BARONETAGE | ||||||
Last updated 10/10/2018 (12 Jan 2025) | ||||||
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. | ||||||
SABINE of Ion House, Beds | ||||||
22 Mar 1671 to Nov 1704 |
E | 1 | John Sabine Extinct on his death |
c 1639 | 26 Nov 1704 | |
SABINE-PASLEY of Craig, Dumfries | ||||||
1 Sep 1794 | GB | See "Pasley" | ||||
SADLIER of Temple Dinsley, Herts | ||||||
3 Dec 1661 | E | 1 | Edwyn Sadlier | c 1620 | Jul 1672 | |
Jul 1672 to 14 Jul 1719 |
2 | Edwin Sadlier Extinct on his death |
c 1656 | 14 Jul 1719 | ||
ST. AUBYN of Clowance, Cornwall | ||||||
11 Dec 1671 | E | 1 | John St. Aubyn MP for Mitchell 1679‑1681 |
6 Apr 1645 | 24 Jun 1687 | 42 |
Jun 1687 | 2 | John St. Aubyn MP for Helston 1689‑1695 |
13 Jan 1670 | 20 Jun 1714 | 44 | |
20 Jun 1714 | 3 | John St. Aubyn MP for Cornwall 1722‑1744 |
c 1702 | 15 Aug 1744 | ||
15 Aug 1744 | 4 | John St. Aubyn MP for Launceston 1747‑1754 and 1758‑1759, and Cornwall 1761‑1772 |
12 Nov 1726 | 12 Oct 1772 | 45 | |
12 Oct 1772 to 10 Aug 1839 |
5 | John St. Aubyn MP for Truro 1784, Penryn 1784‑1790 and Helston 1807‑1812 Extinct on his death |
17 May 1758 | 10 Aug 1839 | 81 | |
ST. AUBYN of Pencarrow, Cornwall | ||||||
19 Jul 1689 | E | See "Molesworth-St. Aubyn" | ||||
ST. AUBYN of St Michaels Mount, Cornwall | ||||||
31 Jul 1866 | UK | 1 | Edward St. Aubyn | 6 Nov 1799 | 30 Nov 1872 | 73 |
30 Nov 1872 | 2 | John St. Aubyn He was subsequently created Baron Saint Levan in 1887 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
23 Oct 1829 | 14 May 1908 | 78 | |
ST. BARBE of Broadlands, Hants | ||||||
30 Dec 1663 to 7 Sep 1723 |
E | 1 | John St. Barbe MP for Ilchester 1681‑1685 Extinct on his death |
c 1655 | 7 Sep 1723 | |
ST. CLAIR-FORD of Ember Court, Surrey | ||||||
22 Feb 1793 | GB | 1 | Francis Ford MP for Newcastle under Lyme 1793‑1796 |
15 Nov 1758 | 17 Jun 1801 | 42 |
17 Jun 1801 | 2 | Francis Ford | 15 Jan 1787 | 13 Apr 1839 | 52 | |
13 Apr 1839 | 3 | Francis John Ford | 14 Aug 1818 | 26 Nov 1850 | 32 | |
26 Nov 1850 | 4 | Francis Colville Ford | 11 Jun 1850 | 16 Nov 1890 | 40 | |
16 Nov 1890 | 5 | Francis Charles Rupert Ford | 5 Apr 1877 | 28 Feb 1948 | 70 | |
28 Feb 1948 | 6 | Aubrey St. Clair-Ford | 29 Feb 1904 | 8 Apr 1991 | 87 | |
8 Apr 1991 | 7 | James Anson St. Clair-Ford | 16 Mar 1952 | 3 Aug 2009 | 57 | |
3 Aug 2009 | 8 | Colin Anson St. Clair-Ford | 19 Apr 1939 | 3 Dec 2012 | 73 | |
3 Dec 2012 | 9 | Robin Sam St. Clair-Ford | 6 Jun 1941 | 12 May 2016 | 74 | |
12 May 2016 | 10 | William Sam St. Clair-Ford | 24 Jan 1982 | |||
ST. ETIENNE of France | ||||||
30 Nov 1629 | NS | 1 | Claude St. Etienne | c 1645 | ||
c 1645 to c 1660 |
2 | Charles St. Etienne On his death the baronetcy is presumed to have become extinct |
c 1660 | |||
ST. GEORGE of Carrickdrumrusk, Leitrim | ||||||
5 Sep 1660 | I | 1 | Oliver St. George MP [I] for Galway County 1692‑1693 |
by 1640 | Oct 1695 | |
Oct 1695 | 2 | George St. George He was subsequently created Baron Saint George in 1715 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1735 |
c 1658 | 18 Aug 1735 | ||
ST. GEORGE of Athlone, co. Westmeath | ||||||
12 Mar 1766 | I | 1 | Richard St. George MP [I] for Athlone 1763‑1789 |
1718 | 25 Feb 1789 | 70 |
25 feb 1789 | 2 | Richard Bligh St. George MP [I] for Athlone 1789‑1800 |
5 Jun 1765 | 29 Dec 1851 | 86 | |
29 Dec 1851 | 3 | Theophilus John St. George | 5 Oct 1816 | 27 Jul 1857 | 40 | |
27 Jul 1857 | 4 | Richard de Latour St. George | 2 Apr 1837 | 14 Oct 1861 | 24 | |
14 Oct 1861 | 5 | John St. George | 3 Apr 1851 | 21 Dec 1938 | 87 | |
21 Dec 1938 | 6 | Theophilus John St. George | 25 Feb 1856 | 19 Aug 1943 | 87 | |
19 Aug 1943 | 7 | Robert Alan St. George | 20 Mar 1900 | 21 Apr 1983 | 83 | |
21 Apr 1983 | 8 | Denis Howard St. George | Sep 1902 | 25 Apr 1989 | 86 | |
25 Apr 1989 | 9 | George Bligh St.George | 23 Sep 1908 | 19 Apr 1995 | 86 | |
19 Apr 1995 | 10 | John Avenel Bligh St. George | 18 Mar 1940 | |||
ST. JOHN of Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts | ||||||
22 May 1611 | E | 1 | John St. John MP for Wiltshire 1624‑1625 |
1648 | ||
1648 | 2 | John St. John | c 1637 | 13 Apr 1656 | ||
13 Apr 1656 | 3 | Walter St. John MP for Wiltshire 1656‑1658, 1679‑1685 and 1690‑1695, and Wootton Bassett 1661‑1679 |
May 1622 | 3 Jul 1708 | 86 | |
3 Jul 1708 | 4 | Henry St. John He was subsequently created Viscount St. John in 1716 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 |
17 Oct 1652 | 8 Apr 1742 | 89 | |
ST. JOHN of Woodford, Northants | ||||||
28 Jun 1660 | E | 1 | Oliver St. John | c 1624 | 3 Jan 1662 | |
3 Jan 1662 | 2 | St. Andrew St. John MP for Northamptonshire 1690‑1698 |
16 Oct 1658 | 10 Feb 1709 | 50 | |
10 Feb 1709 | 3 | Oliver St. John | c 1683 | c 1710 | ||
c 1710 | 4 | St. Andrew St. John | c 1685 | early 1711 | ||
early 1711 | 5 | Paulet St. Andrew St. John He subsequently succeeded to the Barony of St. John of Bletso in 1711 with which title the baronetcy then merged |
10 May 1714 | |||
ST. JOHN of Longthorpe, Northants | ||||||
10 Sep 1715 to Sep 1756 |
GB | 1 | Francis St. John Extinct on his death |
c 1680 | Sep 1756 | |
ST. JOHN-MILDMAY of Farley | ||||||
9 Oct 1772 | GB | 1 | Paulet St. John MP for Winchester 1734‑1741 and 1751‑1754, and Hampshire 1741‑1747 |
7 Apr 1704 | 8 Jun 1780 | 76 |
8 Jun 1780 | 2 | Henry Paulet St. John MP for Hampshire 1772‑1780 |
Jul 1737 | 8 Aug 1784 | 47 | |
8 Aug 1784 | 3 | Henry Paulet St. John (St. John-Mildmay from 8 Dec 1790) MP for Westbury 1796‑1802, Winchester 1802‑1807 and Hampshire 1807‑1808 For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
30 Sep 1764 | 11 Nov 1808 | 44 | |
11 Nov 1808 | 4 | Henry St. John Carew St. John-Mildmay MP for Winchester 1807‑1818 For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
15 Apr 1787 | 7 Jan 1848 | 60 | |
7 Jan 1848 | 5 | Henry Bouverie Paulet St. John-Mildmay | 31 Jul 1810 | 16 Jul 1902 | 91 | |
16 Jul 1902 | 6 | Henry Paulet St. John-Mildmay | 28 Apr 1853 | 24 Apr 1916 | 62 | |
24 Apr 1916 | 7 | Gerald Anthony Shaw-Lefevre St. John-Mildmay | 30 Oct 1860 | 22 Feb 1929 | 68 | |
22 Feb 1929 | 8 | Anthony St. John-Mildmay | 13 Aug 1894 | 3 Oct 1947 | 53 | |
3 Oct 1947 | 9 | Henry Gerald St. John-Mildmay For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
17 Apr 1926 | 4 Nov 1949 | 23 | |
4 Nov 1949 to 30 Mar 1955 |
10 | Aubrey Neville St. John-Mildmay On his death the baronetcy became dormant |
14 Feb 1865 | 30 Mar 1955 | 90 | |
1998 | 11 | Walter John Hugh St. John-Mildmay Proved his right to the title in 1998 |
3 Sep 1935 | 1 Oct 2022 | 87 | |
1 Oct 2022 | 12 | Michael Hugh Paulet St. John-Mildmay | 28 Sep 1937 | |||
ST. PAUL of Snarford, Lincs | ||||||
29 Jun 1611 to 28 Oct 1613 |
E | 1 | George St. Paul MP for Lincolnshire 1588‑1589 and 1593, and Grimsby 1604‑1611 Extinct on his death |
c 1562 | 28 Oct 1613 | |
ST. PAUL of Ewart Park, Northumberland | ||||||
17 Nov 1813 | UK | 1 | Horace David Cholwell St. Paul MP for Bridport 1812‑1820 and 1820‑1832 |
6 Jan 1775 | 10 Oct 1840 | 65 |
10 Oct 1840 to 28 May 1891 |
2 | Horace St. Paul MP for Worcestershire East 1837‑1841 Extinct on his death |
29 Dec 1812 | 28 May 1891 | 78 | |
ST. QUINTIN of Harpham, Yorks | ||||||
8 Mar 1642 | E | 1 | William St. Quintin | 1579 | 8 Oct 1649 | 70 |
Oct 1649 | 2 | Henry St. Quintin | c 1605 | Nov 1695 | ||
Nov 1695 | 3 | William St. Quintin MP for Hull 1695‑1723 |
c 1662 | 30 Jun 1723 | ||
30 Jun 1723 | 4 | William St. Quintin MP for Thirsk 1722‑1727 |
c 1700 | 9 May 1770 | ||
9 May 1770 to 22 Jul 1795 |
5 | William St. Quintin Extinct on his death |
4 Jul 1729 | 22 Jul 1795 | 66 | |
SALOMONS of Broomhill, Kent | ||||||
26 Oct 1869 | UK | See "Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons" | ||||
SALT of Saltaire and Crow Nest, Yorks | ||||||
30 Oct 1869 | UK | 1 | Titus Salt MP for Bradford 1859‑1861 |
20 Sep 1803 | 29 Dec 1876 | 73 |
29 Dec 1873 | 2 | William Henry Salt | 5 Dec 1831 | 7 Jul 1892 | 60 | |
7 Jul 1892 | 3 | Shirley Harris Salt | 4 May 1857 | 11 Feb 1920 | 62 | |
11 Feb 1920 | 4 | John William Titus Salt | 30 Nov 1884 | 22 Jan 1953 | 68 | |
22 Jan 1953 | 5 | David Shirley Salt | 14 Jun 1930 | 3 Dec 1978 | 48 | |
3 Dec 1978 | 6 | Anthony Houlton Salt | 15 Sep 1931 | 16 Jan 1991 | 59 | |
16 Jan 1991 | 7 | Patrick MacDonnell Salt | 25 Sep 1932 | 12 Jun 2024 | 91 | |
12 Jun 2024 | 8 | Daniel Alexander Salt | 15 Aug 1943 | |||
SALT of Standon and Weeping Cross, Staffs | ||||||
8 Aug 1899 | UK | 1 | Thomas Salt MP for Stafford 1859‑1865, 1869‑1880, and 1881‑1892 |
