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Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet


Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet (c.1686 – 20 February 1743), of Rougham and Rushbrooke, Suffolk, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1743. Davers was the second son of Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet and his wife Hon. Mary Jermyn, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn. He was brought up at Rushbrooke Hall and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 14 March 1704, aged 17. At the 1722 British general
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election, Davers was returned in a contest as a Tory Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds. He succeeded his brother Sir Robert Davers, 3rd Baronet, to the baronetcy on 20 May 1723. In April 1725 he was one of five Tories who voted against a motion to restore the inheritance of Bolingbroke. He inherited the Jermyn estates, including Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, and Dover Street, in London, in 1726 from Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover, his great uncle. At the 1727 British general election he was returned
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Sir Charles Davers, 6th Baronet


Sir Charles Davers, 6th Baronet (4 June 1737 – 4 June 1806) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1802. Davers was the second surviving son of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet, MP and Margaretta Green. He was brought up at Rushbrooke Hall in Suffolk and educated at King Edward VI School (Bury St Edmunds) and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1755. He then undertook the Grand Tour. Davers became an officer in the British
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Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet


He married Hon. Mary Jermyn, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn. They had five sons and five daughters. By this marriage he acquired in 1703 one-fifth of the Rushbrooke Hall estate, of which he purchased the other parts from his sister-in-law, the wife of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet. He sold the estate of Rougham between 1705 and 1710 to his son in law, Clement Corrance and made Rushbrooke the family's principle seat. Davers was succeeded by
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as MP for Suffolk, topping the poll in a contest. He voted consistently against the Government. He was returned unopposed for Suffolk in 1734 British general election and 1741 British general election. Davers appear to have had two illegitimate sons before his marriage to Margaretta Green, the daughter of Rev. Edward Green, rector of Drinkstone, Suffolk, on 21 October 1729. He died on 20 February 1743 leaving in addition four legitimate sons of whom two shot themselves, and two daughters: He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son
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Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol


an hotel the Hotel Bristol. The use of this name is meant to be synonymous with the finest accommodation and living throughout the Continent; the implication being that if Lord Bristol were in town, that is where he would stay. The Hon. Frederick Hervey married, in 1752, Elizabeth (*1733-02-01; †1800-12-19), daughter of Sir Jermyn Davers , a great-granddaughter of Thomas, 2nd Baron Jermyn, as well as being sister and heiress of Sir Charles Davers  (1737–1807
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clergyman, varying estimates have been found of his character. In 1795, he began expanding his ancestral home, thus creating Ickworth House in its modern form. The house was still unfinished when he died in 1803 and was completed by his successor. In 1799 he became the fifth Baron Howard de Walden when the abeyance of this peerage was terminated. Lord Bristol married Elizabeth, sister and heir of Sir Charles Davers, 5th Baronet (c. 1730–1763), and great-granddaughter of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn (see the
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Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet


Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet (c. 1653–1722) of Rougham and Rushbrooke Hall was an English politician and landowner. Davers was the son of Sir Robert Davers, 1st Baronet, a Royalist who had made his fortune exploiting enslaved Africans on his plantation in Barbados. He owned owned 300 acres worked by 200 "negroes". Davers was born in Barbados before coming to England between 1680 and 1682. He then returned to Barbados and took his seat in the Council there on 13 June 1682. On 30 November 1683 he was
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MP for Bury St Edmunds. Davers held his seat in the House of Commons due to his close personal alliance with Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. Grafton encouraged him to cultivate his family interest in Bury at the expense of Davers' brother-in-law, Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol. Davers publicly aligned himself against William Pitt the Younger, but did not become a Whig and retained his independence. Davers lived at Rushbrooke Hall with Frances Treice, by whom he had five illegitimate sons and three illegitimate
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elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805. In 1806 he inherited the estates of his uncle, Sir Charles Davers, 6th Baronet. In 1826, he was created Marquess of Bristol and Earl Jermyn. He was succeeded by his son Frederick William (1800–1864), M.P. for Bury St Edmunds 1830–1859, as 2nd Marquess. Hervey married Elizabeth Albana (1775–1844), daughter of Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown and Elizabeth Upton, Baroness Templetown, by whom he had two daughters and six sons: He died on 15
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, when it passed by marriage to Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet. The Davers family held it until the death of Sir Charles Davers, 6th Baronet in 1806. It passed to Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol, who sold the house to Robert Rushbrooke, whose family owned the house until 1919. In 1938 ownership of the manor was taken over by the Rothschild family. In 1961 it was decided to demolish the house; shortly afterwards a fire devastated the building. Several of the remaining decorative features were used in
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Thomas Davers


Vice Admiral Thomas Davers (1689 – 16 September 1746) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Born the third son of Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet, Davers was promoted to post captain in January 1713 on appointment to the command of the sixth-rate HMS "Seaford". He transferred to the command of the sixth-rate HMS "Solebay" in August 1718, of the fifth-rate HMS "Adventure" in 1719 and of the fifth-rate
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Davers baronets


