BARONETAGE
Last updated 18/09/2017 (24 Dec 2024)
Date	Type	Order	Name	Born	Died	Age
Names of baronets shown in blue have not yet been placed on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.
Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the baronet was baptised on that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the baronet was buried on that date.
MEYER of Shortgrove, Berks
18 Jul 1910	UK	1	Carl Meyer	23 Dec 1851	18 Dec 1922	70
18 Dec 1922		2	Frank Cecil Meyer MP for Great Yarmouth 1924‑1929 For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	7 May 1886	19 Oct 1935	49
19 Oct 1935		3	Anthony John Charles Meyer MP for Eton & Slough 1964‑1966, Flintshire West 1970‑1983 and Clwyd North West 1983‑1992	27 Oct 1920	24 Dec 2004	84
24 Dec 2004		4	Anthony Ashley Frank Meyer	23 Aug 1944
MEYRICK of Hinton Admiral, Hants
28 Jul 1791	GB		See "Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick"
MEYRICK of Bush House, Pembroke
5 May 1880	UK	1	Thomas Charlton Meyrick MP for Pembroke 1868‑1874	14 Mar 1837	30 Jul 1921	84
30 Jul 1921		2	Frederick Charlton Meyrick	7 Jul 1862	23 Feb 1932	69
23 Feb 1932		3	Thomas Frederick Meyrick	28 Nov 1899	23 Dec 1983	84
23 Dec 1983		4	David John Charlton Meyrick	2 Dec 1926	6 Feb 2004	77
6 Feb 2004		5	Timothy Thomas Charlton Meyrick	5 Nov 1963
MEYSEY-THOMPSON of Kirkby Hall, Yorks
26 Mar 1874	UK	1	Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson MP for Whitby 1859‑1865	11 Aug 1809	17 May 1874	64
17 May 1874		2	Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, later [1905] 1st Baron Knaresborough	30 Aug 1845	3 Mar 1929	83
3 Mar 1929		3	Algar de Clifford Charles Meysey‑Thompson	9 Nov 1885	11 Jan 1967	81
11 Jan 1967 to     10 Sep 2002		4	Humphrey Simon Meysey‑Thompson Extinct on his death	31 Mar 1935	10 Sep 2002	67
MICKLETHWAIT of Iridge Place, Sussex
27 Jul 1838 to     3 Sep 1853	UK	1	Sotherton Branthwayt Peckham Micklethwait Extinct on his death	30 May 1786	3 Sep 1853	67
MIDDLEBROOK of Oakwell, Yorks
4 Feb 1930	UK	1	Sir William Middlebrook MP for Leeds South 1908‑1922	22 Feb 1851	30 Jun 1936	85
30 Jun 1936 to     27 Feb 1971		2	Harold Middlebrook Extinct on his death	5 Oct 1887	27 Feb 1971	83
MIDDLEMORE of Selly Oak, Worcs
27 May 1919	UK	1	John Throgmorton Middlemore MP for Birmingham North 1899‑1918	9 Jun 1844	17 Oct 1925	81
17 Oct 1925 to     1 Jun 1987		2	William Hawkslow Middlemore Extinct on his death	10 Apr 1908	1 Jun 1987	79
MIDDLETON of Ruthyn, Denbigh
22 Oct 1622	E	1	Hugh Middleton MP for Denbigh 1604‑1611, 1614, 1621‑1622, 1624‑1625, 1625, 1626 and 1628‑1629	c 1555	7 Dec 1631
7 Dec 1631		2	William Middleton MP for Denbigh 1630 and 1647	10 Apr 1603	c 1652
c 1652		3	Hugh Middleton	c 1633	11 Dec 1675
Dec 1675		4	Hugh Middleton	6 Apr 1653	2 Feb 1701	47
Feb 1701		5	Hugh Middleton		16 Nov 1756
Nov 1756 to     c 1757		6	Hugh Middleton On his death the baronetcy became dormant	1 Dec 1723	c 1757
MIDDLETON of Leighton Hall, Lancs
24 Jun 1642 to     27 Feb 1673	E	1	George Middleton Extinct on his death	1600	27 Feb 1673	72
MIDDLETON of Belsay Castle, Northumberland
24 Oct 1662	E	1	William Middleton	c 1625	22 Mar 1690
Mar 1690		2	John Middleton	17 Mar 1678	17 Oct 1717	39
17 Oct 1717		3	William Middleton MP for Northumberland 1722‑1757	c 1700	29 Sep 1757
29 Sep 1757		4	John Lambert Middleton	14 Jun 1705	2 Mar 1768	62
2 Mar 1768		5	William Middleton MP for Northumberland 1774‑1795	6 Jun 1738	7 Jul 1795	57
7 Jul 1795		6	Charles Miles Lambert Middleton (Monck from 11 Feb 1799) MP for Northumberland 1812‑1820	7 Apr 1779	20 Jul 1867	88
20 Jul 1867		7	Arthur Edward Monck (Middleton from 12 Feb 1876) MP for Durham City 1874‑1880	12 Jan 1838	1 Apr 1933	95
1 Apr 1933		8	Charles Arthur Middleton	22 Oct 1873	22 Feb 1942	68
22 Feb 1942		9	Stephen Hugh Middleton	20 Jun 1909	4 Jan 1993	83
4 Jan 1993 to     16 Mar 1999		10	Lawrence Monck Middleton Extinct on his death	23 Oct 1912	16 Mar 1999	86
MIDDLETON of Hackney, Middlesex
6 Dec 1681 to     10 Mar 1702	E	1	Hugh Middleton Extinct on his death	c 1658	10 Mar 1702
MIDDLETON of the Navy
23 Oct 1781	GB	1	Charles Middleton, later [1805] 1st Baron Barham For information on the special remainder included in this creation, see the note at the foot of this page	14 Oct 1726	17 Jun 1813	86
17 Jun 1813		2	Gerard Noel Noel (Edwardes until 1798) MP for Maidstone 1784‑1788 and Rutland 1788‑1808 and 1814‑1838	17 Jul 1759	25 Feb 1838	78
25 Feb 1838		3	Charles Noel, 3rd Baron Barham He was subsequently created Earl of Gainsborough in 1841 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	2 Oct 1781	10 Jun 1866	84
MIDDLETON of Crowfield
12 May 1804	UK	1	William Fowle Middleton MP for Ipswich 1784‑1790 and 1803‑1806, and Hastings 1806‑1807	8 Nov 1748	26 Dec 1829	81
26 Dec 1829 to     2 May 1860		2	William Fowle Middleton Extinct on his death	19 Aug 1784	2 May 1860	74
MIDDLETON of Broke Hall, Suffolk
2 Nov 1813	UK		See "Broke-Middleton"
MILBANK of Well, Yorks and Hart, co. Durham
16 May 1882	UK	1	Frederick Acclom Milbank MP for Yorkshire North Riding 1865‑1885 and Richmond (Yorks) 1885‑1886	21 Apr 1820	28 Apr 1898	78
28 Apr 1898		2	Powlett Charles John Milbank MP for Radnorshire 1895‑1900; Lord Lieutenant Radnor 1895‑1918	1 May 1852	30 Jan 1918	65
30 Jan 1918		3	Frederick Richard Powlett Milbank	7 Sep 1881	29 Apr 1964	82
29 Apr 1964		4	Mark Vane Milbank	11 Jan 1907	4 Apr 1984	77
4 Apr 1984		5	Anthony Frederick Milbank	16 Aug 1939	3 Jul 2016	76
3 Jul 2016		6	Edward Mark Somerset Milbank	9 Apr 1973
MILBANKE of Halnaby, Yorks
7 Aug 1661	E	1	Mark Milbanke		1680
1680		2	Mark Milbanke MP for Richmond (Yorks) 1690‑1695	by 1660	May 1698
May 1698		3	Mark Milbanke		1705
1705		4	Ralph Milbanke		9 May 1748
9 May 1748		5	Ralph Milbanke MP for Scarborough 1754‑1761 and Richmond (Yorks) 1761‑1768	c 1721	8 Jan 1798
8 Jan 1798		6	Ralph Milbanke (Noel from 1815) MP for Durham County 1790‑1812	28 Jul 1747	19 Mar 1825	77
19 Mar 1825		7	John Peniston Milbanke For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	20 Aug 1776	27 Jul 1850	73
27 Jul 1850		8	John Ralph Milbanke (Milbanke‑Huskisson from 5 Mar 1866)	5 Nov 1800	30 Dec 1868	68
30 Dec 1868		9	Peniston Milbanke	14 Feb 1847	30 Nov 1899	52
30 Nov 1899		10	John Peniston Milbanke VC For further information on this baronet and VC winner, see the note at the foot of this page	9 Oct 1872	21 Aug 1915	42
21 Aug 1915		11	John Charles Peniston Milbanke	9 Jan 1902	1 Jun 1947	45
1 Jun 1947 to     24 Nov 1949		12	Ralph Mark Milbanke Extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	11 Apr 1907	24 Nov 1949	42
MILBORNE-SWINNERTON-PILKINGTON of Stanley, Yorks
29 Jun 1635	NS	1	Arthur Pilkington		5 Sep 1650
Sep 1650		2	Lyon Pilkington	14 Nov 1613	5 Nov 1684	70
Nov 1684		3	Lyon Pilkington	c 1660	7 Aug 1714
Aug 1714		4	Lyon Pilkington	5 Jun 1683	26 Jun 1716	33
Jun 1716		5	Lionel Pilkington MP for Horsham 1748‑1768	20 Jan 1707	11 Aug 1778	71
11 Aug 1778		6	Michael Pilkington	25 May 1715	6 Feb 1788	72
6 Feb 1788		7	Thomas Pilkington	7 Dec 1773	9 Jul 1811	37
