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Franklin Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana.The district encompasses 73 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential section of Michigan City.
Neck decoration for British baronets, depicting the Red Hand of Ulster. This article lists baronetcies, whether extant, extinct, dormant (D), unproven (U), under review (R) or forfeit, in the baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Baronets Baronetcies This page, one list of hereditary baronies , lists all baronies , extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the Peerage of England .
Sir Walter de Raedt, 1st Baronet, of The Hague (1660), extinct [1] Sir Cornelis Tromp, 1st Baronet, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland (1675) - also created Ridder in the Dutch nobility, extinct 1691; Sir Richard Tulp, 1st Baronet, of Amsterdam (1675), extinct 1690; Sir Gelebrand Sas van Bosch, 1st Baronet, of Rotterdam (1680), extinct 1720
Neck decoration for baronets, depicting the Red Hand of Ulster. A baronet (/ ˈ b æ r ə n ɪ t / or / ˈ b æ r ə ˌ n ɛ t /; [1] abbreviated Bart or Bt [1]) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (/ ˈ b æ r ə n ɪ t ɪ s /, [2] / ˈ b æ r ə n ɪ t ɛ s /, [3] or / ˌ b æ r ə ˈ n ɛ t ɛ s /; [4] abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the ...
Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary to prove a claim of succession.
first Baronet obtained a new patent in 1819, which creation became extinct in 1853 Baird of Newbyth [citation needed] 1809: Baird: extant Baird of Stonehaven (now Keith) [55] 1897: Baird: extant: second Baronet created Viscount Stonehaven in 1938; the second Viscount succeeded as Earl of Kintore in 1974. Baker of Ranston [56] 1802: Baker ...
In contrast to the English equivalent, the dignity of baron is a non-peerage rank in the Baronage of Scotland, created in the same way as a peerage with crown charter and is protected by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 recognised by the crown as a title of nobility with status of minor baron.