare.Dr. John Esmonde Dictionary of Irish Biography Bartholomews older brother was the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Esmonde MP for Wexford.
In 1873 he was created Baron Waveney, of South Elmham in the County of Suffolk, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The barony became extinct on his death in 1886 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, Hugh Adair, the third Baronet. The latter had earlier represented Ipswich in Parliament. Two of his sons, the fourth and fifth Baronets, both succeeded in the title.
The Domville Baronetcy, of St Alban's in the County of Hertford, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 July 1814 for William Domville, Lord Mayor of London from 1813 to 1814. He was a descendant of William Domville, elder brother of Gilbert Domvile, ancestor of the Domvile baronets of Tempoleogue. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1981.
They divorced without issue five years later. On 10 July 1945 he married Pamela Mary, daughter of James Edgar Gordon and by her had a son and two daughters. On 4 January 1924 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy (see Lawrence Baronets). Lawrence was a Major in the East Surrey Regiment during the Second World War and was Senior Executive of Wilmot Breeden Ltd, an automotive parts production company.
Lord Yarborough married Henrietta Anne Maria Charlotte Bridgeman (d. 1813), daughter of the Hon. John Simpson and Henrietta Francis, daughter of Sir Thomas Worsley, 6th Baronet, of Appuldurcombe (a title which became extinct in 1825; see Worsley baronets). Through this marriage Appuldurcombe House on the Isle of Wight, which had previously been in the Worsley family, came into the Anderson-Pelham family (however, it was sold already in 1855).
In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Suffolk in the Short Parliament and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He is not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge in 1648. Barnardiston married Jane Soame, daughter of Sir Stephen Soame, Lord Mayor of London, and died at the age of 65. Their sons, Sir Thomas (died 1669) and Sir Samuel (1620-1707), both became MPs and baronets.
George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 The first three Baronets also served as High Sheriffs of Cheshire.A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland 2nd Ed (1844) John and John Bernard Burke p157. Google Books The Baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet. His daughter and heiress Elizabeth Delves married Sir Brian Broughton Bt in 1710.
Cheeks began singing in the second grade, quitting school to pick cotton and work service stations.The Golden Age of Gospel, Horace Clarence Boyer He joined a local gospel group dubbed the Baronets and in 1946 he was spotted by the Rev. B.L. Parks, a former Dixie Hummingbird and tapped to join a group called the Nightingales. At the height of their popularity they cut several sides for Decca Records.
Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gulesDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.877, Wrey Baronets Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet (1653–1696) of Tawstock Court in North Devon, was a Member of Parliament and a noted duellist. He commanded a regiment of horse after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, serving under James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.
The ancestral seat of the Maclean baronets of Morvaren is Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull. The Maclean Baronetcy, of Strachur and Glensluain in the County of Argyll, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 July 1957 for the diplomat, soldier, writer and Conservative politician Fitzroy Maclean. As of 2010 the title is held by his son, the second Baronet, who succeeded in 1996.
Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone; 29 April 1868 – 11 September 1947) was a British society hostess and a long-time mistress and confidante of King Edward VII. Keppel grew up at Duntreath Castle, the family seat of the Edmonstone baronets in Scotland. She was the youngest child of Mary Elizabeth, née Parsons and Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet. In 1891, she married The Honourable George Keppel and they had two daughters.
Robert's elder brother Sir Henry Echlin had a successful career as a barrister and judge, ending with a term as second Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), he was created the first of the Echlin baronets in 1721, and became a substantial landowner, with his principal seat at Clonagh Castle in County Kildare. The third brother John also prospered: he was the father of Charles Echlin MP.
His brother Archibald (b. 22 Apr 1736; d.8 May 1797) became 7th Earl of Kellie, but he died unmarried with no heir. The title went to the 7th Earl's third cousin once removed, Charles Erskine, 8th Earl Kellie, whose father, also named Charles Erskine (1730-1790), was 6th Baronet of Cambo (one of the Erskine Baronets) and the son of David Erskine, Lyon-Clerk who died 7 Oct 1769.
This was no guarantee of loyalty to the king when conflict came: a considerable part of the Shropshire landed gentry, including baronets and close relatives of Wolryche, was on the other side. His sister Elizabeth and her husband John Puleston were committed Presbyterians and she was forced to flee their Flintshire home. The influence of the militantly royalist Francis Ottley, whose sister, Ursula, Wolryche had married in 1625,Horton, p.
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Nicholson, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. See also Nicolson baronets. The Nicholson Baronetcy, of Luddenham in New South Wales, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 April 1859 for Charles Nicholson, the first Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Council. His eldest son, the second Baronet, became a well-known ecclesiastical architect.
This work culminated with a US patent in 1883 and a product that was originally called "Diastoid," but was later trademarked as "malted milk" in 1887. The company continued to expand, with new branches opening in New York City in 1889, and in England after James returned there in 1890. James Horlick was knighted in 1914, and raised to the baronetcy of Cowley Manor. Leigh Rayment, Horlick baronets.
The main school building viewed from the back grounds.Upon enrolment at the school, the pupils are assigned to a house: Dundas, Hopetoun or Rosebery. The houses are named after three noble families in and around Queensferry: the Earls of Rosebery, seated at Dalmeny House; the Earls of Hopetoun, seated at Hopetoun House; and the Stewart-Clark baronets, seated at Dundas Castle. A school uniform was reintroduced in 2005.
Sir John Glynne, ancestor of the Glynne baronets The Glynne Baronetcy, of Bicester in the County of Oxford, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 May 1661 for William Glynne, the former Member of Parliament for Carnarvon. He was the son of Sir John Glynne, Lord Chief Justice during the Commonwealth. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Oxford University and Woodstock.
Sir John, or Dame Joan. Wives of knights and baronets are styled Lady Smith, although customarily no courtesy title is automatically reciprocated to male consorts. Recipients of orders, decorations and medals receive no styling of Sir or Dame, but they may attach the according postnominal letters to their name, e.g., John Smith, VC. Recipients of gallantry awards may be referred to in Parliament as "gallant", in addition to "honourable", "noble", etc.
Sir Hugh, like his predecessor, had no sons, so the baronetcy was created with a special remainder allowing the male heirs of his two daughters to succeed. On 14 February 1815 his elder daughter Catherine Juliana married Edward Scott (later Sir Edward, 2nd Baronet, of Great Barr; see Scott baronets of Great Barr), and on 3 August the same year his younger daughter Amelia Anne married Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Baronet, of St Audries (see Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets of St Audries). On Sir Hugh Bateman's death on 28 January 1824 his title passed to his elder daughter's unborn child, born on 25 February the same year with the name Francis Edward Scott, while Hartington Hall passed to his nephew Richard Thomas Bateman, whose descendants occupied the property until the twentieth century. On 27 December 1851 Sir Francis Scott also succeeded his father in the Scott Baronetcy of Great Barr, as third Baronet.
Coat of arms of the Baird Baronets, Baird grave, Grange Cemetery Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet There have been five baronetcies created for persons with the surname Baird, three in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Three of the creations are extant as of 2010. The Baird Baronets of Newbyth (created in 1660, 1680 and 1809) and of Sauchtonhall (created in 1695) are all descended from Andrew Baird who acquired lands at Auchmedden, Aberdeenshire, in 1539. The main line, Baird of Auchmedden expired on the death in 1777 of Sir William Baird whose Auchmedden estate was forfeit and sold following his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The Baird Baronetcy, of Newbyth in the County of Haddington, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1660 for John Baird, son of James Baird, a younger son of the Baird family of Auchmedden.
Marquess of Linlithgow, in the County of Linlithgow or West Lothian, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 October 1902 for John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun. The current holder of the title is Adrian Hope. This branch of the Hope family descends from Sir Charles Hope, grandson of Sir James Hope, sixth son of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet, of Craighall (see Hope baronets).
He had several society positions including magistrate, Patent searcher at Port Carlisle and Receiver General of Government Taxes for Cumberland and Westmorland. Brownrigg died in 1800 and was buried at Crosthwaite church where his coffin was carried by three baronets and other local gentry. His friend and biographer Joshua Dixon felt that his importance and abilities had been overlooked due to his modesty and reluctance to leave his home county of Cumberland in later life.
The Hall Stockerston Hall is a late-18th-century English country house in Leicestershire, near the town of Uppingham, Rutland. It is a Grade II listed building. The Manor of Stockerston was owned by the Boyville family in the 15th century and passed by marriage to Sothill and then to Drury. It was sold by Henry Drury in 1580 to John Burton of Braunston, whose son was the first of the Burton baronets of Stockerston.
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records, Burkes Peerage, page 691 (London) As to the final form of the house it is recorded the second Fletcher heir, among the title back-named since the 4th generation Aubrey-Fletcher baronets, "pulled down a great deal of the house at Ashley Park".George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume V, page 219.
Sir John Montague Brocklebank (3 September 1915 – 13 September 1974) was the 5th baronet of the Brocklebank baronets, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, edited by Charles Mosley, Wilmington, Delaware, 2003, vol I, p. 514., . the chairman of the shipping company Cunard, and a first-class cricketer for Cambridge University, Lancashire, Bengal and various amateur sides before and after the Second World War. Brocklebank was born in Hoylake, Cheshire and died in Malta.
Sir Francis was a distant relative of the Blake baronets of Menlough. The first Baronet's grandson, the third Baronet, sat as Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. The title became extinct on the latter's death in 1860. The Blake Baronetcy, of Tillmouth Park in Cornhill in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 July 1907 for Francis Blake, subsequently Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Pointz married firstly Frances Gibbons (died 1638), daughter of Gervase Gibbons of Kent and his wife Grissell Roberts (who was to become Robert's own stepmother), and secondly Cicely Smith of Acton. He had two daughters, Margaret (died 1685) and Grissell (born 1608), by his first wife, and one son John by his second. Margaret married Sir Richard Hastings, first and last of the Hastings baronets. After Sir Richard's death she remarried Samuel Gorges.
John Prideaux (1718–1759) was a brigadier-general in the British Army. He was born 1718 in Devon, England the second son of Sir John Prideaux, 6th Baronet, of Netherton Hall, near Honiton (see Prideaux Baronets). On 17 July 1739 he was appointed ensign of the 3rd Foot-Guards; he was adjutant of his battalion at the Battle of Dettingen (27 July 1743) and become lieutenant colonel of his regiment on 24 February 1748.
Booth married firstly Mary Potts of Chalgrove, who died in 1660 along with their infant son. He remarried Susanna Oxenden of Deane in Kent, who died in 1669; they had four daughters.Burke's Peerage, 107th Edition His principal residence was at Oxmantown, now near Dublin city centre; Belvedere, his house at Drumcondra, Dublin, is now St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. The Gore-Booth baronets of Lissadell are related to but not direct descendants of the judge.
Constance was the sister of the politician Richard Lucy (as well as ten other siblings), and the widow of Sir William Spencer, 2nd Baronet of the Spencer Baronets, by whom she was the mother of Sir Thomas Spencer, 3rd Baronet. She and Edward had two sons. Detail of the tomb of Alice Lucy, Sir Edward Smith's mother-in-law, in St. Leonard's Church, Charlecote. Her husband Sir Thomas Lucy is buried in the same tomb.
She predeceased him, in 1886, having borne several children, one of whom — George Thomas Halliday — was later a Lieutenant-General in the Bengal Cavalry. He died, aged 95, on 22 October 1901 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. His younger brother was General John Gustavus Halliday (1822–1917), and his grandson, Hastings Hadley D'Oyly (whom Clare Anderson thinks was probably named after Warren Hastings) was a member of the family of D'Oyly baronets.
The office of Sheriff of Wigtown was hereditary in the Agnew family for more than 400 years, until 1747, when the 5th Baronet was compensated £4,000 for the abolition of the office. The first three baronets successively sat for the same county in Parliament, with the 3rd Baronet also being a member of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland, summoned by William III in 1689. Agnew attended Harrow School between 1831 and 1834.
The public house, the Tiger Inn, was previously a building of the same name at the opposite end of the village. A railway station on the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway opened in 1883 as Easington. Its name was changed to Grinkle after the local house and seat of the Palmer Baronets of Grinkle Park in 1904. The renaming avoided confusion with the station at Easington, County Durham also on the North Eastern Railway.
The seat of Hope baronets of Craighall was moved from Craighall Castle in Fife to Pinkie House in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. Originally built in the 16th century, Pinkie House was acquired by Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet of Craighall, in 1778, until sold in 1951. Hopetoun House is the seat of the junior branch of the Clan Hope who were Earls of Hopetoun and since 1902 have been Marquesses of Linlithgow.
David Dale, ancestor of the Dale baronets The Dale Baronetcy, of West Lodge in the parish of Holy Trinity, Darlington, in the County of Durham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 July 1895 for the industrialist David Dale. He was the grandson of the Scottish merchant and businessman David Dale. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1932.
Sezincote House, the seat of the Rushout Baronets of Sezincote There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Rushout, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. The Rushout Baronetcy, of Milnst in the County of Essex, was created in the Baronetage of England on 17 June 1661. The fifth Baronet was elevated to the peerage as Baron Northwick in 1797.
The Premier Baronet (of England) is the unofficial title afforded to the current holder of the oldest extant baronetcy in the realm. The Premier Baronet is regarded as the senior member of the Baronetage, and ranks above other baronets (unless they hold a peerage title) in the United Kingdom Order of Precedence. Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet, is the current Premier Baronet; his family's senior title was created by King James I in 1611.
The Johnson-Walsh Baronetcy, of Ballykilcavan, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 24 February 1775 for John Allen Johnson, who changed his name by royal licence in 1809 to John Allen Johnson-Walsh. He was the elder brother of Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet, of Bath (see Johnson Baronets). He was M.P. for Baltinglass from 1784 to 1790, and High Sheriff of Queen's County for 1792.
Increasingly ill during his last years from cancer, that it was believed had been brought on by a fall against a slide of one of the carronades aboard the Terrible, Paulet died on 28 January 1832 at his seat of Westhill Lodge, Tichfield, Hampshire. He was buried in the family vault at Amport on 3 February. His eldest son Henry Charles Paulet was created a Baronet in his honour in 1836 (see Paulet Baronets).
