How To Use Baronet In A Sentence
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They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for.
The Fixed Period
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Upon the death of Charles, the third viscount without issue in 1739, the title of baronet devolved to Charles, elder son of Dr. William Graham, some time Dean of Carlisle, fourth son of Sir George, the second baronet; but it was not, we believe, for some years claimed, nor is any account of this family inserted in the baronetages of 1741 or 1773.
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Numps has sent for me to see poor little Greek and Latin hobble to the altar, but, 'tis a million to one, if our noble baronet does not whisk you there before her.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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He became physician general to the Army in the Austrian war of succession, was appointed physician to King George III, was knighted in 1762 and later received a baronetcy.
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The baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of promoting the "plantation" of that province, and James announced his intention of creating a hundred 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
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg.
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The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
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Sir John Smith baronet abandoned his son to his fate.
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It has been sought to obtain badges or other distinctions for baronets and also to purge the order of wrongful assumptions, an evil to which the baronetage of Nova Scotia is peculiarly exposed, owing to the dignity being descendible to collateral heirs male of the grantee as well as to those of his body.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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He succeeded in the baronetcy in 1973 on the death of his father.
Times, Sunday Times
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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Camilla again denied the charge, and strove to prevail with her to undeceive the Baronet from any false expectations.
Camilla
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His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
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Within ten weeks of his victory, Johnson was made a baronet, and soon thereafter was instated as Superintendent of the Northern Division of Indian Affairs.
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a Saxon knight known as Sir Ordgar, a "thegn," (1) or baronet, of
Historic Girls
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A baronetical crumb flung to my father because of a service to his political party.
My Friend the Chauffeur
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Burkes Peerage and Baronetage contains over one-hundred and eight thousand living persons and histories of two thousand four hundred families some stretching back as much as a thousand years.
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since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart.
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Theoretically the number of baronets and knights can be established at different periods, but this is not the case with the third and fourth categories of gentry, esquires and gentlemen.
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Sir John Smith baronet abandoned his son to his fate.
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The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind.
Nicholas Nickleby
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In 1911 Osler received a baronetcy and became Sir William.
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His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
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Knowl, so called in this county, but he had many other places, was of a very ancient lineage, who had refused a baronetage often, and it was said even a viscounty, being of a proud and defiant spirit, and thinking themselves higher in station and purer of blood than two-thirds of the nobility into whose ranks it was said, they had been invited to enter.
Uncle Silas
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Indiana was handed out by her new adorer, the young baronet; and Eugenia was assisted by her new assailer, the young nobleman.
Camilla
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The history of the baronetage was uneventful till 1783, when in consequence of the wrongful assumption of baronetcies, an old and then increasing evil,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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One was, that the baronet should deny that the calumnies were his; the other, that Sir Alexander should confess that the libel was but a poor joke, for which he was sorry.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
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He succeeded to the baronetcy of the Binns in 1973, but does not use his title.
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On his father's death in 1869 he inherited the baronetcy and the proprietorship of the Athenaeum and Notes and Queries.
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Mr. Walden in his heart, I dare say, was re-venged on the baronet.
Sir Charles Grandison
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He puts the rudest remarks Sir Percival can make on his effeminate tastes and amusements quietly away from him in that manner — always calling the baronet by his
The Woman in White
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What really marked the end of Webster fortunes was the policy pursued by the fourth and fifth baronets, both Godfreys.
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No earldom, baronetage, or knighthood protected him.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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For his financial and other services, Joshua Van Neck was created a baronet 14 December 1751.
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It has been sought to obtain badges or other distinctions for baronets and also to purge the order of wrongful assumptions, an evil to which the baronetage of Nova Scotia is peculiarly exposed, owing to the dignity being descendible to collateral heirs male of the grantee as well as to those of his body.
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In the courtyard I saw a little cart, with iron brakes underneath it, such as fastidious people use to deaden the jolting of the road; but few men under a lord or baronet would be so particular.
Lorna Doone
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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
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William did not assume his grandfather's title, which had lapsed on his death, but he did inherit the residue of the baronet's extensive property, and his mercantile and shipbuilding businesses at Kittery.
