BARONETAGE
Last updated 10/11/2017 (13 Feb 20254)
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.
MOODY of Garesdon, Wilts
11 Mar 1622	E	1	Henry Moody MP for Malmesbury 1625, 1626 and 1628‑1629	c 1582	22 Apr 1629
22 Apr 1629 to     c Oct 1661		2	Henry Moody Extinct on his death	c 1607	c Oct 1661
MOON of Portman Square, London
4 May 1855	UK	1	Francis Graham Moon For information on the death of his son Frederick Graves Moon, see the note at the foot of this page	28 Oct 1796	13 Oct 1871	74
13 Oct 1871		2	Edward Graham Moon	25 Mar 1825	21 Feb 1904	78
21 Feb 1904		3	Francis Sidney Graham Moon	4 May 1855	30 Jan 1911	55
30 Jan 1911		4	Arthur Wilfred Graham Moon	24 Jun 1905	25 Feb 1954	48
25 Feb 1954		5	Peter Wilfred Giles Graham Moon	24 Oct 1942	6 Feb 2023	80
6 Feb 2023		6	Rupert Francis Wilfred Graham Moon	29 Apr 1968
MOON of Copsewood Grange, Warwicks
22 Jul 1887	UK	1	Richard Moon	23 Sep 1814	17 Nov 1899	85
17 Nov 1899		2	Cecil Ernest Moon For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	2 Sep 1867	22 Feb 1951	83
22 Feb 1951		3	Richard Moon	12 Apr 1901	23 Feb 1961	59
23 Feb 1961		4	John Arthur Moon	27 Oct 1905	22 Feb 1979	73
22 Feb 1979		5	Edward Moon	23 Feb 1911	14 Sep 1988	77
14 Sep 1988		6	Roger Moon	17 Nov 1914	16 Oct 2017	102
16 Oct 2017		7	Humphrey Moon Extinct on his death	9 Oct 1917
MOORE of Fawley, Berks
21 May 1627	E	1	Henry Moore		c 1633
c 1633		2	Henry Moore		c 1685
c 1685		3	Richard Moore		10 Dec 1737
10 Dec 1737		4	Richard Moore		15 Jun 1738
15 Jun 1738		5	John Moore		25 Aug 1790
25 Aug 1790 to     10 Apr 1807		6	Thomas Moore Extinct on his death		10 Apr 1807
MOORE of Mayds Morton, Bucks
26 Jul 1665 to     1678	E	1	George Moore Extinct on his death	c 1636	1678
MOORE of Ross Carberry, Cork
29 Jun 1681	I	1	Emanuel Moore		c 1692
c 1692		2	William Moore MP [I] for Bandon Bridge 1692‑1693	1663	28 Aug 1693	30
28 Aug 1693		3	Emanuel Moore MP [I] for Downpatrick 1715‑1727	1685	1733	48
1733		4	Charles Moore		6 Oct 1754
6 Oct 1754		5	Robert Moore		c 1758
c 1758		6	William Moore		c 1783
c 1783		7	Emanuel Moore	17 Mar 1722	Aug 1793	71
Aug 1793		8	Richard Moore	7 Apr 1744	c 1815
c 1815		9	Emanuel Moore	1786	1849	63
1849		10	Richard Emanuel Moore For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	1810	24 Jun 1882	71
24 Jun 1882 to     27 Jan 1926		11	Thomas O'Connor Moore Extinct or dormant on his death	5 Nov 1845	27 Jan 1926	80
MOORE of Jamaica, West Indies
28 Jan 1764	GB	1	Henry Moore Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica 1756‑1762	1713	11 Sep 1769	56
11 Sep 1769 to     16 Jan 1780		2	John Henry Moore Extinct on his death	1756	16 Jan 1780	23
MOORE of the Navy
4 Mar 1766 to     2 Feb 1779	GB	1	John Moore Extinct on his death	24 Mar 1718	2 Feb 1779	60
MOORE of Hancox, Sussex
28 May 1919	UK	1	Norman Moore	8 Jan 1847	30 Nov 1922	75
30 Nov 1922		2	Alan Hilary Moore	23 Jan 1882	13 Jun 1959	77
13 Jun 1959		3	Norman Winfrid Moore	24 Feb 1923	21 Oct 2015	92
21 Oct 2015		4	Peter Alan Cutlack Moore	21 Sep 1951
MOORE of Colchester, Essex
25 Oct 1923	UK	1	Edward Cecil Moore	22 Nov 1851	7 Dec 1923	72
7 Dec 1923 to     3 Nov 1992		2	Edward Stanton Moore Extinct on his death	28 Dec 1910	3 Nov 1992	81
MOORE of Moore Lodge, co. Antrim
20 Jun 1932	UK	1	William Moore MP for Antrim North 1899‑1906 and Armagh North 1906‑1917; Lord Chief Justice [NI] 1925‑1937; PC [I] 1921; PC [NI] 1922	22 Nov 1864	28 Nov 1944	80
28 Nov 1944		2	William Samson Moore	17 Apr 1891	27 Jul 1978	87
27 Jul 1978		3	William Roger Clotworthy Moore	17 May 1927	19 May 2019	92
19 May 2019		4	Richard William Moore	8 May 1955
MOORE of Kyleburn, Ayr
20 Sep 1956 to     9 Apr 1971	UK	1	Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore MP for Ayr Burghs 1925‑1950 and Ayr 1950‑1964 Extinct on his death	16 Sep 1886	9 Apr 1971	84
MORDAUNT of Massingham Parva, Norfolk
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Le Straunge Mordaunt	1572	1627	55
1627		2	Robert Mordaunt		23 Aug 1638
23 Aug 1638		3	Charles Mordaunt	c 1615	10 Jul 1648
10 Jul 1648		4	Charles Mordaunt	c 1638	24 Apr 1665
24 Apr 1665		5	John Mordaunt MP for Warwickshire 1698‑1715	by 1649	6 Sep 1721
6 Sep 1721		6	Charles Mordaunt MP for Warwickshire 1734‑1774	c 1697	11 Mar 1778
11 Mar 1778		7	John Mordaunt MP for Warwickshire 1793‑1802	9 May 1734	18 Nov 1806	72
18 Nov 1806		8	Charles Mordaunt MP for Warwickshire 1804‑1820	5 Jan 1771	30 May 1823	52
30 May 1823		9	John Mordaunt MP for Warwickshire South 1835‑1845	24 Aug 1808	27 Sep 1845	37
27 Sep 1845		10	Charles Mordaunt MP for Warwickshire South 1859‑1868 For further information about this baronet and the celebrated Mordaunt divorce case, see the note at the foot of this page	28 Apr 1836	15 Oct 1897	61
15 Oct 1897		11	Osbert L'Estrange Mordaunt	27 Jan 1884	23 Feb 1934	50
23 Feb 1934		12	Henry Mordaunt	12 Jul 1867	15 Jan 1939	71
15 Jan 1939		13	Nigel John Mordaunt	9 May 1907	4 Aug 1979	72
4 Aug 1979		14	Richard Nigel Charles Mordaunt	12 May 1940
MORDEN of Wricklemarsh, Kent
20 Sep 1688 to     6 Sep 1708	E	1	John Morden MP for Colchester 1695‑1698 Extinct on his death	13 Aug 1623	6 Sep 1708	85
MORE of Loseley, Surrey
18 May 1642	E	1	Poynings More MP for Haslemere 1624‑1625, 1625, 1626 and 1640, and Guildford 1628‑1629	13 Feb 1606	11 Apr 1649	43
11 Apr 1649 to     24 Jul 1684		2	William More MP for Haslemere 1675‑1680 and 1681‑1685 Extinct on his death	1644	24 Jul 1684	40
MORE of More Hall, Lancs
22 Nov 1675	E	1	Edward More		Oct 1678
Oct 1678		2	Cleave More MP for Bramber 1709‑1710	5 Mar 1664	3 Mar 1730
3 Mar 1730		3	Joseph Edmonds Moore	c 1690	14 Mar 1732
14 Mar 1732		4	Joseph Edmonds Moore	c 1715	29 Mar 1741
29 Mar 1741 to     21 May 1810		5	William More Extinct on his death	3 Oct 1738	21 May 1810	71
MORGAN of Llanternam, Monmouth
12 May 1642	E	1	Edward Morgan	c 1604	24 Jun 1653
24 Jun 1653		2	Edward Morgan		c 1675
c 1675		3	Edward Morgan MP for Monmouthshire 1680‑1682		9 May 1682
9 May 1682 to     1728		4	James Morgan Extinct on his death		1728
MORGAN of Langattock, Monmouth