William Wolryche- Whitmore's epitaph in St. Andrew's church, Quatt William Wolryche-Whitmore (1787–1858) was an important reforming politician. He was the son of William Whitmore, who inherited Dudmaston from a distant cousin, the last of the Wolryche Baronets, and Frances Lister. In 1810 he married Lady Lucy Bridgeman, daughter of the Earl of Bradford. The young couple set out on a Grand Tour, which included a visit to Napoleon Bonaparte, exiled on Elba.
He was the eldest surviving son of Reverend the Honourable Thomas Howe, younger son of the first Baron. He never married and the title became extinct on his death in 1804. The first Baron was the son of John Grobham Howe, Paymaster of the Forces, son of John Grobham Howe, younger son of Sir George Grobham Howe, 1st Baronet (see Howe Baronets). Emanuel Scrope Howe and Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe, were his uncles.
The third, fifth and sixth Baronets all sat as Member of Parliament for Northumberland. The sixth Baronet assumed in 1799 by Royal sign-manual the surname of Monck in lieu of his patronymic, according to the will of his maternal grandfather Lawrence Monck. The seventh Baronet, who represented Durham in Parliament, resumed the use of the surname of Middleton. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1999.
Hambro married his first wife, Rose Evelyn, the daughter of Sir Richard Cotterell of the Cotterell baronets, in 1954. They had a daughter Clare Evelyn (married to Eivind Rabben) and two sons, Charles Edward (divorced from Nicole Nicholas) and Alexander Robert (married to Hattie Ward Jones). They were divorced in 1976. In the same year he married his second wife, Cherry Huggins, daughter of Sir John Huggins, a former Governor of Jamaica.
Orielton in 1818 The first known house at Orielton was a fortified manor built by the Wyriott family in about 1200, which was mentioned by the historian Giraldus Cambrensis ( ). Orielton was the seat of the Owen baronets. The first Owen at Orielton was Sir Hugh Owen, the son of Owen ap Hugh (1518–1613), of Bodeon, near Llangadwaladr, Anglesey. Sir Hugh married Elizabeth Wirriot, who had inherited Orielton from her father George Wirriot.
In the early 1790s he had No. 22 St. Stephen's Green North built as his Dublin residence. This house is now The Cliff Townhouse, an upmarket boutique hotel, bar and restaurant. He sat as a Member of the Irish Parliament for Tuam from 1790 to 1797 and Carlingford from 1798 to 1800. His partner in the banking firm of Lighton, Needham & Shaw, Robert Shaw, was created a Baronet in 1821 (see Shaw baronets).
Baron Glentanar, of Glen Tanar in the County of Aberdeen, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 June 1916 for George Coats. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 1971. The first Baron was the younger brother of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet, and a first cousin of Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet (see Coats baronets).
It is accepted by historians that "Henry Every" was the pirate's real name, given that he used this name when he entered the Royal Navy. As this was prior to the onset of his piratical career, he would have had no need for an alias; he used the name "Bridgeman" only after committing piracy. Every may have been a cousin of the well-known Every baronets, though this has not been proven conclusively.
Sir Charles William Strickland, 8th Baronet (6 February 1819 – 31 December 1909) was an English barrister and a rower who was in the winning crew in the first Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. He was President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Boynton Hall - seat of the Strickland baronets Strickland was born and died at Hildenley Hall, near Malton, Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet, of Boynton.
His two eldest sons succeeded as second and third Baron, in 1928 and 1952; the fourth Baron succeeded his father in 1982. In 1984 Lord Carnock was recognised as thirteenth Baronet of that Ilk and of Lasswade and as Chief of Clan Nicolson by the Lord Lyon with the undifferenced arms of Nicolson. He was separately recognised in this title by the Registrar of the Baronetage. For earlier history of this title, see Nicolson Baronets.
Talbot married Grace Calvert, the daughter of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, a leading English Catholic and founder of the Maryland Colony. Grace was one of his thirteen children by his wife Anne Mynne or Mayne, daughter of George Mynne and Elizabeth Wroth. They had a son and two daughters, Frances and Mary. In 1670 he was succeeded by his son Sir William Talbot, 3rd Baronet, the last of the Carton baronets.
Juniper Green is first recorded in 1707, when only Baberton House and Woodhall House were the only buildings in the area.Edinburgh past and present retrieved 24 March 2013 The owner at that time was a William Foulis of the Foulis baronets who inherited Woodhall House from Sir John Foulis.Woodhall House 1707-1859 from JuniperGreencc.org.uk accessed 24 March 2013 Eventually, it passed to Sir James Foulis who owned Woodhall from 1796 to his death in 1842.
Captain Benjamin Chapman (born 1621) was the patriarch of the Chapman baronets of Killua Castle. Chapman was a Cornet in the regiment of cavalry raised by Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. He was later promoted to Captain, and served in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. After the conquest, Oliver Cromwell granted Chapman an estate in the county of Westmeath, at Killua (also known as St. Lucy's), a former preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers.
Masham was created baronet on 20 December 1621.Leigh Rayment - Baronets He was elected Member of Parliament for Maldon in 1624, 1625 and 1626 and for Colchester in place of Edward Alford in 1628 after a petition. In April 1640, Masham was elected MP for Colchester in the Short Parliament and then for Essex in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Essex in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament.
Arms of the Rawlinson baronets The Rawlinson Baronetcy, of North Walsham in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 7 February 1891 for the orientalist, archaeologist and politician Henry Rawlinson. His son, the second Baronet, was a distinguished soldier. On 6 October 1919 he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Rawlinson, of Trent in the County of Dorset.
Of those who reached adulthood, the eldest son, also Richard, predeceased his father. A younger son, Michael, was Archbishop of Cashel from 1754 to 1779, and built a magnificent mansion, Castletown Cox, which still exists. The eldest daughter Amy married Sir William Mansel, the seventh of the Mansel baronets in 1700, and had five children, including Sir Richard Mansel, 8th Baronet. Her sister Mary married Arthur Riggs in 1701; after his death she remarried Rev.
Mordaunt became the 12th Baronet of the Mordaunt Baronets in 1934 following the death of his cousin Sir Osbert Mordaunt, 11th Baronet. Mordaunt's father John Mordaunt, brothers Eustace and Gerald and cousin Sir Osbert all played first-class cricket. His uncle, Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, was involved in a sensational divorce case of 1870 that concerned, among other things, a possible relationship between his wife Harriet and the Prince of Wales.
Bosville Macdonald baronets of Thorpe Hall, RudstonMontague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.519 Colonel Godfrey Bosvile IIBosville Macdonald, Alice, p.61 (1596-1658) (or BosvilleStandardised spelling adopted by the family's biographer, Lady Macdonald of the Isles) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He fought on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.
The full-sized bend sinister was seldom used in this way, and more recent examples also exist of bends sinister that have no connection with illegitimacy, such as in the arms of the Burne-Jones baronets. These markings were never subject to strict rules, and the customary English use of the bend, bendlet, and baton sinister to denote illegitimacy in this way eventually gave way to the use of different kinds of bordures.
He married firstly Delia, daughter of John Wilmer Field, in 1836. Their eldest son, Charles Wilmer Duncombe, was a Major- General in the Army; their second son Arthur Duncombe was also a politician; while their fourth and youngest son George Augustus Duncombe was created a baronet in 1919 (see Duncombe baronets). After Delia's death in 1873 he married secondly Jane Maria, daughter of Sir James Walker, 1st Baronet. Duncombe's second wife died in August 1917.
Lord Cromartie had no sons and on his death in 1893 the titles fell into abeyance between his two surviving daughters, Lady Sibell Lilian and Lady Constance. The abeyance was terminated in 1895 in favour of the elder daughter, Sibell Lilian, who became the third Countess. In 1899, she married Edward Walter Blunt (1869–1949), son of Major- General Charles Harris Blunt, great-grandson of Sir Henry Blunt, 2nd Baronet (see Blunt baronets).
3, pg. 933 He was married to Margaret, daughter of Jasper Pheasant, and had five sons and six daughters. One of his daughters, Anne, married Thomas Colepeper, MP."History of Parliament: Thomas Colepeper" His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Lennard, MP"History of Parliament: Samuel Lennard" and was the mother of the first of the Lennard baronets. Another daughter, Mary, married Richard Bradgate and then married a later Lord Mayor of London, Humphrey Weld.
Horsley Hall is a 17th-century country house, now in use as a hotel, near Stanhope, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The manor house at Horsley was built in the 17th century but much enlarged during the 18th century. In 1808 the estate was purchased by the Reverend Henry Hildyard of Stokesley, a member of a junior branch of the Hildyards of Patrington, Yorkshire (see Hildyard Baronets).
Amanda Elwes and her twin sister Lydia were born to Timothy Cyprian George Thomas Elwes, of East End Farm, Seale, Surrey, and his first wife Lorna, daughter of Captain Ian Archibald de Hoghton Lyle, Black Watch, of the family of the Lyle baronets of Glendelvine. Actor Cary Elwes and his brother, producer Cassian Elwes, are her first cousins. In 1992, Elwes married music promoter Matthew Austin.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol.
Arms of Fowke baronets of Lowesby: Vert, a fleur-de-lys argentDebrett's Peerage, 1967, p.315 The Fowke Baronetcy, of Lowesby in the County of Leicester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 7 February 1814 for Frederick Gustavus Fowke of Lowesby Hall, Lowesby, near Leicester. He was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Fowke, Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Cumberland.
Arms of Burdett of Bramcote: Azure, two bars orDaniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, 'General history: Baronets', in Magna Britannia: Volume 5, Derbyshire (London, 1817), pp. lxiii-lxxv (arms of their ancestor Sir William Burdet (died pre-1309) of Lowesby in Leicestershire) Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet (3 August 1585 - ca. 1647) was an English Sheriff and baronet. Burdett was born on 3 August 1585, the son of Robert Burdett and Mary Wilson.
The manor of Brownsover was owned from 1471 by the Boughton family who were created Boughton Baronets in 1642. In 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton was allegedly murdered by his brother-in-law and the estate passed to his sister Theodosia, and thence to Sir Egerton Leigh, Bt, of the Leigh of West Hall family. Leigh's daughter and heiress, also Theodosia, married John Ward, who changed his name by Royal Licence to Ward-Boughton-Leigh.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Colquhoun ("Cohoon"), one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625) and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain (1786). The second baronetcy in 1786 was created to rectify confusion over the first. However, a third branch of the family, the Colquhouns of Tillyquhoun, also continued to assert themselves as baronets until their extinction in 1838. Robert Colquhoun was thus titled the 12th baronet.
These include the Earl Ferrers, the Dukedoms' of Rutland and Essex, as well as the Shiers, Throckmorton, Slingsby and Chester baronets. Over the centuries, the spelling of the Nightingale surname has changed and developed. It has appeared as Nightingirl, Nightingall, Nightengale, Nichtegale, and Nightyngale, with several variations often referring to the same individual. This was primarily due to the different effects of regional dialects on the pronunciation and spelling of names, at that time.
His financial affairs deteriorated; his father-in-law, Richard Cox stepped in and by the turn of the 19th century had mortgaged all his properties, his remaining manors of Orchardleigh and Frome Selwood, along with Nutt's River, foreclosing on the eventual bankruptcy. He died in Orchardleigh in 1821. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas, the second Baronet. He married Charlotte Margaret Mostyn, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (see Mostyn baronets).
It was purchased in 1544 by John Mill and his son John. The elder John died in 1551 and the younger John was succeeded by his son Lewknor. He died in November 1587, and his son Lewknor died in the following month, leaving John his brother and heir. John was created a baronet in 1619, and the manor descended with the Mill Baronets until the death of the last baronet in 1835.
He was also a keen naturalist. On his death in 1933 the St. Quintin name died out and the estate passed into the hands of the Lestrange Malone family, as his daughter Margery had married Lt. Col. Edmund George S. L'Estrange Malone in 1910. In 1959 Scampston passed to the Legard (or Le Gard) family (see Legard Baronets) as Colonel Malone's daughter Mary had married Sir Thomas Legard, 14th Baronet in 1935.
She was born Francesca Anne Dolores Freiin Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva in Lausanne, the daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza and his third wife, fashion model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, descendant of the Campbell baronets. She was educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at the age of eighteen attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London,Paco Barragán ([n.d.]). Interview with Francesca von Habsburg. ArtPulse Magazine.
He was succeeded in the barony and viscountcy of 1797 according to the special remainder by his third cousin once removed, Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Little Preston. He was the elder son of the aforementioned Reverend Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston, great-grandson of Sir William Lowther, brother of Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther (see Lowther Baronets for a more comprehensive history of this branch of the family).
William Williams, a relative of Anne Boleyn, was the owner in the 13th or 14th Centuries. In 1815, George Griffies-Williams was created a baronet, and Llwynywermod became the seat of the Griffies-Williams baronets, a line which came to an end in 1877. In November 2006, Llwynywermod was purchased by the Duchy of Cornwall as a residence for the Duke in Wales. The Duchy completed its purchase of the property in April 2007.
Sandhoe Hall, also once known as Sandhoe House, is a 19th-century country house situated at Sandhoe, Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building. The Sandhoe estate was owned by the Errington family of nearby Beaufront, but when Henry Errington died childless in 1819, it passed to his great- grandnephew Rowland Stanley of Puddington Hall, Cheshire, son of Sir Thomas Stanley Bt (see Errington baronets). Stanley changed his name to Errington.
The fifth and sixth Baronets both served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire, in 1750 and 1771 respectively. The eleventh Baronet died without male issue and the Baronetcy passed to his cousin. His estates however passed to his daughter Cicely (d. 1947) whose husband Thomas Lamplugh Wickham changed his name on marriage to Wickham-Boynton, and later (1989) to Cunliffe-Lister relations descended from Mary Constance Boynton, wife of the 1st Earl of Swinton.
His mother, Frances, was the daughter and coheir of James Whitehall of Pipe Ridware, a village close to Rugeley, Staffordshire. His father had not been a baronet or head of the family, and Edward's line of succession went back to Sir Edward Littleton, 2nd Baronet. The 3rd and 4th Baronets were cousins and both grandsons of the 2nd Baronet, who died in 1709. He had married twice and had at least 19 children.
Her mother, Olivia Fiona Robinson, descends via the O'Brien baronets from the Kings of Thomond. Brought up in the Christian faith and educated first at Notre Dame Primary School in Glasgow, before boarding in Dorset from the age of ten, she joined St Paul's Girls' School's sixth form. She then went to Clare College, Cambridge, to read Mathematics and Law, graduating as BA in 1982. Her first marriage, in 1983, ended in divorce.
