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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 ...
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.
King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, to fund 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 8 d. per day per man (total – £1,095 ...
Male-line descendants of members of the royal family, peers, baronets, knights and esquires do not sink below the rank of Gentleman as long as they are armigerous. Coats of arms are marks of nobility in Britain unlike on the Continent, where a grant of arms does not necessarily result in ennoblement or confirmation of nobility. [1]
Sir Henry Halford, Royal physician 1793-1844 Hall of Burton Park [64] 1919: Hall: extant: Hall of Grafham [294] 1923: Hall: extant: Hall of Llanover [5] 1838: Hall: extinct 1867: first Baronet created Baron Llanover in 1859 Halsey of Gaddesdon [25] 1920: Halsey: extant: Hambling of Oxford [93] 1924: Hambling: extant: Hamilton of Cadogan Square ...
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. This list is not currently complete.
Baronets Baronetcies This is a list of the present and extant Barons ( Lords of Parliament , in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England , Scotland , Great Britain , Ireland , and the United Kingdom .
President of the Royal College of Physicians: Stuart of Oxford [89] 1841: Stuart: extinct 1915: Stucley of Affeton Castle and Hartland Abbey [53] 1859: Stucley: extant: Studd of Netheravon [90] 1929: Studd: extant: Lord Mayor of London: Studholme of Perridge [91] 1956: Studholme: extant: Sturdee of the Falkland Islands [92] 1916: Sturdee ...