How To Use Baronetcy In A Sentence
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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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He succeeded his cousin in 1959 to become the 8th holder of the baronetcy created in 1795.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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His career was impressive, eventually earning him a baronetcy.
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He succeeded in the baronetcy in 1973 on the death of his father.
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In 1911 Osler received a baronetcy and became Sir William.
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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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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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Elgar received many honours, including a knighthood in 1904, the Order of Merit in 1911, and a baronetcy in 1931.
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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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In 1971, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy.
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The baronetcy was a recent one, and not unconnected with trade.
The Shuttle
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He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy.
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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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He succeeded his cousin in 1959 to become the 8th holder of the baronetcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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The baronetcy was awarded in 1360 and since then it has always fallen to men in the family.
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But he also was an implacable pacifist and refused a baronetcy from a monarch he disapproved of.
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