Bannockburn House was built in the late 17th Century, with slight alterations added in the 19th Century. The house was most probably commissioned by Sir Hugh Paterson in 1675, whose son and grandson were made Baronets of that house. Hugh Paterson, the builder of the house, was a lawyer and a factor for the Earl of Moray. He had coal mines near Bannockburn, managed by William Rob, known as the "coal- grieve".
Heathcote was born on March 6, 1665 in his father's house in Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England. Caleb was the sixth son of nine children of the former Ann Chase Dickens and Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1690), Mayor of Chesterfield. He is related to the Heathcote baronets through two brothers: his eldest brother was Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet of London; another brother, Samuel, was the father of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet of Hursley.
This name eventually became Pakenham, (pronounced locally with a long "a" sound.) The Anglo-Saxon family name later became "de Pakenham". Pacca's descendants continued to farm here until the Norman Conquest of 1066. The village has contained several manor houses, such as Pakenham Hall the family seat of the Spring family, but has now been demolished. Nether Hall was the original home of the de Pakenham family, and later seat of the Greene baronets.
In 1907 the then patron of the church, Morgan Stuart Williams, order the reconstruction of the towe. A heating chamber was later added to the tower at this time but this was reconstructed in the late 20th century. The church has a long standing association with the Stradling baronets, whose home, St Donat's Castle, overlooks the church. Several monuments to the Stradlings from the 17th and 18th century are found within its walls.
Baron Keane, of Ghuznee in Afghanistan and of Cappoquin in the County of Waterford, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 December 1839 for the military commander John Keane.Burke's Peerage and Baronetage various editions He was the second son of Sir John Keane, 1st Baronet, of Cappoquin (see Keane Baronets for earlier history of the family). The third Baron was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army.
Sir John Salusbury was the grandfather of the John Salusbury who was Catrin of Berain's second son. In 1586 he married Ursula, illegitimate daughter of the 4th Earl of Derby and half-sister of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby. Lleweni Hall had over 200 rooms, according to Hester Piozzi, who spent part of her childhood on the estate. After the death of her uncle, the hall was the seat of the Cotton baronets.
Oddly enough, the McEwen Baronets may not have any actual link with the main Clan MacEwen at all. Another instance is the crest badge of Clan MacInnes. This crest badge is based upon a modern coat of arms of an armigerous clan member, not a clan chief. According to the English officers of arms John Martin Robinson and Thomas Woodcock, crests have played a relatively insignificant role in Scottish heraldry when compared to English heraldry.
St Nicholas Church In 1823 Ganton was a parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Dickering. The church of St Nicholas was under the patronage of the local Legard baronets. Population at the time was 278, which included the nearby settlement of Brompton. Occupations included three farmers, two carpenters, a gardener, a stone mason, a tailor, a licensed victualler & blacksmith, a druggist & gun maker, and a machine maker.
The title became extinct on Sir Robert's death in 1694. The Broke estates passed to his nephew Robert Broke, who was the grandfather of Philip Broke, who was created a baronet in 1813 (see below). The Broke, later Broke-Middleton Baronetcy, of Broke Hall in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 2 November 1813. For more information on this creation, see Broke-Middleton baronets.
Arms of Child Baronets (of the City of London): Vert, two bars engrailed between three lion's faces orBetham, The Baronetage of England, Vol. III, 1803, p.71 Sir John Child, 1st Baronet (died 1690) was a governor of Bombay, and de facto (although not officially) the first governor-general of the British settlements in India. Born in London, Child was sent as a child to his uncle, the chief of the factory at Rajapur.
Blairquhan ( , )The Online Scots Dictionary is a Regency era castle near Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the historic home of the Hunter- Blair Baronets and remained in the family's possession until 2012, when it was sold to a Chinese company. Blairquhan is protected as a Category A listed building, and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.
He edited books and was presented with the Greenwood Award for Poetry in 1947 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1948. He was also Information Officer in the Overseas Press Division of the Central Office of Information. In 1954, on the death of Sir Edmund Waller, 6th Baronet, he inherited the baronetcy.Leigh Rayment Baronets W However, he lost his inherited income, as business ventures failed, and he gave up writing.
Hastings married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Pointz, but had no children, and the title became extinct on his death in 1668. The Hastings, later Abney- Hastings family, of Willesley Hall in the County of Derby, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 February 1806 for Sir Charles Hastings, illegitimate son of Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon. For more information on this creation, see Abney-Hastings baronets.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Clifton Baronets): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent Sir William Clifton (1663 1686 in France) was 3rd Baronet Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, and Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire from 1683–1686.Sir William Clifton in The House of Commons, 1660-1690 History of Parliament Trust, Secker & Warburg, 1983 In 1685 he founded a regiment which later became the 15th Regiment of Foot and subsequently the East Yorkshire Regiment.
The Mander family also owned the nearby 'Mount', seat of the Mander Baronets, which is now a hotel and conference centre with views as far as the Malvern hills, over away. Wightwick Hall is also in the area, being less than a mile via the lanes that connect the two properties. Sir Alfred Hickman owned Wightwick Hall. Nearby Elmsdale Hall was owned by the former Wolverhampton Mayor and industrialist Sir John Morris.
The Montagu-Pollock baronets descend from Frederick's younger brother, George. Bertram was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in the Church of England — made a deacon in Advent 1890 (21 December) and ordained a priest the Advent following (20 December 1891), both times by John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury in Salisbury Cathedral. He was a Master and Chaplain at Marlborough and later Headmaster of Wellington College (1893–1910).
Scarisbrick Hall, the seat of the Scarisbrick Baronets The Scarisbrick Baronetcy, of Greaves Hall in the Parish of North Meols in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1909 for the Liberal politician Thomas Scarisbrick. He was the son of Sir Charles Scarisbrick, Mayor of Southport. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1955.
Arms of St Aubyn, as quartered by the Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronets of Pencarrow: Ermine, on a cross sable five bezantsDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 709 Pencarrow The Molesworth, later Molesworth-St Aubyn Baronetcy, of Pencarrow near St Mabyn in Cornwall, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 19 July 1689 for Hender Molesworth, Governor of Jamaica. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel and Bossiney.
ODNB Somerville Baronets In 1874 he was invited to India By Rev John Fordyce of the Anglo-Indian Union. He visited over 20 cities in six months including Calcutta, Agra, Allahabad, Madras, Delhi and Bombay. An avid traveller his later trips included Australia and New Zealand in 1877/78. The visit to Dunedin and Otago in New Zealand in May 1878 proved particularly influential in promoting the Free Presbyterian movement in that country.
Sir John Walter Buchanan-Riddell, 11th Baronet (14 March 1849 - 31 October 1924) was a British barrister and baronet. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford before being called to the bar (becoming a barrister) by Inner Temple in 1874. He succeeded his uncle (Sir Walter Riddell, 10th Baronet) as 11th Baronet in the line of Riddell Baronets in 1892. In 1897, he served as High Sheriff of Northumberland.
He also published an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605). Carew served as High Sheriff of Cornwall (1583 and 1586), and as MP for Saltash in 1584. He was married to Juliana Arundell, the eldest daughter of Sir John Arundell of Trerice; their son Richard Carew was created a baronet in 1641 (see Carew baronets). Carew died on 6 November 1620 and was buried in Antony church on 7 November.
The raised course of the Roman road has been reduced by 19th-century landscaping The Neston estate was built up by Thomas Tropenell in the 15th century, passed to the Eyre family and then by marriage to the Baronets Hanham. They sold it c.1790 to John Fuller (died 1839), who built Neston House. John was succeeded in turn by John Bird Fuller (died 1872), George Pargiter Fuller, MP (died 1927) and other descendants.
John Kendrick was born in Reading, Berkshire, possibly in Minster Street, in 1573 to Thomas Kendrick, a prominent citizen, weaving merchant and subsequently a mayor of Reading (1580), and his wife, Agnes Bye. He was related to the Kendrick family of Chester, and the subsequent John Kendrick, Lord Mayor of London (1651). Kendrick was baptised on 18 May 1574 at nearby St Mary's Church, Reading. His younger brother William (1577-1634) was the pro-genitor of the Kendrick baronets.
The fourteenth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Tipperary North from 1915 to 1918 and Fine Gael TD for Wexford from 1937 to 1944 and from 1948 to 1951. The fifteenth Baronet was Fine Gael TD for Wexford from 1951 to 1973. The sixteenth Baronet was a Circuit Court judge who had been Fine Gael TD for Wexford from 1973 to 1977. John Joseph Esmonde, father of the fourteenth and fifteenth Baronets, was also a politician.
The McEwen Baronets may not have any connection with Clan MacEwen of Otter. ;Tartan MacEwen tartan closely resembles Farquharson and MacLeod of Harris. The sett is similar to Campbell of Loudon tartan except that a red stripe is substituted for white. MacEwen tartan also strongly resembles the Clan Colquhoun tartan except that the Colquhoun tartan has all red stripes instead of the yellow McEwen stripe and Colqhoun plaid has white border stripes around the blue and green squares.
She was born in 1900, the elder daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple (of the 1932 creation), who was a Conservative Member of Parliament.Janet Morgan, Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own (1991). Edwina Ashley was patrilineally descended from the Earls of Shaftesbury who had been ranked as baronets since 1622 and ennobled as barons in 1661. She was a great- granddaughter of the reformist 7th Earl of Shaftesbury through his younger son, The Hon.
It became their main family seat during the 18th century. After the death of William Ogilvy, the eighth and final Lord Banff, the estate passed by marriage to the Abercromby baronets who continued to enhance the property and maintained it as their main residence. Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet commissioned the Aberdeen City Architect, John Smith to design the present house in 1839. Forglen House was sold by the Abercromby family in 1974 but remains in private ownership.
Cockayne was a cousin of the poet Charles Cotton (1630–87), and had connections with Cotton's circle, which included Izaak Walton (1598–1683). Cockayne held the lands and Lordships of the Manors of Pooley in Warwickshire, and of Ashbourne. But in his later years he suffered financially, due to gambling. He sold Ashbourne Hall to Sir William Boothby (see Boothby baronets), in 1671 to pay creditors, and the family subsequently lost his manor at Pooley Hall in Warwickshire.
Frederick Roberts, and General Sir Charles and Brigadier General Sir John Gough. His younger brother, Geoffrey, first of the Congreve baronets of Congreve, Staffordshire, was a distinguished sailor, awarded the DSO for a raid on Norway and killed in 1941 during a raid on the French coast. His widow bore a posthumous daughter, Mary Gloria Congreve, born 21 March 1917.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 1940 edn: Congreve Pamela Congreve later remarried, to Brigadier the Hon.
The Official Roll of the Baronetage is an official list of baronets compiled by the British Crown Office, a section of the Ministry of Justice, and published by the Standing Council of the Baronetage. It was first published 23 February 1914. Only those persons listed on the roll are members of the baronetage. Any person who wishes to claim succession to a baronetcy must produce the necessary proof of succession to the Secretary of State for Justice.
Sir Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet (27 March 1833 – 8 April 1924) was the fourth of the Hardinge baronets and a first-class cricketer who played a single match for Kent in 1861. He was born at Bidborough, Kent and died at Kensington in London. Hardinge's only first-class cricket match was for Kent against Sussex at Tunbridge Wells. He inherited the family baronetcy and widespread property interests from his brother in 1873; he was a magistrate in Kent.
Coat of Arms of the Kirkpatrick Baronets, of CloseburnMy Clan archive The Kirkpatrick Baronetcy, of Closeburn in the County of Dumfries, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 26 March 1685 for Thomas Kirkpatrick, with remainder to heirs male whatsoever. The family seat of the Kirkpatrick family was Closeburn Castle, Dumfriesshire. Charles Kirkpatrick (1879–1955), grandson of Roger Kirkpatrick, second son of fourth Baronet, was a Major-General in the British Army.
He was the son of Richard Cave (see Cave-Browne-Cave baronets) and Margaret Saxby of Stanford, Northamptonshire and was educated at Cambridge University. He was knighted by 1525. He was a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in 1545, 1547 and 1553 and for Warwickshire in 1558, 1559 and 1563 and High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1549. He was also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1558–1569) and Custos Rotulorum of Warwickshire (also 1558–1568).
Between 1770 and 1870 there were over 700 clock and watch makers in Birmingham. In 1689 Sir Richard Newdigate, one of the new, local Newdigate Baronets, approaches manufacturers in the town with the notion of supplying the British Government with small arms. It is stressed that they would need to be of high enough calibre to equal the small arms that were being imported from abroad. After a successful trial order in 1692, the Government places its first contract.
He continued to play for Devon regularly until 1932, before making a final appearance for the county in 1935. Following the death of his father in 1931, he succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet of the Heathcoat-Amory baronets. He married Joyce Wethered, the four times champion of the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, on 6 January 1937. He held the position of High Sheriff of Devon in 1942, and later the Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1952.
It passed via the heiress Amicia Peverell to her husband Nicholas Carew (died 1311) of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire and of Moulsford in Berkshire, the founder of the prominent and widespread Carew family of Devon and Cornwall.Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.333 (see Baron Carew, Earl of Totnes, Carew baronets) The manor of Weston Peverell was later subdivided.
Monument over Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie in Delvine. The Muir Mackenzie Baronetcy, of Delvine in the County of Perth, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 November 1805 for Alexander Muir Mackenzie. Born Alexander Muir, he had assumed the additional surname of Mackenzie on succeeding to the estates of his great-uncle John Mackenzie, of Delvine, Perthshire, third son of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, of Coul (see Mackenzie baronets).
He married Janet, daughter of the 2nd. Lord Elphinstone and founded the line of Findrassie of which daughters of both the second and third lairds, both also named Robert, married Gordon of Embo baronets.[Charles Joseph Leslie, "Historical Records of the Family of Leslie 1067 to 1868-9"] Margaret's possible granddaughter Lady Margaret Leslie married Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus in 1575 and divorced him in 1587, probably because of her "infertility". (He remarried two weeks later.)thePeerage.
Richard de Leighton represented Shropshire in the House of Commons from 1312 to 1318 and many later members of the family served as Knights of the Shire for the county. The third and fourth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for Shrewsbury. The 6th baronet was injured in the American War of Independence. The seventh Baronet was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1835 and both he and the eighth Baronet represented Shropshire South in Parliament.