7 Feb 1661	E	1	Thomas Morgan	c 1607	13 Apr 1679
13 Apr 1679		2	John Morgan MP for Radnor 1681‑1685 and Herefordshire 1685‑1693	c 1650	10 Jan 1693
10 Jan 1693		3	Thomas Morgan MP for Herefordshire 1712‑1716	28 Aug 1684	14 Dec 1716
14 Dec 1716 to     29 Apr 1767		4	John Morgan MP for Hereford 1734‑1741 and Herefordshire 1755‑1767 Extinct on his death	11 Jul 1710	29 Apr 1767	56
MORGAN of Tredegar, Monmouth
15 Nov 1792	GB	1	Charles Gould (Morgan from 16 Nov 1792) MP for Brecon 1778‑1787 and Breconshire 1787‑1806; PC 1802	25 Apr 1726	6 Dec 1806	80
6 Dec 1806		2	Charles Morgan MP for Brecon 1787‑1796 and Monmouthshire 1796‑1831	4 Feb 1760	5 Dec 1846	86
5 Dec 1846		3	Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan He was subsequently created Baron Tredegar in 1859 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1962	10 Apr 1792	16 Apr 1875	83
MORGAN of Green Street, London
13 Oct 1892 to     25 Aug 1897	UK	1	George Osborne Morgan MP for Denbighshire 1868‑1885 and Denbighshire East 1885‑1897; Judge Advocate General 1880‑1885; PC 1880 Extinct on his death	8 May 1826	25 Aug 1897	71
MORGAN of Whitehall Court, London
28 Jul 1906 to     12 Nov 1916	UK	1	Walter Vaughan Morgan Extinct on his death	8 May 1831	12 Nov 1916	85
MORGAN of Manascin, Pencelly, Brecon
27 Jun 1925	UK		See "Hughes-Morgan"
MORGAN of Outwood, Surrey
29 Jan 1960	UK		See "Vaughan-Morgan"
MORICE of Werrington, Devon
20 Apr 1661	E	1	William Morice MP for Newport (Cornwall) 1689‑1690	c 1628	7 Feb 1690
Feb 1690		2	Nicholas Morice MP for Newport (Cornwall) 1702‑1726	1681	27 Jan 1726	44
27 Jan 1726 to     24 Jan 1750		3	William Morice MP for Newport (Cornwall) 1727‑1734 and Launceston 1734‑1750 Extinct on his death	c 1707	24 Jan 1750
MORLAND of Sulhamstead, Berks
18 Jul 1660	E	1	Samuel Morland	1625	26 Dec 1695	70
26 Dec 1695 to     Nov 1716		2	Samuel Morland Extinct on his death		Nov 1716
MORLAND of Nettleham, Lincs
5 Apr 1769	GB		See "Bernard"
MORRES of Knockagh, Tipperary
28 Mar 1631	I		See "de Montmorency"
MORRES of Upper Wood, Kilkenny
24 Apr 1758	I		See "de Montmorency"
MORRIS of Clasemont, Glamorgan
12 May 1806	UK	1	John Morris	15 Jul 1745	25 Jun 1819	73
25 Jun 1819		2	John Morris	14 Jul 1775	24 Feb 1855	79
24 Feb 1855		3	John Armine Morris	13 Jul 1818	8 Feb 1893	74
8 Feb 1893		4	Robert Armine Morris	27 Jul 1848	20 Feb 1927	78
20 Feb 1927		5	Tankerville Robert Armine Morris	9 Jun 1892	29 Sep 1937	45
29 Sep 1937		6	George Cecil Morris	10 Apr 1852	17 Jul 1940	88
17 Jul 1940		7	Herbert Edward Morris For information on this baronet's death, see the note at the foot of this page	4 Jul 1884	15 Aug 1947	63
15 Aug 1947		8	George Lockwood Morris	29 Jan 1859	23 Nov 1947	88
23 Nov 1947		9	Cedric Lockwood Morris	11 Dec 1889	8 Feb 1982	92
8 Feb 1982		10	Robert Byng Morris	25 Feb 1913	21 Jan 1999	85
21 Jan 1999		11	Allan Lindsay Morris	27 Nov 1961
MORRIS of Spiddal
14 Sep 1885	UK	1	Michael Morris He was subsequently created Baron Killanin in 1900 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	14 Nov 1826	8 Sep 1901	74
MORRIS of Cavendish Square, London
24 Jul 1909 to     14 Jun 1926	UK	1	Henry Morris Extinct on his death	7 Jan 1844	14 Jun 1926	82
MORRIS of Nuffield, Oxon
27 Mar 1929	UK	1	William Richard Morris He was subsequently created Baron Nuffield in 1934 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1963	10 Oct 1877	22 Aug 1963	85
MORRISON of Cashiobury, Herts
29 Jun 1611 to     20 Aug 1628	E	1	Charles Morrison MP for Hertfordshire 1621‑1622, St. Albans 1625‑1626 and Hertford 1628 Extinct on his death	18 Apr 1587	20 Aug 1628	41
MORRISON-BELL of Otterburn Hall, Northumberland
18 Dec 1905	UK	1	Charles William Morrison‑Bell	18 Mar 1833	20 Oct 1914	81
20 Oct 1914		2	Claude William Hedley Morrison‑Bell	5 May 1867	22 Nov 1943	76
22 Nov 1943		3	Charles Reginald Francis Morrison‑Bell	26 Jun 1915	22 Dec 1967	52
22 Dec 1967		4	William Hollin Dayrell Morrison‑Bell	21 Jun 1956
MORRISON-BELL of Harpford, Devon
18 Jul 1923 to     16 Apr 1956	UK	1	Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell MP for Honiton 1910‑1931 Extinct on his death	19 Apr 1871	16 Apr 1956	84
MORRISON-LOW of Kilmaron, Fife
27 Nov 1908	UK	1	Sir James Low	10 Feb 1849	30 Jun 1923	74
30 Jun 1923		2	Walter John Low (Morrison-Low from 1 Sep 1924)	27 May 1899	19 Jul 1955	56
19 Jul 1955		3	James Richard Morrison-Low	3 Aug 1925	14 Oct 2012	87
14 Oct 2012		4	Richard Walter Morrison-Low	4 Aug 1959
MORSHEAD of Trenant Park, Cornwall
22 Jan 1784	GB	1	John Morshead MP for Callington 1780‑1784 and Bodmin 1784‑1802	4 Aug 1747	10 Apr 1813	65
10 Apr 1813		2	Frederick Treise Morshead	1 Jan 1783	8 Jul 1828	45
8 Jul 1828 to     17 Mar 1905		3	Warwick Charles Morshead Extinct on his death	26 Nov 1824	17 Mar 1905	80
MORTON of Milbourne St. Andrew, Dorset
1 Mar 1619	E	1	George Morton MP for Dorset 1626		28 Feb 1662
28 Feb 1662 to     8 Jan 1699		2	John Morton MP for Poole 1661‑1679 and Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1679‑1695 Extinct on his death	c 1627	8 Jan 1699
MOSLEY of Rolleston, Staffs
10 Jul 1640	E	1	Edward Mosley	Sep 1616	4 Dec 1657
4 Dec 1657 to     14 Oct 1665		2	Edward Mosley MP for Mitchell 1661‑1665 Extinct on his death	15 Mar 1638	14 Oct 1665
MOSLEY of Rolleston, Staffs
18 Jun 1720	GB	1	Oswald Mosley	11 Aug 1674	2 Jun 1751	76
2 Jun 1751		2	Oswald Mosley	21 Apr 1705	26 Feb 1757	51
26 Feb 1757 to     22 Sep 1779		3	John Mosley Extinct on his death		22 Sep 1779
MOSLEY of Ancoats, Lancs
8 Jun 1781	GB	1	John Mosley	1732	29 Sep 1798	66
29 Sep 1798		2	Oswald Mosley MP for Portarlington 1806‑1807, Winchelsea 1807‑1812, Midhurst 1817‑1818 and Staffordshire North 1832‑1837	17 Mar 1785	24 May 1871	86
24 May 1871		3	Tonman Mosley	9 Jul 1813	28 Apr 1890	76
28 Apr 1890		4	Oswald Mosley	25 Sep 1848	10 Oct 1915	67
10 Oct 1915		5	Oswald Mosley	29 Dec 1873	21 Sep 1928	54
21 Sep 1928		6	Oswald Ernald Mosley MP for Harrow 1918‑1924 and Smethwick 1926‑1931; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1929‑1930	16 Nov 1896	3 Dec 1980	84