12 May 1830 | 8 Apr 1904 | 73 |
8 Apr 1904 | 2 | Thomas Anderson Salt | 8 Jan 1863 | 22 Jun 1940 | 77 | |
22 Jun 1940 | 3 | Thomas Henry Salt | 26 Nov 1905 | 15 Aug 1965 | 59 | |
15 Aug 1965 | 4 | Thomas Michael John Salt | 7 Nov 1946 | |||
SALUSBURY of Llewenny, Denbigh | ||||||
10 Nov 1619 | E | 1 | Henry Salusbury | 2 Aug 1632 | ||
2 Aug 1632 | 2 | Thomas Salusbury MP for Denbighshire 1640 |
Aug 1643 | |||
Aug 1643 | 3 | Thomas Salusbury | 8 Jun 1634 | 1658 | 24 | |
1658 to 23 May 1684 |
4 | John Salusbury MP for Denbigh 1661‑1684 Extinct on his death |
23 May 1684 | |||
SALUSBURY of Llanwern, Monmouth | ||||||
4 May 1795 | GB | 1 | Robert Salusbury MP for Monmouthshire 1792‑1796 and Brecon 1796‑1812 |
10 Sep 1756 | 17 Nov 1817 | 61 |
17 Nov 1817 | 2 | Thomas Robert Salusbury | 18 May 1783 | 14 Feb 1835 | 51 | |
14 Feb 1835 to 30 Mar 1868 |
3 | Charles John Salusbury Extinct on his death |
7 Feb 1792 | 30 Mar 1868 | 76 | |
SALUSBURY-TRELAWNY of Trelawney, Cornwall | ||||||
1 Jul 1628 | E | 1 | John Trelawny | 24 Apr 1592 | 16 Feb 1664 | 71 |
Feb 1664 | 2 | Jonathan Trelawny MP for East Looe 1660‑1661 and 1679‑1681, Cornwall 1661‑1679 and Liskeard 1679‑1681 |
c 1623 | 5 Mar 1681 | ||
Mar 1681 | 3 | Jonathan Trelawny | 24 Mar 1650 | 19 Jul 1721 | 71 | |
19 Jul 1721 | 4 | John Trelawny MP for West Looe 1713‑1715 and 1722‑1727, Liskeard 1715‑1722 and East Looe 1727‑1734 |
26 Jul 1691 | 2 Feb 1756 | 64 | |
2 Feb 1756 | 5 | Harry Trelawny MP for East Looe 1708‑1710 |
15 Feb 1687 | 7 Apr 1762 | 75 | |
7 Apr 1762 | 6 | William Trelawny MP for West Looe 1757‑1767; Governor of Jamaica 1767 |
c 1722 | 11 Dec 1772 | ||
11 Dec 1772 | 7 | Harry Trelawny | 26 Jun 1756 | 24 Feb 1834 | 77 | |
24 Feb 1834 | 8 | William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny MP for Cornwall East 1832‑1837; Lord Lieutenant Cornwall 1839‑1856 |
4 Jul 1781 | 15 Nov 1856 | 75 | |
15 Nov 1856 | 9 | John Salusbury Salusbury-Trelawny MP for Tavistock 1843‑1852 and 1857‑1865, and Cornwall East 1868‑1874 |
2 Jun 1816 | 4 Aug 1885 | 69 | |
4 Aug 1885 | 10 | William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny | 26 Aug 1844 | 30 Nov 1917 | 73 | |
30 Nov 1917 | 11 | John William Salusbury-Trelawny | 6 May 1869 | 7 Feb 1944 | 74 | |
7 Feb 1944 | 12 | John William Robin Maurice Salusbury‑Trelawny | 16 Jan 1908 | 28 Nov 1956 | 48 | |
28 Nov 1956 | 13 | John Barry Salusbury-Trelawny | 4 Sep 1934 | 29 Jul 2009 | 75 | |
29 Jul 2009 | 14 | John William Richard Salusbury-Trelawny | 30 Mar 1960 | |||
SAMBROOKE of London | ||||||
31 Jan 1701 | E | 1 | Nicholas Vanacker | c 1651 | 19 Feb 1702 | |
19 Feb 1702 | 2 | John Vanacker | 24 Mar 1711 | |||
Mar 1711 | 3 | Samuel Vanacker Sambrooke MP for Bramber 1704‑1705 and Great Bedwyn 1708‑1710 |
c 1677 | 27 Dec 1714 | ||
27 Dec 1714 | 4 | Jeremy Vanacker Sambrooke MP for Bedford 1731‑1740 |
c 1703 | 5 Jul 1740 | ||
5 Jul 1740 to 4 Oct 1754 |
5 | Jeremy Sambrooke Extinct on his death |
4 Oct 1754 | |||
SAMMAN of Routh, Yorks | ||||||
19 Jan 1921 | UK | 1 | Henry Samman | 14 Jul 1849 | 7 Mar 1928 | 78 |
7 Mar 1928 to 1 Dec 1960 |
2 | Henry Samman Extinct on his death |
18 Feb 1881 | 1 Dec 1960 | 79 | |
SAMUEL of Nevern Square, London | ||||||
8 Mar 1898 | UK | 1 | Sir Saul Samuel | 2 Nov 1820 | 29 Aug 1900 | 79 |
29 Aug 1900 | 2 | Edward Levien Samuel | 28 Apr 1868 | 24 Nov 1937 | 69 | |
24 Nov 1937 | 3 | Edward Louis Samuel | 6 Nov 1896 | 25 Apr 1961 | 64 | |
25 Apr 1961 | 4 | John Oliver Cecil Samuel | 24 Jun 1916 | 24 Oct 1962 | 46 | |
24 Oct 1962 | 5 | John Michael Glen Samuel | 25 Jan 1944 | |||
SAMUEL of the Mote and Portland Place | ||||||
26 Aug 1903 | UK | 1 | Marcus Samuel He was subsequently created Viscount Bearsted in 1925 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
5 Nov 1853 | 17 Jan 1927 | 73 |
SAMUEL of Chelwood Vetchery, Sussex | ||||||
8 Jul 1912 to 13 May 1926 |
UK | 1 | Stuart Montagu Samuel MP for Whitechapel 1900‑1916 Extinct on his death |
24 Oct 1856 | 13 May 1926 | 69 |
SAMUEL of Mancroft, Norfolk | ||||||
15 Jan 1932 | UK | 1 | Arthur Michael Samuel He was subsequently created Baron Mancroft in 1937 with which title the baronetcy remains merged. The 2nd baronet had previously changed his surname to Mancroft by deed poll in 1925 |
6 Dec 1872 | 17 Aug 1942 | 69 |
SAMUELSON of Bodicote Grange, Oxon and Prince's Gate, Westminster | ||||||
29 Jul 1884 | UK | 1 | Bernhard Samuelson MP for Banbury 1859 and 1865‑1895; PC 1895 |
22 Nov 1820 | 10 May 1905 | 84 |
10 May 1905 | 2 | Henry Bernhard Samuelson MP for Cheltenham 1868‑1874 and Frome 1876‑1885 |
30 Sep 1845 | 14 Mar 1937 | 91 | |
14 Mar 1937 | 3 | Francis Samuelson | 26 Feb 1861 | 3 Jan 1946 | 84 | |
3 Jan 1946 | 4 | Francis Henry Bernard Samuelson | 22 Feb 1890 | 8 Jan 1981 | 90 | |
8 Jan 1981 | 5 | Bernard Michael Francis Samuelson | 17 Jan 1917 | 21 Nov 2008 | 91 | |
21 Nov 2008 | 6 | James Francis Samuelson | 20 Dec 1956 | |||
SAMWELL of Upton, Northants | ||||||
22 Dec 1675 | E | 1 | Thomas Samwell MP for Northamptonshire 1689‑1690 and Northampton 1690‑1694 |
c 1654 | 23 Feb 1694 | |
23 Feb 1694 | 2 | Thomas Samwell MP for Coventry 1715‑1722 |
14 Apr 1687 | 16 Nov 1757 | 70 | |
16 Nov 1757 | 3 | Thomas Samwell | 28 Feb 1711 | 3 Dec 1779 | 68 | |
3 Dec 1779 to 18 Oct 1789 |
4 | Wenman Samwell Extinct on his death |
24 Oct 1728 | 18 Oct 1789 | 60 | |
SANDEMAN of Kenlygreen, St. Andrews, Fife | ||||||
5 Jul 1929 to 23 Apr 1940 |
UK | 1 | Nairne Stewart Sandeman MP for Middleton & Prestwich 1923‑1940 Extinct on his death |
12 Oct 1876 | 23 Apr 1940 | 63 |
SANDERS of Bayford, Somerset | ||||||
28 Jan 1920 | UK | 1 | Robert Arthur Sanders He was subsequently created Baron Bayford in 1929 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1940 |
20 Jun 1867 | 24 Feb 1940 | 72 |
SANDERSON of Greenwich, Kent | ||||||
19 Jul 1720 | GB | 1 | William Sanderson | 17 May 1727 | ||
17 May 1727 | 2 | William Sanderson | 20 Sep 1692 | 16 Jan 1754 | 61 | |
16 Jan 1754 to 30 Oct 1760 |
3 | William Sanderson Extinct on his death |
30 Mar 1746 | 30 Oct 1760 | 14 | |
SANDERSON of London | ||||||
6 Dec 1794 to 21 Jun 1798 |
GB | 1 | James Sanderson MP for Malmesbury 1792‑1796 and Hastings 1796‑1798 Extinct on his death |
30 Dec 1741 | 21 Jun 1798 | 56 |
SANDERSON of Banbury Road | ||||||
10 Aug 1899 | UK | See "Burdon-Sanderson" | ||||
SANDERSON of Malling Deanery, Sussex | ||||||
26 Jun 1920 | UK | 1 | Frank Bernard Sanderson MP for Darwen 1922‑1923 and 1924‑1929, Ealing 1931‑1945 and Ealing East 1945‑1950 For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
4 Oct 1880 | 18 Jul 1965 | 84 |
18 Jul 1965 | 2 | Frank Philip Bryan Sanderson | 18 Feb 1910 | 4 Dec 1992 | 82 | |
4 Dec 1992 | 3 | Frank Linton Sanderson | 21 Nov 1933 | 9 Nov 2023 | 89 | |
9 Nov 2023 | 4 | David Frank Sanderson | 26 Feb 1962 | |||
SANDFORD of Howgill, Westmorland | ||||||
11 Aug 1641 | E | 1 | Thomas Sandford Cockermouth 1642‑1644 |
c 1655 | ||
c 1655 | 2 | Richard Sandford | 8 Sep 1675 | |||
8 Sep 1675 to 2 Apr 1723 |
3 | Richard Sandford MP for Westmorland 1695‑1700 and 1701‑1702, Morpeth 1701 and 1705‑1713, and Appleby 1713‑1723 Extinct on his death For further information on the coincidence of the date of death of the 2nd baronet and the date of birth of the 3rd baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
8 Sep 1675 | 2 Apr 1723 | 47 | |
SANDS of Dublin | ||||||
21 Dec 1676 | I | 1 | William Sands | 14 Aug 1687 | ||
14 Aug 1687 to c 1704 |
2 | John Sands Extinct on his death |
c 1704 | |||
SANDYS of Wilberton, Cambs | ||||||
25 Nov 1611 | E | 1 | Miles Sandys MP for Cambridge University 1614, Huntingdon 1621‑1622 and Cambridgeshire 1628‑1629 |
29 Mar 1563 | 1645 | 82 |
1645 to Feb 1654 |
2 | Miles Sandys Extinct on his death |
23 Feb 1654 | |||
SANDYS of Northborne, Kent | ||||||
15 Dec 1684 to 5 May 1726 |
E | 1 | Richard Sandys Extinct on his death |
6 Jan 1670 | 5 May 1726 | 56 |
SANDYS of Missenden, Gloucs | ||||||
26 Sep 1809 | UK | See "Bayntun-Sandys" | ||||
SARSFIELD of Carrickleamlery, Cork | ||||||
30 Sep 1619 | I | 1 | Dominick Sarsfield He was subsequently created Viscount Sarsfield in 1627 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its forfeiture in 1691 |
Dec 1636 | ||
SASSOON of Kensington Gore, London | ||||||
22 Mar 1890 | UK | 1 | Albert Abdullah David Sassoon For information on this baronet (and his father), see the note at the foot of this page |
25 Jul 1818 | 24 Oct 1896 | 78 |
24 Oct 1896 | 2 | Edward Albert Sassoon MP for Hythe 1899‑1912 |