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. The title became either extinct or dormant on his death in 1806. Thomas Davers, third son of the second Baronet,
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Army in 1758, being commissioned into the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot. He served in North America during the Seven Years' War. In January 1761 he was promoted to the rank of Captain while in the service of the 99th Regiment of Foot. He was garrisoned in Ireland in 1766 and was promoted to Major. In 1763 Davers inherited his brother's Baronetcy and estates. In the 1768 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Weymouth. At the 1774 general election he was returned as
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Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 4th Baronet


family seat of Great Braxted. He died with no surviving children on 5 March 1722, aged 91. The baronetcy passed to his nephew (the son of his younger brother Henry), Sir John Ayloffe. Benjamin Ayloffe married, 21 Sep. 1669, at North Ookendon, Essex, Martha, daughter of Sir John Tyrrell, of Heron, Essex, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Laurence Washington. They had one son, John, who died about the age of twenty, unmarried; and two daughters
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Thomas Symonds


Captain Thomas Symonds (bapt. 10 August 1731 –1792) was a British naval captain of the American Revolutionary War. Symonds was the second son of the Rev John Symonds, rector of Horringer, Suffolk, and his wife, Mary Spring (died 1774), daughter of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet of Pakenham and Hon. Merelina Jermyn, daughter of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn. His elder brother was academic John Symonds (1730–1807). According to Sir William Symonds' memoirs, the boys learned young that
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Pauline, Lady Trevelyan


Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet. Paulina (known as Pauline) Jermyn was the eldest child of George Bitton Jermyn (1789–1857), of Hawkedon Parsonage, who, to ensure the Jermyn surname survived, added it as her second Christian name. Her mother was of Huguenot descendancy. The marriage between artist Pauline Jermyn, the penniless daughter of a clergyman and the rich, teetotal, vegetarian Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan was an unlikely, but not surprisingly successful arrangement—their common interest in geology and art ensured their compatibility and the
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Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet


Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet (14 December 1562 – 1621) was an English baronet. Lionel was the son and heir of Lionel Tallemache (1545 – 11 Dec 1575) and his wife, Susanna, daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn of Rushbrooke, Suffolk. He was baptised 10 December 1562 at Helmingham. He served as High Sheriff of Suffolk 1592–93, 1608–09 and 1616–17, was created a Baronet, of Helmingham Hall in the County of Suffolk in the Baronetage of England, on 22 May 1611 and subsequently knighted at Whitehall
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John Symonds (academic)


John Symonds (23 January 1730 – 18 February 1807) was an English academic, who became professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge. Born at Horringer, Suffolk, he was the eldest son of Rev. John Symonds (died 1757), rector of the parish, by his wife, Mary Spring (died 1774), daughter of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet of Pakenham and Hon. Merelina Jermyn, daughter of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn. His younger brother was British Naval Captain Thomas Symonds, who
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Sir Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet


Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, 4th Baronet (died 7 April 1777) was an English Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London. He was the 4th son of Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet and the younger brother of Sir Abraham Janssen, 2nd Baronet. He succeeded his other elder brother Sir Henry Janssen, 3rd Baronet to the baronetcy in 1766. He was a London stationer and master of the Stationer's Company from 1749 to 1751. He was elected an Alderman of the city of London in 1749 (until 1765)
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Robert Sparrow (1741–1822)


Mary Bernard, daughter of Sir John Bernard, 4th Baronet, on 8 July 1771. Sparrow was returned as Member of Parliament for Bedford at the 1774 general election on the interest of his brother-in-law Sir Robert Bernard, 5th Baronet but was unseated on petition 23 March 1775. In his short period in Parliament he voted with Opposition on, 22 February 1775 regarding John Wilkes and does not appear to have spoken in the House Sparrow was High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1777-8. He considered standing at Bedford
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family


"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story in the horror fiction genre, written by American author H. P. Lovecraft in 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a reality which human understanding finds intolerable. The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose
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Sir David Gilmour, 4th Baronet


The Hon. Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet (born 14 November 1952) is a British author. Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, is the eldest son of Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch. HRH Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his christening. He became the 4th baronet on the death of his father in 2007. Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet


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. Williams-Wynn was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, Sir Watkin Williams-
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Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet


Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet (26 December 1729 – 27 March 1802) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1790. He was the oldest son of Sir Jacob Astley, 3rd Baronet and his second wife Lucy le Strange, youngest daughter of Sir Nicholas le Strange, 4th Baronet, and was baptised at Hindolveston in Norfolk three days after his birth. He was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1747. In 1760, Astley succeeded his father as baronet. He was appointed High
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Sir Walter Strickland, 9th Baronet


was the eldest son of Sir Charles Strickland, 8th Baronet (1819–1909), the only child of his first marriage to Georgina, daughter of Sir William Milner, 4th Baronet, but never formally used the title he inherited upon his father's death. In 1888, he married Eliza Vokes (1860–1946). A polyglot fluent in ancient and modern languages, he wrote several books and pamphlets and translated works of the Czech poet Vítězslav Hálek, as well as Molière and Horace. He has been linked with the Voynich manuscript.
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Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet


