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1 day ago · Marriages served as political tools, and the Tancred’s, like many other noble families, would have utilized these unions to their advantage. The Baronets. Sir Thomas Tancred, the 1st Baronet, was the progenitor of the baronetcy, established on 17 November 1662.
4 days ago · Son-in-law of Sir John Harte (Lord Mayor 1589–90), father of Sir John Bolles, 1st Baronet and father-in-law of Humphrey Smith (Alderman, Sheriff 1629–30). He is said, when Lord Mayor, to have stopped the royal carriages in their progress through the City during divine service on a Sunday, to the amazement of James I. who remarked that he ...
4 days ago · — Sir John Elwill, Knt., whose mother was heiress of Pole of Exeter, was created a baronet in 1709; his son, Sir John, the second baronet, married the heiress of Style of Langley, in the parish of Beckenham, Kent, and settled at that place.
3 days ago · Sir Henry Fletcher, who was created a baronet in 1782, was descended from Philip, third son of Thomas Fletcher of Cockermouth, (grandfather of the first baronet,) who married the heiress of Musgrave of Clea-Hall, about the beginning of the seventeenth century.
1 day ago · In Scotland, a Baron or Baroness is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, a title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, formerly a feudal superiority or prescriptive barony attached to land erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but ...
1 day ago · This is a list of extant baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland. They were first created in 1619, and were replaced by the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1800. The baronetcies are listed in order of precedence (i.e. date order). Baronetage of Great Britain (1707–1800)
4 days ago · William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast.