3 Dec 1980		7	Nicholas Mosley He had previously succeeded to the Barony of Ravensdale in 1966 with which title the baronetcy then merged	25 Jun 1923	28 Feb 2017	93
MOSS of Chiddingfold, Surrey
23 Dec 1868	UK		See "Edwards-Moss"
MOSTYN of Mostyn, Flint
3 Aug 1660	E	1	Roger Mostyn	c 1620	4 Oct 1690
4 Oct 1690		2	Thomas Mostyn MP for Carnarvon Boroughs 1679‑1681	27 May 1651	14 Jun 1692	41
14 Jun 1692		3	Roger Mostyn MP for Flintshire 1701‑1702, 1708‑1713 and 1715‑1734, Flint Boroughs 1702, 1705‑1708 and 1713‑1715, and Cheshire 1702‑1705	31 Jul 1673	5 May 1739	65
5 May 1739		4	Thomas Mostyn MP for Flintshire 1734‑1741 and 1747‑1758	26 Apr 1704	24 Mar 1758	53
24 Mar 1758		5	Roger Mostyn MP for Flintshire 1758‑1796; Lord Lieutenant Flintshire 1761‑1796	13 Nov 1734	26 Jul 1796	61
26 Jul 1796 to     17 Apr 1831		6	Thomas Mostyn MP for Flintshire 1796‑1797 and 1799‑1831 Extinct on his death	20 Oct 1776	17 Apr 1831	54
MOSTYN of Talacre, Flint
28 Apr 1670	E	1	Edward Mostyn		c 1700
c 1700		2	Pyers Mostyn		15 Nov 1720
15 Nov 1720		3	Pyers Mostyn		1735
1735		4	George Mostyn		30 Sep 1746
30 Sep 1746		5	Edward Mostyn	27 Apr 1725	13 Mar 1755	29
Mar 1755		6	Pyers Mostyn	23 Dec 1749	29 Oct 1823	73
29 Oct 1823		7	Edward Mostyn	10 Apr 1785	18 Jul 1841	56
18 Jul 1841		8	Pyers Mostyn	27 Sep 1811	14 May 1882	70
14 May 1882		9	Pyers William Mostyn	14 May 1846	10 May 1912	65
10 May 1912		10	Pyers Charles Mostyn	13 Aug 1895	16 Jan 1917	21
16 Jan 1917		11	Pyers George Joseph Mostyn For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	28 Sep 1893	28 Feb 1937	43
28 Feb 1937		12	Pyers Edward Mostyn For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	12 Jul 1928	11 Feb 1955	26
11 Feb 1955		13	Basil Anthony Trevor Mostyn	6 Feb 1902	19 Mar 1956	54
19 Mar 1956		14	Jeremy John Anthony Mostyn	24 Nov 1933	8 Nov 1988	54
8 Nov 1988		15	William Basil John Mostyn	15 Oct 1975
MOTT of Ditchling, Sussex
25 Jun 1930	UK	1	Basil Mott	16 Sep 1859	7 Sep 1938	78
7 Sep 1938		2	Adrain Spear Mott	5 Oct 1889	23 May 1964	74
23 May 1964		3	John Harmar Mott	21 Jul 1922	15 May 2015	92
15 May 2015		4	David Hugh Mott	1 May 1952
MOTTET of Liege, Flanders
16 Nov 1660	E	1	Giles Mottet Nothing further is known of this baronetcy
MOUNT of Wasing, Berks
21 Jun 1921	UK	1	William Arthur Mount MP for Newbury 1900‑1906 and 1910‑1922	3 Aug 1866	8 Dec 1930	64
8 Dec 1930		2	William Malcolm Mount	28 Dec 1904	22 Jun 1993	88
22 Jun 1993		3	William Robert Ferdinand Mount	2 Jul 1939
MOUNTAIN of Oare Manor, Somerset and Brendon, Devon
23 Jan 1922	UK	1	Sir Edward Mortimer Mountain	24 Nov 1872	22 Jun 1948	75
22 Jun 1948		2	Brian Edward Stanley Mountain	22 Aug 1899	17 Feb 1977	77
17 Feb 1977		3	Denis Mortimer Mountain	2 Jun 1929	24 Oct 2005	76
24 Oct 2005		4	Edward Brian Stanford Mountain	19 Mar 1961
MOWAT of Inglestoun
2 Jun 1664	NS	1	George Mowat		Sep 1666
Sep 1666		2	Roger Mowat		c Feb 1683
c Feb 1683		3	William Mowat		c 1690
c 1690		4	Alexander Mowat Nothing further is known of this baronetcy
MOWAT of Cleckheaton, Yorks
25 Jun 1932	UK	1	John Gunn Mowat	22 Jan 1859	1 Jan 1935	75
1 Jan 1935 to     20 Oct 1968		2	Alfred Law Mowat Extinct on his death	1890	20 Oct 1968	78
MOWBRAY of Warennes Wood, Berks and Bishopwearmouth, co. Durham
3 May 1880	UK	1	John Robert Mowbray MP for Durham City 1853‑1868 and Oxford University 1868‑1899; PC 1858	3 Jun 1815	22 Apr 1899	83
22 Apr 1899		2	Robert Gray Cornish Mowbray MP for Prestwich 1886‑1895 and Brixton 1900‑1906	21 May 1850	23 Jul 1916	66
23 Jul 1916		3	Reginald Ambrose Mowbray	5 Apr 1852	30 Dec 1916	64
30 Dec 1916		4	Edmund George Lionel Mowbray	26 Jun 1859	2 Feb 1919	59
2 Feb 1919		5	George Robert Mowbray	15 Jul 1899	9 Nov 1969	70
9 Nov 1969 to     15 Sep 2022		6	John Robert Mowbray Extinct on his death	1 Mar 1932	15 Sep 2022	90
MOYER of Petsey Hall, Essex
25 Mar 1701 to     17 Apr 1716	E	1	Samuel Moyer Extinct on his death	c 1643	17 Apr 1716
MOYNIHAN of Carr Manor
26 Jun 1922	UK	1	Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan He was subsequently created Baron Moynihan in 1929 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	2 Oct 1865	7 Sep 1936	70
MUIR of Deanston, Perth and Park Gardens, Glasgow
20 Oct 1892	UK	1	John Muir	8 Dec 1828	6 Aug 1903	74
6 Aug 1903		2	Alexander Kay Muir	20 Apr 1868	4 Jun 1951	83
4 Jun 1951		3	John Harling Muir	7 Nov 1910	31 May 1994	83
31 May 1994		4	Richard James Kay Muir	25 May 1939	18 Dec 2023	84
18 Dec 2023		5	Ian Charles Muir	16 Sep 1940
MUIR-MACKENZIE of Delvine, Perth
9 Nov 1805	UK	1	Alexander Muir-Mackenzie	2 Mar 1764	11 Mar 1835	71
11 Mar 1835		2	John William Pitt Muir-Mackenzie	1806	1 Feb 1885	78
1 Feb 1885		3	Alexander Muir-Mackenzie	6 Jul 1840	26 Jun 1909	68
26 Jun 1909		4	Robert Smythe Muir-Mackenzie	27 Nov 1842	2 Feb 1918	75
2 Feb 1918		5	Robert Cecil Muir-Mackenzie	17 Oct 1893	12 Apr 1918	24
12 Apr 1918		6	Robert Henry Muir-Mackenzie	6 Jan 1917	4 Dec 1970	53
4 Dec 1970		7	Alexander Alwyne Henry Charles Brinton Muir‑Mackenzie	8 Dec 1955
MULHOLLAND of Ballyscullion Park, Londonderry
3 Jul 1945	UK	1	Henry George Hill Mulholland Lord Lieutenant Londonderry 1960‑1965; PC [NI] 1930	20 Dec 1888	5 Mar 1971	82
5 Mar 1971		2	Michael Henry Mulholland He succeeded to the Barony of Dunleath in 1993 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	15 Oct 1915	3 May 1997	81
MULLINS of Burnham, co. Kerry
7 Dec 1797	I	1	Thomas Mullins He was subsequently created Baron Ventry in 1800 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	25 Oct 1736	11 Jan 1824	87
MUNRO of Foulis, Ross
7 Jun 1634	NS	1	Hector Monro		Apr 1635
Apr 1635		2	Hector Munro	c 1635	Dec 1651
Dec 1651		3	Robert Munro		14 Jan 1668
14 Jan 1668		4	John Munro		c Sep 1697
c Sep 1697		5	Robert Munro		11 Sep 1729
11 Sep 1729		6	Robert Munro MP for Tain Burghs 1710‑1741	24 Aug 1684	17 Jan 1746	61
17 Jan 1746		7	Harry Munro MP for Ross-shire 1746‑1747 and Tain Burghs 1747‑1761		12 Jun 1781
12 Jun 1781		8	Hugh Munro	1763	2 May 1848	84
2 May 1848		9	Charles Munro	20 May 1795	22 Jul 1886	91
22 Jul 1886		10	Charles Munro	20 Oct 1824	29 Feb 1888	63