9 Jul 1811		8	William Pilkington	14 Nov 1775	30 Sep 1850	74
30 Sep 1850		9	Thomas Edward Pilkington	19 Mar 1829	7 Jan 1854	24
7 Jan 1854		10	William Pilkington (Milborne-Swinnerton from 1837 and Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington from 1854)	8 Jun 1831	12 Nov 1855	24
12 Nov 1855		11	Lionel Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington	7 Jul 1835	25 Jun 1901	65
25 Jun 1901		12	Thomas Edward Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington	9 Dec 1857	17 Feb 1944	86
17 Feb 1944		13	Arthur William Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington	7 Apr 1898	24 Jul 1952	54
24 Jul 1952		14	Thomas Henry Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington	10 Mar 1934	17 Dec 2024	90
17 Dec 2024		15	Richard Arthur Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington	4 Sep 1964
MILBURN of Guyzance, Northumberland
30 Dec 1905	UK	1	John Davison Milburn	4 Aug 1851	10 Aug 1907	56
10 Aug 1907		2	Charles Stamp Milburn	5 Dec 1878	16 Jul 1917	38
16 Jul 1917		3	Leonard John Milburn	14 Feb 1884	17 Sep 1957	73
17 Sep 1957		4	John Nigel Milburn	22 Apr 1918	14 Jul 1985	67
14 Jul 1985		5	Anthony Rupert Milburn	17 Apr 1947
MILDMAY of Moulsham, Essex
29 Jun 1611 to     13 Feb 1626	E	1	Thomas Mildmay MP for Maldon 1593 Extinct on his death		13 Feb 1626
MILDMAY of Moulsham, Essex
5 Feb 1765 to     8 Aug 1771	GB	1	William Mildmay Extinct on his death	c 1706	8 Aug 1771
MILDMAY of Moulsham, Essex
9 Oct 1772	GB		See "St. John-Mildmay"
MILES of Leigh Court, Somerset
19 Apr 1859	UK	1	William Miles MP for Chippenham 1818‑1820, New Romney 1830‑1832 and Somerset East 1834‑1865	18 May 1797	17 Jun 1878	81
17 Jun 1878		2	Philip John William Miles MP for Somerset East 1878‑1885	2 Sep 1825	5 Jun 1888	62
5 Jun 1888		3	Cecil Leopold Miles	7 Aug 1873	25 Oct 1898	25
25 Oct 1898		4	Henry Robert William Miles	6 Jan 1843	7 Feb 1915	72
7 Feb 1915		5	Charles William Miles	7 Jul 1883	28 Dec 1966	83
28 Dec 1966		6	William Napier Maurice Miles	19 Oct 1913	29 Dec 2010	97
29 Dec 2010		7	Philip John Miles	10 Aug 1953
MILL of Camois Court, Sussex
31 Dec 1619	E	1	John Mill MP for Southampton 1624‑1625, 1625, 1626 and 1640		Jul 1648
Jul 1648		2	John Mill		1670
1670		3	John Mill	1 Jun 1661	c 1687
c 1687		4	John Mill	9 Jul 1681	c 1706
c 1706		5	Richard Mill MP for Midhurst 1721‑1722 and 1729‑1734, Penrhyn 1734‑1741 and Horsham 1741‑1747	c 1689	16 May 1760	69
16 May 1760		6	Richard Mill MP for Hampshire 1765‑1768	c 1717	17 Mar 1770
17 Mar 1770		7	John Hoby Mill-Hoby	20 May 1719	Jul 1780	61
Jul 1780		8	Henry Mill		Nov 1781
Nov 1781		9	Charles Mill		19 Jul 1792	70
19 Jul 1792 to     25 Feb 1835		10	Charles Mill Extinct on his death	1765	25 Feb 1835	69
MILL of Mottisfont, Hants
16 Mar 1836	UK		See "Barker-Mill"
MILLAIS of Palace Gate, Middlesex and St. Ouen, Jersey
16 Jul 1885	UK	1	John Everett Millais	8 Jun 1829	13 Aug 1896	67
13 Aug 1896		2	Everett Millais	30 May 1856	7 Sep 1897	41
7 Sep 1897		3	John Everett Millais	28 Nov 1888	30 Sep 1920	31
30 Sep 1920		4	Geoffroy William Millais	18 Sep 1863	7 Nov 1941	78
7 Nov 1941		5	Ralph Regnault Millais	4 Mar 1905	14 May 1992	87
14 May 1992		6	Geoffroy Richard Everett Millais	27 Dec 1941
MILLER of Oxenhoath, Kent
13 Oct 1660	E	1	Humphrey Miller		Aug 1709
Aug 1709 to     1714		2	Borlase Miller Extinct on his death		1714
MILLER of Chichester, Sussex
29 Oct 1705	E	1	Thomas Miller MP for Chichester 1689‑1695	c 1635	2 Dec 1705
2 Dec 1705		2	John Miller MP for Chichester 1698‑1700, 1701‑1705 and 1710‑1713 and Sussex 1701	21 Nov 1665	29 Nov 1721	56
29 Nov 1721		3	Thomas Miller MP for Chichester 1715‑1727	c 1688	Nov 1733
Nov 1733		4	John Miller		19 Apr 1772
19 Apr 1772		5	Thomas Miller MP for Lewes 1774‑1778 and Portsmouth 1806‑1816	5 May 1731	4 Sep 1816	85
4 Sep 1816		6	Thomas Combe Miller	1780	29 Jun 1864	83
29 Jun 1864		7	Charles Hayes Miller	6 Feb 1829	12 Jan 1868	38
12 Jan 1868		8	Charles John Hubert Miller	12 Sep 1858	4 Oct 1940	82
4 Oct 1940		9	Henry Holmes Miller	15 Dec 1865	13 Nov 1952	86
13 Nov 1952		10	Ernest Henry John Miller	8 May 1897	22 Apr 1960	62
22 Apr 1960		11	John Holmes Miller	1925	27 Dec 1995	70
27 Dec 1995		12	Harry Holmes Miller	15 Jan 1927	28 Dec 2007	80
28 Dec 2007		13	Anthony Thomas Miller	4 May 1955
MILLER of Ballicasey, Clare
24 Aug 1778	I		See "Riggs-Miller"
MILLER of Glenlee, Kirkcudbright
3 Mar 1788	GB	1	Thomas Miller MP for Dumfries Burghs 1761‑1766; Solicitor General [S] 1759	3 Nov 1717	27 Sep 1789	71
27 Sep 1789		2	William Miller MP for Edinburgh 1780‑1781	12 Aug 1755	9 May 1846	90
9 May 1846		3	William Miller	12 Sep 1815	30 Oct 1861	46
30 Oct 1861		4	Thomas Macdonald Miller	1 Jan 1846	4 Sep 1875	29
4 Sep 1875		5	William Frederick Miller	7 Apr 1868	20 Dec 1948	80
20 Dec 1948		6	Alastair George Lionel Joseph Miller For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	5 Mar 1893	1 Apr 1964	71
1 Apr 1964		7	Frederick William Macdonald Miller	21 Mar 1920	19 Jun 1991	71
19 Jun 1991		8	Stephen William Macdonald Miller	20 Jun 1953
MILLER of Manderston, Berwick
24 Mar 1874	UK	1	William Miller MP for Leith Burghs 1859‑1868 and Berwickshire 1873‑1874	25 Mar 1809	10 Oct 1887	78
10 Oct 1887		2	James Percy Miller	22 Oct 1864	22 Jan 1906	41
22 Jan 1906 to     16 Feb 1918		3	John Alexander Miller Extinct on his death	27 Sep 1867	16 Feb 1918	50
MILLER of Cleeve, Perth
7 Feb 1936	UK		See "Norie-Miller"
MILLIKIN-NAPIER of Merchistoun, Midlothian
2 Mar 1627	NS		See "Napier"
MILLS of Hillingdon Court and Camelford House, Park Lane, Middlesex
17 Nov 1868	UK	1	Charles Mills	23 Jan 1792	4 Oct 1872	80
4 Oct 1872		2	Charles Henry Mills He was subsequently created Baron Hillingdon in 1886 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1982	26 Apr 1830	3 Apr 1898	67
MILLS of Ebbw Vale, Monmouth
31 Jan 1921	UK	1	Frederick Mills MP for Leyton East 1931‑1945	23 Apr 1865	22 Dec 1953	88
31 Dec 1953		2	Frederick Leighton Victor Mills	14 Mar 1893	21 Apr 1955	62
21 Apr 1955		3	Peter Frederick Leighton Mills	9 Jul 1924	30 Jun 2021	96
30 Jun 2021		4	Michael Victor Leighton Mills	30 Aug 1957
MILLS of Alcester, Warwicks
1 Jul 1953	UK	1	Sir Percy Herbert Mills He was subsequently created Baron Mills in 1957 with which title the baronetcy then merged	4 Jan 1890	10 Sep 1968	78
MILMAN of Levaton-in-Woodland, Devon
28 Nov 1800	GB	1	Francis Milman	31 Aug 1746	24 Jun 1821	74
24 Jun 1821		2	William George Milman	10 Apr 1781	21 Aug 1857	76
21 Aug 1857		3	William Milman	21 Nov 1813	17 Jun 1885	71
17 Jun 1885		4	Francis John Milman	10 Aug 1842	2 Jun 1922	79
2 Jun 1922		5	Francis Milman	27 Oct 1872	10 Oct 1946	73
10 Oct 1946		6	William Ernest Milman	11 Aug 1875	30 Aug 1962	87
30 Aug 1962		7	Lionel Charles Patrick Milman	23 Feb 1877	2 Nov 1962	85
2 Nov 1962		8	Dermot Lionel Kennedy Milman	24 Oct 1912	13 Jan 1990	77
13 Jan 1990		9	Derek Milman	23 Jun 1918	12 May 1999	80
12 May 1999		10	David Patrick Milman	24 Aug 1945
MILNE of Barnton, Dumfries
19 Mar 1686	NS	1	Robert Milne		c 1730