20 Jun 1856 | 24 May 1912 | 55 | |
24 May 1912 to 3 Jun 1939 |
3 | Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon MP for Hythe 1912‑1939; First Commissioner of Works 1937‑1939; PC 1929 Extinct on his death |
4 Dec 1888 | 3 Jun 1939 | 50 | |
SASSOON of Bombay, India | ||||||
9 Feb 1909 | UK | 1 | Jacob Elias Sassoon For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page |
1843 | 22 Oct 1916 | 73 |
23 Oct 1916 | 2 | Edward Elias Sassoon | 6 Jan 1853 | 2 Dec 1924 | 71 | |
2 Dec 1924 to 12 Aug 1961 |
3 | Ellice Victor Sassoon Extinct on his death |
30 Dec 1881 | 12 Aug 1961 | 79 | |
SAS VAN BOSCH of Holland | ||||||
22 Oct 1680 to c 1720 |
E | 1 | Gelebrand Sas van Bosch Presumed extinct on his death |
c 1720 | ||
SAUMEREZ of Guernsey | ||||||
13 Jun 1801 | UK | 1 | James Saumerez He was subsequently created Baron de Saumerez in 1831 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
11 Mar 1757 | 9 Oct 1836 | 79 |
SAUNDERS-PRYSE of Gogerddan, Cardigan | ||||||
28 Jul 1866 | UK | See "Pryse" | ||||
SAUNDERSON of Saxby, Lincs | ||||||
25 Nov 1611 | E | 1 | Nicholas Saunderson He was subsequently created Viscount Castleton in 1627 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1723 |
c 1561 | 17 May 1630 | |
SAVAGE of Rocksavage, Cheshire | ||||||
29 Jun 1611 | E | 1 | John Savage | 14 Jul 1615 | ||
Jul 1615 | 2 | Thomas Savage He was subsequently created Viscount Savage in 1626 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1735 |
c 1586 | 20 Nov 1635 | ||
SAVILE of Thornhill, Yorks | ||||||
29 Jun 1611 | E | 1 | George Savile MP for Boroughbridge 1586‑1587 and Yorkshire 1592 |
c 1550 | 12 Nov 1622 | |
12 Nov 1622 | 2 | George Savile | c 1611 | 19 Dec 1626 | ||
19 Dec 1626 | 3 | William Savile MP for Yorkshire 1640 and Old Sarum 1641‑1642 |
c 1612 | 24 Jan 1644 | ||
24 Jan 1644 | 4 | George Savile, Marquess of Halifax | 11 Nov 1633 | 5 Apr 1695 | 61 | |
5 Apr 1695 | 5 | William Savile, Marquess of Halifax | 1665 | 31 Aug 1700 | 35 | |
31 Aug 1700 | 6 | John Savile | 15 Feb 1651 | c 1704 | ||
c 1704 | 7 | George Savile MP for Yorkshire 1728‑1734 |
18 Feb 1678 | 16 Sep 1743 | 65 | |
16 Sep 1743 to 10 Jan 1784 |
8 | George Savile MP for Yorkshire 1759‑1784 Extinct on his death |
18 Jul 1726 | 10 Jan 1784 | 57 | |
SAVILE of Methley, Yorks | ||||||
29 Jun 1611 to 23 Jun 1632 |
E | 1 | Henry Savile MP for Aldborough 1604 and 1614, and Yorkshire 1629 Extinct on his death |
6 Oct 1579 | 23 Jun 1632 | 52 |
SAVILE of Copley, Yorks | ||||||
24 Jul 1662 to 1689 |
E | 1 | John Savile Extinct on his death |
c 1640 | 1689 | |
SAVORY of The Woodlands, Bucks | ||||||
24 Mar 1890 | UK | 1 | William Scovell Savory | 30 Nov 1826 | 4 Mar 1895 | 68 |
4 Mar 1895 | 2 | Borradaile Savory | 5 Oct 1855 | 12 Sep 1906 | 50 | |
12 Sep 1906 to 16 Sep 1961 |
3 | William Borradaile Savory Extinct on his death |
14 May 1882 | 16 Sep 1961 | 79 | |
SAVORY of Buckhurst Park, Berks | ||||||
14 Sep 1891 to 1 Oct 1921 |
UK | 1 | Joseph Savory MP for Appleby 1892‑1900 Extinct on his death |
23 Jul 1843 | 1 Oct 1921 | 78 |
SAWLE of Penrice, Cornwall | ||||||
22 Mar 1836 | UK | See "Graves-Sawle" | ||||
SAXTON of Circourt, Berks | ||||||
26 Jul 1794 | GB | 1 | Charles Saxton | c 1730 | 11 Nov 1808 | |
11 Nov 1808 to 25 Jan 1838 |
2 | Charles Saxton MP for Cashel 1812‑1818 Extinct on his death |
2 Oct 1773 | 25 Jan 1838 | 64 | |
SCARISBRICK of Greaves Hall, Lancs | ||||||
17 Jul 1909 | UK | 1 | Thomas Talbot Leyland Scarisbrick MP for Dorset South 1906‑1910 |
28 Apr 1874 | 18 May 1933 | 59 |
18 May 1933 to 29 Aug 1955 |
2 | Everard Talbot Scarisbrick Extinct on his death |
10 Dec 1896 | 29 Aug 1955 | 58 | |
SCHRODER of The Dell, Berks | ||||||
13 Dec 1892 to 20 Apr 1910 |
UK | 1 | John Henry William Schroder Extinct on his death |
13 Feb 1825 | 20 Apr 1910 | 85 |
SCHUSTER of Collingham Road, London | ||||||
24 Jul 1906 | UK | 1 | Felix Schuster | 21 Apr 1854 | 13 May 1936 | 82 |
13 May 1936 | 2 | Felix Victor Schuster | 26 May 1885 | 22 Dec 1962 | 77 | |
22 Dec 1962 to 12 Mar 1996 |
3 | Felix James Moncrieff Schuster Extinct on his death |
8 Jan 1913 | 12 Mar 1996 | 83 | |
SCLATER of Cambridge, Cambs | ||||||
25 Jul 1660 to 10 Dec 1684 |
E | 1 | Thomas Sclater Extinct on his death |
9 Jul 1615 | 10 Dec 1684 | 69 |
SCOTT of Kew Green, Middlesex | ||||||
9 Aug 1653 | E | 1 | William Scott | 1681 | ||
1681 | 2 | William Scott | c 1700 | |||
c 1700 | 3 | William Scott | 1723 | |||
1723 to c 1775 |
4 | William Scott On his death the baronetcy became either dormant or extinct |
c 1775 | |||
SCOTT of Thirlstane, Selkirk | ||||||
22 Aug 1666 | NS | 1 | Francis Scott | 11 May 1645 | 7 Mar 1712 | 66 |
7 Mar 1712 | 2 | William Scott | c 1680 | 8 Oct 1725 | ||
8 Oct 1725 | 3 | Francis Napier He had previously succeeded to the Barony of Napier of Merchistoun in 1706 with which title the baronetcy then merged, although, as at 30/06/2014, the baronetcy does not appear on the Official Roll of the Baronetage |
c 1702 | 11 Apr 1773 | ||
SCOTT of Ancrum, Roxburgh | ||||||
27 Oct 1671 | NS | 1 | John Scott | 1712 | ||
1712 | 2 | Patrick Scott | 1734 | |||
1734 | 3 | John Scott | 21 Feb 1746 | |||
21 Feb 1746 | 4 | William Scott | 16 Jun 1769 | |||
16 Jun 1769 | 5 | John Scott | 24 Dec 1812 | |||
24 Dec 1812 | 6 | William Scott MP for Carlisle 1829‑1830 and Roxburghshire 1859‑1870 |
26 Jul 1803 | 12 Oct 1871 | 68 | |
12 Oct 1871 to 21 May 1902 |
7 | William Monteath Douglas Scott Extinct on his death |
1829 | 21 May 1902 | 72 | |
SCOTT of Great Barr, Staffs | ||||||
30 Apr 1806 | UK | 1 | Joseph Scott MP for Worcester 1802‑1806 |
31 Mar 1752 | 17 Jun 1828 | 76 |
17 Jun 1828 | 2 | Edward Dolman Scott MP for Lichfield 1831‑1837 |
22 Oct 1793 | 27 Dec 1851 | 58 | |
27 Dec 1851 | 3 | Sir Francis Edward Scott, 2nd baronet He had previously succeeded to the baronetcy of Bateman of Hartington Hall, Derby in 1824 when the baronetcies merged until 1905 |
25 Feb 1824 | 21 Nov 1863 | 39 | |
21 Nov 1863 | 4 | Edward William Dolman Scott | 23 Dec 1854 | 1 Apr 1871 | 16 | |
1 Apr 1871 | 5 | Arthur Douglas Bateman Scott | 3 Sep 1860 | 18 Mar 1884 | 23 | |
18 Mar 1884 | 6 | Edward Dolman Scott | 12 Feb 1826 | 8 Mar 1905 | 79 | |
8 Mar 1905 | 7 | Douglas Edward Scott For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
2 Feb 1863 | 22 Aug 1951 | 88 | |
22 Aug 1951 | 8 | Edward Arthur Dolman Scott For further information on this baronet and his wife, see the notes at the foot of this page |
14 Dec 1905 | Jan 1980 | 74 | |
Jan 1980 | 9 | Douglas Francis Scott Extinct on his death |
26 Aug 1908 | c Nov 1986 | 78 | |
SCOTT of Dunninald, Forfar | ||||||
13 Dec 1806 | UK | 1 | James Sibbald For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page |
17 Sep 1819 | ||
17 Sep 1819 | 2 | David Scott MP for Yarmouth (IOW) 1806 |
25 Jul 1782 | 18 Jun 1851 | 68 | |
18 Jun 1851 | 3 | James Sibbald David Scott | 14 Jun 1814 | 26 Jun 1885 | 71 | |
26 Jun 1885 | 4 | Francis David Sibbald Scott For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
30 Mar 1851 | 11 Aug 1906 | 55 | |
11 Aug 1906 to 10 Aug 1945 |
5 | Francis Montagu Sibbald Scott Extinct on his death |
23 Jul 1885 | 10 Aug 1945 | 60 | |
SCOTT of Hartington Hall, Derby | ||||||
15 Dec 1806 | UK | See "Bateman" | ||||
SCOTT of Abbotsford, Roxburgh | ||||||
22 Apr 1820 | UK | 1 | Walter Scott | 15 Aug 1771 | 21 Sep 1832 | 61 |
21 Sep 1832 to 8 Feb 1847 |
2 | Walter Scott Extinct on his death |
28 Oct 1801 | 8 Feb 1847 | 45 | |
SCOTT of Lytchet Minster, Dorset | ||||||
8 Sep 1821 | UK | 1 | Claude Scott | 11 May 1742 | 27 Mar 1830 | 87 |
27 Mar 1830 | 2 | Samuel Scott MP for Malmesbury 1802‑1806, Camelford 1812‑1818 and Whitchurch 1818‑1832 |
29 Apr 1772 | 30 Sep 1849 | 77 | |
30 Sep 1849 | 3 | Claude Edward Scott | 15 Apr 1804 | 27 Jul 1874 | 70 | |
27 Jul 1874 | 4 | Claude Edward Scott | 11 Jul 1840 | 28 Jun 1880 | 39 | |
28 Jun 1880 | 5 | Edward Henry Scott | 19 Feb 1842 | 1 Aug 1883 | 41 | |
1 Aug 1883 | 6 | Samuel Edward Scott MP for Marylebone West 1898‑1918 and St. Marylebone 1918‑1922 For further information on this baronet's wife and the scandal in which she was involved, see the note at the foot of this page |
25 Oct 1873 | 21 Feb 1943 | 69 | |
21 Feb 1943 to 21 Dec 1961 |
7 | Robert Claude Scott Extinct on his death |
25 Oct 1886 | 21 Dec 1961 | 75 | |
SCOTT of Connaught Place, London | ||||||
23 Feb 1899 to 17 Jan 1912 |
UK | 1 | John Edward Arthur Murray Scott Extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the notes at the foot of the pages containing details of the baronetcy of Wallace, created in 1871 and the barony of Sackville |