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The only catch in that is that Sonia might be there as the dowager baronetess, in which case she would insist on playing all the leading rôles.
Final Curtain
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Edgar, to whom this was communicated, saw with terror the ascendance thus acquired over her judgment as well as her affections, and became more watchful and more uneasy in observing the progress of this friendship, than all the flattering devoirs of the gay Baronet, or the more serious assiduities of the Major.
Camilla
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In the same year (1826), however, the death of Shelley's son by Harriet made little Percy a person of consequence as heir to the baronetcy, and her position improved.
Biography in the DNB
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The untitled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetage.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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“Then, sir,” said the baronet, giving me back my letter, “you must be a double-dyed villain.”
Tales of all countries
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The reader should recollect, that I have often called the public attention to the conduct of this said professed Jacobin Tailor; for instance, when Sir Francis Burdett left the Tower, and the procession was got up for him, Tailor Place undertook to attend, and to take the management of those who were on horseback; but when the time arrived, the Tailor _forgot to attend_, although he was one of the most violent against the Baronet, for going over the water and deceiving the people.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
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The earliest baronetcies date to the first half of the 14th century.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elgar received many honours, including a knighthood in 1904, the Order of Merit in 1911, and a baronetcy in 1931.
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All baronets are entitled to display in their coat of arms, either on a canton or on an inescutcheon, the red hand of Ulster, save those of Nova
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Some wreckage from the ship was recovered, it was properly decided that the presumptive heir to the baronetcy was lost at sea, and would not be returning.
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Orthodox art history tends to see Effie as a malign influence, eagerly propelling her docile husband down the path to mass acceptance, marchionesses' daughters and giving the public what it wanted—a long, craven process of "selling out" symbolized by the baronetcy that came his way in 1885.
A Far From Model Marriage
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It all started with the first baronet, who was Lord President of the Council and a most distinguished judge.
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Selden, indeed, points out that "the old stories" often have _baronetti_ for _bannereti_, and he points out that in France the title had become hereditary; but he himself is careful to say (p. 680) that banneret "hath no relation to this later title.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Indiana was handed out by her new adorer, the young baronet; and Eugenia was assisted by her new assailer, the young nobleman.
Camilla
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In 1971, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The baronetcy was a recent one, and not unconnected with trade.
The Shuttle
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Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester, used to ‘excuse himself for his much swearing by saying he swore as a baronet, and not as a bishop’!
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Peerages could be bought and impoverished baronets survive on the dubious value of their once good name.
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Was this indifference, or security? was she seeking to obtain in the Baronet a new adorer, or to excite jealousy, through his means, in an old one?
Camilla
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His career was impressive, eventually earning him a baronetcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The calico-printer and the cotton-master becomes, within two generations, the baronet and the big-wig’.
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His immensely successful career at the English court spans the reigns of five monarchs; he was knighted in 1692 and made a baronet in 1715.
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What had promised to be a splendid scandal looked like fizzling out like the dampest of squibs, and this damned baronet would walk away without a blot on his escutcheon ... or so it seemed to me just then.
Watershed
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There's one trust deposit yet to be divided between the Government and this sly old Indo-Scotch-man, and I fancy the empty honor of the baronetcy is a quid pro quo.
A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
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But this is a tedious digression to make, while Arthur and the baronet are putting on their Sunday "togs" and brushing up their Sunday "tiles" preparatory to going down to meet the 9.40 train from London.
The Master of the Shell
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He succeeded his cousin in 1959 to become the 8th holder of the baronetcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the existence of baronetages of England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom etc., it is to be regretted that these 15 individuals were not appointed to a ‘Baronetage of Canada’.
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LYNMERE, at tea-time, returned from his ride, with a fixed plan of frightening or disgusting the baronet from the alliance; with Eugenia, herself, he imagined the attempt would be vain, for he did not conceive it possible any woman who had eyes could be induced to reject him.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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They then separated; and as Folliard was passing through the hatch, he called the jailer into his own office, and strove to prevail upon him, not ineffectually, to smuggle in some wine and other comforts to the baronet.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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When he succeeded as fifth baronet in 1758 he was ready to rebuild the house.