29 Feb 1888		11	Hector Munro Lord Lieutenant Ross & Cromarty 1899‑1935	13 Sep 1849	15 Dec 1935	86
15 Dec 1935		12	George Hamilton Munro	10 May 1864	2 May 1945	80
2 May 1945		13	Arthur Talbot Munro	26 Jul 1866	16 Feb 1953	86
16 Feb 1953		14	Arthur Herman Munro	10 Sep 1893	27 Mar 1972	78
27 Mar 1972		15	Ian Talbot Munro	28 Dec 1929	15 Dec 1996	67
15 Dec 1996		16	Kenneth Arnold William Munro	26 Jun 1910	3 Apr 2004	93
3 Apr 2004		17	Ian Kenneth Munro	4 Apr 1940	22 Nov 2023	83
22 Nov 2023		18	Godfrey Roland Munro	1 Jul 1938
MUNRO of Lindertis
6 Aug 1825	UK	1	Thomas Munro		6 Jul 1827
6 Jul 1827		2	Thomas Munro	30 May 1819	28 Oct 1901	82
28 Oct 1901		3	Campbell Munro	7 Sep 1823	13 Jun 1913	89
13 Jun 1913		4	Hugh Thomas Munro	16 Oct 1856	19 Mar 1919	62
19 Mar 1919		5	Thomas Torquil Alfonso Munro	7 Feb 1901	10 Jul 1985	84
10 Jul 1985		6	Alasdair Thomas Ian Munro	6 Jul 1927	13 Mar 2014	86
13 Mar 2014		7	Keith Gordon Munro	3 May 1959
MUNRO-LUCAS-TOOTH of Bught, Inverness
1 Dec 1920	UK		See "Lucas-Tooth"
MUNTZ of Clifton-on-Dunsmore
7 Aug 1902	UK	1	Philip Albert Muntz MP for Warwickshire North 1884‑1885 and Tamworth 1885‑1908	5 Jan 1839	21 Dec 1908	69
21 Dec 1908		2	Gerard Albert Muntz	27 Nov 1864	22 Oct 1927	62
22 Oct 1927 to     6 Dec 1940		3	Gerard Philip Graves Muntz Extinct on his death	13 Jun 1917	6 Dec 1940	23
MURCHISON of London
22 Jan 1866 to     22 Oct 1871	UK	1	Sir Roderick Impey Murchison Extinct on his death	19 Feb 1792	22 Oct 1871	79
MURE of Rowallen
4 May 1662 to     c 1700	NS	1	Patrick Mure On his death the baronetcy is presumed to have become either dormant or extinct		c 1700
MURPHY of Altadore, Booterstown, Dublin
9 Oct 1903 to     16 Feb 1922	UK	1	Sir James Joseph Murphy Extinct on his death	24 Jan 1843	16 Feb 1922	79
MURPHY of Wyckham, Dublin
3 Feb 1912	UK	1	Michael Murphy	9 Mar 1845	10 Apr 1925	80
10 Apr 1925 to     4 Jul 1963		2	George Francis Murphy Extinct on his death	31 Mar 1881	4 Jul 1963	82
MURRAY of Cockpool
19 Jul 1625	NS	1	Richard Murray		1636
1636		2	John Murray He had been created 1st Viscount of Annand in 1622 with which title the baronetcy then merged until it became dormant in 1658		13 Oct 1640
MURRAY of Clermont, Fife
1 Jul 1626	NS	1	William Murray		c 1645
c 1645		2	Mungo Murray		c 1670
c 1670 to     c 1700		3	Mungo Murray On his death the baronetcy became dormant		c 1700
MURRAY of Blackbarony, Peebles
15 May 1628	NS	1	Archibald Murray		c 1634
c 1634		2	Alexander Murray		c 1668
c 1668		3	Archibald Murray		c 1700
c 1700		4	Alexander Murray		31 Dec 1741
31 Dec 1741		5	William Murray		c 1760
c 1760		6	Richard Murray		4 Oct 1781
4 Oct 1781		7	Archibald Murray	c 1726	23 Jun 1794
23 Jun 1794		8	John Murray	27 Jan 1766	30 Aug 1809	43
30 Aug 1809		9	Archibald Murray	3 Aug 1792	22 May 1860	67
22 May 1860		10	John Digby Murray	17 Apr 1798	8 May 1881	83
8 May 1881		11	Digby Murray	31 Oct 1829	5 Jan 1906	76
5 Jan 1906		12	John Digby Murray	12 Jan 1867	15 Sep 1938	71
15 Sep 1938		13	Kenelm Bold Murray	26 May 1898	16 Aug 1959	61
16 Aug 1959		14	Alan John Digby Murray	22 Jun 1909	9 May 1978	68
9 May 1978		15	Nigel Andrew Digby Murray	15 Aug 1944
MURRAY of Elibank, Selkirk
16 May 1628	NS	1	Patrick Murray He was subsequently created Lord Elibank in 1643 with which title the baronetcy remains merged		12 Nov 1649
MURRAY of Dunerne, Fife
20 Apr 1630	NS	1	William Murray		c 1641
c 1641		2	William Murray		c 1670
c 1670		3	William Murray		c 1700
c 1700		4	William Murray		c 1730
c 1730		5	James Murray		14 Feb 1769
14 Feb 1769		6	Robert Murray		21 Sep 1771
21 Sep 1771		7	James Murray (Murray-Pulteney from 1794) MP for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1790‑1811; Secretary at War 1807‑1809; PC 1807	c 1755	26 Apr 1811
26 Apr 1811		8	John Murray MP for Wootton Bassett 1807‑1811 and Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1811‑1818	c 1768	15 Oct 1827
15 Oct 1827		9	William Murray	c 1769	14 May 1842
14 May 1842		10	James Pulteney Murray	c 1814	20 Feb 1843
20 Feb 1843		11	Robert Murray	1 Feb 1815	15 Apr 1894	79
15 Apr 1894		12	William Robert Murray	19 Oct 1840	21 Jan 1904	63
21 Jan 1904		13	Edward Robert Murray	22 Jun 1875	14 Jan 1958	82
14 Jan 1958		14	Rowland William Patrick Murray	26 Oct 1910	1994	83
1994		15	Rowland William Murray	22 Sep 1947
MURRAY of Stanhope, Peebles
13 Feb 1664	NS	1	William Murray		c 1690
c 1690		2	David Murray		14 Feb 1729
14 Feb 1729		3	Alexander Murray MP for Peebles 1710‑1713	after 1684	18 May 1743
18 May 1743 to     1746		4	David Murray He was attainted and the baronetcy forfeited		c 1769
MURRAY of Ochertyre, Perth
7 Jun 1673	NS	1	William Murray	30 Oct 1615	18 Feb 1681	65
18 Feb 1681		2	Patrick Murray	21 Jan 1656	25 Dec 1735	79
25 Dec 1735		3	William Murray	22 Feb 1682	20 Oct 1739	57
20 Oct 1739		4	Patrick Murray	21 Aug 1707	9 Sep 1764	57
9 Sep 1764		5	William Murray	23 Oct 1746	6 Dec 1800	54
6 Dec 1800		6	Patrick Murray MP for Edinburgh 1806‑1812	3 Feb 1771	1 Jun 1837	66
1 Jun 1837		7	William Keith-Murray	19 Jul 1801	16 Oct 1861	60
16 Oct 1861		8	Patrick Keith-Murray	27 Jan 1835	10 Jan 1921	85
10 Jan 1921		9	William Keith Murray	8 Apr 1872	4 Feb 1956	83
4 Feb 1956		10	Patrick Ian Keith Murray	28 Aug 1904	18 Jun 1962	57
18 Jun 1962		11	William Patrick Keith Murray For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	7 Sep 1939	2 Nov 1977	38
2 Nov 1977		12	Patrick Ian Keith Murray	22 Mar 1965
MURRAY of Glendoich, Perth
2 Jul 1676	NS		See "Hepburn-Murray"
MURRAY of Melgund, Forfar
29 Jan 1704	NS	1	Alexander Murray	2 Aug 1682	1713	30
1713		2	Alexander Murray	c 1708	11 Mar 1736
Mar 1736		3	Joseph Murray	6 Aug 1718	8 Jun 1802	83
8 Jun 1802 to     6 Feb 1848		4	Albert Joseph Ghislain Murray On his death the baronetcy became dormant	26 Aug 1774	6 Feb 1848	73
MURRAY-MacGREGOR of MacGregor, Perth
3 Jul 1795	GB		See "MacGregor"
MUSGRAVE of Hartley Castle, Westmorland
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Richard Musgrave MP for Westmorland 1604‑1611	c 1585	6 Nov 1615
6 Nov 1615		2	Philip Musgrave MP for Westmorland 1640 and 1640‑1642	21 May 1607	7 Feb 1678	70