He married Anne, daughter of Paston Herne, of Haveringland Hall, Norfolk, and assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Herne. The sixth Baronet assumed in 1806 by Royal licence the additional surname of Soame in compliance with the will of Sir Peter Soame, 4th Baronet, of Thurlow (see Soame baronets). The ninth Baronet was a member of the Shropshire County Council. As of 2014, the title is held by the thirteenth baronet, who succeeded his father in 2013.
Sir John Garrard, 3rd Baronet (1638–1701), was an English politician. Garrard was the son of Sir John Garrard, 2nd Baronet, of the Garrard baronets and educated at Christ Church, Oxford (1657) and the Inner Temple (1658). He succeeded his father in the baronetcy and to Lamer Park, Wheathampstead in Herefordshire in 1686. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Ludgershall in October 1679 and for Amersham in 1698 and for 7 January to 13 January 1701.
He was the third son of Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638) of Blount's Hall, Staffordshire and Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire and was educated at St Albans Free School and Trinity College, Oxford. He travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was author of Voyage into the Levant published in London in 1634.The English Baronetage, containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the Baronets now existing Vol 3, Pt 2. (1741) Arthur Collins pp665-77.
His brothers the fourth and fifth Baronets both represented Taunton in the House of Commons. The sixth Baronet was Member of Parliament for both Taunton and Somerset. The title became extinct on his death in 1690.George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage Volume 1 1900 The family estates passed under a settlement to Henry Seymour, fifth son of Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, of Berry Pomeroy and Anne, the second daughter of Sir John Portman, 1st Baronet.
George Cokayne notes in The Complete Peerage (1913) that King George II revived the honour when he created sixteen knights banneret on the field of the battle of Dettingen on 27 June 1743: Although Cokayne's source for this, a diary entry by Miss Gertrude Savile, states "This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted", which contradicts other sources, a news magazine published in the same year as the battle recorded the honours.
Memorial to Sir Edward Littleton, the 4th and last baronet, who died without issue in 1812, leaving the estates to his great-nephew. St. Michael and All Angels, Penkridge. Littleton was born Edward Walhouse, and was educated at Rugby and at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1812, he took the name of Littleton to inherit the large landed estates of his great-uncle Sir Edward Littleton, 4th and last of the Littleton Baronets, of Teddesley Hall, near Penkridge, Staffordshire.
Nina is the daughter of Colonel John Archibald Campbell, who was educated at Eton and fought in both World Wars, and Elizabeth Popper Pearth from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her parents divorced in 1960. Her uncle was the British diplomat Ronald Ian Campbell and she is the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Guy Campbell, the first of the Campbell baronets of St Cross Mede. Nina was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot, then began her career working for Colefax & Fowler.
Sir Everard Joseph Reginald Henry Radcliffe, 5th Baronet (27 January 1884 - 23 November 1969), the 5th of the Radcliffe baronets, was an English amateur first-class cricketer. He was born at Hensleigh House, Tiverton, Devon, England, and was educated at Downside School and Oxford University.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He played in 64 first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1909 and 1911. He succeeded Lord Hawke as captain for one season in 1910.
He succeeded his father in the earldom in January 1930. On 5 April 1938 his name was legally changed to John Hampden Mercer-Henderson by Royal Licence. Despite his love of the countryside he continued to set hearts racing in society London but much preferred the open spaces to bustling city life. He was on excellent terms with his Hobart cousins; the Baronets of Langdown and often visited his cousins on the Isle of Wight and Hythe in Hampshire.
Born in London, the son of Sir Ian Heathcoat-Amory, 2nd Baronet (see Heathcoat-Amory baronets) and Alexandra Georgina (OBE; who d. 1942), eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Seymour CB (brother of Francis, 5th Marquess of Hertford GCB). He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, receiving an MA degree.The Complete Peerage Volume XIV, page 830 His great-nephews include the Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory and Sir Ian Heathcoat- Amory, 6th and present baronet.www.burkespeerage.
John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst. Baron Wakehurst, of Ardingly in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 June 1934 for the Conservative politician Gerald Loder, fifth son of Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet (see Loder Baronets for earlier history of the family). He had previously represented Brighton in the House of Commons and was the creator of Wakehurst Place Gardens in Ardingly, West Sussex.
Chirk Castle – the Myddelton seat The Myddelton Baronetcy, of Chirke in the County of Denbigh, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 4 July 1660 for Thomas Myddelton, Member of Parliament for Flint, Montgomery and Denbighshire. He was the son of the politician and Parliamentary general Sir Thomas Myddelton and the grandson of Sir Thomas Myddelton, Lord Mayor of London in 1613. The second and third Baronets represented Denbighshire in the House of Commons.
Hodge was born in London and is the daughter of Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Baronet of Chipstead, Kent (see Hodge Baronets) and his second wife Joan. She went to the Legat School of Russian Ballet, when it was at Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent. She then attended The Lucie Clayton School of Modelling and was photographed by David Bailey, amongst others. From 1968 to 1981, Hodge was the girlfriend of Fulham gangster and sometime actor John Bindon.
No action was taken against his family after his death. His eldest son Robert inherited his title and estates, and his descendants, the Lynch-Blosse Baronets have held the baronetcy down to the present day. He married firstly Margaret Bourke, daughter of Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo and his first wife Elizabeth Talbot, and secondly Mary, daughter of Nicholas Blake. By his first wife he had three sons, Dominick, James and Sir Robert Lynch, 4th Baronet.
Historical artifacts found around the area date back to the Stone Age, with various buildings up to the early Christian era still extant. Bruff is the hometown of American missionary and bishop John Joseph Hogan. In the sixteenth century it was granted to the Standish family, from whom it passed by inheritance to the Hartstonge Baronets, and ultimately to the Earl of Limerick. The town suffered heavy fighting in the Battle of Killmallock during the Irish Civil War.
John Goodricke, named after his great grandfather Sir John Goodricke 1617–1670 (see Goodricke baronets of Ribston Hall), was born in Groningen in the Netherlands, but lived most of his life in England. He became deaf in early childhood due to a severe illness. His parents sent him to Thomas Braidwood's Academy, a school for deaf pupils in Edinburgh, and in 1778 to the Warrington Academy. After leaving Warrington, Goodricke returned to live with his parents in York.
Born on 3 August 1879, the son of Charles Wells (1842–1914), founder of the brewery company Charles Wells Ltd, Sir Richard Wells was educated at Bedford School. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford, between 1922 and 1945, and the first of the Wells baronets of Felmersham, created on 21 January 1944. Wells died on 26 November 1957 and was succeeded as Baronet by his son, Sir Charles Maltby Wells, 2nd Baronet (1908–96).
Viscounts Cobham: Argent, a chevron between three escallops sable Viscounts Chandos from the Lyttelton family, incorporating a cross moline as mark of cadency. The Lyttelton family (sometimes spelled Littleton) is a British aristocratic family. Over time, several members of the Lyttelton family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the Lyttelton family include the viscountcies of Cobham (since 1889) and Chandos (since 1954), as well as the Lyttelton barony (since 1794) and Lyttelton baronetcy (since 1618).
The parish church of St Andrew's is a Grade I listed building. It includes a 15th-century tower, as well as memorials to the Strickland, later Cholmley, later Strickland-Constable Baronets, of Boynton (1641), whose seat was at Boynton Hall, which is also Grade I listed. From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Boynton was part of Dickering Wapentake. Between 1894 and 1974 Boynton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Vice-Admiral Sir George Pocock, ancestor of the Pocock Baronets The Pocock Baronetcy, of Hart in the County Palatine of Durham and of Twickenham in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 August 1821 for George Pocock, Member of Parliament for Bridgwater. He was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir George Pocock. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1921.
Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet The Petre Baronetcy, of Cranham Hall in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created in circa 1642 for Francis Petre. The third Baronet was a Jesuit and close adviser to King James II. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1722. The Petre Baronets were members of a junior branch of the family headed by the Baron Petre.
The Turner, later Page-Turner, later Dryden Baronetcy, of Ambrosden in the County of Oxford, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 24 August 1733. For more information on this creation, see Dryden baronets. The Turner Baronetcy, of Kirkleatham in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 8 May 1782 for Charles Turner, Member of Parliament for York. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull.
The Dalrymple-Hay Baronetcy, of Park Place in the County of Wigtown, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 27 April 1798 for Colonel John Dalrymple-Hay. Born John Dalrymple, he was the husband of Susan, daughter of Sir Thomas Hay, 3rd Baronet, of Park (see Hay baronets for earlier history of this title). On inheriting his father-in-law's estates in 1794 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Hay.
Born at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire, in 1567, Thomas was a younger son of Nicholas Tichborne and Mary Myll. Nicholas died in Winchester Gaol about 1588/9 and was brother to Peter Tichborne, father of Chidiock Tichborne. Nicolas and Peter were grandsons of John Tichborne of Tichborne and Margaret Martin from whom the Tichborne baronets are also descended. He was educated at Reims (1584–87) and Rome, where he was ordained on Ascension Day, 17 May 1592.
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Tyrwhitt (pronounced "Tirrit"), one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Tyrwhitt Baronetcy, of Stainfield in the County of Lincoln, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for Philip Tyrwhitt. The fourth Baronet represented Grimsby in the House of Commons. The fifth and sixth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for Lincoln.
The younger son of Sir Edward Fitzharris (died c.1690), 2nd Baronet of the Fitzharris Baronets of Kilfinin, and his wife Eileen FitzGerald, daughter of Sir Thomas FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, he was born in County Limerick, Ireland about 1648, and brought up a Roman Catholic. His father was described as an "eminent Royalist". According to his own account, he left Ireland for France in 1662 to learn the language, returning home through England in 1665.
39 A version of the arms used by the Baker baronets (Argent, on a saltire engrailed sable five escallops erminois on a chief azure a lion passant of the third)Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston- upon-Thames, 1968, p.39 is displayed on the mural monument in Dunchideock Church in Devon of Aaron Baker (1620–1683) of Bowhay in the parish of Exminster, Devon, first President of the Madras Presidency.
There have been two baronetcies created in the Baronetage of England for members of the Culpeper family (also known as Colpeper, Colepeper or Colepepper) of Kent and Sussex. Both are extinct. The baronets descended from the Culpepers of Bayhall, Pembury, Kent and from Sir Thomas Culpeper Castellan of Leeds Castle who died in 1321. The Baronetcy of Culpeper of Preston Hall, Kent was created on 17 May 1627 for William Culpeper of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent.
George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 2 In 1661, Thorold was elected Member of Parliament for Grantham in the Cavalier Parliament. Thorold married Anne Blythe, daughter of John Blythe, of Stroxton, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. Thorold died at the age of 86 in 1678. His two eldest sons, William and Anthony, predeceased him; Anthony's son William (died 1685) succeeded as second baronet, followed by his brothers Anthony (died 1685) and John (1664–1717) as third and fourth baronets respectively.
The first church on the site was built in 1219, but the present building dates from the first half of the 14th century. This originally consisted of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a chapel to its north, and a west tower. Under the north chapel was the burial vault of the Tyrell baronets of Thornton. The north aisle was demolished in 1620, and the north arcade was walled up.
He had seven sons and two daughters. The family business was continued by the eldest son, George Frederick junior together with Philip Albert Muntz,Samuel Timmins, 'Muntz, George Frederick (1794–1857)', rev. Matthew Lee, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 also a Member of Parliament who was created a Baronet in 1902 (see Muntz Baronets). George's brother, Philip Henry Muntz, was also an MP. One son, William Henry Muntz, designed a new type of paddle wheel.
In 1761 Huggins left Chinnor to his daughter Jane and son-in-law Rev. James Musgrave, grandson of Sir Richard Musgrave, 2nd Baronet, of Hayton Castle. Chinnor remained in the family of the Musgrave Baronets until the death of Sir William Augustus Musgrave, 10th Baronet in 1875, when it passed to his brother-in-law Aubrey Wenman Wykeham, who took the name Wykeham-Musgrave. By then very little of the original lands remained with the manor.
The Napiers, originally from Scotland, included Sir Robert Napier, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (died 1615) whose descendants became the Napier Baronets of Middlemarsh. In the 1881 Census the Rector of the church was Orlando Spencer Smith, he lived with his wife Theodosia his then 2 children Catherine Winifred, Theodosia Lettice along with 4 servants; Sarah Bishop - Domestic, Mary R Jeanes - Parlour Maid, Ann Agnes Ostler - Cook and Jane Symes - Gen Domestc at the Rectory.
Born in Montreux, Switzerland, Eaton was the daughter of Canadians Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Isaac Vernon Eaton, an army officer from Nova Scotia, and Myra Fitzrandolph of New Brunswick. Eaton was the younger of two daughters. Lt.-Col. Eaton was killed in 1917, while directing the artillery assault at the battle of Vimy Ridge in France, when Evelyn Eaton was just 14. Evelyn's older sister, Helen Moira, would marry Sir John Lindsay Dashwood of the Dashwood Baronets.
E. Huxley, p. 35. He was equally hostile to William Speirs Bruce, the Scottish explorer who had written to Markham asking to join the National Antarctic Expedition. On receiving no confirmation of an appointment, Bruce obtained finance from the Scottish Coats baronets family and organised his own Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Markham accused Bruce of "mischievous rivalry", and of attempting to "cripple the National Expedition ... in order to get up a scheme for yourself".Speak, pp. 71–75.
George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage 1900 The Constable Baronetcy, of Everingham in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 20 July 1642 for Philip Constable. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in July 1746. The Constable estates were inherited by the late Baronet's great-nephew, William Haggerston, who assumed the additional surname of Constable. For further history of this branch of the family, see Constable Maxwell-Scott baronets.
The estate became a seat of the Trevelyan baronets (previously spelled as Trevilian), who also held another manor at Basil, by the marriage of Sir John Trevilian in 1481 to Lady Whalesborough, heiress of Nettlecombe via her Raleigh maternal line. Nettlecombe was held in continuity by Trevilian successors until the 20th century following the death of Joan Trevelyan and her husband Garnet Wolsey. It became a boarding school for girls (St. Audries Junior School) in the late 1950s.
John Ormsby Johnson, son of Colonel Charles Christopher Johnson, seventh son of the second Baronet, was a vice-admiral. The Johnson Baronetcy, of Bath, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 December 1818 for Henry Johnson, a colonel in the 5th Regiment and Governor of Ross Castle. He was the younger brother of Sir John Johnson-Walsh, 1st Baronet, of Ballykilcavan (see Johnson-Walsh Baronets). The second Baronet fought with distinction in the Peninsular War.