23 Feb 1847 | 17 Jan 1912 | 64 |
SCOTT of Beauclerc, Northumberland | ||||||
27 Jul 1907 | UK | 1 | Walter Scott | 17 Aug 1826 | 8 Apr 1910 | 83 |
8 Apr 1910 | 2 | John Scott | 23 Aug 1854 | 29 Apr 1922 | 67 | |
29 Apr 1922 | 3 | Walter Scott | 31 Mar 1895 | 8 Jun 1967 | 72 | |
8 Jun 1967 | 4 | Walter Scott | 29 Jul 1918 | 29 Nov 1992 | 74 | |
29 Nov 1992 | 5 | Walter John Scott | 24 Feb 1948 | |||
SCOTT of The Yews, Westmorland | ||||||
27 Jul 1909 | UK | 1 | James William Scott | 23 Jun 1844 | 4 Aug 1913 | 69 |
4 Aug 1913 | 2 | Samuel Haslam Scott | 7 Aug 1875 | 23 Jun 1960 | 84 | |
23 Jun 1960 | 3 | Oliver Christopher Anderson Scott | 6 Nov 1922 | 4 Nov 2016 | 93 | |
4 Nov 2016 | 4 | Christopher James Scott | 16 Jan 1955 | |||
SCOTT of Witley, Surrey | ||||||
3 Feb 1913 | UK | 1 | Sir Percy Moreton Scott | 10 Jul 1853 | 18 Oct 1924 | 71 |
18 Oct 1924 | 2 | Douglas Winchester Scott | 4 Feb 1907 | 10 Apr 1984 | 77 | |
10 Apr 1984 | 3 | Anthony Percy Scott | 1 May 1937 | 27 Feb 2019 | 81 | |
27 Feb 2019 | 4 | Henry Douglas Edward Scott | 26 Mar 1964 | |||
SCOTT of Abbotsford, Roxburgh | ||||||
23 Jun 1932 | UK | See "Maxwell-Scott" | ||||
SCOTT of Rotherfield, Hants | ||||||
16 Feb 1962 | UK | 1 | Jervoise Bolitho Scott | 3 Feb 1892 | 21 Jun 1965 | 73 |
21 Jun 1965 | 2 | James Walter Scott Lord Lieutenant Hampshire 1982‑1993 |
26 Oct 1924 | 2 Nov 1993 | 69 | |
2 Nov 1993 | 3 | James Jervoise Scott | 12 Oct 1952 | |||
SCOTT-DOUGLAS of Maxwell, Roxburgh | ||||||
27 Jun 1786 | GB | See "Douglas" | ||||
SCOTTER of Eastbourne, Sussex | ||||||
16 Jul 1907 | UK | 1 | Sir Charles Scotter | 22 Oct 1835 | 13 Dec 1910 | 75 |
13 Dec 1910 to 26 Nov 1911 |
2 | Frederick Charles Scotter Extinct on his death |
29 Jun 1868 | 26 Nov 1911 | 43 | |
SCOURFIELD of Williamston, Pembroke | ||||||
18 Feb 1876 | UK | 1 | John Henry Scourfield MP for Haverfordwest Boroughs 1852‑1868 and Pembrokeshire 1868‑1876; Lord Lieutenant Haverfordwest 1857‑1876 |
30 Jan 1808 | 3 Jun 1876 | 68 |
3 Jun 1876 to 5 Feb 1921 |
2 | Owen Henry Philipps Scourfield Extinct on his death |
10 Oct 1847 | 5 Feb 1921 | 73 | |
SCROPE of Cockerington, Lincs | ||||||
16 Jan 1667 to 1680 |
E | 1 | Carr Scrope Extinct on his death |
20 Sep 1649 | 1680 | 30 |
SCUDAMORE of Holme Lacy, Hereford | ||||||
1 Jun 1620 | 1 | John Scudamore He was subsequently created Viscount Scudamore in 1628 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1716 |
22 Mar 1601 | 19 May 1671 | 70 | |
SCUDAMORE of Ballingham, Hereford | ||||||
23 Jun 1644 | E | 1 | John Scudamore | 2 Aug 1600 | c 1649 | |
c 1649 | 2 | John Scudamore | 30 Jul 1630 | 22 Aug 1684 | 54 | |
Aug 1684 to c 1720 |
3 | Barnaby Scudamore Extinct on his death |
c 1720 | |||
SEAGER of St. Mellons, Monmouth | ||||||
1 Jul 1952 | UK | 1 | George Leighton Seager He was subsequently created Baron Leighton of St. Mellons in 1962 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 |
11 Jan 1896 | 17 Oct 1963 | 67 |
SEALE of Mount Boone, Devon | ||||||
31 Jul 1838 | UK | 1 | John Henry Seale MP for Dartmouth 1832‑1844 |
25 Dec 1780 | 29 Nov 1844 | 63 |
29 Nov 1844 | 2 | Henry Paul Seale | 17 Feb 1806 | 17 Dec 1897 | 91 | |
17 Dec 1897 | 3 | John Henry Seale | 14 Nov 1843 | 29 Jul 1914 | 70 | |
29 Jul 1914 | 4 | John Carteret Hyde Seale | 23 Jul 1881 | 22 May 1964 | 82 | |
22 May 1964 | 5 | John Henry Seale | 3 Mar 1921 | 26 Jan 2017 | 95 | |
26 Jan 2017 | 6 | John Robert Charters Seale | 17 Aug 1954 | |||
SEAMAN of Bouverie Street, London | ||||||
17 Mar 1933 to 2 Feb 1936 |
UK | 1 | Sir Owen Seaman Extinct on his death |
18 Sep 1861 | 2 Feb 1936 | 74 |
SEBRIGHT of Besford, Worcs | ||||||
20 Dec 1626 | E | 1 | Edward Sebright | c 1585 | c 1658 | |
c 1658 | 2 | Edward Sebright | c 1645 | 11 Sep 1679 | ||
11 Sep 1679 | 3 | Edward Sebright | 1668 | 15 Dec 1702 | 34 | |
15 Dec 1702 | 4 | Thomas Saunders Sebright MP for Hertfordshire 1715‑1736 |
11 May 1692 | 12 Apr 1736 | 43 | |
12 Apr 1736 | 5 | Thomas Saunders Sebright | 21 Dec 1723 | 30 Oct 1761 | 37 | |
30 Oct 1761 | 6 | John Sebright MP for Bath 1763‑1774 and 1775‑1780 |
19 Oct 1725 | 23 Feb 1794 | 68 | |
23 Feb 1794 | 7 | John Saunders Sebright MP for Hertfordshire 1807‑1835 |
23 May 1767 | 15 Apr 1846 | 78 | |
15 Apr 1846 | 8 | Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright | 1802 | 29 Aug 1864 | 62 | |
29 Aug 1864 | 9 | John Gage Saunders Sebright | 20 Aug 1843 | 15 Nov 1890 | 47 | |
15 Nov 1890 | 10 | Egbert Cecil Saunders Sebright | 12 Jun 1871 | 1 Apr 1897 | 25 | |
1 Apr 1897 | 11 | Edgar Reginald Saunders Sebright | 27 May 1854 | 25 Dec 1917 | 63 | |
25 Dec 1917 | 12 | Guy Thomas Saunders Sebright For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
19 Aug 1856 | 11 Sep 1933 | 77 | |
11 Sep 1933 | 13 | Giles Edward Sebright | 12 Nov 1896 | 9 Dec 1954 | 58 | |
9 Dec 1954 | 14 | Hugo Giles Edmund Sebright | 2 Mar 1931 | 16 Apr 1985 | 54 | |
16 Apr 1985 | 15 | Peter Giles Vivian Sebright | 2 Aug 1953 | 25 Oct 2003 | 50 | |
25 Oct 2003 | 16 | Rufus Hugo Giles Sebright | 31 Jul 1978 | |||
SEDLEY of Ailesford, Kent | ||||||
29 Jun 1611 | E | 1 | William Sedley | c 1558 | 27 Feb 1618 | |
27 Feb 1618 | 2 | John Sedley | c 1597 | 13 Aug 1638 | ||
13 Aug 1638 | 3 | Henry Sedley | c 1623 | 1641 | ||
1641 | 4 | William Sedley | 1656 | |||
1656 to 20 Aug 1701 |
5 | Charles Sedley MP for New Romney 1668‑1681, 1690‑1695 and 1696‑1701 Extinct on his death |
30 Mar 1639 | 20 Aug 1701 | 62 | |
SEDLEY of Great Chart, Kent | ||||||
24 Sep 1621 | E | 1 | Isaack Sedley | 1627 | ||
1627 | 2 | John Sedley | c 1600 | 21 Nov 1673 | ||
Nov 1673 | 3 | Isaac Sedley | by 1695 | |||
by 1695 | 4 | Charles Sedley | Oct 1702 | |||
Oct 1702 | 5 | John Sedley | c 1710 | |||
c 1710 | 6 | George Sedley | 27 Feb 1665 | by 1722 | ||
by 1722 | 7 | George Sedley | 5 Aug 1737 | |||
Aug 1737 to c 1770 |
8 | Charles Sedley Extinct on his death |
c 1770 | |||
SEDLEY of Southfleet, Kent | ||||||
10 Jul 1702 | E | 1 | Charles Sedley | c 1695 | 18 Feb 1730 | |
18 Feb 1730 | 2 | Charles Sedley MP for Nottingham 1747‑1754 and 1774‑1778 Extinct on his death |
c 1721 | 23 Aug 1778 | ||
SEELY of Sherwood Lodge, Notts and Brooke House, Isle of Wight | ||||||
19 Feb 1896 | UK | 1 | Charles Seely MP for Nottingham 1869‑1874 and 1880‑1885, and Nottingham West 1885‑1886 and 1892‑1895 |
11 Aug 1833 | 16 Apr 1915 | 81 |
16 Apr 1915 | 2 | Charles Hilton Seely MP for Lincoln 1895‑1906 and Mansfield 1916‑1918 |
7 Jul 1859 | 26 Feb 1926 | 66 | |
26 Feb 1926 | 3 | Hugh Michael Seely, later [1941] 1st Baron Sherwood | 2 Oct 1898 | 1 Apr 1970 | 71 | |
1 Apr 1970 | 4 | Victor Basil John Seely | 18 May 1900 | 10 May 1980 | 79 | |
10 May 1980 | 5 | Nigel Edward Seely | 28 Jul 1923 | 25 Apr 2019 | 95 | |
25 Apr 2019 | 6 | William Victor Conway Seely | 16 Sep 1983 | |||
SELBY of Whitehouse, Durham | ||||||
3 Mar 1664 | E | 1 | George Selby | Sep 1668 | ||
Sep 1668 to Sep 1668 |
2 | George Selby Extinct on his death - he held the baronetcy for only one hour |
Sep 1668 | |||
SELBY-BIGGE of Kings Sutton, Northants | ||||||
14 Feb 1919 | UK | 1 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge | 3 Apr 1860 | 24 May 1951 | 91 |
24 May 1951 to 3 Oct 1973 |
2 | John Amherst Selby-Bigge Extinct on his death |
20 Jun 1892 | 3 Oct 1973 | 81 | |
Sir Henry Paulet St. John-Mildmay, 3rd baronet [GB 1772] | ||
From The Times of 16 December 1797:- | ||
Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, Bart, a few days since, met with the following extraordinary accident at his seat in Hampshire: returning from a hard chace [sic] with his horse, Telegraph, (which he bought of Lord Villiers for 600 guineas) he dismounted, and told his groom he thought he might venture to pat him, and accordingly put his right hand towards his neck, when the horse seized it in his mouth, and held it there for more than a minute, in despite of all the endeavours of two grooms to disengage it. The consequence was, that Sir Henry was compelled to suffer an amputation of all of his fingers from that hand in the course of the day. | ||
Sir Henry St. John Carew St. John-Mildmay, 4th baronet [GB 1772] | ||
Sir Henry committed suicide in January 1848. The following report on the subsequent inquest appeared in The Morning Chronicle of 19 January 1848:- | ||
An inquest was held this morning by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Bedford Arms, Pont-street, Cadogan-place, Chelsea, on the body of Sir Henry St.John Mildmay, Bart., aged 62 [sic], who committed suicide on Monday morning last, under the following circumstances:- | ||