7 Feb 1678		3	Richard Musgrave		27 Dec 1687
27 Dec 1687		4	Sir Christopher Musgrave MP for Carlisle 1661‑1690, Westmorland 1690‑1695, 1701 and 1702‑1704, Appleby 1695‑1698, Oxford University 1698‑1700 and Totnes 1701‑1702	c 1631	29 Jul 1704
29 Jul 1704		5	Christopher Musgrave MP for Carlisle 1713‑1715 and Cumberland 1722‑1727	25 Dec 1688	20 Jan 1736	47
20 Jan 1736		6	Philip Musgrave MP for Westmorland 1741‑1747	c 1712	5 Jul 1795
5 Jul 1795		7	John Chardin Musgrave	15 Jan 1757	24 Jul 1806	49
24 Jul 1806		8	Philip Christopher Musgrave MP for Petersfield 1820‑1825 and Carlisle 1825‑1827	12 Jul 1794	16 Jul 1827	33
16 Jul 1827		9	Christopher John Musgrave	c 1797	11 May 1834
11 May 1834		10	George Musgrave	14 Jun 1799	29 Dec 1872	73
29 Dec 1872		11	Richard Courtenay Musgrave MP for Cumberland East 1880‑1881: Lord Lieutenant Westmorland 1876‑1881	21 Aug 1838	13 Feb 1881	42
13 Feb 1881		12	Richard George Musgrave	11 Oct 1872	21 May 1926	53
21 May 1926		13	Nigel Courtenay Musgrave For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	11 Feb 1896	19 Feb 1957	61
19 Feb 1957		14	Charles Musgrave	9 Nov 1913	26 Jul 1970	56
26 Jul 1970		15	Christopher Patrick Charles Musgrave	14 Apr 1949
MUSGRAVE of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
20 Oct 1638	NS	1	Edward Musgrave	c 1621	22 Nov 1673
Nov 1673		2	Richard Musgrave	c 1650	10 May 1710
10 May 1710		3	Richard Musgrave MP for Cumberland 1701 and 1702‑1708	c 1675	11 Oct 1711
Oct 1711		4	Richard Musgrave	c 1701	5 Oct 1739
5 Oct 1739		5	Richard Hylton	13 Oct 1724	16 Jun 1755	30
16 Jun 1755		6	William Musgrave	8 Oct 1735	3 Jan 1800	64
3 Jan 1800		7	Thomas Musgrave	1737	31 Dec 1812	75
31 Dec 1812		8	James Musgrave	c 1752	27 Apr 1814
27 Apr 1814		9	James Musgrave	24 May 1785	6 Dec 1858	73
6 Dec 1858 to     30 Sep 1875		10	William Augustus Musgrave Extinct on his death	1792	30 Sep 1875	83
MUSGRAVE of Tourin, co. Waterford
2 Dec 1782	I	1	Richard Musgrave MP [I] for Lismore 1778‑1800	1746	6 Apr 1818	71
6 Apr 1818		2	Christopher Frederick Musgrave	11 Sep 1738	Sep 1826	88
Sep 1826		3	Richard Musgrave MP for co. Waterford 1831‑1832 and 1835‑1837	6 Jan 1790	7 Jul 1859	69
7 Jul 1859		4	Richard Musgrave Lord Lieutenant Waterford Mar‑Jul 1874	24 Aug 1820	8 Jul 1874	53
8 Jul 1874		5	Richard John Musgrave	10 Dec 1850	4 Mar 1930	79
4 Mar 1930		6	Christopher Norman Musgrave	19 Oct 1892	12 May 1956	63
12 May 1956		7	Richard James Musgrave	10 Feb 1922	2 Dec 2000	78
2 Dec 2000		8	Christopher John Shane Musgrave	23 Oct 1959
MUSGRAVE of Drumglass, Antrim
4 Mar 1897 to     22 Feb 1904	UK	1	James Musgrave Extinct on his death	1829	22 Feb 1904	74
MUSGROVE of Speldhurst, Kent
2 Aug 1851 to     5 Oct 1881	UK	1	John Musgrove Extinct on his death	21 Jan 1793	5 Oct 1881	88
MUSPRATT of Merseyside, Lancs
30 Nov 1922 to     20 Apr 1934	UK	1	Max Muspratt MP for Exchange (Liverpool) 1910 Extinct on his death	3 Feb 1872	20 Apr 1934	62
MYDDELTON of Chirke, Denbigh
4 Jul 1660	E	1	Thomas Myddelton MP for Flint 1646‑1648, Montgomery 1660 and Denbighshire 1661‑1663	2 Nov 1624	13 Jul 1663	38
13 Jul 1663		2	Thomas Myddelton MP for Denbighshire 1679‑1681	c 1651	5 Feb 1684
5 Feb 1684		3	Richard Myddelton MP for Denbighshire 1685‑1716	23 Mar 1655	29 Apr 1716	61
29 Apr 1716 to     5 Jan 1718		4	William Myddelton Extinct on his death	26 Feb 1694	5 Jan 1718	23
MYERS
3 Jul 1804	UK	1	William Myers Governor of Tobago	1 Mar 1751	29 Jul 1805	54
29 Jul 1805 to     16 May 1811		2	William James Myers Extinct on his death		16 May 1811
MYNORS of Treago, Hereford
24 Jan 1964	UK	1	Humphrey Charles Baskerville Mynors	28 Jul 1903	25 May 1989	85
25 May 1989		2	Richard Baskerville Mynors	5 May 1947
MYRTON of Gogar, Edinburgh
28 Jun 1701	NS	1	Andrew Myrton		c Aug 1720
c Aug 1720 to     5 Dec 1774		2	Robert Myrton Extinct on his death		5 Dec 1774

	Frederick Graves Moon, son of Sir Francis Moon, 1st baronet (15 Nov 1829-24 May 1871)
	Moon died after being stabbed by his lover in May 1871. The following summary of the subsequent trial appeared in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper on 23 July 1871:-
	At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Hannah Newington, otherwise Flora Davey, 37, was indicted for the manslaughter of Frederick Moon. The prisoner was committed to take her trial for wilful murder, but the grand jury returned a true bill for the less serious crime of manslaughter only.
	Mr. Giffard [later 1st Earl of Halsbury], in opening the case, described the circumstances under which the charge against the prisoner arose, as they were afterwards given in evidence, and said the question for the jury to consider was, whether the death of Mr. Moon was the result of an accident according to her own statement, or whether it was the consequence of an unlawful act on the part of the prisoner.
	William Fewtrill: I am a police-constable, and was on duty in Bayswater on the night of the 24th May. About a quarter-past 12 a communication was made to me by Police-constable Rowe, and I went with him to 23, Newton-road. I was met at the kitchen door by Mr. Phillips, senior. I followed him upstairs, into the dining room. There I saw the deceased, lying dead, near the fireplace. There was a table in the room with several bottles on it. On the floor, close to the body, was a bowl with bloody water. I went from the dining-room to the drawing-room, which is on the same floor. There I saw the prisoner sitting on the sofa behind the door. She was in the act of pulling off her jacket. The inside was lined with white, and was saturated with blood. The upper part of her clothing was also covered with blood, and her hair was disarranged. Mr. Phillips, jun., was in the room with her. I went into the dining-room again, and found the knife (produced) in the fender. There was blood on one side of the blade. Shortly after a person came to the house of the name of Captain Davey. Serjeant Woolton also came. The knife-basket was on the table when I entered the room.