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London, on the contrary, people laugh at the idea of a man pluming himself upon such distinctions without a difference: in town we have baronets of all sorts -- the "Heathcotes, and such large-acred men," Sir
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
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The young baronet, who now, though still entitled to be called young, was disfigured by the premature defeatures of a vicious life, mistrusted it all the more, when, on visiting the old hall, he was forced to recognize the improvements effected in the neighbouring property (that he should be forced to call it "_neighbouring_!") by the judicious administration of the new owner.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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In 1874 Elliot became the first of the coal industry's business leaders to receive a baronetcy.
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William did not assume his grandfather's title, which had lapsed on his death, but he did inherit the residue of the baronet's extensive property, and his mercantile and shipbuilding businesses at Kittery.
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Looking round my rooms one day and noting the amount of royal prints and portraits he said, ‘I don't approve of hereditary institutions’ and then somewhat impishly he added ‘except for baronets.’
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She expatiated upon the behaviour of young Mandlebert, in terms that filled the baronet with satisfaction, She exulted in the success of her own measures; and, sinking the circumstance of the intended impartiality of Edgar, enlarged upon his dancing, out of his turn, with Indiana, as at an event which manifested his serious designs beyond all possibility of mistake.
Camilla
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There are knights and baronets among them, men with prosperity and substantial income.
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The more Seabright gains in the public sphere (election to Parliament, a baronetcy, an offer of high office), the more he loses in his household.
Joanna Baillies Ecotopian Comedies
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He was created a baronet in 1885 and elected president of the RA in 1896.
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Her father Sir Reginald Sheffield 8th Baronet, squire of Normanby Park, Lincolnshire, was appointed a deputy lieutenant for what was then Humberside in 1985.
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Baronet descended in state, leaning upon the arm of the Apollo in plush and powder, who closed the shutters of the great coach, and mounted by the side of the coachman, laced and periwigged.
The Newcomes
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Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.
Vanity Fair
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His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid.
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Later he administered the affairs of the Duke of Kent, whose trustee he was, and his baronetcy was the first bestowed by Queen Victoria.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays
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In 1608 he was knighted, and was created a baronet in 1611, two years before his death.
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In that year, the Baronetage of England and the Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the Baronetage of Great Britain.
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Why does not some one publish a list of the young male nobility and baronetage, their names, weights, and probable fortunes?
The Newcomes
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Having previously declined a knighthood, Heaton was made a baronet in 1912.
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Lastingham, and might therefore be readily excused if he considered himself a person of some importance in a country where a baronetcy is the highest hereditary dignity, and where many of the existing
A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel
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What really marked the end of Webster fortunes was the policy pursued by the fourth and fifth baronets, both Godfreys.
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When he succeeded as fifth baronet in 1758 he was ready to rebuild the house.
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The baronetcy was awarded in 1360 and since then it has always fallen to men in the family.
Times, Sunday Times
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For through this partly we have attained to a knowledge of Dorothy's surroundings; and through the baronetages, peerages, and the invincible heaps of genealogical records, we have gathered some few actual facts necessary to be known of Dorothy's relations, her human surroundings, their lives and actions.
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These are dreadful days indeed, my worthy neighbour (this epithet indicated a rapid advance in the Baronets good graces) days when the bulwarks of society are shaken to their mighty base, and that rank, which forms, as it were, its highest grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture.
Chapter XLII
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A baronet and rear-admiral, Hood was Rodney's second at the battle of the Saints, and was severely critical of Rodney's failure to pursue the French.
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Even in Britain, ‘the workshop of the world’, the deference paid to landowners ensured that as late as the 1880s there were still 170 MPs who were the sons of peers or baronets.
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Strip away the fine fabrics and you couldn't tell a baronet from a binman.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he also was an implacable pacifist and refused a baronetcy from a monarch he disapproved of.
Times, Sunday Times
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House in Great Gaunt Street was quite rejuvenescent and ready for the reception of Sir Pitt and his family, when the Baronet came to
Vanity Fair
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'The King has been pleased to grant the dignity of a Baron of the kingdom of Great Britain to Sir Barnard Bray, Baronet; by the name stile and title of Baron Bray, of Bray hall in the county of Somerset; and to the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten.'