Ripley is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire in England, a few miles north of Harrogate on the A61 road towards Ripon. The village name derives from Old English and is believed to mean wood of the Hrype or Ripon people. A castle dating from the 15th century, Ripley Castle, has been the home of the Ingilby family for 700 years. The present owner is Sir Thomas Ingilby, 6th Baronet (see Ingilby Baronets), the 28th generation.
For more information on this creation, see Sinclair- Lockhart Baronets. The Sinclair Baronetcy, of Longformacus in the County of Berwick, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 10 December 1664 for Robert Sinclair. The title became either extinct or dormant on the death of the seventh Baronet in circa 1843. The Sinclair Baronetcy, of Kinnaird in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in circa 1675 for James Sinclair.
After the dissolution the Abbey became the property of Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, ancestor of the Cope baronets. In 1720 a baroque country house was built for the Cope family, possibly on the site of the former abbey. A Georgian cottage in the grounds of the house includes a three-bay vaulted chamber which may be a remnant of the original abbey buildings. Michael Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook, purchased the 18th-century property in 2012.
The second and third Baronets represented County Wexford in the House of Commons. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1930. The Power Baronetcy, of Newlands Manor in Milford in the County of Southampton, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 February 1924 for John Power. He was the founder of the Royal Institute for International Affairs and represented Wimbledon in the House of Commons as a Unionist.
Alcester is also known for two nearby stately homes. To the north is Coughton Court, the family seat of the Throckmorton baronets as well as a National Trust property. To the south-west is Ragley Hall, the home of the Marquis of Hertford, whose gardens contain a children's adventure playground. Kinwarton, which is just north of Alcester, contains a church of Anglo Saxon origin and a historic dovecote, Kinwarton Dovecote, which is also a National Trust property.
Other notable family names are Buckland and Honor and the four houses at Laleham school are Buckland (Red), Arnold (Blue), Honor (Yellow) and Lucan (Green). The Reverend John Buckland was Matthew Arnold's maternal uncle; Buckland primary School in Staines was named after him. The Reynell Baronets, originally from Devon, were substantial landowners at Laleham. Coal and mining administrator, Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham lived with his wife at Laleham Abbey after his retirement in 1982.
Jonathan Edward Pease (born 8 June 1952 in Northumberland, England) is a member of the prominent Pease family and a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The son of Derrick Allix Pease and the Hon. Rosemary Portman, his grandfather was Sir Richard Arthur Pease, 2nd Baronet of the Pease Baronets, of Hammersknott. After studying at Eton College and Cambridge University, Jonathan Pease began learning the business of conditioning Thoroughbreds for racing in England under the tutelage of Toby Balding and Clive Brittain.
The Grove wildlife sanctuary is also located on the road, occupying 0.5 hectares at the corner of Wellington Place. The site was donated to the state by Miss Kathleen Goodfellow. The road derives its name from Morehampton Park, the Herefordshire seat of the Hoskyns baronets; John Hoskyns (1784–1858), son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 6th Baronet, built his house in this area and called it Morehampton. Éamon de Valera lived on the nearby Morehampton Terrace from 1910.
He married, on 20 October 1813, Lady Elizabeth Frances Townshend (2 August 1789 – 10 April 1862 Nice), sister of John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend. Each of his sons, Capt William RN, Robert and Charles succeeded their father in turn as the second, third and fourth (and final) baronets. Clifford was a patron of the arts, and formed a unique collection of paintings, sculpture, etchings, engravings, and bijouterie. He died at his residence in the House of Lords in 1877.
27 a tenant-in-chief of Queen Elizabeth I. The arms of Radcliffe of Warleigh were: Argent, a bend engrailed sable a canton of the first charged with a horse's head sable. These arms, without the canton, were the arms of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex (c.1483–1542), KG and also of the Radcliffe Baronets (created 1813). The family of de Radclyffe which first bore these arms originated at the manor of Radcliffe in Lancashire.
Her maternal grandmother Janie Sheffield, a granddaughter of the 6th Baronet Sheffield, was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Her paternal great- grandfather was the Canadian-born British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood. Search website for "Delevingne" for snippet view. Through one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel- Phillips, 3rd Baronet, Delevingne descends from the Anglo-Jewish Faudel- Phillips baronets; two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London.
Georg Joachim Göschen (22 April 1752Several sources list 22 December 1752 as his date of birth; while others list 22 April 1752 as the date he was baptised. – 5 April 1828) was a German publisher and bookseller in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, notable for typography and his publications of music and philosophy. He was the patriarch of the Goschen family, whose English branch rose to prominence as bankers and politicians, including the Viscounts Goschen and Goschen baronets.
For more information on these creations, see Edwardes baronets. The Edwards Baronetcy, of York in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 7 December 1691 for James Edwards. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1764. The Edwards Baronetcy, of Garth in the County of Montgomery, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1838 for John Edwards, Member of Parliament for Montgomery from 1833 to 1841.
On 10 September 1621 King James I of England signed a grant in favor of Sir William Alexander, which covered all of the lands ‘between our Colonies of New England and Newfoundland, to be known as New Scotland’. Known by its Latin name Nova Scotia, the territory was larger than Great Britain and France combined. On 18 October 1624 the King announced his intention to create a new order of baronets comprising Scottish ‘knights and gentlemen of chiefs respect for the birth, place, or fortunes’, King James I died on 27 March 1625 but his heir, King Charles I, lost no time in implementing his father's plan. By the end of 1625 the first 22 baronets of Nova Scotia were created and, as inducements to settle his new colony of Nova Scotia, Sir William offered tracts of land totaling 11,520 acres to all such 'principal knights & esquires as will be pleased to be undertakers of the said plantations and who will promise to set forth 6 men, artificers or laborers, sufficiently armed, appareled & victual led for 2 years.
He married Abigail (d. after 1640), daughter of Sir Thomas Cambell, (who was Lord Mayor of London in 1609-10), on 14 August 1610 at St Mary Aldermary, London. They had six sons (three of whom became baronets);Sir Thomas Abdy (1612–86); Anthony Abdy (1615–22); Sir Robert Abdy (1616–70) of Albyns; Sir John Abdy (1617–62) of Moores in Salcot Verley; Nicholas Abdy (b. 1618); and Roger Abdy (1620–42)) and three daughters (Alice Abdy (1611–69); Abigail Abdy (b.
26 He grew up at Bifrons in Canterbury, where his father, who came originally from Scriven in North Yorkshire, had purchased an estate. He was educated at the University of St Andrews. Several of his younger brothers also achieved a measure of fame, including Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet,Betham p.26 who like his father became Comptroller of the Navy, and was a close friend of Samuel Pepys; and Sir Arthur Slingsby, the first of the Slingsby Baronets of Bifrons.
Temple was the son of Richard Temple (1800-1874) and his first wife Louisa Anne Rivett-Carnac (d. 1837), a daughter of James Rivett-Carnac. His paternal ancestor, William Dicken of Sheinton, Shropshire, married in the middle of the 18th century the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Temple, 5th Baronet (1694-1760), of the Temple of Stowe baronets. Their son assumed the surname Temple in 1796, and inherited the Temple manor-house and estate of The Nash, near Kempsey in Worcestershire.
His two brothers followed as fourth and fifth Baronets but the Baronetcy was extinct on the death of the latter in 1716. The Flambards estate passed to the daughter of the third Baronet and was sold off in 1767.Cokayne, Complete Baronetage 1:142-143 The Baronetcy of Gerard of Fiskerton, Lincolnshire was created on 17 November 1666 for Gilbert Gerard a great-grandson of Gilbert Gerard, Attorney General. His second wife was Mary Cosin, daughter of John Cosin the Bishop of Durham.
Sir Richard Church married Marie-Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Wilmot, 2nd Baronet of Osmaston in Worthing, on 17 Aug 1826Debrett's Baronetage of England : with alphabetical lists of such baronetcies as have merged in the peerage, or have become extinct, and also of the existing baronets of Nova Scotia and Ireland (page 43 of 95)The Annual register of world events: a review of the year: Volume 115, Edmund Burke - 1874 He was the uncle of English churchman and writer Richard William Church.
He had no surviving male issue and the titles became extinct on his death in 1651. Lord Brentford was a great-grandson of William Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven (see Earl of Gowrie for earlier history of the family). His brother William Ruthven was the grandfather of Francis Ruthven, who was created a Baronet, of Redcastle, in 1666 (see Ruthven Baronets). The latter married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven of Freeland, great-grandson of William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven.
Other members of the Gore family include the Gore Baronets of Magharabeg, the Barons Harlech and the Earls Temple of Stowe (a title which has come into the family through marriage). On Lord Annaly's death in 1784 the title became extinct. The second creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1789 when Henry Gore was created Baron Annaly, of Tenelick, in the County of Longford. He was the younger brother of John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly of the 1766 creation.
Several other members of the Chichester family have also gained distinction. John Chichester, grandson of Sir John Chichester, brother of the first Baron Chichester and the first Viscount Chichester, was created a baronet in 1641 (see Chichester baronets). John Chichester, second son of the first Viscount and father of the second Earl, represented Dungannon in the Irish House of Commons. For the branch of the family founded by John Chichester's younger son and namesake, John Chichester, see Baron O'Neill and Baron Rathcavan.
Lawrence baronets, of Ealing Park (1867) His grandson through his eldest daughter Diana is Henry Hood, 8th Viscount Hood, who served as Lord-in-waiting to the Queen. Lyttelton retired in 1945, having taught at Eton for his entire career. He taught, among others, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Cyril Connolly, J. B. S. Haldane, and John Bayley. Lyttelton taught mostly classics in the fifth form, but became known for his optional course of English as "extra studies" for senior specialists.
He founded the National Party with Sir Henry Page Croft in 1917 but stood at the 1918 election as an Independent Conservative. He was prominent, along with Croft, in the campaign against the Prime Minister David Lloyd George in July 1922 for selling honours. Between 1896 and 1911, Cooper resided at Ashlyns Hall in Berkhamsted, leased from the Smith-Dorrien family. He married Alice Priestland on 18 April 1900: the couple had three sons, including the 3rd and 4th Baronets.
Princess Eugenie of York in 2013 Princess Eugenie of York is the second daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. At the time of the engagement announcement, she was eighth in the line of succession to the British throne. Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank is the European brand manager for Casamigos Tequila, the company co-founded by George Clooney. Brooksbank is related to the Brooksbank baronets: he is the great-great-grandson of Sir Edward Clitherow Brooksbank, 1st Baronet.
Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet There has been six baronetcies created for persons with the surname Shaw, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and four in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations extant as of 2010. The Shaw, later Best-Shaw Baronetcy, of Eltham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 15 April 1665. For more information on this creation, see Best-Shaw baronets.
Born in Drumcondra, Dublin, Coghill was the eldest son of Sir John Joscelyn Coghill (1826–1905), 4th Baronet, JP, DL, of Drumcondra, Co. Dublin (see Coghill baronets), and his wife, the Hon. Katherine Frances Plunket, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket. He was a nephew of David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore and William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket. The painter Sir Egerton Coghill, 5th Baronet (who had a son also called Nevill named in his honour) was his younger brother.
The arms of Grant-Suttie at Prestongrange House The Suttie, later Grant-Suttie Baronetcy, of Balgone in the County of Haddington, is a title originally created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 5 May 1702 for George Suttie. The third and fourth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for Haddingtonshire. The latter assumed the additional surname of Grant on succeeding to the estates of his aunt, Janet, Countess of Hyndford, daughter of William Grant, Lord Prestongrange.
Significant memorials are those to the Hussey baronets: Sir Charles (1626–1664), and his wife Elizabeth; and Sir Edward (c. 1661–1725), and his wife Elizabeth (died 1750). Both memorials are at the east wall of the nave. Sir Charles’s, immediately to the south of the crossing arch, is of a bust set between columns with hanging foliate relief below brackets, these supporting a broken and scrolled pediment with a decorative scrolled cartouche bearing coat of arms at its centre.
John Staples K.C., P.C., M.P., whilst the seventh and eighth Baronets remained at Dunmore. John Staples was a talented lawyer and one of the longest standing members of the Irish House of Commons before its dissolution in 1801. He went on two grand tours of Italy, furnishing Lissan with a fine collection of books, paintings and marbles and was painted twice by the famed Italian artist Pompeo Batoni. He married, firstly, Harriet Conolly, daughter of William James Conolly of Castletown House.
It is believed that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote part of The Canterbury Tales while staying at the house. Between 1648 and 1726 it was owned by the Bacon family who turned some the land, which had been part of Petherton Park, into gardens, orchards and a fish pond. It has been the family seat of the Slade baronets since 1772, when it was bought at auction for £3,000. Between 1772 and 1868 wings were added to the north and west of the original building.
Eaton Hall Grosvenor Baronets Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet (7 May 1695 – 1 August 1755) of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1755. He was an ancestor of the present Dukes of Westminster. Grosvenor was the youngest surviving son of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet and his wife Mary Davies, daughter of Alexander Davies of Ebury, Middlesex. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1712.
Robert Richard Warren PC, QC (3 June 1817 - 24 September 1897) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. Warren was the son of Captain Henry Warren, the eighth son of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet (see Warren baronets), and his wife Catherine Stewart. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, and entered the Middle Temple before being called to the Irish Bar in 1839. He became a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1858.
Arms of Colleton: Or, three stag's heads couped properWotton, Thomas, Baronetage of England, 1771, Volume 2, Arms of Colleton Baronets; given elsewhere as roebuck's heads, frequently interchangeable The Colleton Baronetcy, of London, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 18 February 1661 for John Colleton, in reward for his support for the Royalist cause during the Civil War. The second Baronet represented Bossiney in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the ninth Baronet in 1938.
The fourth and last Baronet was imprisoned for debt in 1710 and following conviction for theft in 1722 was transported. The baronetcy presumably became extinct on his death in circa 1750. George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 The Burton Baronetcy, of Pollacton in the County of Carlow, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 2 October 1758 for Sir Charles Burton, Lord Mayor of Dublin. The third and fourth Baronets served as High Sheriffs of County Carlow.