	Adelaide Matthews, parlour-maid in the prisoner's service, next gave evidence, and stated, amongst other details in connection with the fatal occurrence, that the prisoner called for a doctor, wrung her hands, and was in great distress. She did everything she could to save the deceased.
	Mary Ann Hale: I was housemaid in the service of the prisoner. Between half-past nine and 10 o'clock on the night of the 24th May I was in the kitchen, which is immediately below the dining-room. The first thing that attracted my attention was a fall. Then, a few minutes afterwards, I heard a scream. I went up to the dining-room and saw Mr. Moon lying on the floor close to the fireplace. His head was toward the sofa, and near the coal-scuttle. Mrs. Davey was kneeling down by his side, trying to undo his clothes, and, as she said, "trying to save him". She asked me to unfasten his things. I saw blood by the side of the body. I had heard no loud talking or struggling before I heard the fall.
	Catherine Beulin: I am the daughter of Madame Beulin, of 2, Burlington-street, and Miss Pook is my cousin. On the 24th of May I was staying at 23, Newton-street. I took my meals there, but slept at Mrs. Toynbee's, because there was no room for me to sleep at Mrs. Davey's. I remember Mr. Moon coming on the 24th of May. Miss Pook and Mrs. Toynbee were there. We had been out for a ride on horseback that day. At half-past eight Miss Pook and I went into the dining-room. Miss Pook brought up a bottle of Burgundy. I had some claret. Mr. Moon was sitting near the door opposite the window, and Mrs. Davey was sitting by the side of the window. I remained there half-an-hour, and then went into the drawing-room and played the piano. I continued playing until Mr. Phillips came, and then went to the billiard-room, leaving Mrs. Davey and Mr. Phillips. In about a quarter of an hour I went up to the dressing-room, which is over the dining-room, with some linen. I was there with Mrs. Toynbee about five minutes, when I heard the scream of a woman. Before that I had heard no loud talking or scuffling. I went downstairs and found the dining-room door open. I saw Mr. Moon lying on the floor, and Mrs. Davey on her knees bending over him. She said, "Fetch a doctor, fetch a doctor! I fear I did it!" I went at once for a doctor, and was absent about 20 minutes. When I came back Mrs. Davey was in the drawing-room. She said, "Oh, save him, save him! Pray for him, pray for him!" I went downstairs, and saw nothing more of her until she was taken to the police-station.
	Flora Pook corroborated the evidence of the last witness.
	Mrs. Toynbee was next examined, and she said she was present on the evening of the 24th May. The prisoner and Mr. Moon were generally on affectionate terms. She had heard them quarrel. The last occasion on which they had quarrelled was some months ago, about the prisoner's daughter. Mrs. Davey was very much annoyed and cried. - In cross-examination she said that on one occasion Mr. Moon threw a decanter containing sherry at the prisoner. The decanter was broken. Mr. Moon apologised for his conduct, and asked the prisoner to forgive him. On the Monday before the 24th May, Mr. Moon gave the prisoner two cheques for £100 each. She was going to Homburg on the 25th. Mr. Moon was depressed, and the prisoner coaxed him.
	Mr. Phillips, junior, gave evidence at considerable length as to the nature of the wound, which he said was six inches in depth. In cross-examination he said it was not impossible that the blow might have been caused by the deceased falling upon the knife.
	Mr. Savory, M.R.C.S., said that he had known Mrs. Davey for some time. When he told her that Mr. Moon was dead, she said, "Impossible!" She fell into a swoon, and on recovering she said, "I am afraid, doctor, that I did it." She afterwards said, "I suppose it must be so, but I really don't know how." She said, "While at dinner Mr. Moon said something which annoyed me, and I told him not to repeat it. He said, 'I will, and if you are not silent I will throw a bottle at your head.' I jumped up with a knife in my hand; we struggled and fell. I saw the blood po[u]ring. I don't know how." His opinion was that the wound was done by a stab. - The court then adjourned.
	On Friday Mr. Baker, F.R.C.S., surgeon at Bartholomew's hospital, was called, and said the wound was one most likely to be caused by the hand of another person; it could hardly be accidental.
	Mr. Charles Royston, M.R.C.S., St. Stephen's-crescent, Westbourne-park, said it was not impossible that the wound could have been the result of an accident, but it was highly improbable.
	Dr. Westmacott said he agreed with Mr. Royston and the other witnesses that it was highly improbable that the wound was caused accidentally.
	William Henry Pickford said: I knew the deceased intimately. I had known him 12 years. I had also known the prisoner. About a month before the 24th of May last, at Newton-road, I was present when there was a quarrel between them. He asked her if she had paid certain bills. She said, "Yes." During the quarrel, she said, "By Heavens! I'll have your life some day." This was during dinner. About six weeks before this, at lunch, she said to him, "By Jove, I'll stab you some day."
	The evidence of Superintendent Eccles, who took the prisoner into custody, closed the case for the prosecution.
	Mr. Edwin Canton, surgeon at Charing-cross hospital, was then examined for the defence, and gave it as his opinion that it was probable that the wound was accidental. - Mr. Walton, surgeon, of St. Mary's hospital, and Mr. Guy, chief surgeon at the Great Northern hospital, concurred in this view.
	At the conclusion of the evidence for the defence the court adjourned.
	On Saturday morning Mr. Serjeant Parry made an earnest address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner.
	The learned Judge then summed up. He said: No fair or sound view would warrant the jury in coming to the conclusion that the wound was caused by the premeditated act of the prisoner; but if it was the consequence of an infirmity of temper, she must bear the consequence of the act she had committed.
	The jury retired at four o'clock. After an absence of half-an-hour, the jury returned into court, and gave a verdict of "Guilty".
	The prisoner, upon being asked if she had anything to say, asserted her innocence, remarking that, loving Mr. Moon as she did, it was impossible that she could have done what was imputed to her. The wound, she said, was caused accidentally in the struggle.
	The Judge sentenced her to eight years' penal servitude. On hearing the sentence the prisoner fainted, and was carried from the dock by the warders.
	Although sentenced to eight years, she served less than half of that period, as reported in The Sunday Times of 27 September 1874:-
	In July, 1871, Hannah Newington, who had also gone by the name of Flora Davey, was tried at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of Mr. Frederick Graves Moon, and sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. In the ordinary course of events she would have been released on a ticket-of-leave at the expiration of six years of that time. Since her conviction her solicitors had memorialised the Home Secretary on her behalf, urging that Mr. Moon's death was really the result of an accident, as the medical evidence upon her trial went to show, and that during almost the whole of her confinement in Woking Prison, now over three years, she had been an inmate of the infirmary. A week or so since the convict received the intelligence of the death of her only daughter, and the effect of the news was an alarming and dangerous illness. In the end she was recently removed to Millbank, and on Tuesday was released upon a ticket-of-leave, having served less than half the term of penal servitude to which she was sentenced.
	Sir Cecil Ernest Moon, 2nd baronet
	From the Washington Post of 28 January 1900, reprinted from the Chicago Journal:-
	Mr. Cecil Moon, Bart., and Lady Moon were at the Auditorium Annex yesterday. They came from Denver, Colorado, and are on their way to England, where the baronet will take charge of a million dollar estate.
	No longer than two weeks ago the distinguished Briton was plain Cecil Moon, with no greater title than that of "cowboy". Several years ago he came from England and went to Colorado, where he hired out as a "rustler" or "cattle puncher". He saved his money, married an English girl who lived in Denver [although Burke's Peerage states her to be of Irish descent, which is confirmed by the report below], and finally got a small ranch of his own and a small number of cattle, so that he had the right to be known as a cowboy.
	The title to the family estates in Surrey, England, was in the name of his grandfather, Sir Richard Moon, and as Cecil's father was still alive and yet a young man, the cattle business gave the only promise for a future to the grandson. About two years ago Cecil Moon's father died [he actually died in April 1893] and two weeks ago, Sir Richard, the grandfather, passed away. The Colorado cowboy, being the next in line, the title and estates descended to him, and he is now on his way to take possession of them.