Thomas Tremier, valet to deceased, proved finding him dead in bed at 1/4 to six on Monday morning last, having called him at 5 by his own request. Witness put out deceased's clothes for him, as they were about going into the country. At half-past 5, witness returned to deceased's bed-room, when he asked for his box, which witness gave him, and then left the room. At twenty minutes to 6, witness went to see if deceased was up, when he looked very strangely at him, and said something witness could not understand. He did not speak in his usual way. Witness was about to take the box away, but at deceased's request he left [it] on the bed, and went down stairs; and in about three minutes heard a noise in the room, like that caused by the falling of table. In two minutes he returned to deceased's room, and found him still in bed, with a pistol in both hands. He was quite dead. Witness called the landlord, and then went for a surgeon, Mr. Tirann, who came immediately. His services were useless. | ||
By the Coroner: I do not know where the deceased had obtained the pistol. He had no pistol case, and did not keep powder or bullets. Lived with deceased for seven years, and noticed a strange alteration in his manner for three days previously to his death. He gave his orders in a strange way. On Saturday evening he appeared very low, and said he had met with an accident - broken the shaft of his brougham. He said he wished particularly to go into Hampshire on the following day to join his brother on a shooting excursion. Six weeks ago he was seriously indisposed, complained of his head, and passed sleepless nights. Knew of nothing to annoy him particularly. No letter or scrap of paper had been found addressed by Sir Henry to anybody. | ||
Deceased's coachman and landlord were examined, and merely said that they had observed lately a slight change in his manner. | ||
Mr. Augustus Warren, solicitor to deceased, said he saw him on Sunday evening, when he appeared in a most undetermined state relative to pecuniary embarrassments, which, he said, he was quite sure he could not face. He feared being arrested, or taken in execution on Monday, and said he had better be out of the world. Witness believed he hardly knew what he was doing. His judgment was not in a sound state. | ||
Mr. Thorne, deceased's medical adviser, said that about a month ago he was labouring under great depression of mind. | ||
Verdict, "Temporary Insanity." | ||
Sir Henry Gerald St. John-Mildmay, 9th baronet [GB 1772] | ||
The Times of 10 November 1949:- | ||
Sir Henry St. John-Mildmay, 9th baronet, was killed in a motor car accident near Kampala, Uganda, on Friday [4 November] at the age of 23, according to a message from our Kampala Correspondent. He was the only son of Captain Sir Anthony St.John-Mildmay, the eighth baronet, and was educated at Eton. He was gazetted a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1945 and served with them in the occupation forces in Germany. About a year ago he went to Uganda, where he was employed by a firm of estate agents. The heir to the baronetcy is his kinsman the Rev. Aubrey Neville St. John-Mildmay, a descendant of the second son of the third baronet. | ||
Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, 1st baronet | ||
Sir Frank made a valiant, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to rescue a child who had fallen into a stream, as described in an article in The Irish Times of 11 October 1927:- | ||
Alfred Reginald Tillstone, of Spring Gardens, Lewes, was drowned in a stream at Lewes yesterday afternoon. Sir Frank Sanderson, Bart., M.P., who lives at Lewes, was attracted by the cries of the mother, and dived, fully dressed, into the water and brought the boy to land. While artificial respiration was being applied he ran to telephone for the police and a doctor, and afterwards lent his car to take the boy to hospital, but all efforts at revival were unavailing. | ||
"The spot where the child fell in," said Sir Frank Sanderson, "was near to some fields which adjoin my estate. I was out walking when I saw a woman on the bank of the stream waving frantically and pointing to something floating on the water. I ran towards her, and she cried: "My child, my child!" I then saw the poor little child floating downstream. I immediately plunged in and brought him to the bankside. | ||
"I left the boy with his mother and gave her instructions how to try and revive him, while I dashed for the police and a doctor, whom I summoned by telephone. I then had my car brought out and took the child to hospital. All efforts to revive him were in vain. | ||
"He had been playing with a little friend by the side of the stream and had accidentally fallen in. His little friend, frightened by what had happened, ran to Tillstone's mother, who lives nearby, and told her of the accident. She immediately ran to the bankside, and that was where I saw her when she attracted my attention." | ||
Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd baronet | ||
At first glance, the date of birth of the 3rd baronet, when considered in conjunction with the date of death of his father, the 2nd baronet, might seem to be incorrect. The natural inference would be that I have incorrectly copied the date of death of the father as being the date of of birth of the son. However, the dates as they stand are correct. The reason for these dates is simply that the 2nd baronet was murdered in Whitefriars, London, on the same day (some sources say the same hour) as his son was born. The 3rd baronet therefore inherited the baronetcy on the day he was born. The murderers of the 2nd baronet, two men named Henry Symbal and William Jones, were both executed shortly afterwards. | ||
Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st baronet, and his father, David Sassoon (1792‑1864) | ||
The following article, which traces the rise of the Sassoon family, appeared in the Australian monthly magazine Parade in its issue for February 1954:- | ||
The crowd at famous Epsom racecourse went wild with delight as the winner, Pinza, passed the finishing post in the greatest race of the century - last year's [i.e. 1953] Coronation Derby. They would have liked the Queen's horse, Aureole, to win, but not even that disappointment could dampen the general delight that Gordon Richards, the champion jockey, had at last won the greatest race in the world and become Sir Gordon in the same week. It is not surprising, therefore, that, in the ovation given to Sir Gordon, only the discriminating had a thought for the immaculate, quietly-dignified owner who walked to the enclosure beside the winner. To Sir Victor Sassoon, the victory crowned a record of family achievement which reads like a chapter from the Arabian Nights. | ||
The rise of the Sassoon family is one of the great romances of modern times. Their ancestors, driven from Bagdad by the strangling mutes of the Sultan, had in two generations built an industrial and trading empire which girdled the world. They were the intimates of the tolerant, pleasure-loving Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). In their mansions in London and Brighton they entertained the Prince and the sparkling bare-shouldered beauties of his "Marlborough House Set", which included the glamorous Lily Langtry. | ||
It was a far cry from the Royal enclosure at Epsom to the teeming, colourful streets of old Bagdad, where the ancestors of the Sassoon dynasty lived for centuries in the small Jewish settlement of traders and money-changers. They had a proud heritage, claiming descent from a famous family of Spanish Jews in Toledo which produced scholars, merchants and physicians until the Jews were driven from Spain in 1492. According to family tradition, the Sassoons fled from Spain eastward to Salonika, then to Constantinople and finally to Bagdad. | ||
Mesopotamia (now Iraq) was part of the Turkish empire. Bagdad was ruled for the Sultans by a series of corrupt, bloody and licentious pashas. By the end of the 18th century the Sassoons had become the acknowledged leaders of the colony of 5000 Jews clustered on the northern bank of the historic River Tigris. Head of the family was Sason ben Sakeh. He was Treasurer to the Pasha, and had been granted the ancient Jewish title of "Prince of the Nativity". This gave him great power over the Jewish colony, including the right to punish criminals by flogging on the soles of their feet with bastinadoes or by death. | ||