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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He was created baronet in 1903, baron in 1905, and viscount in 1917.
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Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.
Vanity Fair
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The family business prospered, however: in the year before the Civil War broke out, a cash-strapped Charles I created 128 baronets.
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While I was at university, my bitterest regret was not having been born the son of a duke, or at the very least a baronet.
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From the young person employed as housemaid, I gets what I take the liberty to call my ground-plan of the baronet's habits; beginning with his late breakfast, consisting chiefly of gunpowder tea and cayenne pepper, and ending with the scroop of his latch-key, to be heard any time from two in the morning to day-break.
Run to Earth A Novel
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Gazette for giving publicity to their sales; and he eloquently called upon the nobility of England, the baronetage of England, the revered clergy of England, the bar of England, the matrons, the daughters, the homes and hearths of England, to rally round the good old cause; and Bungay at the conclusion of the reading woke up from a second snooze in which he had indulged himself, and again said it was all right.
The History of Pendennis
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This page lists baronetcies, whether extant, extinct, dormant, unproven, under review, abeyant, or forfeit, in the baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy.
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He succeeded his cousin in 1959 to become the 8th holder of the baronetcy created in 1795.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural.
The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
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He was baronetized for his loyalty to the country
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Ferdinand, who had hitherto observed a strict neutrality, no sooner perceived them approach, than he leaped in between the disputants, that he might be found acting in the character of a peacemaker; and, indeed, by this time, victory had declared for the baronet, who had treated his antagonist with a cross-buttock, which laid him almost breathless on the floor.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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You might as well have enough issue to fill up all those subsidiary earldoms and baronetcies.
Times, Sunday Times
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His mother is the daughter of a baronet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the marble fireplace was a portrait, presumably of the baronet who had commissioned the house.
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He was now an author of world renown, a baronet, the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders.
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He had been supplanted, quoad doctor, in the house of this rich, eccentric, railway baronet, and he would show that he bore no malice on that account.
Doctor Thorne
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None of the bad publicity prevented him from inheriting a baronetcy - and the title Sir - when his father died last year.
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The 51-year-old inherited the baronetcy from his late father, Sir Denis, who had the hereditary title bestowed upon him after his wife ceased to be prime minister.
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He was rewarded for his faithful service by a baronetcy in 1660.
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Then again, this Oxford-educated public schoolboy is the heir to a baronetcy, which could explain his fondness for formal attire.
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This postwar English Home Counties childhood was a mixture of rather grand family, with a baronetcy somewhere vaguely in the background, of big houses with large gardens, and absolutely no money.
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Knighthoods are earned and so do not pass on to the next generation, with the exception of baronetcies.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the principal enemies of peace and justice in the world today are not hare-coursing baronets, but rapacious multinational corporations and their political emissaries.
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Very soon after, this anxiety was tinctured with a feeling more severe; he saw her spoken to negligently by Sir Sedley – he required, after what he had already himself deemed impertinence from the Baronet, that she should have assumed to him a distant dignity; but he perceived, on the contrary, that she answered him with pleasant alacrity, and, when not engaged by Mrs. Berlinton, attended to him, even with distinction.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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He was educated, he tells us, at expensive private schools, speaks with a languid upper-class voice, lives in a very nice house and has a semi-dormant baronetcy.
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He succeeded as fourth baronet in 1731.
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Both sides of the family were encrusted with baronetcies.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is the third baronet; his father died four months before he was born.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of all those knights and baronets, lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted upon the walls of the famous hall of the
The History of Pendennis
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Twenty minutes later I’d heard a detailed, if rushed, explanation of everything from the meaning of writs patent to the coup enacted by Margaret Thatcher when she managed to secure the title of baronet for her husband, thus ensuring a hereditary aristocratic status for her descendants prime ministers are traditionally granted life peerages, which are not hereditary.
Shaking the Family Tree
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The 51-year-old inherited the baronetcy from his late father, Sir Denis, who had the hereditary title bestowed upon him after his wife ceased to be prime minister.