	"I shall never regret my experience in America," he said yesterday to a reporter. "It was rather hard rustling at times, and I saw some trouble at one time or another, but it did me good in a way. I shall have much to tell my friends back home, once I get settled. I don't look to see things much changed over there. England is a very old country, you know, and her people go slowly. They are not like Americans. There have been more changes in Colorado in the last ten years than in England, I imagine, has known in a century. Shall I come back to this country to live? Probably not. I shall have plenty to look after at home. But I have grown very fond of America, especially of Colorado, and hope to see it again frequently."
	The baronet wears his new honors simply. He does not look to be above thirty years of age, and is browned and tanned with the winds of the range. He left his ranch in charge of one of his men, and said he had not decided yet whether he should sell it or hold it.
	The Surrey estate which has fallen to the Colorado cowboy is said to be among the best in England. It has been in the family for several hundred years. Sir Richard was an old man when he died, and his grandson is the sole heir to the property, which is valued at more than a million.
	We meet with Sir Cecil again in 1909, when the Washington Post, on 20 October 1909, reported that:-
	Sir Cecil Ernest Moon, baronet, of Copswood Grange, County Warwick, England, and of Coldstream ranch, northern Colorado, today [19 October] filed suit against his wife [in Denver], demanding and accounting for $6,000, which he says he put in her care in 1900. They were going to England for a visit, and Lady Moon suggested that there would be no extravagance if she held the purse.
	Since then, Sir Cecil complains bitterly, it has been impossible for him to be extravagant. His wife has allowed him only a paltry $560; and of this, $300 in the last two years. Meanwhile, he says, his wife, daughter of F. Grattan Lawder, of The Grove, County Wicklow, Ireland, has been touring several Western States with a string of horses, which she enters in the races at many tracks. The baronet complains that he has been compelled to do menial labor on the ranch, which is their home.
	At times, according to his testimony, he has done the cooking and other kitchen work. His allowance has been less than his wife paid the manager of the ranch.
	It is hardly surprising that, according to Burke's Peerage, the couple were divorced in 1910.
	Sir Richard Emanuel Moore, 10th baronet
	The following article appeared in The Illustrated Police News on 2 February 1867:-
	The following romance of the aristocracy appears in one of the Dublin papers: - One of those cases which have afforded Sir Barnard [sic] Burke material for some of his deeply interesting works, in which the vicissitudes of noble houses are set forth, has recently been brought to light by certain proceedings in Capel-street Police-office. On the 19th of October [presumably 1866] a young lad, aged about 16, was brought up before Mr. J.C. O'Donel, charged with having stolen from Mr. Alfred Nelson, photographer, a mahogany glass-case containing a number of photographs. The prisoner, who gave his name as Emanuel Moore, had been employed by Mr. Nelson as a porter, and while in his employment had taken away the articles and sold them. So far there is nothing more in the case that what occurs in the daily record of crime in all our police-offices; but subsequent inquiries led to a revelation at once strange and painful, if young Moore's statements be true. As an explanation of his committing the offence he stated that his father, who is an Irish baronet of one of the oldest creations, had been reduced to a condition of such abject poverty as to be now under the necessity of selling matches in the streets of Dublin to obtain a wretched subsistence, and that he had sold the articles which he had stolen to furnish them with some of the ordinary necessities of life. The criminal - if such he can be called - was, in accordance with the law which he had violated, not the less that the doing so was an act of filial duty, sentenced to two months' imprisonment, which he is now undergoing. The mother of the unfortunate lad was sister to an Irishman who for many years sat in Parliament for an English seat, and who at one time was a great popular leader of the English working classes. We understand that an effort is being made to obtain a commutation of young Moore's sentence, and to provide for his father and himself some employment which will release them from actual pauperism.
	Based on the facts contained in the above report, Sir Richard Emanuel Moore is the only possible candidate for the match-selling baronet. This is confirmed by the fact that he did have a son, Emanuel, who was born in 1853 and who died before his father. As to the boy's mother, she was the 10th baronet's second wife, Margaret Matilda O'Connor. The brother referred to as being in Parliament must therefore have been Feargus Edward O'Connor, MP for co. Cork 1832‑1835 and Nottingham 1847‑1852. He was a leading figure in the Chartist movement during the 1830s and 1840s.
	The baronetcy became either extinct or dormant in 1926; more likely the latter, since the entry under this baronetcy in Dod's Peerage for 1916 contains a note stating that the heir to the baronetcy would be the eldest male descendant of Charles, son of the 9th baronet, who died in the United States, leaving several sons.
	Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th baronet
	In December 1866, Sir Charles married Harriet Sarah Moncreiffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe of that Ilk and 7th baronet of the creation of 1685. She was only 18 and thus 12 years younger than her husband.
	Sir Charles was MP for Warwickshire South and so was required to spend a good deal of his time at Westminster. The marriage was only a few months old when he began to mildly protest to his wife about the number of men friends his wife received at his home and, in particular, about the frequent calls during his absence that were being made by Viscount Cole (later Earl of Enniskillen), Sir Frederick Johnstone and a Captain Farquhar, an officer in the Guards. Most of all, however, he objected to her friendship with the Prince of Wales whom, curiously, he had never met, notwithstanding that the Prince was a frequent visitor to his house. Sir Charles hinted to his wife that he would be pleased if his wife saw no more of these men, but she laughed off his protests, telling him not to be silly.
	In February 1869, Lady Mordaunt gave birth to a daughter. When Sir Charles stood by his wife's bedside after the birth, his wife, with tears streaming down her face and seemingly in a state of repentance and self-abasement, told him that he was not the child's father. Even worse, she could not say who was the father of the child - it could have been any of a number of men, naming Lord Cole, Sir Frederick Johnstone and the Prince of Wales as possibilities.
	Sir Charles could not bring himself to believe her, until he found bundles of letters in her desk from two peers, some hotel bills bearing the name of Sir&nsp;Frederick Johnstone and a valentine from the Prince of Wales, together with one of the Prince's handkerchiefs. He also learned that, while he had been on a fishing holiday in Norway, Lord Cole had stayed at the family home.
	He immediately launched divorce proceedings, citing Lord Cole, Sir Frederick Johnstone and, so rumour had it, a third and more illustrious name. In the meantime, Lady Mordaunt's father, on hearing the news, had assumed his daughter must be insane and had some mental specialists examine her. They declared that the rigors of confinement had induced puerperal fever, as a result of which she was undoubtedly insane and suffering from delusions.
	The legal effect of this was that Sir Charles was debarred from proceeding with his suit for divorce, since legally an insane person is not fit to testify against another or to defend themselves. But Sir Charles took the view that his wife was shamming insanity as a means of negating her confession to him and, accordingly, he brought suit to have a court adjudge her as being sane, as a preliminary to his divorce petition.
	The hearing began on 16 February 1870 before Lord Penzance. It was asserted that while under observation, Lady Mordaunt had walked about dressed only in a pair of stockings and a short opera cloak, had to be washed like a baby, had destroyed her clothes and had tried to jump from a moving carriage. She was said to suffer from what the 'experts' described as hysterical catalepsy, which, it was said, obsessed her with delusions, violent outbursts of temper and the fear that she was being poisoned.
	On the other side, Sir Charles called several witnesses to prove she was perfectly sane. One, Elizabeth Hancox, nurse at the confinement, alleged that Lady Mordaunt and her mother offered her a reward to 'take the child as her own, teach it to work for its living, and when it was old enough, tell it it was an unfortunate.' Mrs Cadogan, wife of the local vicar and present at the confinement, said that Lady Mordaunt had never displayed any signs of insanity; and she testified that she had later excused her waywardness to her by saying, 'Everybody does it, so why shouldn't I?'
	Evidence was given by the servants of the frequent visits of the Prince of Wales, who sometimes arrived incognito in a hansom. Lady Mordaunt, they declared, always received the Prince in the drawing room and gave strict instructions that no one else was to be admitted during these visits, which varied from half an hour to two hours. As a result of this evidence the Prince decided to go into the witness box, even though, legally, he could not be compelled to give evidence or to answer questions. In doing so, he ignored the advice of the government and defied the orders of his mother, Queen Victoria. His interrogation was brief and his answers likewise -
	"I believe Your Royal Highness has for some time been acquainted with the Moncreiffe family?" - "I have."
	"On her marriage did Your Royal Highness write to Lady Mordaunt and send her a wedding present?" - 'I did."