c 1730 to     11 May 1791		2	John Milne On his death the baronetcy became either extinct or dormant	c 1701	11 May 1791
MILNE of Inveresk, Midlothian
1 Nov 1876	UK	1	Sir Alexander Milne	10 Nov 1806	29 Dec 1896	90
29 Dec 1896 to     5 Jul 1938		2	Archibald Berkeley Milne Extinct on his death	2 Jun 1855	5 Jul 1938	83
MILNE-WATSON of Ashley, Dorset
11 Jun 1937	UK	1	Sir David Milne-Watson	10 Mar 1869	3 Oct 1945	76
3 Oct 1945		2	David Ronald Milne-Watson	15 Jul 1904	15 Jun 1982	77
15 Jun 1982		3	Michael Milne-Watson	16 Feb 1910	27 Apr 1999	89
27 Apr 1999		4	Andrew Michael Milne-Watson	10 Nov 1944	20 Jun 2024	89
20 Jun 2024		5	David Alistair Milne-Watson	24 Aug 1971
MILNER of Nun Appleton Hall, Yorks
26 Feb 1717	GB	1	William Milner MP for York 1722‑1734	c 1696	23 Nov 1745
23 Nov 1745		2	William Milner	c 1725	8 Nov 1774
8 Nov 1774		3	William Mordaunt Milner MP for York 1790‑1811	6 Oct 1754	9 Sep 1811	56
9 Sep 1811		4	William Mordaunt Sturt Milner	1 Oct 1779	25 Mar 1855	75
25 Mar 1855		5	William Mordaunt Edward Milner MP for York 1848‑1857	20 Jun 1820	12 Feb 1867	46
12 Feb 1867		6	William Mordaunt Milner	10 May 1848	14 Apr 1880	31
14 Apr 1880		7	Frederick George Milner MP for York 1883‑1885 and Bassetlaw 1890‑1906; PC 1900	7 Nov 1849	8 Jun 1931	81
8 Jun 1931		8	William Frederick Victor Mordaunt Milner	2 Oct 1893	29 Mar 1960	66
29 Mar 1960		9	George Edward Mordaunt Milner	7 Feb 1911	18 Dec 1995	84
18 Dec 1995		10	Timothy William Lycett Milner	11 Oct 1936
MILNES of Gauley, Leics
21 Mar 1801	UK	1	Robert Shore Milnes	1747	2 Dec 1837	90
2 Dec 1837 to     1841		2	John Bentinck Milnes Extinct on his death	19 Sep 1786	1841	54
MILNES-COATES of Helperby Hall, Yorks
29 Jun 1911	UK	1	Edward Feetham Coates MP for Lewisham 1903‑1918 and Lewisham West 1918‑1921	28 Feb 1853	14 Aug 1921	68
14 Aug 1921		2	Clive Coates (Milnes-Coates from Mar 1946)	21 May 1879	4 Sep 1971	92
4 Sep 1971		3	Robert Edward James Clive Milnes‑Coates	27 Sep 1907	9 May 1982	74
9 May 1982		4	Anthony Robert Milnes-Coates	8 Dec 1948
MITCHELL of West Shore, Shetland Islands
19 Jun 1724	NS	1	John Mitchell		31 May 1739
31 May 1739		2	Andrew Mitchell	c 1706	29 Jun 1764
29 Jun 1764 to     5 Dec 1783		3	John Mitchell On his death the baronetcy is generally thought to have become either extinct or dormant, but a descendant of the 1st baronet was able to prove his descent in 1895. For further information, see the note at the foot of this page	24 Sep 1734	5 Dec 1783	49
MITCHELL of Tulliallan, Fife
6 Sep 1945 to     8 Apr 1983	UK	1	Harold Paton Mitchell MP for Brentford & Chiswick 1931‑1945 Extinct on his death	21 May 1900	8 Apr 1983	82
MITCHELL COTTS of Coldharbour, Sussex
15 Jun 1921	UK	1	Sir William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts MP for Western Isles 1922‑1923	15 Jul 1871	20 Jan 1932	60
20 Jan 1932		2	William Campbell Cotts (Mitchell‑Cotts from 9 Feb 1932)	12 Apr 1902	20 Feb 1964	61
20 Feb 1964		3	Robert Crichton Mitchell Cotts	22 Oct 1903	17 Jan 1995	91
17 Jan 1995		4	Richard Crichton Mitchell Cotts	26 Jul 1946
MITCHELL-THOMSON of Polmood, Peebles
26 Sep 1900	UK	1	Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson	15 Dec 1846	15 Nov 1918	71
15 Nov 1918		2	William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson He was subsequently created Baron Selsdon in 1932 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	15 Apr 1877	24 Dec 1938	61
MITCHELSON of Rotherfield, Sussex
24 Jun 1920 to     30 Dec 1945	UK	1	Archibald Mitchelson Extinct on his death	1 Apr 1878	30 Dec 1945	67
MODYFORD of London
16 Feb 1661	E	1	James Modyford	c 1625	13 Jan 1673
Jan 1673 to     Nov 1678		2	Thomas Modyford Extinct on his death		5 Nov 1678
MODYFORD of Lincolns Inn, London
1 Mar 1664	E	1	Thomas Modyford Governor of Jamaica 1664‑1670	c 1618	2 Sep 1679
2 Sep 1679		2	Thomas Modyford		19 Oct 1679
19 Oct 1679		3	Charles Modyford		22 Jul 1687
Jul 1687		4	Norton Modyford	25 Jan 1674	14 Oct 1690	16
Oct 1690 to     30 Jul 1702		5	Thomas Modyford Extinct on his death	10 Mar 1679	30 Jul 1702	23
MOHUN of Boconnoc, Cornwall
25 Nov 1611	E	1	Reginald Mohun MP for East Looe 1614 and Lostwithiel 1625	c 1564	26 Dec 1639
26 Dec 1639		2	John Mohun He had previously been created Baron Mohun of Okehampton in 1628 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1712	1595	28 Nov 1640	45
MOIR of Longford, Notts
18 Jun 1636 to     Jul 1644	NS	1	Edward Moir On his death the baronetcy became either extinct or dormant	c 1610	1 Aug 1644
MOIR of Whitehanger, Sussex
11 Jul 1916	UK	1	Ernest William Moir	9 Jun 1862	14 Jun 1933	71
14 Jun 1933		2	Arrol Moir	16 Sep 1894	8 Aug 1957	62
8 Aug 1957		3	Ernest Ian Royds Moir	9 Jun 1925	5 Aug 1998	73
5 Aug 1998		4	Christopher Ernest Moir	22 May 1955
MOLESWORTH-ST. AUBYN of Pencarrow, Cornwall
19 Jul 1689	E	1	Hender Molesworth Governor of Jamaica 1688‑1689	c 1638	27 Jul 1689
27 Jul 1689		2	John Molesworth MP for Lostwithiel 1701‑1705 and Bossiney 1701‑1702	27 May 1635	18 Oct 1716	81
Oct 1716		3	John Molesworth	23 Jun 1668	20 Jun 1723	54
Jun 1723		4	John Molesworth MP for Newport (Cornwall) 1734‑1741 and Cornwall 1744‑1761	28 Feb 1705	4 Apr 1766	61
4 Apr 1766		5	John Molesworth MP for Cornwall 1765‑1775	12 Mar 1729	20 Oct 1775	46
20 Oct 1775		6	William Molesworth MP for Cornwall 1784‑1790	30 Jun 1758	22 Feb 1798	39
22 Feb 1798		7	Arscott Ourry Molesworth	1789	26 Dec 1823	34
26 Dec 1823		8	William Molesworth MP for Cornwall East 1832‑1837, Leeds 1837‑1841 and Southwark 1845‑1855; Colonial Secretary 1855; PC 1852	23 May 1810	22 Oct 1855	45
22 Oct 1855		9	Hugh Henry Molesworth	13 Oct 1818	6 Jan 1862	43
6 Jan 1862		10	Paul William Molesworth	13 Jan 1821	23 Dec 1889	68
23 Dec 1889		11	Lewis William Molesworth MP for Bodmin 1900‑1906 For information on the death of his widow, see the note at the foot of this pag	31 Oct 1853	29 May 1912	58
29 May 1912		12	St. Aubyn Hender Molesworth‑St. Aubyn	27 Dec 1833	18 May 1913	79
18 May 1913		13	Hugh Molesworth-St. Aubyn	3 Jan 1865	5 Jan 1942	77
5 Jan 1942		14	John Molesworth-St. Aubyn	12 Jan 1899	15 Nov 1985	86
15 Nov 1985		15	John Arscott Molesworth-St. Aubyn	15 Dec 1926	22 Apr 1998	71
22 Apr 1998		16	William Molesworth-St. Aubyn	23 Nov 1958
MOLONY of Dublin
21 Jan 1925	UK	1	Thomas Francis Molony Solicitor General [I] 1912‑1913; Attorney General [I] 1913; Lord Chief Justice [I] 1918‑1924; PC [I] 1913	31 Jan 1865	3 Sep 1949	84
3 Sep 1949		2	Hugh Francis Molony	2 Sep 1900	31 Mar 1976	75
31 Mar 1976		3	Thomas Desmond Molony	13 Mar 1937	3 Oct 2014	77
3 Oct 2014		4	Peter John Molony	17 Aug 1937	18 Nov 2019	82
30 Jun 2021		5	John Benjamin Molony	19 Oct 1966
MOLYNEUX of Sefton, Lancs
22 May 1611	E	1	Richard Molyneux MP for Lancashire 1584‑1585, 1593 and 1604‑1611	c 1560	8 Feb 1622
Feb 1622		2	Richard Molyneux He was subsequently created Viscount Molyneux in 1628 with which title the baronetcy then merged. The ninth Viscount was created Earl of Sefton in 1771. The baronetcy continued united with the Earldom until its extinction in 1972	21 Feb 1594	8 May 1636	42
MOLYNEUX of Teversall, Notts