His son David, founder of the modern family fortune, was born in 1792. By the time he reached manhood the Jewish settlement was threatened with extermination from an attack of plague and the persecutions of Daoud, the most savage pasha of all. Four-fifths of the colony had been wiped out. Several leading merchants had been strangled with the bowstring by Daoud's officers. Sason ben Saleh himself had been threatened with hanging. It was then that the aged patriarch and his son decided to fly for their lives. Heaping as much gold as they could into two small chests, father and son fled the city one moonless night in 1829 and bribed an Arab boatman to take them down river to Basra. The threats of the infuriated Pasha still pursued them, so they escaped again across the Persian Gulf to the little port of Bushire. The hardship of the journey killed the 80-years-old Sason ben Saleh. | ||
Alone in the world, his son David set painfully to work rebuilding the family fortunes from what remained of the two small chests of gold. British officials at Bushire advised him not to waste time on the trumpery bazaars of Persia, but go to India, where vast opportunities were waiting under the peaceful rule of the British Raj. Their stories of the splendour of the princes' courts dazzled him. The thought of the millions of Indian customers waiting to buy his goods appealed to his shrewd business instincts. | ||
Accordingly, in 1833, he transferred his business to Bombay - the gateway to western India. The decision was momentous for the Sassoon dynasty. Bombay in the early 19th century was a raw, bustling, rapidly-growing city where a handful of British, Parsee, Arab and Jewish traders were making fortunes. Into this scramble for power and riches David Sassoon flung himself with energy. He sold Lancashire textiles to Persia and Mesopotamia, importing in return Oriental cloths and carpets which he sold to traders in India for re-export to Britain. By 1845 he was the largest merchant in the Persian Gulf trade and was reaching out for more. He scattered his eight sons over all the strategic trading centres of the East. His chartered ships carried opium and Indian cotton yarn to China and Japan, and brought back silk and lacquer ware. Sheffield cutlery, Birmingham pots and pans, and Manchester cotton goods from the Sassoon warehouses in Bombay poured into every bazaar in the East. | ||
He was already a millionaire when the American Civil War of 1861‑65 doubled his fortune. The war cut American supplies of cotton from the voracious mills of Lancashire. The price of Indian cotton rocketed from 6d to 24d a pound, and Sassoon was the biggest exporter. Despite his fabulous wealth, David Sassoon remained to the end a simple, dignified patriarch. He lived mostly in a few rooms above his Bombay counting-house. He always wore the turban, robes and slippers of his ancestors, and preferred learned discussions on the Talmud to the ostentatious splendour of other merchant princes. He gave vast sums to charity. A poor native of Bombay could be educated in a Sassoon school, improve his mind in a Sassoon library or museum, be nursed in a Sassoon hospital, be taken in hand by a Sassoon model reformatory, and, finally, be buried in a Sassoon-financed cemetery. | ||
When David died of fever at Poona in 1864 his rocketing trade empire was taken over by his eldest son Albert Abdullah. Albert inherited all his father's business acumen, but none of his taste for the simple, austere life. His display of wealth dazzled the snobbish European official caste. He abandoned his father's antique Oriental dress and customs and built himself a huge mansion in Bombay, modelled on an Italian Renaissance palace and named Sans Souci [Without Care], after the Kaiser's palace at Potsdam. For summer retreats he had two sumptuous villas in the hills above Poona. | ||
Albert's hospitality was on an equally fabulous scale. When the Prince of Wales visited Bombay in 1875 the 1400 guests in the glittering Sassoon ballroom included the Prince himself, the Viceroy of India, and many Indian princes and rajahs. His social ambitions did not prevent Albert Sassoon from greatly extending the family's trading and industrial empire. With his brothers he built up a huge cotton clothing industry in Bombay. His factories played a major part in turning the city from an exotic Eastern metropolis into a smoke-grimed, sprawling industrial giant. His most spectacular feat was the Sassoon Dock, It enabled the biggest cargo steamers to reach Bombay, and swept the picturesque Arab and Indian sailing ships out of the Indian Ocean for ever. | ||
The Sassoon star was now racing in the ascendant. In 1872 Albert was knighted. The following year he went to live permanently in England, where several of his younger brothers, armed with their share of the family fortune, were already cutting sensational figures in London society. The doors of Queen Victoria's stiff, sedate, and lonely Court were closed to swarthy Eastern millionaires, no matter how rich. Nevertheless, the Sassoons found a ready welcome in the gay, cosmopolitan set that surrounded the jovial Prince of Wales, who was still sowing his wild oats. Albert's younger brothers, Reuben and Arthur, were soon among the Prince's most intimate companions at country house card tables, shooting boxes in Scotland, and Continental casinos. | ||
Arthur Sassoon, who had one of the most beautiful hostesses in London as his wife, settled in a mansion in Knightsbridge. Reuben's palace in Belgrave Square had the stables at the top of the house. Horses and carriages had to be taken up and down in a lift. The extravagant Prince was fascinated by the financial genius of the Sassoons. He insisted they accompany him in the Royal boxes at Ascot and Newmarket to look after his bets. One spiteful rival described Arthur as "that Jew pageboy who bobs up from his seat after every race to put on the Royal bets." Reuben, wearing more jewels than English gentlemen thought becoming, was frequently seen in the Prince's box at the theatre. It was even rumoured that, in his unofficial capacity of "keeper of the Prince's purse for pastimes", he lent his host money. | ||
The Royal friendship was not without strains. The Prince, who had a schoolboy fondness of practical jokes, once slipped a costly jewel into Reuben's pocket in a jeweller's shop in Germany and left his embarrassed friend to explain to the irate and suspicious shopkeeper. On another occasion, resenting what he regarded as undue familiarity, the Prince pushed Reuben so violently that he fell down the marble staircase of his Belgrave Square mansion and was badly bruised. | ||
The highlight of Sir Albert Sassoon's hospitality was the visit of the Shah of Persia to Britain in 1889. When the Shah visited Britain 16 years earlier his hosts were distressed by his unfortunate behaviour in feminine company and by the trail of unpaid bills left by his suite. Only at the Prince of Wales' urgent request did the City of London grudgingly consent to give the Shah an official reception on his second visit. There was a sigh of relief, therefore, when the urbane Sir Albert Sassoon, who had been given the Order of the Lion by the Shah for his services to Persian trade and banking, offered to be personally responsible for the embarrassing guest and to send him away happy. Sassoon knew his man. He hired a theatre in Brighton, engaged a company of shapely ballet dancers - a gesture warmly appreciated by the Shah - and provided a costly and sumptuous banquet of Oriental dishes. The visit was a diplomatic and social success [and no doubt was a factor behind Sir Albert receiving a baronetcy in the following year]. | ||
Sir Albert Sassoon died on October 24, 1896, and was buried in his exotic private mausoleum at Brighton. | ||
The special remainder to the baronetcy of Sassoon created in 1909 | ||
From the London Gazette of 2 February 1909 (issue 28220, page 826):- | ||
The King has been pleased to give directions for the preparation of a Warrant for His Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, authorizing Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, conferring the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom upon Jacob Elias Sassoon, of the City of Bombay, in the Empire of India, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainder to Edward Elias Sassoon, of Grosvenor-place, in the City of Westminster, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. | ||