Sir John Shelley 4th Baronet (5 March 1692 – 1771) of Mitchelgrove, Sussex, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1747. Shelley was the eldest son of Sir John Shelley, 3rd Baronet and his second wife Mary Gage, daughter of Sir John Gage, 4th Baronet, of Firle, Sussex. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy on 25 April 1703. He was a Roman Catholic, who conformed to Anglicanism in 1716. He married Catherine Scawen, daughter of Sir
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Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet


Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet (3 February 1840 - 6 November 1901) of Drumboe Castle, County Donegal was a Baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland and High Sheriff of Donegal from 1884 to 1887. Hayes was born in 1840 the son of Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Emily Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham, a son of the Earl of Longford. He was educated at Harrow, and succeeded his father Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet as baronet in
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Sir Robert Fagg, 4th Baronet


Sir Robert Fagg (or Fagge), 4th Baronet (1704–1740), of Wiston, near Steyning, Sussex, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1740. Fagg was baptized on 20 September 1704, the third but only surviving son of Sir Robert Fagg, 3rd Baronet, of Wiston and his wife Christian Bishopp, daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, 4th Baronet, MP of Parham, Sussex. He married Sarah Ward, daughter of William Ward, MD of York in 1729. At
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Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet


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). The 4th Baronet was born at Bosworth Hall in 1700. The very rare but characteristic male given name Wolstan is a variant spelling of Wulstan, probably deriving from
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Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet


Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, 4th Baronet ("c." 1705 – 14 August 1775) was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Denbighshire. He was the son of Sir Thomas Cotton and his wife Philadelphia Lynch. He was the younger brother of the 3rd Baronet, Robert Salusbury Cotton who predeceased him without issue in 1748 and whom he thereby succeeded as 4th Baronet. He married a distant cousin, Elizabeth Abigail Cotton. In December 1749 he replaced, unopposed, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn as Knight of the Shire for
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Sir John Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet


Lieutenant General Sir John Shaw Stewart Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet (29 June 1772 – 29 January 1830), known as John Maxwell until 1803, was a Scottish officer in the British Army and a politician. He was the 4th son of Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet, of Springkell in Dumfriesshire. His mother Margaret was the daughter of Sir Michael Stewart, 3rd Baronet, of Blackhall, Renfrewshire. He joined the army in 1788 as an Ensign in the 68th Foot, rising to brevet Lieutenant colonel in 1797,
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Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet


, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Captain Roger Brettridge (1630–1683) of Castles Brettridge, Cope and Magner, Co. Cork and his wife Jane Hakby. Francis was the eldest son by his first marriage (to Elizabeth Jermyn of Gunton) of Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet, an eminent lawyer, originally from Norfolk, who was twice Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). Francis died in 1688, and Standish went to live with his grandfather, who was living in retirement in Herefordshire.
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Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet


Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet and 1st Baronet PC (27 March 1753 – 26 January 1811) was a Scottish politician. The second son of Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Baronet, he was knighted in 1797, raised to the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1798, and also succeeded as 4th Baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on the death of his elder brother, Philip, in 1808. He served as Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs, in Fife, from 1783–1790, 1796–1797 and 1806–1811, and for Cockermouth,
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Affeton Castle


Sir William Stucley (1836–1911), Sir Edward Stucley (1852–1927) and Sir Hugh Stucley, 4th Baronet (1873–1956), who lived at Moreton House. The 4th Baronet gave Affeton Castle to his son, Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet (1907–1983), in 1947. In 1956, Moreton Hall was sold off, and Affeton Castle became the main private residence of the Stucley baronets. Sir Dennis installed two bathrooms in the castle, where previously there were none. Sir Hugh Stucley, 6th Baronet (born 1945)
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Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet


Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet (21 July 1632 – 9 January 1689) was an English politician and baronet. Born at Fyling Hall, near Whitby in Yorkshire, he was the second son of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Twysden, daughter of Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet. Cholmeley succeeded his nephew as baronet in 1665. and was afterwards appointed Governor of Tangier in Morocco by King Charles II of England. From February to August 1679, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for
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Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet


Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet (died 1 March 1778) was an English aristocrat and politician. He was the only son of Sir Edmund Elwill, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Anne Speke, daughter of William Speke, of Beauchamp, Somerset. The third baronet was Comptroller of the Excise; he inherited the baronetcy from his childless elder brother Sir John Elwill, 2nd Baronet, on the latter's death on 10 September 1727. The fourth baronet inherited the Elwill baronetcy on his father's death on 2 February 1740.
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Sir Thomas Dereham, 4th Baronet


Sir Thomas Dereham, 4th Baronet (or Derham) (ca. 1678–1739) was an English baronet who spent most of his life in Italy, where he acted as an informal representative for the Old Pretender, known as James III to his supporters. Sir Thomas Dereham was born in West Dereham Abbey, Norfolk. He was the grandchild of Sir Thomas Dereham, 1st Baronet, who was made a baronet by Charles II of England on 8 June 1661. His father was Thomas's second son, Sir Richard Dereham, and
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Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet


Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet (1655 – 14 August 1696) was an English baronet and politician. He was the second son of Sir John Barker, 2nd Baronet and Winifred Parker, daughter of Sir Philip Parker. In 1665, he succeeded his older brother Jermy as baronet. Barker was educated at Merton College, Oxford. In 1680, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich until his death in 1696. Barker married Bridget Bacon, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon
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Sir Cholmeley Dering, 4th Baronet