29 Jun 1611	E	1	John Molyneux		before 1618
before 1618		2	Francis Molyneux	1602	12 Oct 1674	72
12 Oct 1674		3	John Molyneux	1625	Oct 1691	66
Oct 1691		4	Francis Molyneux MP for Newark 1693‑1700 and Nottinghamshire 1701‑1705	c 1656	12 Mar 1742
12 Mar 1742		5	Charles Molyneux		28 Jul 1764
28 Jul 1764		6	William Molyneux		May 1781
May 1781 to     9 Jun 1812		7	Francis Molyneux Extinct on his death	before 1737	9 Jun 1812
MOLYNEUX of Castle Dillon, Armagh
4 Jul 1730	I	1	Thomas Molyneux MP [I] for Ratoath 1695‑1699	14 Apr 1661	19 Oct 1733	72
19 Oct 1733		2	Daniel Molyneux	1708	1738	30
1738		3	Capel Molyneux MP [I] for Clogher 1761‑1768 and 1776‑1783, and Dublin University 1768‑1776; PC [I] 1776	1717	Aug 1797	80
Aug 1797		4	Capel Molyneux	30 Mar 1750	3 Dec 1832	82
3 Dec 1832		5	Thomas Molyneux	26 Dec 1767	26 Nov 1841	73
26 Nov 1841		6	George King Adlercron Molyneux	17 Oct 1813	25 Jan 1848	34
25 Jan 1848		7	Capel Molyneux	1841	24 Jan 1879	37
24 Jan 1879		8	John William Henry Molyneux	28 Jan 1819	5 Mar 1879	60
5 Mar 1879		9	John Charles Molyneux	27 Jun 1843	26 Aug 1928	85
26 Aug 1928 to     26 Dec 1940		10	Ernest Molyneux Extinct on his death	15 Jul 1865	26 Dec 1940	75
MONCREIFF of Moncreiff, Perth
22 Apr 1626	NS	1	John Moncreiff		c 1651
c 1651		2	John Moncreiff		1674
1674		3	David Moncreiff		c 1690
c 1690		4	James Moncreiff		1698
1698		5	John Moncreiff	c 1628	27 Apr 1714
27 Apr 1714		6	Hugh Moncreiff		1744
1744		7	William Moncreiff		9 Dec 1767
9 Dec 1767		8	Henry Moncreiff-Wellwood	7 Feb 1750	9 Aug 1827	77
9 Aug 1827		9	James Wellwood-Moncreiff	c 1776	4 Apr 1851
4 Apr 1851		10	Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff	12 May 1809	3 Nov 1883	74
3 Nov 1883		11	Sir James Moncreiff, 1st baronet He had previously been created Baron Moncreiff in 1874 with which title the baronetcy remains merged, although, as at 30/06/2014, the baronetcy does not appear on the Official Roll of the Baronetage	29 Nov 1811	27 Apr 1895	83
MONCREIFF of Tullibole, Perth
23 May 1871	UK	1	James Moncreiff He was subsequently created Baron Moncreiff in 1874 with which title the baronetcy remains merged, although, as at 30/06/2014, the baronetcy does not appear on the Official Roll of the Baronetage	29 Nov 1811	27 Apr 1895	83
MONCREIFFE of that Ilk
30 Nov 1685	NS	1	Thomas Moncreiffe	c 1627	15 Jan 1715
15 Jan 1715		2	Thomas Moncreiffe		May 1738
May 1738		3	Thomas Moncreiffe	31 Dec 1704	8 May 1739	34
May 1739		4	Thomas Moncreiffe	11 Feb 1732	28 Sep 1784	52
28 Sep 1784		5	Thomas Moncreiffe	7 Jun 1758	26 Mar 1818	59
26 Mar 1818		6	David Moncreiffe	31 Dec 1788	20 Nov 1830	41
20 Nov 1830		7	Thomas Moncreiffe	9 Jan 1822	15 Aug 1879	57
15 Aug 1879		8	Robert Drummond Moncreiffe	3 Nov 1856	8 Jun 1931	74
8 Jun 1931		9	John Robert Guy Moncreiffe	30 Jun 1884	7 Sep 1934	50
7 Sep 1934		10	David Gerald Moncreiffe For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	29 Jul 1922	17 Nov 1957	35
17 Nov 1957		11	Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe	9 Apr 1919	27 Feb 1985	65
27 Feb 1985		12	Merlin Sereld Victor Gilbert Hay He had previously succeeded to the Earldom of Erroll in 1978 with which title the baronetcy then merged	20 Apr 1948
MOND of Hartford Hill, Cheshire
8 Jul 1910	UK	1	Alfred Moritz Mond He was subsequently created Baron Melchett in 1928 with which title the baronetcy merged until its extinction in 2018	23 Oct 1868	27 Dec 1930	62
MONEY of Horn House, Hereford
1838	UK		See "Kyrle-Money"
MONINS of Waldershare, Kent
29 Jun 1611	E	1	William Monins		24 Feb 1643
24 Feb 1643		2	Edward Monins	c 1600	1663
1663 to     1678		3	Thomas Monins Extinct on his death	c 1604	1678
MONOUX of Wotton, Beds
4 Dec 1660	E	1	Humphrey Monoux		4 Feb 1676
Feb 1676		2	Humphrey Monoux MP for Bedfordshire 1679‑1685	10 Dec 1640	31 Jul 1685	44
31 Jul 1685		3	Philip Monoux MP for Bedford 1705‑1707	25 Jan 1679	25 Nov 1707	28
25 Nov 1707		4	Humphrey Monoux MP for Tavistock 1728‑1734 and Stockbridge 1734‑1741	c 1702	3 Dec 1757
3 Dec 1757		5	Philip Monoux	c 1739	17 Apr 1805
17 Apr 1805		6	Philip Monoux		27 Feb 1809
27 Feb 1809 to     3 Feb 1814		7	Philip Monoux Extinct on his death		3 Feb 1814
MONRO of Bearcrofts, Stirling
30 Dec 1920 to     7 Dec 1929	UK	1	Charles Carmichael Monro Governor of Gibraltar 1923‑1928 Extinct on his death	15 Jun 1860	7 Dec 1929	69
MONSON of Carleton, Lincs
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Thomas Monson MP for Lincolnshire 1597‑1598, Castle Rising 1604‑1611 and Cricklade 1614	c 1565	29 May 1641
May 1641		2	John Monson MP for Lincoln 1625 and Lincolnshire 1626	1599	29 Dec 1683	84
Dec 1683		3	Henry Monson MP for Lincoln 1675‑1681 and 1685‑1689	17 Sep 1653	6 Apr 1718	64
6 Apr 1718		4	William Monson MP for Lincoln 1695‑1698, Heytesbury 1702‑1708, Hertford 1708‑1710 and Aldborough 1715‑1722	c 1653	7 Mar 1727
7 Mar 1727		5	John Monson He was subsequently created Baron Monson in 1728 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	c 1693	18 Jul 1748
MONSON of Thatched House Lodge, Surrey
23 Feb 1905	UK	1	Sir Edmund John Monson PC 1893	6 Oct 1834	28 Oct 1909	75
28 Oct 1909		2	Maxwell William Edmund John Monson	21 Sep 1882	11 Jan 1936	53
11 Jan 1936		3	Edmund St. John Debonnaire John Monson	9 Sep 1883	16 Apr 1969	85
16 Apr 1969 to     21 Nov 1969		4	George Louis Esme John Monson Extinct on his death	28 Oct 1888	21 Nov 1969	81
MONTAGU of South Stoneham House, Hants and Kensington Palace Gardens, London
23 Jun 1894	UK	1	Montagu Samuel-Montagu He was subsequently created Baron Swaythling in 1907 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	21 Dec 1832	12 Jan 1911	78
MONTAGU-POLLOCK of the Khyber Pass
26 Mar 1872	UK	1	Sir George Pollock	4 Jun 1786	6 Oct 1872	86
6 Oct 1872		2	Frederick Pollock (Montagu‑Pollock from 1873)	27 Feb 1815	17 Jun 1874	59
17 Jun 1874		3	Montagu Frederick Montagu‑Pollock	31 Jan 1864	14 Aug 1938	74
14 Aug 1938		4	George Seymour Montagu‑Pollock	14 Sep 1900	21 Feb 1985	84
21 Feb 1985		5	Giles Hampden Montagu‑Pollock	19 Oct 1928	4 Feb 2017	88
4 Feb 2017		6	Guy Maximilian Montagu-Pollock	27 Aug 1966
MONTAGUE-BARLOW of Westminster
24 May 1924 to     31 May 1951	UK	1	Sir Clement Anderson Montague‑Barlow MP for Salford South 1910‑1923; Minister of Labour 1922‑1924; PC 1922 Extinct on his death	28 Feb 1868	31 May 1951	83
MONTEFIORE of Isle of Thanet, Kent
23 Jul 1846 to     28 Jul 1885	UK	1	Sir Moses Montefiore Extinct on his death	24 Oct 1784	28 Jul 1885	100
MONTEFIORE of Worth Park, Sussex
16 Feb 1886 to     1 Jul 1935	UK	1	Francis Abraham Montefiore Extinct on his death	10 Oct 1860	1 Jul 1935	74
MONTGOMERY of Skelmorly
Jan 1628	NS	1	Robert Montgomery		Nov 1651
Nov 1651		2	Robert Montgomery		early 1654
early 1654		3	Robert Montgomery		7 Feb 1684
7 Feb 1684		4	James Montgomery		Sep 1694
Sep 1694		5	Robert Montgomery		15 Aug 1731
15 Aug 1731 to     14 Jan 1735		6	Hugh Montgomery MP for Scotland 1707‑1708 On his death the baronetcy became dormant	c 1663	14 Jan 1735
MONTGOMERY of Magbie Hill, Peebles