In the United Kingdom, only peers of the realm, a few baronets, senior members of orders of knighthood, and some corporate bodies are granted supporters. Often, these can have local significance or a historical link to the armiger. If the armiger has the title of baron, hereditary knight, or higher, he may display a coronet of rank above the shield. In the United Kingdom, this is shown between the shield and helmet, though it is often above the crest in Continental heraldry.
However, one of his aunts, Elizabeth Brigetta Stepney (1749–1780), married the collector and MP Joseph Gulston; their descendants, the Stepney-Gulstons, ultimately inherited Derwydd. Meanwhile, the Cowell-Stepney, baronets, of Llanelli, are descended from another aunt, Maria Justina Stepney (1757–1821), a daughter of the seventh baronet Sir Thomas by his second marriage. Maria Justina married General Andrew Cowell in 1788. Their son John (1791–1877) assumed the name Stepney- Cowell in 1857, and was created a baronet in 1871.
Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, ancestor of the Cox Baronets of Dunmanway There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Cox, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. The Cox Baronetcy, of Dunmanway in the County of Cork, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 21 November 1706 for Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The second Baronet represented Clonakilty in the Irish House of Commons.
The Simeon Baronetcy, of Grazeley in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 May 1815 for John Simeon, Member of Parliament for Reading and Senior Master of the Court of Chancery. His brother was the clergyman Charles Simeon. The second Baronet represented the Isle of Wight in the House of Commons. He married Louisa Edith, daughter and heiress of Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, 10th and last Baronet, of Barrington Hall (see Barrington baronets).
Vice-Admiral Graves was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Graves, while Vice-Admiral Hood was made Viscount Bridport. Rear-Admirals Bowyer, Gardner, Pasley and Curtis (the last-named was promoted from captain on 4 July 1794) were all made baronets, and Bowyer and Pasley also received pensions of £1,000 a year to compensate them for their severe wounds.James, p. 179 All first lieutenants were promoted to commander and numerous other officers were promoted in consequence of their actions.
The Eliott Baronets share a common early Elliot ancestry with the nearby Earls of Minto (Elliot). It is thought that the surname spelling differences were contrived to differentiate the branches. There is a genealogical book which includes this family – The Elliots: The Story of A Border Clan by The Dowager Lady Eliott of Stobbs and Sir Arthur Eliott, 11th Baronet, published in hardback () and later reprinted in soft cover. George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield was the tenth son of the third Baronet.
Elizabeth Raffald (1733 – 19 April 1781) was an English author, innovator and entrepreneur. Born and raised in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Raffald went into domestic service for fifteen years, ending as the housekeeper to the Warburton baronets at Arley Hall, Cheshire. She left her position when she married John, the estate's head gardener. The couple moved to Manchester, Lancashire, where Raffald opened a register office to introduce domestic workers to employers; she also ran a cookery school and sold food from the premises.
Western approach driveway to Inch House Sir John Gilmour of Craigmillar had also bought Craigmillar Castle which he made his home while renting out Inch House. His successors, the Gilmour baronets of Craigmillar, did the same. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 Government forces were stationed in Inch House. A west wing was added late in the 18th century. After the death of Sir Alexander Gilmour, 3rd Baronet in 1792, the house was modernised, and the Gilmour family lived there from 1796.
In 1709 the house was bought by Abraham Elton, a merchant from Bristol. The Eltons were a prominent Bristol family, and Abraham 1st was Sheriff of Bristol in 1702, a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers becoming Master in 1708, Mayor of Bristol in 1710, and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1716. He became a member of parliament for the five years preceding his death in 1728. He was created a baronet in 1717 as the first of the Elton baronets.
In 1828 he was created a Baronet, of Picton Castle in the County of Pembroke, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. However, Lord Milford was childless and the titles became extinct on his death in 1857. He devised his estates to his half-brother Reverend James Henry Alexander Gwyther, who assumed the surname of Philipps. James's daughter Mary Philippa married Charles Edward Gregg Fisher, who assumed the surname of Philipps and was created a Baronet, of Picton, in 1887 (see Philipps Baronets).
The Dillington Baronetcy of Knighton, Isle of Wight in the County of Hampshire was created in the Baronetage of England on 6 September 1628 for Robert Dillington, who was a Member of Parliament. He was succeeded by his grandson, and then by the three sons of the second baronet in turn. All the Dillington baronets except Sir John followed the first baronet into Parliament. The baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 2nd baronet's last son, Sir Tristram, 5th Baronet in 1721.
His eldest son John was created a baronet in November 1688 (see Narborough Baronets) in honour of his father. Sir John died with his brother James and their stepfather Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell aboard during the Scilly naval disaster of 1707. Narborough's widow is buried in St Paulinius's Church, Crayford, where there is a memorial to her and her second husband.www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk – The legacy of Sir Cloudsley Shovel Narborough's two sons were buried in the Old Town Church on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.
The earliest phase of the building dates from at least the 15th century, with prominent extensions and alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is named after the Tyrwhitt baronets who lived in the building in the 16th century. A blue plaque on its exterior records that Philip Pape, a sculptor, singer, and choirmaster, lived and worked in the house from 1960 to 1982. A large ditched enclosure, encompassing the manor, was discovered during the excavation of the nearby St Peter's Church.
The Everleigh estate was bought by Sir John Astley in 1765, and inherited in 1771 by his cousin Francis Dugdale Astley; it continued as the seat of the Astley baronets until the middle of the next century. Sir Francis made changes to the village layout around 1811, removing buildings which stood close to the manor house and diverting the road away from it. Those demolished included the old church (rebuilt by Sir Francis further west) and the Rose and Crown inn.
Richard Frankland, son of John Frankland, was born on 1 November 1630, at Rathmell, a hamlet in the parish of Giggleswick, Yorkshire. The Franklands of Thirkleby, Yorkshire (baronets from 1660), with whom John Frankland was connected, were originally from Giggleswick. Frankland was educated (1640–1648) at Giggleswick grammar school, and was admitted on 18 May 1648 as minor pensionary at Christ's College, Cambridge. The tone of his college, under the mastership of Samuel Bolton, D.D., was that of a cultured puritanism.
Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, 12th Baronet, (5 November 1880 – 23 May 1961) was a British diplomat. He was British High Commissioner to Egypt from 1929 to 1933, British Ambassador to Turkey from 1933 to 1939 and British Ambassador to Italy from 1939 to 1940. In later life he was involved in breeding thoroughbreds for horse racing and won the 2000 Guineas Stakes in 1954 with Darius. He was the last of the Loraine baronets, having no sons to succeed him.
Besides listing members of the landed gentry, he added lawyers as well as powerbrokers in showbusiness and the media, arguing that they were equally prominent. In 1999, he became the Baron of Bombie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland after he purchased the title from Sir David Hope-Dunbar of the Hope-Dunbar baronets and the defunct insurance firm Allied Dunbar. He was a member of the Reform Club and the Royal Over-Seas League. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Alleyn died in 1544 and was buried at a chapel which he had built in St Thomas Acres. He had no legitimate children, but he did have two illegitimate sons and one daughter. The elder son, Christopher Alleyn, inherited sufficient wealth to secure his status in society, becoming a Member of Parliament and marrying a daughter of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget.History of Parliament: Alleyn, Sir Christopher Part of Alleyn's estate went to his brother John Alleyn, junior, ancestor of the Alleyn baronets.
354 Google Books was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 2 March 1638 for Henry Slingsby of Scriven Hall, the representative of the main line of the family and a supporter of Charles I. He was executed in 1658 during the Commonwealth of England. The second, third and fifth Baronets followed him as parliamentary representatives for Knaresbough. The second, eighth and ninth served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire. The baronetcy was dormant on the death of the tenth Baronet.
Arms of the Egerton family: Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sableDebrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1077, ASIN: B00NISIWNI The Egerton family (pronunciation: "edge-er-ton") is a British aristocratic family. Over time, several members of the Egerton family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the Egerton family include the dukedoms of Bridgewater (1720–1803) and Sutherland (since 1963), as well as the earldoms of Bridgewater (1617–1829), Wilton (1801–1999) and Egerton (1897–1909).
The Crosbie family were of Gaelic and Catholic origin, but Maurice's ancestor John Crosbie converted to the Church of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I and was made Bishop of Ardfert. His descendants became substantial landowners in Kerry: the senior branch of the family were the Crosbie baronets, the last of whom, Sir Edward Crosbie, was executed for treason as a United Irishman in 1798. Maurice was educated at Trinity College in Dublin. He was knighted in approximately 1711.
St Audries church The old medieval church in the village became so dilapidated that it was entirely rebuilt in 1856 leaving only the shaft of a cross from the original building in the churchyard, two of the bells dated 1440, a Norman font and a stone coffin. The new church, rededicated to St. Ethel Dreda, was built by John Morton for Sir Peregrine Acland and his son-in-law, Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries of the Acland baronets.
The manor was purchased, together with Soulton, by Sir Rowland Hill and Thomas Leigh from Thomas Lodge in 1556, under long leases (until 1610) for quiet enjoyment by his brother Edward Lodge.The National Archives, Discovery Catalogue piece description 'Bargain and sale (1556)', 215/31 (Shropshire Archives). It became the seat of the Hill family for more than 300 years. The house was built between 1701 and 1725 by Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1655–1727), second of the Hill baronets, of Hawkstone.
In the 12th century, and possibly the 11th, the lands which became Sedgehill parish were part of the estates of Shaftesbury Abbey. After the Dissolution, Sedgehill manor was bought by Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle (c. 1502 – 1552) and then in 1573 by William Grove (died 1582) who was briefly MP for Shaftesbury. The estate remained in the Grove family (from 1874 the Grove baronets), although reduced in size as farms were sold, until the death of Gerald Grove in 1962.
A map of the Chelmsford and Witham Hundreds, dedicated to Sir William Mildmay Bt (of the Mildmay Baronets) in 1768 names the village as Tarling. John Strutt, the second Baron Rayleigh, built the village school, enlarged the church and, in 1868, after a terrible epidemic of typhoid fever, installed a village water supply system. Since 2002 Terling has been the location of the Terling International Trifle Festival, held each year in September. Terling was named as Essex Village of the Year in 2017.
After his death, the cousin born in 1927 became Sir John Alexander Cumnock Forbes-Sempill, baronet. (For information about the further succession of the baronetcy, see Forbes baronets of Craigievar.) The twentieth Lady Sempill had married and divorced Eric Holt; she later married secondly Stuart Whitemore Chant, who in 1966 by decree of the Lord Lyon assumed the additional surname of Sempill. the title is held by Lady Sempill's eldest son from her second marriage, the twenty-first Lord, who succeeded in 1995.
Arms of the Arbuthnot baronets of Edinburgh Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet (9 September 1801 - 4 March 1873) was a Scottish civil servant who served as Secretary to the Board of Trustees and Manufactures. The son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Anne Alves entered the Bombay Civil Service and remained with them from 1819 to 1838. Arbuthnot succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 18 September 1829. A collector and Magistrate of Ahmedabad, India, he died, aged 71, in Florence, Italy.
Dudley Carleton was the first cousin of Sir John Carleton, 1st Baronet (see Carleton baronets). The second creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1714 when Henry Boyle was made Baron Carleton, of Carleton in the County of York. He was the son of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan and the brother of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington (see Earl of Cork for earlier history of the family). The title became extinct upon his death in 1725.
Baird was born on 16 September 1832, the fourth son of Sir David Baird, 2nd Baronet (see Baird baronets)William Loney RN says that he was the second son. However the list of children of Sir David Baird and his wife Anne at The Peerage.com, shows that he was the seventh child and fourth son - see Children of Lady Anne Kennedy and Sir David Baird of Newbyth, 2nd Bt.Sir John Baird at William Loney RN and Lady Anne Baird (née Kennedy).
The earliest known clock makers in the town arrived from London in 1667. Between 1770 and 1870 there are over 700 clock and watch makers in the town. In 1689 Sir Richard Newdigate, one of the new, local Newdigate baronets, approaches manufacturers in the town with the notion of supplying the British Government with small arms. It is stressed that they would need to be of high enough calibre to equal the small arms that were being imported from abroad.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Beauchamp, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are extinct. The Beauchamp Baronetcy, of Grosvenor Place in the City of Westminster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 June 1911 for Edward Beauchamp, Liberal Member of Parliament for Lowestoft. He was the second son of Reverend William Henry Beauchamp, second son of Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet (see Proctor-Beauchamp Baronets).
He was a descendant of William Mildmay, uncle of the first Baronet of the 1611 creation. The title became extinct on his death in 1771. The late devolved his estates to his kinsman Carew Mildmay, who in his turn bequeathed the estates to his grand-niece, Jane Mildmay, wife of Sir Henry St John, 2nd Baronet, whose son Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, 3rd Baronet assumed the additional surname of Mildmay (see St John-Mildmay Baronets for further history of this title).
It belonged to an abbey in Rouen in France before that. St Mary Magdalene's parish, to the east, was first described in 1656, but there was no ancient church of that dedication in the area; instead there was a medieval Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, from which the name may have come. The new church then took the name of this ancient parish. Charles Eversfield of the Eversfield baronets gave the site for the church—a high, landmark site overlooking Warrior Square.
On his return Rodney was feted as a hero, a number of cartoons and caricatures were created to commemorate the victory. He presented the Comte De Grasse personally to King George III as a prisoner, and was created a peer with £2,000 a year settled on the title in perpetuity. A number of paintings were commissioned to celebrate his victory notably by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds. Hood was also elevated to the peerage, while Drake and Affleck were made baronets.
The second and third Baronets also represented Anstruther Burghs in Parliament. The third Baronet married Anne Paterson, daughter of Sir John Paterson, 3rd Baronet, and assumed the additional surname of Paterson. The fourth Baronet was created a baronet, of Anstruther in the County of Lanark, in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 18 May 1798, ten years before succeeding his elder brother in the baronetcy of 1700. In contrast to his brother he did not assume the surname of Paterson.
John Burgoyne was born in Sutton, Bedfordshire, location of the Burgoyne baronets family home Sutton Manor, on 24 February 1722. His mother, Anna Maria Burgoyne, was the daughter of a wealthy Hackney merchant. His father was supposedly an army officer, Captain John Burgoyne, although there were rumours that he might be the illegitimate son of Lord Bingley, who was his godfather. When Bingley died in 1731, his will specified that Burgoyne was to inherit his estate if his daughters had no male issue.