Lady Sophia Cadogan (1874‑1937), wife of Sir Samuel Edward Scott, 6th baronet | ||
After succeeding to the baronetcy as a child of 9, Sir Samuel married, on 29 June 1896, Sophia Beatrix Mary Cadogan, younger daughter of the 5th Earl Cadogan, the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. She was born 6 April 1874, and she was therefore 22 at the time of her marriage. | ||
On 17 April 1899, Lady Scott suddenly disappeared. She drove from her residence in Grosvenor Square to Bond Street to do some shopping. Once there, she dismissed her coachman and subsequently failed to return to her house. | ||
The following summary of the resulting scandal is taken from the Chicago Daily Tribune of 5 December 1901:- | ||
… Lady Sophie … became afflicted in 1899 with melancholia, the result of a severe illness, following the premature birth of a child [presumably a miscarriage]. It was while suffering from this melancholia that she allowed herself to be persuaded by Algernon Burnaby, one of her husband's fellow officers and best friends, to desert Sir Samuel, leaving a letter behind her telling him that she had eloped. | ||
According to the story told at the time by the relatives and friends of the family, and which was popularly believed, Lady Sophia before reaching Dover, on her way to the Continent - that is to say, within a couple of hours of her elopement - recovered her senses sufficiently to become aware of what she was doing, and, parting from the companion of her flight, sought refuge with some of her cousins in the south of England. | ||
According to the story Sir Samuel, realising that his wife had not been responsible for her action, asked her parents to take care of her until she had recovered her health, and then, resigning his commission in the army, started off on a yachting trip with her around the world. They had reached India when the war in south Africa broke out. Sir Samuel, who is 29, sent his wife home, presented his magnificent yacht to the government for use as a hospital ship, and rejoined the army, taking an active share in the campaign, and, since his return to England, after distinguishing himself in the field, has been living on the happiest terms with his wife, whose canvassing contributed largely to his election to Parliament. | ||
Society received her everywhere, taking the story, which had been circulated as true, and regarding her rather as the irresponsible victim of a false friend, at a time when her mind was unbalanced by illness, rather than guilty of any serious wrongdoing. True, she has not reappeared at court, but she has been repeatedly received by Queen Alexandra and by her daughters privately and been treated by the royal family with the utmost kindness and consideration. In fact, the story published in the newspapers, according to which she has been subjected to ostracism since the elopement episode, is altogether untrue, and as the law had not been invoked in the case, there was no reason why Lady Sophia should not in course of time reappear at court. | ||
Sir Samuel, Lord Cadogan, and their relatives and friends, however, counted without the Hon. Sybil Burnaby, that is to say, the wife of the officer who eloped with Lady Sophie, for he was a married man. Apparently the Hon. Mrs Burnaby, sister of Lord Delamere, is anxious to marry, and for this purpose to secure a dissolution of her marriage to Algernon Burnaby. So, in spite of all the influence that could be brought to bear by the King, the royal family, and by the most powerful leaders of London society, she proceeded to sue her husband for a divorce, naming Lady Sophie as co-respondent, and producing evidence to show that the story until now current about Lady Sophie was untrue, in so far that it asserted that she had left Burnaby within a couple of hours after her elopement, and that she had quitted him as soon as ever the London train had reached Dover. For, according to the testimony on the strength of which Mrs Burnaby got her divorce, Lady Sophie had spent nearly two months at Baggrave Hall, the Leicestershire county seat of Algernon Burnaby, that is to say the time when, according to the story hitherto believed, she had been under the care of relatives in the south of England. | ||
Of course the publication of this evidence does not in any way affect the statement that Lady Sophie was mentally irresponsible at the time when she deserted her husband. But the placing on official record in court that she had lived with Algernon Burnaby at Baggrave Hall as his wife for a couple of months practically destroys her position in London society, in spite of her reconciliation with her husband, and renders it impossible that she should ever resume her place at King Edward's court. | ||
After being reconciled to her husband, it appears that they lived happily together until Lady Sophie died in 1937. The former Mrs Burnaby died in May 1911, as a result of falling out of a third-floor window at her house in Wilton Place. Algernon Burnaby was quietly dismissed from the army and, after being divorced by Sybil, married an American heiress, Minna Field, in 1906. Burnaby, prior to his involvement in the scandal, was already well-known in England. He was the nephew of Colonel Fred Burnaby, one of England's most famous soldiers of the 19th century. Algernon had also gained fame as one of the participants of the famous midnight steeplechase which had taken place at Melton Mowbray in March 1890, this event having arisen from a challenge made at a dinner party at the home of Lady Augusta Fane. The riders had hoped for a moonlit night, but when it the moon was obscured by clouds, they borrowed sufficient oil-lamps from the local railway station to light the 3-mile course, while all of the riders wore white night-shirts. Burnaby died in November 1938 at the age of 70, having been Master of the Quorn, probably the most famous hunt in England, for 14 years. | ||
Sir Douglas Edward Scott, 7th baronet of Great Barr [UK 1806] | ||
Sir Douglas appeared before the courts in March 1918, charged with bigamy. The following report appeared in The Times on 29 March 1918:- | ||
At Westminster Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Francis, the Rev. Sir Douglas Edward Scott, 54, of Devonshire House, Theale, Berks, was charged with marrying Vanda Marion Williams at Caversham, his wife, Lady Scott, being alive; with obtaining a naval uniform and a lady's costume, and other articles, from Messrs. Burberry by false pretences; and with obtaining £15 by false pretences from Messrs. Selfridge's. | ||
Lady Scott deposed that she was the wife of the prisoner, and resided at Theale. She was married on December 11, 1899, at the Registry Office, Lambeth. During the last three years they had lived at Theale. There were six children of the marriage, five living. She last saw her husband before his arrest on January 14. Ostensibly he left for France in connexion with the Church Army. | ||
Vanda Marion Williams, a young woman living at St.George's-road, Pimlico, stated that she was the widow of a Cardiff shipping clerk. Since last Easter she had been employed as assistant in the refreshment room at Reading Railway Station. She made the acquaintance of the defendant there. He asked her if she would assist him in France, and she said she had no desire to go. Afterwards the defendant said that he cared for her, and that he had lost his wife two years ago. He asked her on several occasions to become his wife. At first she refused him, but ultimately agreed to marry him on December 24. Arrangements were made for the banns to be put up at St.Peter's Church, Caversham. At the beginning of the year Sir Douglas went hurriedly to France, but returned in February. They were married on February 18, and stayed at hotels in London. The witness remained with the defendant at the Grosvenor Hotel until his arrest. Their marriage was announced in the Morning Post on the instruction of the defendant. | ||
Detective-sergeant Purkiss stated that while the defendant was in custody he (the witness) asked him if the lady at the Grosvenor Hotel was his wife. The defendant replied "Certainly she is. Lady Scott, my first wife, is dead." On March 21, when identified by the real Lady Scott and told that he would be charged with bigamy, the defendant said, "I quite expected that would happen. I am sorry I told you a lie." The prisoner, in reply to the statutory charge, said, "I will reserve what I have to say for elsewhere." | ||
