baronetcy

How To Use baronetcy In A Sentence

• His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg.
• He succeeded his cousin in 1959 to become the 8th holder of the baronetcy created in 1795. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• None of the bad publicity prevented him from inheriting a baronetcy - and the title Sir - when his father died last year.
• 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.
• He was rewarded for his faithful service by a baronetcy in 1660.
• Then again, this Oxford-educated public schoolboy is the heir to a baronetcy, which could explain his fondness for formal attire.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.