He wrote theological pamphlets under the nom de plume of Nobody which gave the club its curious name. The club grew to consist of 50 members, half clergymen and half laymen, and met three times a year. Between 1800 and 1900 membership included three archbishops, forty-nine bishops, twenty Cathedral deans, many peers and baronets, and members of the House of Commons. It also included privy councillors, judges, and fellows of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries.
St Mary's Church was built in 1880 as an estate church for John Battersby Harford of Falcondale, ancestor of the Harford Baronets. The church also served as a chapel of ease for St Peter's Church, Lampeter. It contains a twelfth-century square-bowled font featuring carvings of the Four Evangelists that is originally from nearby Lampeter Church. It is one of a number of twelfth-century fonts - including those Llanwenog and Llanfair Cyldogau - that are distinctively Celtic Romanesque in style.
Sophia, Lady Burdett by Sir Thomas Lawrence Arms of Burdett of Bramcote: Azure, two bars orDaniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, 'General history: Baronets', in Magna Britannia: Volume 5, Derbyshire (London, 1817), pp. lxiii- lxxv (arms of their ancestor Sir William Burdet (died pre-1309) of Lowesby in Leicestershire). His wife, Lady Burdett, to whom he was devoted, died on 13 January 1844. Sir Francis, then two days short of his 74th birthday, became inconsolable and felt he had nothing left to live for.
Alice's second husband was William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Hanwell remained with the Duchy of Suffolk until almost the end of the 15th century. In 1498 Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk conveyed the manor to William Cope, who was Cofferer to Henry VII. In 1611 James I made William's great-grandson Anthony Cope a baronet. Hanwell remained with the Cope baronets of Hanwell until the death of Sir John Cope, 5th Baronet in 1721.
The eighth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Beaumaris while the ninth Baronet represented Caernarvonshire and Beaumaris. The tenth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Beaumaris, Anglesey and Flint Burghs and served as Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire. In 1826 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Bulkeley on succeeding to the estates of Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley. The twelfth and thirteenth Baronets were both Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey while the latter was also Lord Lieutenant of Gwynedd.
However, other parts of the estates (subsequently known as the Briton Ferry estate) passed to her uncle Thomas Earl of Clarendon then to William Henry Augustus Villiers (who took the surname Mansell to inherit this estate). On his death without issue, it passed to his elder brother's son George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey.Deeds in Britton Ferry collection at West Glamorgan Record Office, Swansea. Francis Mansel, younger brother of the first Baronet, was created a Baronet in 1622 (see Mansel Baronets).
Stucley, Sir Dennis, 5th Baronet, "A Devon Parish Lost, A new Home Discovered", Presidential Address published in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, no. 108, 1976, pp.1–11 Their arms are: Per fess embattled argent and sable three buck's attires each fixed to the scalp counterchanged. These arms are quartered with the ancient arms of Stucley by the present Stucley Baronets, his direct descendants in the male line, but with the Stucley arms in the 1st and 4th quarters of greatest honour.
His two sons, the second and third Baronets, both succeeded in the title. They both died young and the title became extinct on the latter's death in 1685. Redgrave Manor, the former family seat in Suffolk, was bought by the elder Sir Nicholas Bacon from Henry VIII in 1542 and substantially restored between 1545 and 1554. It was the seat of the Bacon family until debts forced the fifth Baronet, Sir Robert Bacon, to sell the estate in 1702 to Sir John Holt.
The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1806. The Clarke, later Clarke- Travers Baronetcy, of Crosses Green in the County of Cork, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 June 1804. For more information on this creation, see Clarke-Travers baronets. The Clarke Baronetcy, of Dunham Lodge in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831 for Charles Clarke, Physician to Queen Adelaide.
Sir Thomas was knighted in 1579 during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He was from Feckenham, Worcestershire, England, born to John Leighton of Wattlesborough and Joyce Sutton, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. His brother Sir Edward Leighton (died 1593) was the ancestor of the Leighton baronets of Wattlesborough. The Leightons were among the most influential families in Shropshire, and Edward was the dominant figure in local government in Shropshire in the 1580s. Leighton was unpopular as governor.
Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, ancestor of the Sandys baronets of Wilberton and Northborne There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Sandys family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are extinct. The Sandys Baronetcy, of Wilberton in the County of Cambridge, was created in the Baronetage of England on 25 November 1611 for Sir Miles Sandys, Member of Parliament for Cambridge, Huntingdon and Cambridgeshire. He was the third son of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York.
Burton Agnes Hall, the seat of the Griffith baronets of Burton Agnes There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Griffith, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. The Griffith Baronetcy, of Burton Agnes in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 7 June 1627 for Henry Griffith. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baronet, in 1656.
The manor of Morville was acquired in 1465 by Thomas Acton, who built a fortified manor house. That house was replaced in the early 17th century by his descendant Walter Acton. Walter's son, Sir Edward, was created a baronet in 1643 and was succeeded in turn by Sir Walter and Sir Edward. All three baronets served as MPs for Bridgnorth. The third baronet married a wealthy heiress and in the late 17th century started to remodel the early 17th century house.
The Anson family is a British aristocratic family. Over time, several members of the Anson family were made knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the Anson family include the earldom of Lichfield (since 1831) and the Anson baronetcy (also since 1831). Over time, several members of the family have risen to prominence, including Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS (1697–1762) and the society photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (1939–2005).
Born Edmund Bunney, he was the son of Joseph Bunney and Mary Cradock in Freathby, Leicestershire. He married in 1777, Anne, the daughter of Joseph Hurlock, Governor of Bencoolen and one of the Directors of the East India Company. Her mother was Anne, daughter of Sir John Hartopp, last of the Hartopp baronets. Upon his marriage, Edmund Bunney changed his name to Cradock-Hartopp, as required by the wills of his maternal uncle Joseph Cradock and his wife's maternal grandfather.
At the time of his election in 1587, the usual Mayoral Feast was cancelled, on account of plague within the city of London.White, James George "History of the Ward of Walbrook in the City of London" pp. 210-211 Sir George Bond married Winifred Leigh, the daughter of another Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Leigh. Among his children were Thomas Bond, MP for Launceston and Southampton, and William Bond, alderman, whose grandson Thomas was the first of the Bond Baronets of Peckham.
Several other members of the family may also be mentioned. Arthur Paul Dashwood (1882–1964), third son of the sixth Baronet, was an engineer and the husband of the novelist E. M. Delafield. Henry Dashwood, brother of the first Baronet, assumed the surname of Peyton in lieu of Dashwood. He was a Member of Parliament and the ancestor of Henry Peyton, who was created a baronet in 1776 (see Peyton baronets for more information on this branch of the family).
Rycroft was the second eldest son of Sir Richard Rycroft 5th Baronet (1859–1925) (see Rycroft Baronets) and Emily Mary Lowry-Corry ( see 2nd Earl Belmore). He grew up in Dummer, Hampshire, where his family owned most of the village and his father was "the local representative of both Church and State". , p. 200 He had one elder brother, Henry Richard Rycroft DSC OBE RN (1911–1985), and two younger sisters: Alice Juliana Rosamond Rycroft (1915–2006) and Eleanor Mary Rycroft (1918–2000).
There have been five baronetcies created for persons with the surname Richardson, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Richardson Baronetcy, of Pencaithland in the County of Haddington, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 13 November 1630. For more information on this creation, see Stewart-Richardson baronets. The Richardson Baronetcy, of Augher in the County of Tyrone, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 30 August 1787.
The banner accompanying the image bears the Latin motto REVIRESCO ("I grow green / verdant / strong again"). This crest badge is not derived from the arms of a previous chief of the clan, but appears to have been in use among the Galloway McEwens from an early date.R. S. T. MacEwen, 1904, Clan Ewen: Some records of its history, p18 This crest and motto are recorded in the Arms of the McEwen Baronets (McEwen of Marchmont and Bardrochat). These McEwens held lands in Bardrochat in Carrick.
Abercromby was born in London on 14 June 1850 but spent his formative years at Forglen House in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, after his father succeeded to the family estates in Scotland and Ireland in the year 1855. He was educated at Eton College. In November 1872 he inherited the estates from his father, becoming the 7th in the line of Abercromby baronets. Forglen House was the main family seat and Abercromby continued programmes of improvement to the house and policies that had been initiated by his forebears.
In 1781 he was created a Baronet, of Carrickglass in the County of Longford, in the Baronetage of Ireland. Lady Newcomen was the only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, of Carrickglass, County Longford, grandson of Sir Robert Newcomen, 6th Baronet, of Kenagh (see Newcomen Baronets). At the extinction of the Newcomen baronetcy in 1789, the substantial family estates devolved on the future Lady Newcomen. Her husband was born William Gleadowe, but assumed at the time of their marriage the additional surname of Newcomen.
His brother, Hugh, was created baronet of Ballinlough in 1795, and in 1812, on the death of their maternal uncle John Nugent, he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Nugent (see Nugent Baronets). Their sister Margaret married Richard Talbot and was, as a widow, created Baroness Talbot of Malahide in 1831. At the age of 14, Andrew O'Reilly joined the army of Habsburg Austria and fought against the Kingdom of Prussia. After rising in the army, he married into an aristocratic family in his 40s.
The Jardine Baronetcy, of Castle Milk in the County of Dumfries, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 July 1885. For more information on this creation, see Buchanan-Jardine baronets. The Jardine Baronetcy, of Godalming in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1916 for John Jardine, Liberal Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire from 1906 to 1919. The third Baronet was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery and Deputy Governor of Gibraltar.
Lewis Molesworth was the eldest son of The Reverend Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th of the Molesworth Baronets. He was the grandson of Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet, who served as Colonial Secretary under Lord Palmerston. Lewis succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1889.Who was Who, OUP online, 2007 Sir Paul Molesworth had been an Anglican rector but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1854The Times, 28 December 1889 p8 and he passed on his religion to his son Lewis.
William Beresford, illegitimate son of the first Marquess, was a Field Marshal in the British Army and was created Viscount Beresford in 1823. John Beresford, illegitimate son of the first Marquess, was a soldier and politician and was created a baronet in 1814 (see Beresford-Peirse baronets). Lord Charles Beresford, second son of the fourth Marquess, was a naval commander and politician and was created Baron Beresford in 1916. Lord William Beresford, third son of the fourth Marquess, was a soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
The Pollard family had originated at the manor of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, near Great Torrington, Devon, called by Hoskins (1954) "the fons et origo of the mighty tribe of Pollard".Hoskins, p.470 The present house is a grade II listed building. Sir Lewis Pollard (died 1526) later moved to King's Nympton where he purchased the manor which remained the seat of his descendants, the Pollard baronets, until it was sold by Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet (1603–1666).
Manderston – the family seat of the Miller baronets of Manderston There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Miller, two in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extant as of 2008. The Miller Baronetcy, of Oxenhoath in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 October 1660 for Humphrey Miller. He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1666.
The Right Reverend Roderic Norman Coote OBE (13 April 1915 – 6 July 2000)NPG details was a British Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning half a century.“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Coote was the son of Commander Bernard Trotter Coote and Grace Harriet Robinson, daughter of the Very Reverend John Joseph Robinson. He was the grandson of Sir Algernon Coote, 12th Baronet, Lord-Lieutenant of Queen's County (see Coote baronets).thepeerage.com Rt. Rev.
Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet (1763–1834) was a merchant who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1808. Flower traded in salt meat, butter and cheese, and was described as having acquired "an ample fortune" by the time of his ascendency to the mayoralty. He was created a baronet, of the Flower baronets, of Lobb in the County of Oxford and of Woodford in the County of Essex, on 1 December 1809. Flower was appointed an alderman in the City of London's Cornhill ward in 1801.
Burrard outlived all of his four sons and was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, Harry, the second Baronet, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Burrard. Sir Harry was an admiral in the Royal Navy and also represented Lymington in Parliament. In 1795 he adopted the additional surname of Neale on his marriage to Grace, daughter of Robert Neale, of Shaw House, Wiltshire. He was succeeded by his younger brother George, the third Baronet (who like the subsequent baronets used the surname Burrard only).
The aforementioned Admiral Arthur Duncombe, fourth son of the first Baron, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament. He was the father of 1) Arthur Duncombe, a Conservative Member of Parliament, and 2) George Augustus Duncombe, who was created a baronet in 1919 (see Duncombe baronets). The Very Reverend Augustus Duncombe (1814–1880), younger son of the first Baron, was Dean of York. The Honourable Octavius Duncombe, younger son of the first Baron, represented the North Riding of Yorkshire in Parliament.
He was raised to the Irish peerage in 1776 as Baron Westcote. As a result of the death without issue of his nephew Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton in 1779, he inherited the family baronetcy (see Lyttelton Baronets) and family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, and Hagley, including Hagley Hall. However, the estates in Upper Arley passed to the late lord's sister Lucy, wife of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris. In 1794, Lord Westcote was also created Baron Lyttelton in the Peerage of Great Britain.
As The Times noted, "The successful leadership of the victorious British Forces by land and sea is happily recognized by the award of the Order of Merit — which is limited in numbers to 24 — to Sir David Beatty and Sir Douglas Haig." The new peers and baronets were not announced until August. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Sir Thomas Lee, 2nd Baronet (ca. 1661 – 13 August 1702) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1689 to 1699. Hartwell House - seat of the Lee family Lee was the son of Sir Thomas Lee, 1st Baronet of Hartwell and his wife Anne Davis, daughter of Sir John Davis of Pangborne, Berkshire.William Betham, The Baronetage of England: or The History of the English baronets ..., Volume 2 In 1689, Lee was elected Member of Parliament for Aylesbury and held the seat until 1699.
A granite cross at the eastern end of the churchyard marks the grave of Sir William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny, 8th Baronet, of Harewood Estate, part of Salusbury-Trelawny baronets. Who was for sometime the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and M.P. for East Cornwall. He died at Harewood in 1856, aged seventy five years. Folklore says that Sir William didn't want his body ever to leave his estate and so he was carried in through the back gate to his current resting spot, closest to his estate.
He married Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen of Kenagh, County Longford, first of the Newcomen baronets, and his wife Catherine Molyneux, daughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux and Catherine Stabeort. They are said to have quarrelled over his desertion of the Royalist cause, and for a time she left him and went to live in the Isle of Man. They seem to have become reconciled in their later years, since they are buried together at Beaulieu; Jane died in 1664. They had five sons and three daughters.