28 May 1774	GB	1	William Montgomery MP [I] for Ballynakill 1768‑1788	19 Nov 1717	25 Dec 1788	71
25 Dec 1788 to     10 Jul 1831		2	George Montgomery MP for Peebles 1831 Extinct on his death	1765	10 Jul 1831	66
MONTGOMERY of Stanhope, Peebles
16 Jul 1801	UK	1	James Montgomery MP for Dumfries Burghs 1766‑1768 and Peebles 1768‑1775; Lord Advocate 1766	Oct 1721	2 Apr 1803	81
2 Apr 1803		2	James Montgomery MP for Peebles 1800‑1831	9 Oct 1766	27 May 1839	72
27 May 1839		3	Graham Montgomery (later Graham‑Montgomery) MP for Peebles 1852‑1868 and Peebles & Selkirk 1868‑1880; Lord Lieutenant Kinross 1854‑1901	9 Jul 1823	2 Jun 1901	77
2 Jun 1901		4	James Graham-Montgomery For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	6 Feb 1850	7 Nov 1902	52
7 Nov 1902		5	Basil Templer Graham-Montgomery	1 Mar 1852	4 Oct 1928	76
4 Oct 1928		6	Charles Percy Graham-Montgomery	6 Sep 1855	1 Apr 1930	74
1 Apr 1930		7	Henry James Montgomery (Purvis-Russell-Montgomery from 1906 and Purvis-Russell-Hamilton-Montgomery from 1933) Lord Lieutenant Kinross 1934‑1937	6 Sep 1859	6 Aug 1947	87
6 Aug 1947		8	Basil Purvis Russell Montgomery	25 Sep 1884	28 Jan 1964	79
28 Jan 1964		9	Basil Henry David Montgomery Lord Lieutenant Perth & Kinross 1995‑2006	20 Mar 1931
MONTGOMERY of The Hall, Donegal
3 Oct 1808	UK	1	Henry Conyngham Montgomery MP for Mitchell 1807, Donegal 1808‑1812 and Yarmouth (IOW) 1812‑1816	15 Mar 1765	21 Jan 1830	64
21 Jan 1830		2	Henry Conyngham Montgomery PC 1876	10 Mar 1803	24 Jun 1878	75
24 Jun 1878		3	Alexander Leslie Montgomery	14 Mar 1807	13 Jun 1888	81
13 Jun 1888		4	Hugh Conyngham Gaston Montgomery	18 Oct 1847	3 Nov 1915	68
3 Nov 1915 to     13 Nov 1939		5	Alexander Montgomery Extinct on his death	2 Aug 1859	13 Nov 1939	80
MONTGOMERY-CUNINGHAME of Corsehill, Ayr
26 Feb 1672	NS	1	Alexander Cuninghame	c 1643	Mar 1685
Mar 1685		2	Alexander Cuninghame		1730
1730		3	David Cuninghame		4 Jul 1770
4 Jul 1770		4	Walter Montgomery-Cuninghame		Mar 1814
Mar 1814		5	David Montgomery-Cuninghame		Nov 1814
Nov 1814		6	James Montgomery-Cuninghame		Mar 1837
Mar 1837		7	Alexander David Montgomery‑Cuninghame		8 Jun 1846
8 Jun 1846		8	Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame		30 Aug 1870
30 Aug 1870		9	William James Montgomery‑Cuninghame VC MP for Ayr Burghs 1874‑1880 For further information on this baronet and VC winner, see the note at the foot of this page	20 May 1834	11 Nov 1897	63
11 Nov 1897		10	Thomas Andrew Alexander Montgomery‑Cuninghame	30 Mar 1877	5 Jan 1945	67
5 Jan 1945		11	Andrew Malcolm Martin Oliphant Montgomery Cuninghame	14 Jul 1929	18 Feb 1959	29
18 Feb 1959		12	John Christopher Foggo Montgomery Cuninghame	24 Jul 1935

	Sir Frank Cecil Meyer, 2nd baronet
	Sir Frank died from injuries received in a riding accident. In its edition of 21 October 1935, The Times reported that:-
	Sir Frank Meyer, deputy chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, who was injured in a riding accident recently, died at his home at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, on Saturday at the age of 49.
	At an inquest held on Saturday Captain Harry Hulbert, of Ivor Court, Upper Gloucester Place, said that Sir Frank was his brother-in-law. On Wednesday morning they went riding to Bloweys fields, where Sir Frank suggested that they should have a good gallop. They had been riding for a moment or two, and Sir Frank was nearly level with him when he heard an unusual noise, and, looking round, saw Sir Frank's horse in the act of falling. Sir Frank was pitched into the air and fell heavily to the ground. Captain Hulbert said that after fetching assistance he examined the field and discovered that Sir Frank's horse had trodden in a large rabbit hole. In his opinion this was the cause of the accident. Medical evidence was to the effect that Sir Frank's back was broken. The coroner recorded a verdict of "Accidental death".
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Middleton created in 1781
	From the London Gazette of 1 September 1781 (issue 12221, page 1):-
	The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the Kingdom of Great Britain to Charles Middleton, Esq, Comptroller of His Majesty's Navy, and his Heirs Male, with Remainder to Gerrard Edwards, of Ketten in the County of Rutland, and his Issue Male by Diana his Wife, Daughter of the said Charles Middleton.
	Sir John Peniston Milbanke, 7th baronet
	Sir John appears to be a good example of the old saying that there is "one law for the rich and another law for the poor". The following report appeared in The Observer of 21 January 1839, reprinted from The Salisbury Journal:-
	The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Ball of the Loyal United Craven and Nelson Lodge of Odd Fellows took place on Tuesday last, at the Rose and Crown Inn, Salisbury. The room was very tastefully fitted up for the occasion, and dancing was kept up with untiring spirit until a late hour, when the harmony of the evening was broken in upon by a quarrel between Sir John Milbanke, Bart., and a Mr. Pocock. The former gentleman wished to have a country dance, while the latter wanted a quadrille. A few words passed between them, when Sir John Milbanke stepped back a few paces, drew a dagger from his pocket, and stabbed Mr. Pocock in the neck. Fortunately the weapon did not reach the carotid artery, or death must have instantly ensued. Mr. Mackay, surgeon, proceeded to examine Mr. Pocock, and discovered a desperate wound in the neck, about an inch and a half in length, in an oblique direction, and bleeding profusely. He arrested the haemorrhage as soon as possible, and put the wounded man to bed. Immediately after this Sir John Milbanke made a similar attack upon the son of Dr. Wheeler, who was another of the guests, when a policeman was procured, who wrested the dagger from him, but refused to take him into custody, assigning as his reason, that "he was a gentleman!" - another striking instance of the intelligence and efficiency of our police force. On the following morning, a warrant having been issued against Sir John, he was taken into custody and brought before the magistrates, when a very lengthy investigation took place, which lasted from 11 o'clock till 5. Mr. Sharp appeared on behalf of Sir John Milbanke, whose case he very ably advocated, and strongly urged the magistrates to accept of bail, which he offered to any amount; but, as the surgeon would not pronounce Mr. Pocock out of danger, he was remanded until Friday, on which day Sir John was brought up again, when the court was crowded to excess. It being the wish of the prisoner that some other medical gentlemen, in conjunction with Mr. Mackay, should visit Mr. Pocock, Dr. Clarke and Mr. G.B. Corfe complied with his request, when the gentlemen were decidedly of opinion that the wound was going on favourably, but that he was not out of danger. The magistrates stated that they should not be justified, under existing circumstances, in accepting bail. The prisoner was then remanded until Monday.