Sir Cholmeley Dering, 4th Baronet (23 June 1679 – 9 May 1711) was an English politician and duellist. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet of Surrenden in Pluckley, Kent by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet of Whitby, Yorkshire. Cholmeley Dering was ten years old when he succeeded his father as baronet in 1689. Sir Cholmeley was the fourth successive head of the family to be MP for Kent. He was elected in 1705 to Queen Anne's second parliament,
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Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet


Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet DL (2 January 1818 – 25 March 1892) was a British politician and baronet. Born in Edinburgh, he was the oldest son of Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet and his wife Madeline Carnegie, daughter of Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet. In 1849, he succeeded his father as baronet. Agnew attended Harrow School and served then as cavalry officer. He rose to the rank of captain in the 4th Light Dragoons. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Wigtownshire in 1843 and Vice Lord
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Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland, 4th Baronet


Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland, 4th Baronet (born 1953) is a British aristocrat, landowner and hotelier. Philip Vyvyan Naylor-Leyland was born on 9 August 1953. His father was Sir Vivian Naylor-Leyland, 3rd Baronet (1924-1987) and his mother Hon Elizabeth-Anne Marie Gabrielle Fitzalan-Howard. His paternal grandfather was Sir Albert Naylor-Leyland, 2nd Baronet (1890-1952). His paternal great-grandfather was Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland, 1st Baronet (1864–1899), who
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Mount Wise, Plymouth


1696–1744). Sir John St Aubyn, 4th Baronet (1726–1772), was the son of Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet (1696–1744) by his wife Catherine Morice, sister and in her issue co-heoress of Sir William Morice, 3rd Baronet (–1750). The son of the 4th Baronet was Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet (1758–1839), the owner of the estate in 1810 when it was stated of his inheritance of Stoke Damerel and Mount Wise: "The value of this property has
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Sir Anthony Abdy, 5th Baronet


Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, 5th Baronet, KC (c. 1720 – 7 April 1775) was a British barrister and Whig politician. He was the eldest son of Sir William Abdy, 4th Baronet (of the 1641 creation) and his wife Mary Stotherd, daughter of Philip Stotherd. Abdy was educated at Felsted School and went then to St John's College, Cambridge. In 1750, he succeeded his father as baronet and in 1759 also inherited the estates of Sir John Abdy, 4th Baronet, the great-grandchild of
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Sir John Thorold, 4th Baronet


Sir John Thorold, 4th Baronet (1664 – 14 January 1715) of Marston Hall and Cranwell, Lincolnshire was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament representing either Grantham or Lincolnshire in a number of parliaments between 1697 and 1715. Thorold was born in 1664 to Anthony Thorold and his wife Grisel, daughter of Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet. Grandson of Sir William Thorold, 1st Baronet, he succeeded to the baronetcy after the death of his two brothers William and Anthony, the second and third baronets respectively,
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Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet


Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet (9 April 17193 February 1804) was a baronet and member of the British House of Commons for Northumberland. Blackett was the son of John Blackett of Newby Park (the second son of Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet) and his wife Patience Wise. He sold Newby Hall, Ripon, Yorkshire, the family seat since 1690, to William Welland in 1748. In 1756 he succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his uncle Sir Edward Blackett, 3rd Baronet. He was High Sheriff
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Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet


Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (6 February 1735 – 18 April 1828), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1796. The member of an ancient Cornwall family, Trevelyan was the only son of Sir George Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, of Nettlecombe, Somerset, whom he succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1768. He also inherited Northumbrian estates from his wife's uncle in 1777. Trevelyan was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset for 1777–78 and sat as Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-
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Sir William Drake, 4th Baronet


Sir William Drake, 4th Baronet (1658–1716), of Mount Drake, and Ashe House, Musbury, Devon, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1690 to 1715. Drake was a younger son of Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1675 and was awarded BA in 1679 and MA in 1683 from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1685 and succeeded his brother Bernard as 4th Baronet in 1687.He married in 1687,
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Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Carlton


Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Carlton (1702 – 14 June 1765) was a British politician. He was the only surviving son of Robert Palmer of Medbourne, Leicestershire and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He succeeded his father in 1724, and his uncle, Sir Geoffery Palmer, 3rd Baronet, as the 4th Baronet in 1732. His family seat was East Carlton Hall in Northamptonshire. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire from 1754 to 1765, having been returned unopposed in 1761.
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Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet


Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet (1657–1698) was an English Whig politician and baronet. Henry Hobart was the eldest son to Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet and his first wife Mary Hampden, daughter to John Hampden. He was knighted at Blickling by King Charles II of England in 1671 and succeeded his father as baronet in 1683. Hobart was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. On 9 July 1684, he married Elizabeth Maynard, eldest daughter to Sir Joseph Maynard, and had by her a son and three
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Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet


Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet (19 April 1721 – 18 January 1772)of Waltons, Ashdon, Essex was a British politician and baronet. He was the only son of Sir Henry Maynard, 3rd Baronet and his wife Catherine Gunter, daughter of George Gunter. In 1738, he succeeded his father as baronet. Maynard entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Essex in 1759, representing the constituency until 1772. On 13 August 1751, he married Charlotte Bisshopp, second daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp
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Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet, of Mildenhall


Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet (6 April 1672 – 10 July 1721) was an English politician. He was the oldest son of Sir Henry Bacon, 3rd Baronet and his wife Sarah Castleton, daughter of Sir John Castleton, 2nd Baronet. In 1686, he succeeded his father as baronet. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge. Between 1700 and 1708, Bacon represented Orford and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) in both the Parliaments of England and Great Britain. He served as High Sheriff of
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Sir George Burrard, 4th Baronet


Sir George Burrard, 4th Baronet (13 October 1805 – 7 September 1870) was a British politician. He was the only son of Sir George Burrard, 3rd Baronet and his first wife Elizabeth Anne Coppell, daughter of William Coppell. In 1856, he succeeded his father as baronet. Burrard was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lymington from 1828 to 1832. On 3 January 1830, he married Isabella Duckett, only daughter of Sir George Duckett, 2nd Baronet. Their marriage was childless. Burrard drowned, aged 65
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Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet


Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, 4th Baronet ("c." 1717 – 6 February 1764) was an English baronet and politician. He was the grandson of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, namesake of Downing Street; and cousin and heir of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet, whose Gamlingay estate would eventually establish Downing College, Cambridge despite illegal attempts by Jacob and his widow to prevent the university from receiving the estate. Downing was the oldest son of Charles Downing of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and Sarah Garrard. He
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Sir John Gladstone, 4th Baronet


Sir John Evelyn Gladstone, 4th Baronet (23 November 1855 – 12 February 1945) was the 4th Baronet of Fasque and Balfour. He succeeded to the title on 25 June 1926 on the death of his cousin, Sir John Robert Gladstone, the 3rd Baronet. He was the son of John Neilson Gladstone, an older brother of William Ewart Gladstone, who later became Prime Minister, and Elizabeth Honoria Bateson. He attended William Gladstone's state funeral in 1898. Gladstone was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Sir Robert Austen, 4th Baronet


Sir Robert Austen, 4th Baronet (6 October 1697 – 7 October 1743), of Hall Place, Bexley, Kent, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1728 and 1741. Austen was the son of Sir Robert Austen, 3rd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Stawell, daughter of George Stawell of Cothelstone Somerset. He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Austen of Hall Place in Bexley, Kent upon the death of his father on 5 July 1706 . He matriculated at Oriel College
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Sir James Johnstone, 4th Baronet


Sir James Johnstone, 4th Baronet (23 January 1726 – 3 September 1794)) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and then a politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain for all but one of the years 1784 to 1794. Sir James was the son of Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet and his wife Barabara, daughter of Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank. In about 1759 he married Louisa Maria Elizabeth Colclough, the widow of Rev. John Meyrick, vicar of Edwinstowe, East Retford,
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Sir Thomas Winnington, 4th Baronet


Sir Thomas Edward Winnington 4th Baronet (11 November 1811 – 18 June 1872) was an English Whig politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Winnington, 3rd Baronet, of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire. He served as Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1837–1847 and again in 1852–1868 and as High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1851–2. He married Helen, a daughter of Sir Compton Domvile, 1st Baronet, and was succeeded by their second son Sir Francis Salwey Winnington, their eldest son having predeceased
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Sir Nigel Gresley, 6th Baronet


Sir Nigel Gresley, 6th Baronet (c. 1727 - 7 April 1787) was an English land-owner, mine-owner and the builder of Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal. Gresley was the son of Sir Thomas Gresley, 4th Baronet and his first wife Dorothy Bowyer, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, 4th Baronet. He succeeded his brother who died of smallpox without issue in 1753. As well as Drakelow in Derbyshire, Gresley inherited from his mother's family Knypersley Hall at Biddulph, Staffordshire. He became High Sheriff of
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). In 1657 he married Jane Pole (born 1625), 4th daughter of Sir John Pole, 1st Baronet (died 1658) of Shute and Bromley St Leonard, Middlesex, and sister of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet. Mary Pole, the eldest daughter of Sir John Pole, 1st Baronet, and aunt of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet, in 1606 married (as her second husband) Francis Courtenay (1576–1638), "de jure" 4th Earl of Devon, lord of the manor of Powderham,
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Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet


Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton in Devon, inherited the Davie baronetcy and the Davie estates from his elder brother Sir John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660–1692), MP for Saltash 1679–85 and Sheriff of Devon in 1688, who died unmarried at the age of 32. He was the younger son of William Davie (1614-1663) of Dar.(?), barrister-at-law (second son of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (
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Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet


Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet (c. 169310 August 1755), , of Escot House in the parish of Talaton in Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1715 to 1754. Yonge was the son and heir of Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet, and his second wife Gwen Williams, daughter of Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet of Penryn, Cornwall. He was a great-great-grandson of Walter Yonge (1579–1649), a lawyer, merchant and notable diarist
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Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet


Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet (1755 – 15 July 1839) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was born the son of Sir John Ramsden, 3rd Baronet of Byram, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, whom he succeeded in 1769, inheriting the Manor of Huddersfield. He was educated at University College, Oxford (1774). An Act of Parliament (14 George III. Cap. 13) obtained on 9 March 1774, enabled "Sir John Ramsden, Baronet, to make and maintain a navigable Canal
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Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet


Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE (17 January 1761 – 23 June 1832) was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist. He was a Member of Parliament for St. Michael's borough (Mitchell, Cornwall) 1807–1812. Hall was born at Dunglass, East Lothian, to Magdalen (died 1763) ,daughter of Sir Robert Pringle, 3rd Baronet, of Stichill, Roxburghshire and Sir John Hall, 3rd Baronet (died 1776). He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh.
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Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet


Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet (2 July 1695 – 25 July 1764) was a British baronet and politician. Born in Blodwell in Shropshire, he was the oldest son of Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet and his wife Ursula, daughter of Roger Matthews. Bridgeman was educated at New College, Oxford and in 1713, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple. In 1723, he entered the British House of Commons, sitting for Shrewsbury in the next four years. He succeeded his father as baronet on
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Hunnic language


The Hunnic language, or Hunnish, was the language spoken by Huns in the Hunnic Empire, a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic tribal confederation which ruled much of Eastern Europe and invaded the West during the 4th and 5th centuries. A variety of languages were spoken within the Hun Empire. A contemporary report by Priscus has that Hunnish was spoken alongside Gothic and the languages of other tribes subjugated by the Huns. As no inscriptions or whole sentences in the Hunnic language have been preserved, written evidence for the language is very limited,
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Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet


Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet (25 December 1747 – 3 June 1800) was an English politician. He used the additional surname Vassall in the period 1795 to 1797. He was the son of Sir Godfrey Webster, 3rd Baronet and Elizabeth Cooper of Lockington, Derbyshire, and nephew of Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd Baronet. In January 1780 Webster was on a Sussex committee set up to support the reformist Yorkshire Association. In 1783 he was fighting in a Sussex reform meeting for a general petition. In 1786 he entered parliament
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Sir John Molesworth, 4th Baronet


Sir John Molesworth, 4th Baronet (1705–1766) of Pencarrow, Cornwall, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1734 and 1761. Molesworth was baptized on 28 February 1705, the eldest of Sir John Molesworth, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Jane Arscott daughter of John Arscott of Tetcott, Devon. In June 1723, he succeeded to the baronetcy and Pencarrow, on the death of his father. He married Barbara Morice, daughter of Sir Nicholas Morice, 2nd Baronet in 1728.
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Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke


Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (c.1668 – 1 August 1721) was a British court official and noble, the second wife of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke. The daughter of Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Dorothy Cradock. Barbara had two brothers: Sir Henry Slingsby, 3rd Baronet (c.1660-1691), and Sir Thomas Slingsby, 4th Baronet (c.1668-1726) She was married three times in all. Her first marriage was to Sir Richard Mauleverer, 4th Baronet, of
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Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Baronet


Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Baronet (c. 1674 – 3 April 1730) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1702 to 1705 and in the House of Commons of Great Britain variously between 1713 and 1730. Knatchbull was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Knatchbull, 3rd Baronet and his wife Mary Dering, daughter of Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet. In 1702, Knatchbull was elected Member of Parliament for Rochester and held the seat to 1705. In 1712, he succeeded his father in the
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Sir John Salusbury, 4th Baronet


Sir John Salusbury, 4th Baronet (died 23 May 1684) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1685. Salusbury was the son of Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet and his wife Hester, daughter of Sir Edward Tyrrell, 1st Baronet. He was a minor when he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother, Thomas, in 1658. In 1660, Salusbury was elected Member of Parliament for Denbigh Boroughs. He was re-elected MP for Denbigh in the two elections
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Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet


Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet (1689 – July 1732) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1732. He was the brother of Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet, an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. Richard Grosvenor was the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet. His two older brothers, Thomas and Roger, pre-deceased their father. At the time of his father's death in 1700 he was still being educated at Eton College, and
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Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet


Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet (5 November 1665 – 6 March 1701) was an English Member of Parliament. Brownlow was the younger son of Sir Richard Brownlow, 2nd Baronet, and Elizabeth Freke and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was elected to the House of Commons for Peterborough in 1689, a seat he held until 1698, and then represented Bishop's Castle from 1698 to 1700. In 1697 he succeeded his elder brother as fourth Baronet of Humby. Brownlow married firstly Dorothy, daughter of Sir
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Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet


Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet (12 October 1649 – 3 March 1709), of Whitehall, Westminster and Playford, Suffolk, was an English courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1690 and 1709 . Felton was the son of Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet of Playford, Suffolk and his wife Susanna Tollemache, daughter of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet, of Helmingham. Felton was a Page of Honour from 1665 to 1671 and became Groom of the Bedchamber in March 1671. He was appointed
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Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet


Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet (23 March 1669 – 6 August 1754), was a British Tory Member of Parliament. A member of an old Norfolk family, Wodehouse succeeded his grandfather Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet, in the baronetcy on 6 May 1681. He was the son of Thomas Wodehouse and Anne Airmine, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet. In 1695 he was elected to the House of Commons for Thetford, a seat he held until 1698 and again from 1701 to 1702
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Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet


Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet (1655–1730) was an English baronet from Devon. He was by profession a doctor of medicine. His great-great-great-grandson was Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818–1887). He was the 3rd son of Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet (1628–1688) of Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres, Devon, and later also of King's Nympton, Devon, by his second wife Elizabeth Godolphin (d. 1707), eldest daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin (
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Sir Thomas Style, 4th Baronet


Sir Thomas Style, 4th Baronet (c. 1685–1769), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for a short time in 1715. Style was the son of Sir Thomas Style, 2nd Baronet of Wateringbury and his second wife Margaret Twisden, daughter of Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Enfield, Middlesex under Mr Uvedale, and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, aged 19 on 13 September 1704. He succeeded his half-brother Oliver in the baronetcy on 12 February
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Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet


Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet (17 January 1639 – 4 December 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1667. Lee was the son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet, of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, and his wife Hon. Anne St. John, daughter of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, later Countess of Rochester. In 1659 he succeeded his brother Henry in the baronetcy. In 1660, Lee was elected Member of Parliament for Malmesbury in
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Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet


Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet (7 August 1693 – 4 October 1738), of Gillingham, Norfolk, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1738. Bacon was the eldest son of Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet of Mildenhall, and his first wife Philippa Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet of Redgrave. He attended school in Beccles and Bishop Stortford and was admitted at Caius College, Cambridge in 1710. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1714 and from
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Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Baronet


Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Baronet (1679 – 2 January 1759) of Odell, Bedfordshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1741. Alston was baptized on 6 September 1679, the fourth son of Sir Rowland Alston, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Temperance Crew, daughter of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew MP, of Stene. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his elder brother Sir Thomas Alston, 3rd Baronet, MP, in December 1714. By 1719
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Sir Henry Goring, 4th Baronet


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. Goring was born in 1679, fourth son of Captain Henry Goring (died 1685) of Wappingthorne, Sussex, and his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet, of Slaugham, Sussex. He married in 1714 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Matthew
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Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet


Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, 4th Baronet (16 October 1856–19 March 1919) was a Scottish mountaineer best known for his list of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), known as Munros. Munro was the fifth child of Sir Campbell Munro, 3rd Baronet and also a grandson of Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet of Lindertis. Munro was born on 16 October 1856 in London but was brought up in Scotland on the family estate of Lindertis near Kirriemuir in Angus. He was an avid hillwalker, and was a
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Sir John Evelyn, 4th Baronet


Sir John Evelyn, 4th Baronet (c. 1758 – 14 May 1833) was a British aristocrat. John was the eldest son of Charles Evelyn, by Philippa Wright, the daughter of Fortunatus Wright, the privateer. Charles Evelyn was the only son of another Charles Evelyn, who was the brother of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet, and the second son of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet of Wotton. The elder Charles, of Yarlington, Somerset, died aged 40 in January 1748, while the younger Charles died before
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Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet


Sir Oswald Mosley of Ancoats, 4th Baronet (25 September 1848 – 10 October 1915), was a British baronet. Mosley was born in Staffordshire in 1848 the eldest son of Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Baronet, of Ancoats (9 July 1813 – 28 April 1890), who succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Mosley, of Ancoats, on 24 May 1871, and wife Catherine Wood (died 22 April 1891), daughter of The Reverend John Wood of Swanwick, Derbyshire and Emily Susanna Bellairs (daughter of Abel
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Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 8th Baronet


Sir Windham Charles James Carmichael-Anstruther, 8th Baronet and 4th Baronet DL (1825 – 26 January 1898) was a Liberal Party politician and Scottish baronet. Born in Lincoln's Inn Fields, he was the son of Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet and his wife, daughter of Edward Brice. In 1831, he succeeded his nephew Windham in two baronetcies. Carmichael-Anstruther was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lanarkshire in 1846 and became major of the Lanarkshire County Militia. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for
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Sir Edward Denny, 4th Baronet


Sir Edward Denny, 4th Baronet (2 October 1796 – 13 June 1889) was an Anglo-Irish baronet and composer. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Denny, 3rd Baronet and Elizabeth Day, daughter of the Hon. Robert Day. In 1827, Denny became High Sheriff of Kerry. In 1831, he succeeded his father as baronet and inherited a substantial portion of Tralee. Denny remained unmarried throughout his life. His family motto "Act Mea Messis Erit" — "in age my harvest shall be"
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Sir John Chetwode, 4th Baronet


Sir John Chetwode, 4th Baronet (11 May 1764 – 17 December 1845) was a British politician and baronet. Born in Stockport, he was the only surviving son of Sir John Chetwode, 3rd Baronet and his wife Dorothy Bretland, third daughter of Thomas Bretland. In 1779, he succeeded his father as baronet. Chetwode was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1789. He entered the British House of Commons in 1815, sitting for Newcastle-under-Lyme until 1818. He represented Buckingham as Member of Parliament (MP)
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Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet


Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), PC (Ire) (1670 – 17 April 1732) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet and his wife Jane Boyle, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Boyle, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns. In 1691, Butler was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and in 1704, he succeeded his father as baronet. Butler represented Carlow County in the Irish House of Commons from 1703 to 1715
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Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet


Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet (10 July 1690 – 21 April 1720) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1720. Oxenden was the son of George Oxenden LLD master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and his wife Elizabeth Dixwell daughter of Sir Basil Dixwell Bt. He was admitted at Trinity Hall Cambridge on 6 January 1707. In 1709 he succeeded his uncle Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet in the baronetcy. His inheritance resulted in considerable litigation as the third baronet's will was contested
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Sir Cecil Bishopp, 4th Baronet


Sir Cecil Bishopp, 4th Baronet (c. 1635 - 3 June 1705) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1662. He was the brother of Sir Thomas Bishopp, 3rd Baronet (1627–1652). Bishopp was the son of Sir Edward Bishopp, 2nd Baronet of Parham and his wife 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
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Sir Francis Head, 4th Baronet


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) who died unmarried, and from whom Sir Francis inherited his title. Francis was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford University; matriculated 10 October 1712, B.A. 1716, M.A.1719. While at Oxford he was ordained into the Anglican church: deacon 24 May
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Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet


Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet (1696–1772) was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Gordon was the eldest son of Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet of Gordonstown and his second wife Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of Sir William Dunbar, 1st Baronet of Hempriggs, Caithness. His father died in 1704 and he succeeded to the baronetcy. His mother married secondly James Sutherland afterwards Dunbar who was Member of Parliament for Caithness from 1710 to 1713. Gordon was elected MP for Caithness at
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Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet


Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet (1671–1727) of Westwood, near Droitwich, Worcestershire was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1690 and 1727. Pakington was the only son of Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet and his wife Margaret Keyt, daughter of Sir John Keyt, 1st Baronet, of Ebrington, Gloucestershire. He matriculated at St John’s College, Oxford in 1688. Also in 1688, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy and Westwood House. He married Frances Parker,
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Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet


Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead (c. 1730 – 16 May 1783) was a British Member of Parliament. The son of Sir John Douglas, 3rd Baronet of Kelhead and his wife, Christian Cunningham, daughter of Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, 2nd Baronet, he was a descendant of Lady Catherine Douglas, sister of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry. He was educated at Glasgow University. He served as Member of Parliament for Dumfries Burghs between 1768 and 1780. He succeeded his uncle Charles Douglas to his
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Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet


Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet (5 September 1839 – 22 March 1909) was a Roman Catholic Anglo-Irish baronet and Liberal Party politician from County Kerry. Blennerhassett was the son of Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet, whose ancestors had settled in Kerry under Queen Elizabeth, and his wife Sarah Mahony. He was educated at Downside School, Stonyhurst College and Christ Church, Oxford. He then spent time at the Université catholique de Louvain, before travelling in Germany. In 1849, he succeeded his father as baronet.
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Sir Matthew Deane, 4th Baronet


Sir Matthew Deane, 4th Baronet (c. 1706 – 10 June 1751) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet and his wife Jane Sharpe, only daughter of Reverend William Sharpe. In 1747, he succeeded his father as baronet. Deane sat in the Irish House of Commons for Cork City from 1739 until his death in 1751. He married Salisbury Davis, daughter of Robert Davis. They had three daughters, but no male heir and so Deane was succeeded in
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Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet


Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of Llantarnam (1643 – 30 April 1718) was the younger son of Sir Edward Morgan, 1st Baronet. Morgan was born at Llantarnam Abbey, Llanvihangel Llantarnam, Monmouthshire, Wales. Upon the death of his nephew, Sir Edward, Morgan inherited the baronetcy but not his nephew's estate. His nephew considered him "a violent zealot" for the Church of Rome and was careful to prevent Morgan's succeeding to the estate; it went to Sir Edward's daughter Frances (Morgan) Bray
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Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet


Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet (28 May 1716 – 13 February 1797) was a British politician and member of the English gentry. Burdett was the posthumous son of Robert Burdett, son of Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet of Bramcote, Warwickshire. His mother was the Hon. Elizabeth, daughter of William Tracy, 4th Viscount Tracy. His father and grandfather both died in January 1716 and Burdett succeeded in the baronetcy at his birth in May 1716, four months after the death of his grandfather. He was educated as
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Sir Robert Davers, 2nd Baronet


one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer and of Pleas of Barbados. He inherited his father's baronetcy in 1684 and was pricked to serve as High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1685, but did not take up the role. He moved back permanently to England in 1687 and became the Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds in 1689. He sat in the Commons for the seat for a second term from 1703 to 1705, after which he was elected MP for Suffolk, holding that seat until his death in 1722.
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Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet


Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740 – 24 September 1815) was son of Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet and Sophia Mordaunt. He inherited his baronetcy from his father, who was the third Martin Baronet, upon his death in 1762. He lived in Burnham Market in Norfolk Sir Mordaunt was a marshall of the vice admiralty court in Jamaica. In 1808 he purchased Burnham Westgate Hall, which he built onto. In particular he built a number of farm buildings. A keen agriculturalist, he wrote many letters and
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