baronetcy

Shelley, born in 1792, belonged to a family of Sussex country gentry; a baronetcy bestowed on his grandfather during the poet's youth passed from his father after his own death to his descendants.

A word from me, and house, lands, baronetcy, were gone from him for ever--a word from me, and he was driven out into the world, a nameless, penniless, friendless outcast!

Even now, there was only that puling, sickly Pitt Crawley between Rawdon and a baronetcy; and should anything happen to the former, all would be well.

AFTER 250 years Debrett's, the encyclopedia of the peerage and baronetcy, has produced its final printed version.

"Bully" Bates was eventually expelled from the Commons for bribing the electorate, whereupon Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli rewarded him with a baronetcy. Bates died in 1896, aged 80.

He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1903 and several years earlier purchased the mansion house and policies of Blair Drummond which had been in the possession of the Drummond family for centuries.

Kedleston, until a few years ago the family home of the Scarsdale Baronetcy but is now in the care of the National Trust.

Even when Churchill, the consummate politician, reneged on a promised baronetcy, he raised no complaint.

Mark Thatcher, the son and heir of the baronetcy she bestowed on her husband, was always a national embarrassment.

Henry was an original subscriber to the endowment fund, set up by the former Birmingham Mayor Joseph Chamberlain, to establish the University of Birmingham, and in 1924 he received a baronetcy "for political services to Birmingham".

THE heir to a baronetcy was jailed yesterday for refusing to pay child support.

Awarded the Freedom of Huddersfield, he was said to have turned down a baronetcy as he had no wish to be known as anything other than plain Joe Woodhead.

Odd, given how little the heir to a 17th Century baronetcy and to the Osborne & Little wallpaper fortune has in common with the peasant girl played by Eleanor Tomlinson.

For your enlightenment PM in the recent budget Chancellor George Gideon Oliver Osborne, heir apparent to the Baronetcy of Ballentaylor, Waterford, Ireland, to give him his full title, gave an additional PS40m to the Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund to come into force as from April 2016.

Sir Henry, who, like others of his breed, led from the rear, was given a hero's welcome home, elevated to a baronetcy and awarded PS30,000, maybe a million in today's terms.