	"Previous to her marriage, had she visited Your Royal Highness at Marlborough House?" - "She had."
	"And has she ever gone to the theatre with both Your Royal Highnesses?" - "She has."
	"In the year 1867 did you see much of her?" - "I did."
	"And in the year 1868?" - "I did also."
	"Were you acquainted with Sir Charles Mordaunt?" - "I was."
	"I have only one more question with which to trouble Your Royal Highness. Has there ever been any improper familiarity or criminal act between yourself and Lady Mordaunt?" - "There has not."
	The Prince was not cross-examined and Sir Charles' legal team admitted that there was not an atom of proof against the Prince. Eventually the Court took only five minutes to deliver its judgment that Lady Mordaunt was of unsound mind and had been so when the citation for divorce had been served upon her. As a consequence, Sir Charles was unable to proceed with his divorce petition, the judge ruling that no further action could be taken in the matter unless and until Lady Mordaunt had recovered her sanity.
	Sir Charles unsuccessfully appealed against this ruling, but in March 1875, he succeeded in obtaining a verdict to the contrary that enabled him to proceed. This time, only Lord Cole was named as co-respondent; the action was undefended and he gained his divorce, with costs against Lord Cole.
	Sir Herbert Edward Morris, 7th baronet [UK 1806]
	Sir Herbert committed suicide, as reported in The Times of 20 August 1947:-
	A verdict of "Death due to asphyxia from coal-gas poisoning self-administered while the balance of his mind was disturbed" was recorded by the Swansea Borough Coroner yesterday at the inquest on Sir Herbert Edward Morris, Bt., 63, of Belle Vue Road, West Cross, Swansea, who was found on Friday night sitting in front of a gas oven with a blanket over his head. He was the seventh holder of the baronetcy created of Claremont, Glamorganshire, in 1806.
	Sir Pyers George Joseph Mostyn, 11th baronet and his son, Sir Pyers Edward Mostyn, 12th baronet
	After the death of 11th baronet, the following appreciation [one might almost say adulation] of his life, written by a friend in Kenya, appeared in The Times of 8 May 1937:-
	Major Sir Pyers Mostyn, M.C., eleventh baronet, died at his farm on the higher slopes of Mount Kenya on February 28 as the result of a fall from a horse. His next farm neighbour and pig-sticking companion, Captain Eric Gooch, one of the fast diminishing band of Kenya's earliest settlers, was killed a few days before by a fall from the same horse.
	In England, except in a select sporting circle and more especially among those who watch such international happenings as may affect the strategic security of the British peoples, Sir Pyers Mostyn was little known. Constitutionally intolerant of the conventional round of many born to easy estate, he sold the family domain and found his satisfaction among the high passes of the Himalaya; in Africa's desert fringe, equatorial forests, vast scrubland wastes and highland oases of the white man's homing; in unpublished recesses of the East; and in the immense never-never land of Australia. He loved the he-men of the untamed remnants of the early world, and they loved him. In such places, and even in the sophisticated milieu of his small coterie of personal intimates, Pyers, at the early age of 43, had become almost a mythical being.
	His spiritual home, however, was the air. His flying technique was superb. During the last 10 years, while pilots have been contriving well-advertised flights across the African continent, he had explored every possible route from Kenya to England and between the focal points of Africa. His one besetting fear was notoriety. The full tale of his life of crowded adventure would provide an epic unbelievable in this trite time. It can never be written because the details only emerged casually on chance conversational occasions. Fantastic adventure was to him the merest commonplace. To the majority he appeared to have an insatiable and at times lust for danger as such, but those of us who knew him best realised his high purpose - determination to fit himself in every possible way to play an emphatic part in the future of our race. His constant theme was for the accumulating dangers which menace our Imperial position, and the seeming nonchalance with which they have been recognised by the controls. His bones rest in the aerodrome which he made on the verge of the forests of Mount Kenya.
	His son, the 12th baronet, died in a motor vehicle accident in February 1955, as reported in The Times of 12 February 1955:-
	Our Nairobi Correspondent reports that Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bt., was killed when his car over-turned while he was driving from Mombasa to Malindi. He was 26.
	Pyers Edward Mostyn was the only son of Sir Pyers George Joseph Mostyn, eleventh baronet, and was born on Jul 12, 1928. He succeeded as twelfth baronet at the age of nine, his father having been killed while riding near Nairobi in 1937. Before he went to Kenya at the age of 21 to farm the estate his father had bought there he had been a promising swimmer, holding the Middlesex 100 yards title. He was also a keen boxer. He had worked for some time in the locust control organization and was spending a period of leave at Malindi when he met his death. He was a bachelor, and the baronetcy devolves upon his uncle.
	Sir William Patrick Keith Murray, 11th baronet [NS 1673]
	Sir William committed suicide in November 1977, after losing an estimated £130,000 in failed film and theatre projects. The Guardian, in its edition of 3 November 1977, stated that:-
	Sir William Murray died in a shotgun blast yesterday, aged 38. His body was found in the tiny theatre at Ochtertyre, Perthshire, which cost him much of his fortune … He inherited a 14,500-acre estate and Ochtertyre mansion house when he was 21, but sold 11,000 acres of the land in 1966. A number of his business ventures were unsuccessful but he realised his greatest ambition in 1972 when he converted a gymnasium at the mansion into a theatre. It proved a financial failure and he spent tens of thousands of pounds to keep it going, selling family heirlooms and most of the rest of the estate to pay his debts.
	Sir Nigel Courtenay Musgrave, 13th baronet
	Shortly before he succeeded as 13th baronet in 1926, Sir Nigel found himself the object of much ridicule in the popular press due to his perceived arrogance, snobbishness, lack of humour and his sense of entitlement.
	The cause of his grievance was that he had received a summons for obstruction of traffic which failed to address him, he being the son of a baronet, as "Esquire". The following report appeared in the Daily Telegraph of 26 August 1925:-
	A singular letter from the son of a baronet, alleging incivility on the part of the Norwich police and discourtesy in not addressing him as "Esquire", was read at Norwich Police-court yesterday. Nigel Courtenay Musgrave, described as independent, of 25, Half Moon-street, London, was summoned for causing an obstruction with his motor-car. It was stated by the police that the car held up the tram traffic for several minutes, when defendant was seen to come out of the Hippodrome. He was asked three times by the police if the car belonged to him, but refused to answer. When told he would be reported he made no reply, but drove off in his car. The police denied any incivility towards him.
	The Lord Mayor [of Norwich] read a letter from the defendant which had been addressed to the Chief Constable, as follows:
	"Dear Sir - I received the enclosed summons to-day at my father's - Sir Richard Musgrave, Bt's - house, and should be very much obliged if you would be good enough to have my full name and proper designation inscribed thereon. I think you will find, if it would not be putting you to too much trouble in looking up "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage", that, being the eldest and only son of my father, I am entitled to the designation, after name, of "Esquire", although no doubt the inspector who was so very rude to me on the 15th of July last still considers that I am a criminal outcast and not even entitled to be addressed as "Sir", which I believe it is the duty of an inspector and ordinary constable when speaking to a gentleman to address him and speak to him as such. I recently saw my cousin, Lord Hastings, about the matter, and he advises me to take up the whole matter, which I intend to do; and if, which I quite understand, you are unable to deal with the matter in the right way, I shall go and see the Lord Lieutenant of the county about the whole thing, whom I know personally very well, and he will advise me as to the best course to be adopted. I very much regret having left my car and thereby causing an obstruction, and I shall pay the fine, whatever it amounts to, which I have no cause to complain of; but what I do very deeply and strongly resent is the insolent manner in which I was treated by the police, and the public have a right to bring these matters to notice, as in the recent case of Major Sheppard - Yours truly
	Courtenay Musgrave.
	Bachelor's Club, Piccadilly, W. Aug 5
	[The reference to 'Major Sheppard' relates to a contemporary case in which an army officer had been wrongly arrested for theft.]
	According to the report on this matter which appeared in the Adelaide News of 14 October 1925:-
	"the comment of the Lord Mayor is worthy of reproduction.
	"I am really sorry," he stated, "for a man who writes such a letter as that, for in a few years he will be dust, as we all shall be, and this nonsense is most touching. The bench will treat it as an offence of an ordinary human being, and with due regard to Mr. Musgrave's dignity - 10/ fine and 10/ costs."
	The News further commented that "of course, many of the comic papers have got much fun out of the matter, and some have suggested that policemen should pass an examination in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage."

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