	Milbanke's trial took place on 4 March 1839, and was reported in The Scotsman of 13 March 1839:-
	Sir John Penistone Milbanke was tried at Winchester on Monday, on the charge of maliciously stabbing Mr Pocock at a ball-room, Southampton. The evidence of evil intent being defective, he was acquitted. The Examiner, in an able article on this subject, showing that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, observes that:- "According to the logic of the learned judge, innocent intentions must be argued from any utterly unprovoked outrage. No bad intention is, in Mr Baron Maule's view, to be inferred from the act of aiming a knife against a man's throat. The character of the prisoner, forsooth, forms the best clue to the intention. Thus a man of good character and connexions, backed by troops of friends, may cut a throat, provided he does not cut it very much, and preserve credit for the best intentions. The legal doctrine, that the intention was to be inferred from the act, we have seen carried very far in other cases; but Mr Baron Maule, in considering the intention, leaves the act out of view altogether!"
	Another newspaper, The Satirist; or, the Censor of the Times, commented that
	"The jury who acquitted Sir John Milbanke have declared by their verdict that they did not think the intention of Sir John, in attacking another with a dagger, was to do any harm. We so far coincide as to be of opinion that Sir John Milbanke was not a man likely to stick at anything. There are, however, some persons ill-natured enough to remark that the Penitentiary ought to contain Milbanke as certainly as Millbank contains the Penitentiary."
	[Millbank Prison, in Pimlico in London, was originally constructed as the National Penitentiary and was used as such between 1816 and 1890].
	Sir John Peniston Milbanke VC, 10th baronet
	Sir John was awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery during the 2nd Boer War in 1900. The citation, published on 7 July 1900, reads:-
	Lieutenant (now Captain) Sir John P. Milbanke, Bart., 10th Hussars, on the 5th January, 1900, during a reconnaissance near Colesberg. Sir John Milbanke, when retiring under fire with a small patrol of the 10th Hussars, notwithstanding the fact that he had just been severely wounded in the thigh, rode back to the assistance of one of the men whose pony was exhausted, and who was under fire from some Boers who had dismounted. Sir John Milbanke took the man up on his own horse under a most galling fire and brought him safely back to camp.
	Sir Ralph Mark Milbanke, 12th baronet [E 1661]
	Following Sir Ralph's death, the following article appeared in the London Daily Mail on 25 November 1949:-
	Portly, debonair Sir Ralph Milbanke, 42-year-old baronet who lived the life of a Regency buck in 20th-century Mayfair, was found shot yesterday in his Down-street, W., service-flat.
	It was 8 a.m. [when] Sir Ralph's steward, Mr. Pope, entered the bedroom to draw the curtains for breakfast. Sir Ralph was dead. A gun lay near him.
	A week ago Sir Ralph, London representative of the Sugar Manufacturer's Association of Jamaica, was told that the firm was closing down its London offices.
	Friends - they called him "Toby" - said last night that he was undecided about his future; that he was planning to spend a few weeks in Scotland. And they discussed the future of the Milbanke baronetcy, created 300 years ago. For Sir Ralph was unmarried. There are no close relatives in the male line.
	Sir Ralph was the son of a V.C. [winner]. He himself carried on the family tradition by winning the M.C. In the last war. He was jovial and unorthodox and a man who acted on impulse and without fear.
	During fighting in Yugoslavia he was dropped by parachute among the guerrillas. Later he had the parachute made into handkerchiefs and pyjamas. During [the] civil war in Spain he heard that his friend Mr. Rupert Bellville* had been captured by the Republicans. Immediately he flew to Hendaye, on the French frontier, and tried to enter Spain to the rescue. He was told that the only way to get into Republican territory was to arrive in a British food ship. He flew to Antwerp and signed on as a deck-hand in a blockade-running cargo-boat. But his friend had already been released.
	Sir Ralph knew, too, how to play. In 1939, before the outbreak of the war, he bet a friend, Mr. Richard Sutton, that he could not play a golf ball from Tower Bridge to the steps of White's Club in St. James's-street, S.W., in under 2,000 strokes. Crowds watched the players tee-up for the first "hole". "Toby" Milbanke wore a fur coat and carried a bag of golf clubs. The "match" lasted for two and half hours. Mr. Sutton won the bet by going round the course in 240.
	Twice Sir Ralph escaped death in aircraft crashes. For most of his life he was in bad health, due to his adventures abroad. Last year he had a serious stroke, and was warned not to over-exert himself.
	He had held the title for only two years. He succeeded his brother, Sir John Milbanke, known as the "Boxing Baronet" in 1947.
	* Bellfield [1905‑1962] joined the Spanish Falange militia as a pilot in the early days of the civil war. His best known exploit was flying into Santander in order to congratulate the victorious Nationalist troops before he realised that the town was still in the hands of the Republicans. He was lucky to escape execution.
	Sir Alastair George Lionel Joseph Miller, 6th baronet [GB 1788]
	Sir Alastair spent virtually his whole adult life in one form of trouble or another. If asked to nominate the archetypal "wicked baronet" of the 20th century, Sir Alastair would be a good candidate.
	The London Daily Telegraph of 13 September 1914:-
	Alastair George Miller, son of Sir William Miller, a lieutenant on probation in the Irish Guards, who has been staying at Southwold [a small town on the North Sea coast in Suffolk]; George Banks Price, an aviator, also visiting Southwold; Noel Cooper, solicitor, of Southwold; and Maurice Dukes, farmer, of Henham, were dealt with by court-martial yesterday on a charge of having circulated false information, in contravention of the recent Order in Council.
	According to police information, the defendants were concerned in circulating a story to the effect that a German aeroplane had fallen at Shading Field, and that a wounded German had been captured. One lady, whose husband is serving with the Suffolk Yeomanry, was so alarmed that she aroused a neighbouring farmer, who stood guard in the road with a loaded gun until three a.m.
	The court-martial decided to hand Lieutenant Miller to a military escort, by whom he is to be taken back to his regiment. The Court declined to deal with the three civilians, who were subsequently charged before the Mayor of Beccles, and discharged by him with a warning, after the police explanation that they had been locked up since Thursday.
	The London Daily Telegraph of 30 March 1922:-
	In the Divorce Division yesterday, Mrs. Miller, who was married at 17, gave evidence in her suit against her husband for a judicial separation on the grounds of cruelty. Captain Alastair Miller, the respondent, petitions for a decree of restitution of conjugal rights. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of Major Stephen Howard, M.P. for Newmarket [Sudbury?]. It appeared that her husband gave her age as 21 at the secret marriage at the registrar's office. Afterwards they were publicly married at the Brompton Oratory. Petitioner gave evidence, and described how she met her husband. After misconduct she consented to a secret marriage. She complained of her husband's cruelty, and of his bringing two actresses to see her at Bournemouth. He said he preferred the society of these ladies to hers.
	The London Daily Telegraph of 15 February 1923:-
	A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Alastair George Lionel Joseph Miller was held yesterday at Bankruptcy Buildings, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. Debtor was described as of Ennismore-gardens, W., motor racing-car driver, and the statement of his affairs showed liabilities £4,339, while the assets consist of cash £58; gold cigarette case and chain, £10; stand camera, £5: and microscope, £4.
	The debtor figured in Divorce Court proceedings during last year. The trustees of his parents' marriage settlement have come to his assistance to make a proposal of payment of a cash composition of 5s in the £ to the creditors, such composition to be paid directly the approval of the Court is obtained.
	The debtor attributes his position to the costs of the Divorce Court proceedings, which were instituted by his wife: and he also includes in the causes of his financial trouble liability in respect of guarantees given on behalf of a motor company.
	By a statutory majority the meeting accepted the proposal.
	From The Times of 18 January 1924:-
	The jury found for the plaintiffs in this action, which was brought by Messrs. Trower, Still, and Keeling, solicitors, of 5, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, to recover from Sir William Frederic Miller, Bt., £2,369, the balance of bills of costs for work done by them. The claim included a bill of charges amounting to £2,424 in relation to the matrimonial affairs of Captain A.G. Miller, son of the defendant.
	The defendant denied that he instructed the plaintiffs, or that he agreed to pay their costs. Alternatively, he pleaded that he instructed the plaintiffs to act only as his solicitors in relation to his own affairs, and that agreed to guarantee the costs incurred in his son's affairs up to a sum which, together with his own costs, would not exceed £1,000.
	Captain Alastair George Miller, son of the defendant, said that he was present when his father had an interview with Captain Trower on September 19, 1921. They discussed the probable costs in his (the witness's) case, and his father asked whether £200 would cover them. Captain Trower replied that he did not think so, and Sir William Miller then asked whether £400 would be sufficient. Captain Trower shrugged his shoulders, and said he thought it would. When the case was nearly over Captain Trower said to him (the witness) in Court that he was afraid the costs would be a good deal more than was expected.
	In summing up [Mr Justice Lush] said that he could not conceive of a more foolish or improper bargain for solicitors to make than that which Sir William Miller suggested had been made by the plaintiffs. The difficulty was increased by the fact that the defendant in the witness-box had thrown over the alleged bargain and had sought to say that the limit of £400 was the real bargain made. The jury, without leaving the box, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, for whom judgment was entered for the amount claimed, with costs.
	After divorcing his first wife in 1926, Miller was remarried on 1 December 1927, to an 18-year-old actress named Margaret (or Peggy) Shotter, who, in February 1928, was fined £25 at the Clerkenwell Police Court after being found guilty of the allegation "that she did, for the purpose of procuring a marriage license, unlawfully and knowingly make a false declaration" - i.e. she said she was 21, and not 18.