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My father is a baronet.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, Simpson was awarded a baronetcy in 1866.
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It was a sadness with him that he had neither son nor any male relative: he was resigned to the baronetcy dying with him.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
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He is the heir to a baronetcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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His father was an English baronet who served at the court of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; his mother was the twenty-one-year-old only daughter of the Duke of Dalberg.
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British baronets don't say 'sure,' 'shucks' or vamoose. '
Malcolm Sage, Detective
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They are brothers; and the eldest is a baronet, has a good estate, a wife and three or four children.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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Yet whatever haste he made to the goal of ebriety, he was distanced by his brother baronet, who from the beginning of the party had made little other use of his mouth than to receive the glass, and now sunk down upon the floor, in a state of temporary annihilation.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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The baronet was a good deal disconcerted by his intimation, saying, that he must be a Goth and
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Lady Betty was very urgent with us to pass the evening with her; but we excused ourselves; and when we were in the coach, Mr. Reeves told me, that I should find the baronet a very troublesome and resolute lover, if I did not give him counte-nance.
Sir Charles Grandison
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He went to the House of Lords in 1974 as Labour's frontbench spokesman on social security, choosing Coslany, in Norwich, for his baronetcy.
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Over the marble fireplace was a portrait, presumably of the baronet who had commissioned the house.
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Over the marble fireplace was a portrait, presumably of the baronet who had commissioned the house.
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If my conjectures are right, the threats of the old muckworm father have shaken the crazy nerves of the baronet; and I half suspect there is something more of meaning at the bottom of this.
Anna St. Ives
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His eldest son was given a baronetcy in his honour.
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If you are the twenty-third baronet of Mortshire, you cannot pass your baronetcy to the street urchin you took in thirty years ago and raised as if he were your son.
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There are also reasons for connecting the portrait with one of a certain English baronet named Sheffield, who was likewise in
Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation
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Family documents and pictures show that the de Bertouch family can trace its baronetcy back at least to 1387.
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He was born in 1860 and two years later, on the death of his father, inherited the estate and baronetcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eight years later (30th of September 1619), the baronetage of Ireland was instituted, the king pledging himself not to create more than a hundred baronets.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Louis XVIII created a baronetcy for him in 1816.
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Offered a knighthood, Barrie mysteriously turned it down, only to accept a baronetcy later.
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Felton Elwell Hervey-Bathurst (1782-1819), was created a baronet in 1818, and on his death a year later the title descended to his brother, Frederick
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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By this time the second couple was ready to enter the lists: which were a young baronet, and that delicatest of charmers, the winning, tender Harriet.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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The baronet now began an harangue upon the happiness that would accrue from these double unions, for which he assured them they should have double remembrances, though the same preparations would do for both, as he meant they should take place at the same time, provided Mr. Edgar would have the obligingness to wait for a fair wind, which he was expecting every hour.
Camilla
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Oakes is bowsing out his jib with his brother baronet, as we sailors say, and I have hauled out of the line, without a signal.
The Two Admirals
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“I have seen Sir Richard in a devil of a passion, but never with me — no, no! Trust Sir Richard for not riding the high horse with me — a baronet is a baronet, but a bard is a bard; and that Sir Richard knows.”
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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He was educated, he tells us, at expensive private schools, speaks with a languid upper-class voice, lives in a very nice house and has a semi-dormant baronetcy.
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Mary Germain's husband, however, attains his Englishman's idea of happiness not in the form of a ‘baronetcy and an estate’, but the unexpected legacy of a marquisate and an estate.
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Her father, Sir Hugh Bell, was an industrialist baronet filled with the ideals of high Victorian liberalism, devotion to empire, and profit-these were not, to his mind, incompatible aims.
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Strong found the Baronet crying and drinking curacoa.
The History of Pendennis
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For she had her heart set on a baronet at least.
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) wanted to revive the rank of banneret, but got it confused with ‘baron’ and so came up with a new rank, that of baronet.
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In the palace Deuterium Boy was welcomed by scores of clerks and baronets, and was presented to the scarlet-masked king Hurturbrise himself.