The factory had its own printing press producing labels of a complicated design in order to prevent the sheep dip being faked by the unscrupulous. Cooper died in 1885 - he had been joined in the business by two nephews Henry Herbert Cooper who died in 1891 and Richard Powell Cooper. Richard Cooper on the death of his brother Henry became the sole proprietor of the business by now known as "Cooper & Nephews".Pool House It is from Richard Powell Cooper that the Cooper baronets are descended.
Sir Henry Heyman, 1st Baronet (20 November 1610 – 1658) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War. Heyman was born at Selling, Kent, the son of Sir Peter Heyman, MP for Hythe 1621-1622, and his wife Sarah Collett, daughter of Peter Collett merchant of London.William Betham, The Baronetage of England: or The History of the English baronets, Volume 1 He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1626.
He was Member of Parliament for Warwickshire. The third and sixth Baronets also represented Warwickshire in Parliament while the fifth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Lichfield. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1782 and the substantial estate was broken up, under an Act of Parliament of 1817, in order to meet the interests of the various claimants.George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 Edward Holte, father of the first Baronet, was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1583.
Irnham Hall; the seat of the Jones baronets of Treeton There have been eight Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Jones, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and six in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Three of the creations are extant as of 2010. The Jones Baronetcy, of Albemarlis in the County of Carmarthen, was created in the Baronetage of England on 25 July 1643 for Henry Jones. The title became extinct on his death in 1644.
Sir Simeon Stuart, 3rd Baronet ( c.1721–1779), was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1779. Stuart was born the son of Sir Simeon Stuart, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Dereham, daughter of Sir Richard Dereham baronets, 3rd Baronet, and educated at Westminster School between 1734 and 1737. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 11 August 1761 and also succeeded his father as Chamberlain of the Exchequer the same year.
In 1711, he succeeded his father as fourth Earl of Findlater. The earldoms of Findlater and Seafield remained united for the next hundred years. However, on the death of his great- grandson, the seventh and fourth Earl respectively, the lordship of Ogilvy and Deskford and the earldom of Findlater became dormant. The earldom of Seafield and its subsidiary titles were inherited by the late Earl's second cousin Sir Lewis Alexander Grant, 9th Baronet, of Colquhoun (see Colquhoun baronets for earlier history of the Grant family).
For more information, follow this link. The Munro Baronetcy, of Lindertis in the County of Forfar, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 August 1825 for the soldier and colonial administrator Thomas Munro. He was a Major- General in the Army and served as Governor of Madras between 1820 and 1827. The Munro Baronets of Linderits descend from the Munros of Culcraggie, a cadet branch of the Clan Munro who descend from George Munro (died 1452), traditionally the 10th Baron of Foulis.
The Page baronetcy of Greenwich, Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 3 December 1714 during the reign of King George I of Great Britain for wealthy London merchant and Member of Parliament, Gregory Page. Three successive generations of the same family were each named Gregory Page: the first baronet's father, who was also a merchant in London, and the first and second baronets. The baronetcy became extinct on the death of the childless second baronet in 1776.
Sir William Carington, second son of the second Baron, was a soldier, politician and courtier. The Barons Carrington are related to the Barons Bicester. The first Baron Carrington's younger brother John Smith was the great-grandfather of Vivian Smith, who was created Baron Bicester in 1938. Also, Abel Smith, MP, father of the first Baron Carrington, was the brother of George Smith, who was created a baronet in 1757 (see Bromley baronets), and of John Smith, great-grandfather of the first and last Baron Pauncefote.
The company that would become the Clan Line was first founded as C. W. Cayzer & Company in Liverpool in 1877 by Charles Cayzer (see Cayzer baronets). It was set up to operate passenger routes between Britain and Bombay, India via the Suez Canal. The next year, Captain William Irvine joined the company and it was renamed Cayzer, Irvine & Company. In 1881 the company was joined by an influential Glasgow businessman and his firm of Thomas Dunlop & Sons, and the Clan Line Association of Steamers was established.
On her death in 1717 Mary's stepson Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet inherited Piddington, and it remained with the Aubrey baronets until Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, 7th Baronet died in 1856 and the title became extinct. A cousin of Sir Thomas, Elizabeth Sophia Ricketts, inherited Piddington. Her son Charles Aubrey Ricketts inherited the manor and took the name Charles Aubrey Aubrey. He died in 1901, leaving Piddington to Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 4th Baronet, who was the great grandson of Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet.
Born near St Albans, he was the third son of John Greaves (1774–1849), a Quaker banker, and his wife Mary (1779–1864), daughter of John Whitehead. His older brother was Edward Greaves. His older sister Celina Greaves (1804–1884) married the brewer Edward Fordham Flower and a younger sister Rebecca Mary Greaves (1814–1892) became the mother of Sir Michael Henry Lakin, first of the Lakin baronets. John became a wanderer who ended up in 1830 at Caernarfon, where he went into the slate business.
He returned to England: he and his brother Walter were with Prince Rupert when he surrendered Bristol, then they went to Brussels to join their brother Arthur, who in 1658 was created first of the Slingsby baronets of Bifrons. Robert later returned to England alone, and in 1650, like so many defeated Royalists, he compounded i.e. paid a fine in return for being left with sufficient means to live on. According to his sister Dorothy Nightingale, he was then living with their widowed mother at York.
As a result, of the sixty members of the first Senate, as well as 36 Catholics, there were 20 Protestants, 3 Quakers and 1 Jew. It contained 7 peers, a dowager countess (Ellen, Countess of Desart, who was Jewish), 5 baronets and several knights. The New York Times remarked that the first senate was "representative of all classes", though it has also been described as, "the most curious political grouping in the history of the Irish state".Article by Elaine Byrne, Irish Times, 30 July 2008.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Charles Arthur Andrew Frederick (9 April 1861UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962 – 21 December 1913) was a British Army officer and courtier. He was Master of the King's Household and an Extra Equerry to King Edward VII and to Queen Alexandra. He was born in Torquay, Devon,1911 England Census son of Arthur Thomas Frederick. His family were descended from that of the Frederick baronets: Charles's great-great-grandfather Major-General Marescoe Frederick was a younger brother of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet.
The site likely included a rural Roman Temple. Between the occupation by the Romans and the time of the Saxons, the town acquired its name – in AD951 it was named Dunemowe, and later Dommawe. In the Domesday Book, Dunmow had seven manors, some of which still exist, in name at least – including Bigods, Newton Hall (seat of the Henniker baronets), Merks Hall, Minchins and Shingle Hall. The earliest record of a church in the town is in 1045, and in 1197 Geoffrey de Dunmow was rector.
He returned to Scotland in April 1922 but was in poor health; he had a fatal heart attack on 22 June 1922 at Douneside. Georgina, his first wife, had been buried in Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen and he was interred beside her. His British assets after the payment of death duties amounted to £264,000, the equivalent of over £13.7 million . The inheritance went to Alasdair, his eldest son, who became the second of the MacRobert baronets, but he died in an aviation accident in 1938.
Sir Thomas Pettus, son to Sir Augustine Pettus (16 July 1582 - 9 July 1613) was the first of the Baronets. He firstly married Elizabeth Knyvett, daughter to Sir Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe, and secondly, the daughter to and coheiress of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey. Sir Thomas Pettus accompanied King Charles I on his expedition in 1640 into Scotland and Northumberland and may have been granted his Baronetcy as a result. He served as a captain under Colonel Jerom Brett and Lieutenant Colonel Sir Vivian Molineaux.
The house was originally built for Sir Henry Heydon (died 1504) who married Anne Boleyn, the daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, great-grandfather of Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn. It was then sold by the Heydon family to John Lennard in 1579 and passed down in the Lennard family, many of whom were baronets, to 1929. In that year Sir Stephen Lennard, Bt. emigrated to Canada, and Wickham Court became an hotel. It was requisitioned in the Second World War for use as Army offices and accommodation.
The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1876. The Taylor, later Stuart Taylor Baronetcy, of Kennington in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 July 1917. For more information on this creation, see Stuart Taylor baronets. The Taylor Baronetcy, of Cawthorne in the West Riding of the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 January 1963 for William Taylor, Member of Parliament for Bradford North.
See Onslow Baronets of Althain for more information on this branch of the family. The family seat of the Earls of Onslow was formerly Clandon Park in Surrey. Although the house and gardens were taken over by the National Trust in 1955, the surrounding agricultural estate, covering over 1,000 acres and including areas of Grade II-listed parkland, remains in the ownership of the Onslow family. The 8th Earl married Leigh Jones-Fenleigh, at Oakham on 10 September 1999 and they have one daughter.
He only had daughters(not confirmed) with his wife Jane, daughter of Cuthbert Radcliffe( Walsinghams spy in the Percy House), and widow of Robert Ogle, 5th Baron Ogle. Their daughter Eleanor,Collins, A. (1720). The Baronettage of England: Being an Historical and Genealogical Account of Baronets, from Their First Institution in the Reign of King James I. : Containing Their Descents, the Remarkable Actions and Employments of Them and Their Ancestors: as Also Their Marriages, Issue, &c.; with Their Coats of Arms and Crests Engrav'd and Blazon'd, (Vol.
For more information on this creation, see Carmichael- Baillie baronets. The Carmichael-Smyth, later Carmichael Baronetcy, of Nutwood in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 August 1821 for the colonial administrator Sir James Carmichael-Smyth. He was the eldest son of the Scottish physician and medical writer James Carmichael Smyth, the only son of Thomas Carmichael of Balmedie and Margaret Smyth of Athenry. The second Baronet discontinued the use of the surname Smyth in 1841.
The House of Stratford () is a British aristocratic family, originating in Stratford-on-Avon between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The family has produced multiple titles, including Earl of Aldborough, Viscount Amiens, Baron Baltinglass, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe and the Dugdale Baronets. The Viscount Powerscourt and Baron Wrottesley both claim descent from this House. Historic seats have included Farmcote Manor and Stratford Park in Gloucester, Merevale Hall in Warwickshire, Baltinglass Castle, Belan and Aldborough House in Ireland, and Stratford House in London, amongst many others.
The D'Aeth Baronetcy, of Knowlton in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. The baronetcy was created on 16 July, 1716 for Thomas D'Aeth, Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Sandwich. He was the husband of Elizabeth Narborough, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir John Narborough, who had become heir of her father on the early death of her two brothers (see Narborough Baronets). Through this marriage the Narborough family seat of Knowlton Court came into the D'Aeth family.
Sledmere House – the seat of the Sykes Baronets of Sledmere There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Sykes, two in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Three of the creations are extant as of 2008. The Sykes Baronetcy, of Basildon in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 10 June 1785 for the diplomat and politician Francis Sykes. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Wallingford.
St. Margaret's church, Sibsey, where Frank Besant was vicar, 1871–1917 Annie Wood was born in 1847 in London into an upper-middle-class family. She was the daughter of William Burton Persse Wood (1816-1852) and Emily Roche Morris (died 1874). The Woods originated from Devon and her great-uncle was the Whig politician Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet from whom derives the Page Wood baronets. Her father was an Englishman who lived in Dublin and attained a medical degree, having attended Trinity College Dublin.
An excellent example of the original Scottish Baronial architecture, the great seven-storey castle was completed in 1626 by the Aberdonian merchant William Forbes, ancestor of the Forbes baronets of Craigievar and brother of the Bishop of Aberdeen, Patrick Forbes of Corse Castle. Forbes purchased the partially completed structure from the impoverished Mortimer family in the year 1610. He arranged for the continued construction, completing it in 1625 or 1626. Forbes was nicknamed "Danzig Willy", a reference to his shrewd international trading success with the Baltic states.
Neave was the son of Sheffield Airey Neave CMG, OBE (1879–1961), an entomologist, who lived at Ingatestone, Essex, and his wife Dorothy (d. 1943), the daughter of Arthur Thomson Middleton. His father was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, the third son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet (see Neave baronets). The family came to prominence as merchants in the West Indies during the 18th century and were raised to the baronetage during the life of Richard Neave, Governor of the Bank of England.
Sir Adolph Tuck, a baronet who had run the art publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons, created a trust for future baronets who were married to a wife 'of Jewish blood' and who 'continues to worship according to the Jewish faith'. If in doubt, 'the decision of the Chief Rabbi in London of either the Portuguese or Anglo German Community… shall be conclusive'. It was contended that the concepts of being of Jewish faith and of Jewish blood were too uncertain for the trust to be valid.
Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival house and estate near Wraxall, North Somerset, England. The house is a Grade I listed building named after the Tynte baronets, who had owned estates in the area since about 1500. The location was formerly that of a 16th-century hunting lodge, which was used as a farmhouse until the early 19th century. In the 1830s a Georgian mansion was built on the site, which was bought by English businessman William Gibbs, whose huge fortune came from guano used as fertilizer.
The title became extinct when the second Baron died childless in 1691. The second creation came on 1 April 1674 when Susan, Lady Belasyse, widow of the aforementioned Sir Henry Belasyse, son of the first Baron Belasyse, was made Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby in the County of Lincoln. This was a rare life peerage and became extinct on her death without surviving issue in 1713. Lady Belasyse was the daughter of Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet (see Airmine Baronets) and his wife Anne Crane.
Belsay Castle, the former seat of the Middleton baronets of Belsay Castle Middleton was the eldest son of Sir John Middleton, 2nd Baronet and his wife Frances Lambert, daughter of John Lambert of Calton, Yorkshire, and grand daughter of the Cromwellian general John Lambert. The Middleton family lived at Belsay in Northumberland from the thirteenth century. Middleton succeeded to the estates and baronetcy on the death of his father on 17 October 1717. While he was a minor, his chief trustee was the Presbyterian minister at Belsay.
A subsidiary branch of the family had a seat at Netherseal Hall, Netherseal. Escutcheon of the Gresley Baronets The two branches of the family were reunited by the marriage of the sister of the 8th Baronet to Rev. William Gresley, Rector of Netherseal, and the succession of their son William Nigel Gresley as 9th Baronet. Debrett's baronetage of England, revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen, John Debrett, London, 1840 The last of the Gresley family vacated Drakelowe Hall in 1931 after 28 generations had lived there.
The memorial to James Young and his wife Mary is sited in the old Inverkip churchyard, at the north end of the mausoleum of the Shaw-Stewart Baronets. Young's wife died, and by 1871 he had moved with his children to Kelly House, near Wemyss Bay in the district of Inverkip. The 1881 census record shows him living with his son and daughter at this estate. Young died at the age of 71 in his home on 16 May 1883, in the presence of his son James.

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