	In the London Gazette of 8 May 1931 (issue 33714, page 3041) a bankruptcy petition was filed against Miller. Shortly thereafter, in July of that year, Miller was before the Haywards Heath Police Court in answer to a summons granted to Mrs Miller and her two sisters, Miss Winifred Shotter and Miss Eva Shotter, alleging that they were assaulted by him at his home, together with a further summons brought by Mrs Miller against her husband, alleging the use of threats. According to a report in the Grafton NSW Daily Examiner of 14 September 1931:-
	It was stated that Mrs Miller was married to the defendant about four years ago, and on April 13 left him and went to live with her parents in Regent's Park road, London, the two children of the marriage being sent to the home of the defendant's mother at Hurstpierpoint. It was alleged that, as Mrs Miller refused to return to her husband, he conceived the idea of obtaining possession of his wife by a subterfuge. Mrs Miller stated that he arranged to meet her on June 27 for the ostensible purpose of taking her to sign some papers in connection with the sale of some furniture, that after lunch at Richmond he told her he was not going to let her go back, took her forcibly into a motor car, drove her to Hurstpierpoint, where he forced her to spend the night with him, and threatened to kill her if anyone came to take her away. The other plaintiffs [i.e. her two sisters] followed Mrs Miller to Hurstpierpoint in a motor car at 4.30 a.m. and, it was alleged, were assaulted by the defendant before finally he allowed his wife to go away with them. Captain Miller denied that he used any force towards his wife or threatened her or assaulted her sisters, and maintained that Mrs Miller went with him to Hurstpierpoint voluntarily. His counsel submitted that the proceedings were simply part and parcel of an unwarrantable attempt by the Shotter family to interfere between Captain Miller and his wife. After a short retirement the Bench bound Captain Miller over in £10 to keep the peace towards his wife and the other complainants.
	Miller and his second wife were subsequently divorced in 1933. Reports of the hearing were published in contemporary newspapers, but these are too lengthy for inclusion here. I will therefore content myself with two observations made by the judge: firstly the judge observed that the co-respondent was an actress "who is little more than a child." [Any reader seeing a pattern emerging here?]; secondly, the judge remarked that "Captain Miller is now 39. He is a most undesirable person so far as I can gather, an unsavoury pest of young women." It is also worth noting that, while the petition for divorce was being heard, Miller had again been bankrupted, with net debts of around £11,000.
	For the next 17 years, Miller appears to have stayed out of trouble, but in June 1950 he was back in court charged with obtaining credit to purchase groceries, wine, spirits and car hire without disclosing that he was an undischarged bankrupt. Further proceedings were adjourned after Miller collapsed in court, but in January 1951 he was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment on these charges. This sentence does not appear to have had any effect upon Miller, since, in April 1953, he was again charged with exactly the same offence of obtaining credit while an undischarged bankrupt, as well as four charges of fraudulent conversion. On this occasion, Miller received a sentence of three years.
	Matters became quite a few degrees more serious in October 1958, when Sir Alastair received another gaol sentence, again of three years, after pleading guilty to four charges of indecent assaults against young girls. As reported in the London Daily Telegraph of 4 October 1958:-
	Sir Alastair George Lionel Joseph Miller, 65, sixth baronet, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment yesterday at Hampshire Quarter Sessions, Winchester. He pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault against a girl of 13 and two against a girl of nine.
	For the defence, it was submitted that Sir Alastair was not a criminal to be punished, but a sick man to be pitied and, if possible, treated. As a racing motorist, he had a number of severe accidents.
	Mr. Eustace Roskill, Q.C. [later Baron Roskill], the Deputy Chairman, said in passing sentence: "It may be that you are deeply to be pitied because of your mental condition, but anxious as we are to enable you to have medical treatment which will enable you to lead a normal life we cannot see our way to make an order. Young children have to be protected from assaults of this kind."
	Pleas of not guilty to six other charges involving indecent and common assault were accepted by Mr. Guy Willett, prosecuting. Mr. Willett said that the parents of the girl of 13, who had known Sir Alastair for some time, agreed that she could spend a few days with him, and he took her to his house at Silchester.
	The girl woke up to find him in her bed and she jumped out. Later, at an hotel at Frinton, Essex, he again got into bed with her. She wrote asking her parents to get her home. Mr. Willett added that Sir Alastair later put an advertisement in a local newspaper saying a family "would welcome a bright little girl, aged nine to 12, as companion to small son." It was signed "Miss Miller". He collected a girl of nine and offences against her at an hotel at Newport, Mon[mouth], and Frinton, were admitted.
	Mr. Dudley Collard, defending, suggested that medical reports substantiated the view that Sir Alastair's faculties were deteriorating and decaying through physical causes which were no fault of his. He was separated from his third wife and divorce proceedings were pending.
	In January 1959, while he was serving the three-year sentence outlined above, he was charged, convicted and sentenced to a further three years, to run concurrently, for fraud. The Daily Telegraph of 6 January 1959 reported:-
	Sir Alastair Miller, 65, sixth baronet, was sent to prison for three years at Hampshire Quarter Sessions, Winchester, yesterday, after admitting frauds arising from transactions in cars. The sentence was ordered to be concurrent with a similar term he received at the court in October for indecent assault on young girls.
	He pleaded guilty to: stealing a Bentley car, obtaining a Rolls-Royce car by false pretences, obtaining an £888 cheque from Col. R. A. Hermon by false pretences, obtaining cheques for £500 and £362 from the Rev. A. R. Duncan Jones by false pretences, and obtaining £44 credit from Basingstoke wine and spirit merchants without disclosing he was an undischarged bankrupt.
	Mr. A. C. Munro Kerr, prosecuting, said that for several months last summer Sir Alastair maintained himself at Impstone Manor, Silchester, entirely by the proceeds of fraudulent activities. It was reckoned he had obtained a total of just over £2,200 by these methods.
	Mr. Ewen Montagu, Q.C., chairman, described the offences as "clever and ingenious frauds". He referred to letters which Sir Alastair had sent out "of exactly the type which would tempt people to trust him with their money."
	Finally, from the Daily Telegraph of 5 October 1961:-
	Two mothers of 11-year-old girls answered an advertisement put in a newspaper by Sir Alastair George Miller, the sixth baronet, said Mr. D. Prys Jones, prosecuting at Stoke-on-Trent yesterday.
	Subsequently the Williams family, of Greenway Place, Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent, agreed to their daughter, Penelope, going on holiday to Scotland as companion to Sir Alastair's "young son".
	A Mrs. Gunnell, of Birmingham, with her daughter, Jennifer, in mind, also answered the advertisement. But when she thought it over she was not happy about the proposed holiday trip. So she went to the police.
	The prosecution's case was that Sir Alastair took Penelope to the Cheltenham home of Mr. Peter Manners, an osteopath, who gave him hospitality, though their acquaintance four years previously was slight: and that there Sir Alastair assaulted Penelope.
	Sir Alastair also photographed the girl nude at Cheltenham, said Mr. Prys Jones. Later he wrote to her parents saying he would pay for her private education and alter his will in her favour.
	Penelope, giving evidence for an hour, referred to Sir Alastair as "Uncle George". Asked by Mr. J. Ellison, for Sir Alastair, if she enjoyed her holiday, she replied: "It was a bit of a bore."
	The court was told that Sir Alastair had totally denied the charges. He was charged with taking Penelope, a bus conductor's daughter, out of her parents' possession by fraud, and with three assaults on her.
	On 30 November 1961 Miller was found guilty of taking away Penelope Mary Williams, then aged 11, by fraud with intent to deprive her father of possession, but he was found not guilty on three charges of indecent assault. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
	Sir Alastair died in April 1964, apparently unlamented, inasmuch as I can find no obituaries in the major newspapers of the day. However, the following article which appeared in The Times of 16 January 1969 is instructive:-
	Mr. Macdonald Miller, Conservative agent for Lowestoft, disclosed yesterday that he had found out during an after-dinner chat on holiday in Spain that he had become a baronet. But for a series of coincidences he might never have known of his father's death.
	He will be known as Sir Donald Miller of Glenlee, Kirkcudbrightshire, seventh holder of a title created in 1788.
	Reference books show Sir Alastair Miller, the sixth baronet, to be still alive, but Sir Donald said yesterday that he was responsible for keeping the records, and he did not know his father had died five years ago until he learnt it from an English solicitor in Algeciras at Christmas.
	He said he was inheriting nothing but the title, which would make no difference to his work as agent. His parents were divorced when he was a child. He had not seen his father for 40 years.
	The baronetcy of Mitchell of West Shore
	Between the years of 1783 and 1895 this baronetcy was considered to be extinct or dormant. In 1895, however, James William Mitchell was served by the Scottish Sheriff of Chancery as being the heir male of the 3rd baronet, and is therefore considered by some reference works to be the 9th baronet. Assuming this to be the case, the descent between 1783 and 1895 was as follows:-
	4th baronet (succeeded 5 Dec 1783) - John Charles Mitchell (c Feb 1709-25 Nov 1790). He was the 7th and youngest son of the 1st baronet
	5th baronet - Edward Charles Mitchell (10 Jul 1749-1 Oct 1818), 2nd son but 1st surviving son of the 4th baronet
	6th baronet - John Warburton Mitchell (4 Nov 1756-12 Jul 1831), next surviving brother of the 5th baronet
	7th baronet - Joseph Mitchell (27 Nov 1762-13 Mar 1833), next surviving brother of the 6th baronet
	8th baronet - Joseph Theophilus Mitchell (20 Feb 1793-14 Mar 1849), nephew and heir male of the 7th baronet. He was the son of Benjamin Mitchell, who was a deceased brother of the three previous baronets.
	9th baronet - James William Mitchell (7 Nov 1836-3 Sep 1898), son of the 8th baronet
	10th baronet - Hugh Sykes Mitchell (born 1 Nov 1880), 1st surviving son of the 9th baronet. He appears in Dod's Peerage for 1899 as the 10th baronet, where his entry reads:-
	"SIR HUGH SYKES MITCHELL, s. of Sir James, 9th baronet, who did not assume the title, by Annie Tilburn, d. of Thomas Sykes, of Ackworth, Yorks. [Annie Tilburn is also listed as being a baronet's widow.] B 1880; succeeded his father 1898. The title has not been assumed since the death the 3rd bart. in 1783, though the father of the present bart., who was Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, proved his descent in the Lyon Office."
	However, by the time of the 1916 edition of Dod's Peerage, his name has disappeared, and I have been unable to discover any further information.
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	The following [edited] article appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune of 25 November 1899:-
	August Cliff, better known as "Horseradish Jack", is, if his claim proves true, a British Baronet. His mother, Mrs, Isabella Boyd-Cliff, he says, was the daughter of Joseph Theophilus Mitchell, heir to the baronetcy of Westshore, and, according to the evidence now in the hands of British attorneys, "Horseradish Jack", who for years has been a familiar character in Chicago, is Sir August Cliff of Westshore. The English attorneys and Campbell Cummings, Mr. Cliff's lawyer at St. Louis, declare the claims of "Horseradish Jack" will be reported upon favourably at this session of Parliament.
	Instead of a jackass rampant on an advertising card in Chicago street cars, with the motto, Fresh Horseradish, Sir August Cliff's motto will be 'Sapiens qui assiduous' [He is wise who is industrious].
	The Mitchell family is well known in the British Empire. The first Baron[et] of Westshore was Sir John Mitchell, made Baron[et] by recommendation of the throne on June 19, 1724. The second Baron[et] was Sir Andrew Mitchell, who died on June 29, 1764, leaving two sons by his first wife. His son, John Mitchell, succeeded to the title and died without issue in 1783. After his death the estate reverted to the throne.
	The line of descent traced to August Cliff is through the assumption of the title by the third son of Sir John Mitchell, the grantee of the first Baronetcy. He was next in the line of succession and died leaving eight children, seven of whom died without issue. The fourth son and successor to the title was Benjamin Ware Mitchell, who died leaving one son, Joseph Theophilus Mitchell, who was an East India merchant. This Mitchell married Isabella, daughter of Captain James Young of Lee, Kent, England. He died in 1849, leaving two children, one of whom was Isabella Boyd-Cliff, mother of the present claimant. She came to America and [married] August Cliff, the father of the present claimant.
	Unfortunately for Horseradish Jack, the other child of the marriage between Joseph Theophilus Mitchell and Isabella Young was a son, James William Mitchell, who would automatically have inherited the title on the death of his father. In any event, it is a fair assumption that the remainder of the baronetcy would have been to "heirs male" which would have precluded the descent of the baronetcy through August Cliff's mother.
	Jane, Lady Molesworth, widow of Sir Lewis William Molesworth, 11th baronet
	Lady Molesworth was the second daughter of Daniel Marsh Frost [1823‑1900], a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. She married Sir Lewis in 1875. Her husband was the 11th baronet and sat for Bodmin in the House of Commons between 1900 and 1906, before dying in May 1912.
	Lady Molesworth died in September 1913. The subsequent inquest into her death was reported in The Times on 27 September 1913:-
	An inquest was held yesterday at Trewarthenick, near Truro, on the body of Lady Molesworth, who died on Thursday evening. Miss Frost, Lady Molesworth's sister, said that Lady Molesworth was sitting by an open window on Thursday afternoon when a wasp entered the room and stung her on the neck. She went upstairs for ammonia to put on the sting and on returning complained of palpitation of the heart. The witness went for some brandy and when she came back found that her sister had fainted. A doctor was sent for, but before he arrived Lady Molesworth was dead.
	Dr. Sharp attributed death to the sting of the wasp, which set up palpitation of the heart. She had been stung on a large vein. The exertion of running upstairs for the ammonia probably caused the poison to diffuse itself more rapidly in the system.
	A verdict of "Death from heart failure caused by the sting of a wasp" was returned.
	Sir David Gerald Moncreiffe, 10th baronet
	Sir David died when a fire destroyed his home. The following report appeared in The Times of 18 November 1957:-
	Sir David Moncreiffe, tenth baronet and twenty-third feudal baron of Moncreiffe, is presumed to have died to-day in a fire which gutted his home, seventeenth-century Moncreiffe, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire.
	Throughout the day firemen searched unsuccessfully among the debris for a trace of him. Bones uncovered were established by a police surgeon to be those of 12 dogs which died in the fire.
	Sir David Moncreiffe's sister, Miss Elisabeth Moncreiffe, escaped through her third-floor bedroom window by knotting sheets together and tying them to a radiator. She lowered herself down the face of the building, but lost her grip on the sheets and fell the last 10 feet on to a concrete path. She was taken to Bridge of Earn hospital. It was stated there that she was suffering from shock, but after an X-ray examination it was ascertained that no bones were broken.
	Miss Moncreiffe threw her jewellery from the window before leaving. "She showed great sense and nerve," said William Farquharson, a gardener, who shouted up to her bedroom window to wake her up. "She came to the window after about three minutes. She wanted to leap out, but I told her she had time to tie the sheets together. I lifted her clear of the building. Sparks and blazing pieces of timber were falling all around."
	Dwellers at the Stables, about 100 yards from the mansion, saw the fire shortly after 2 a.m., by which time the lower part of the building was burning fiercely. Miss Moncreiffe last saw her brother about midnight in the library on the second floor.
	A soldier on leave, Jack King, aged 22, climbed up a drain pipe and got into the house through a bathroom window. He entered two bedrooms used by Sir David Moncreiffe, but found that neither had been slept in. It was accepted by the authorities this afternoon that Sir David Moncreiffe had died in the fire.
	The flames, which lit up the countryside for miles around, were fought by six fire brigades. Two firemen received facial injuries when a diesel tank exploded. They were able to go home after hospital treatment.
	One dog escaped. It was rescued from an upper window by Hugh Cameron, son of the estate gamekeeper.
	Sir David Moncreiffe, who was 35, served in the Scots Guards in Italy during the war and was awarded the M.C. He was twice wounded. He was a member of the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland. His heir is his cousin, Captain Iain Kay Moncreiffe, of Easter Moncreiffe, who with his wife, the Countess of Erroll, motored to the scene of the fire about 3 a.m. Police vainly searched the estate surroundings in the hope that Sir David Moncreiffe might have run out in a shocked condition.
	Sir James Graham-Montgomery, 4th baronet
	Sir James was killed after he fell from a train, as reported in The Sunday Times of 9 November 1902:-
	The Press Association's Stamford correspondent telegraphs: - The death of Sir James Gordon [sic] Montgomery, Bart., of Stanhope, was reported to the coroner for the Uppingham district of Rutland at Stamford yesterday. It appears that the body of Sir James was found on the railway near Seaton, whence the remains have been removed to await the inquest on Monday. It is surmised that the deceased fell out of a train and was instantly killed. The deceased, who was 52 years of age, was formerly a Lieut.-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. He was unmarried.
	Later details show that the body was found by a ganger about 7 p.m. at the mouth of the Manton Tunnel, near Seaton Viaduct, on the Midland Railway main line. The permanent way bore blood marks for about 50 yards, and deceased's head was found badly injured. One foot was cut off and lying within the down permanent way. It is thought that deceased was travelling by the express from the north due at St. Pancras at 7.50, and that his body lay across the permanent way when the 6 o'clock train from Kettering passed, and severed his foot. He had no ticket in his possession, but this may be due to the fact that tickets would be collected at Nottingham. Sir James was identified by papers in his possession and a letter addressed to a friend in the south of England indicating that he intended going south the next day.
	Sir William James Montgomery-Cuninghame VC, 9th baronet
	From the Maybole community home page:-
	On 20th November 1854, while serving with his regiment during the Crimean War, together with Lieutenant C[laude] T[homas] Bourchier and 200 men under the command of Lieutenant Tryon was ordered to attack several Russian rifle pits on rising ground which were really caves dug into the side of the hill.
	The capture of the rifle pits was essential to the advance of the British troops and Lieutenant Tryon and his party attacked them under cover of darkness in a surprise bayonet attack during which Lieutenant Tryon was killed in bitter hand to hand fighting.
	During the night and for some time the following morning the Russians made repeated attempts to recapture the rifle pits but the British party under the leadership of Lieutenant (Brevet Captain) Cuninghame and Lieutenant (Brevet Major) Bourchier held out against superior numbers until they were relieved by another party from their own regiment.
	For their actions during the initial attack and the subsequent defence of the rifle pits against superior forces, Lieutenant Bourchier and Cuninghame were Gazetted on 24th February 1857 for the award of the Victoria Cross and this was presented on 26th June 1857 in Hyde Park, London, when Her Majesty Queen Victoria held the first investiture of the award.

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