Another report, which appeared in the Melbourne 'Argus' on 29 June 1918, stated that Sir Douglas had pretended that he was a commander in the navy, hence the naval uniform already mentioned above. The article further states that Sir Douglas was an undischarged bankrupt, and that he appeared to be a serial bigamist, since it reports that "becoming engaged to a well-connected young woman in the north, he inserted in a newspaper an untrue statement of Lady Scott's death. The banns were published, but the young woman's father discovered the facts. She gave birth to a child. | ||
At the conclusion of his trial, Sir Douglas was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. | ||
Sir Edward Arthur Dolman Scott, 8th baronet of Great Barr [UK 1806] | ||
After leaving England as a 17-year-old, Scott lived in Australia, and while living there succeeded his father as 8th baronet in 1951. He told his story in an interview with the Adelaide Mail which was published on 8 December 1951:- | ||
Adelaide's 46 year old baronet Sir Edward Arthur Dolman Scott, who is a painter and decorator of Plympton, in an exclusive story to "The Mail" today told how he ran away from his ancestral home on the Thames near London when he was 17. | ||
This week cables from London announced that Mr. Scott had inherited the title from his father, Sir Douglas Edward Scott, seventh baronet of Great Barr, Staffordshire, England who died on August 22 this year. | ||
Mr. Scott has been living in a comfortable home in Alice street, South Plympton, with his wife and 12-year-old daughter for the past 11 years. | ||
I found the Scott family taking the news of the title calmly. Mr. Scott, just back from a painting job at Salisbury, had changed into shorts. Sun-tanned and quietly spoken, he told the story of the decision he made early in his life 'to see the world and make my way through life on my own merits.' He said: "Australia sounded like the 'promised land.' "I knew going there would virtually ean cutting myself off from my family. But I have never regretted my decision. I boarded a boat in England and landed in Adelaide as Ted Scott, without a friend in the world and with less than £2 in my pocket. I was then about 17. In England I had learned painting and decorating. Soon after arriving here, I resumed this trade and have since been all over the country enjoying the free, open life that is typically Australian. Thirteen years ago I married Dorothy Winchcombe, from Yorketown, SA. Two years later we settled in our present home. We knew that I, as the eldest son, would automatically inherit the baronetcy and the whole of its estates on my father's death. But we never mentioned it to anyone. I rarely corresponded with my parents or my brother and two sisters in England. | ||
"At the end of August this year an airmail letter arrived from my mother, now about 80, briefly stating that my father had died on August 22, and telling me I was now Sir Edward Arthur Dolman Scott, Baronet. I wrote back immediately for further particulars. Apart from the title I hadn't the faintest idea what the estate consisted of, or what the baronetcy might mean to me financially. My wife and I will visit England in 1953, when I hope to finish straightening everything out. | ||
"Our daughter, Jeanette, will be finished her schooling by then, and will be able to go with us. But we will come back here to live. All our interests are here. We have a comfortable seven-room home we've worked hard for. I have never received a penny from England. We have been "Ted and Dot" to a lot of friends here for so long, and we want it to go on like that. As far as we know now, I will continue with my painting and decorating, and my wife will still run her two hairdressing salons at Plympton." | ||
For information on his wife, see the next note below … | ||
Dorothy Elsie Scott, wife of Sir Edward Arthur Dolman Scott, 8th baronet of Great Barr [UK 1806] | ||
In 1970 Lady Scott took legal action against the large paper products company Bowater-Scott, alleging that they had used her name without permission in an advertising campaign for toilet paper. The following report is from "The Canberra Times" of 26 August 1970 [in common with almost every newspaper when referring to a baronet's or knight's wife, she is wrongly referred to as 'Lady Dorothy Scott' - the only occasions when the style Lady [Christian name] [Surname] is correct is if that person is the daughter of a duke, a marquess or an earl - for example, Lady Diana Spencer.] | ||
Adelaide's Lady Dorothy Scott [sic] is upset because of a national advertisement urging people to buy Lady Scott lavatory paper. She says it is embarrassing for her. | ||
"I am not very pleased about it, carrying my name and all," she said today. "People think it was done with my sanction. They say to me, 'We knew you were a good businesswoman. But now you have it made. We all have to use it.' Some of the things that women say to me when they come into my hairdressing salons are embarrassing, " she said. [Lady Scott has several hair-dressing salons in Adelaide suburbs.] Even schoolchildren are singing the tune to the ad," she said. | ||
She had received a number of offensive anonymous letters. Recently a group came past her house in Sussex Street, Glenelg, singing the song, she said. "I don't know where the kiddies came from. I didn't even know that they knew I lived there, but I don't blame them. How would Sir Ian Bowater like the name of the toilet roll changed to 'Lady Bowater toilet rolls'. Then he would see how awful it would be." [The toilet rolls are manufactured by Bowater-Scott, the family company of Sir Ian Bowater, the Lord Mayor of London (1969‑1970), who is now in Melbourne.] | ||
Lady Scott said she had asked the Adelaide solicitor and former Liberal Cabinet Minister, Sir Baden Pattinson [1899‑1978], to see what he could do to stop the advertisement appearing. Sir Baden has written to the company in Melbourne and a company spokesman said today that the advertisement had been withdrawn a fortnight ago. Company solicitors were looking at the position, he said. | ||
The advertisement has had full-page treatment in national womens' magazines and 30 and 60‑second showings on national television. Part of the advertisement invites viewers to "have an affair with Lady Scott". Some of the lyrics to the tune read, "Lady Scott tissues are so soft, tra-la, soft pastels in your tra-la-la." | ||
"We consulted the Broadcasting Control Board right from the copy stage of the commercial … it approved the ad's issue," a Bowater-Scott spokesman said tonight. "The Board had a seminar on how to treat personal products in a tasteful fashion and picked our ad to show how." The spokesman would not say whether the company was considering pulling "Lady Scott" off the market. | ||
Lady Scott continued with her legal action and was eventually successful, as reported in The Canberra Times on 10 October 1970:- | ||
Lady Scott, of Adelaide, announced yesterday that she had received "X amount of thousands of dollars" from the Bowater-Scott Tissue Company, after threatening legal action. | ||
The company recently offended Lady Scott in an advertising campaign. It has increased its profits during recent publicity. | ||
Lady Scott, of Glenelg, an Adelaide suburb, said it was "embarrassing" when Bowater-Scott screened a television commercial to advertise toilet tissue which used the same name as her own. The commercial was taken off TV for four weeks after Lady Scott threatened legal action. But it will be on screen again from today. | ||
"I won't say how much I got, but I feel it covers the damage done to me, " Lady Scott said. | ||
The general manager of Bowater-Scott, Mr. B.F. Turner, said he could not disclose what settlement had been reached. He said that Bowater-Scott sales had increased "considerably" during recent weeks of publicity. "I can't say if the Lady Scott matter has been the reason, but sales have gone up and up," he said.' | ||
The special remainder to the baronetcy of Scott created in 1806 | ||
From the London Gazette of 8 November 1806 (issue 15973, page 1466):- | ||
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to James Sibbald, of Sittwood Park, in the County of Berks, Esq; with Remainder to David Scott, of Dunninald, in the County of Forfar, Esq; Nephew to the said James Sibbald, Esq; and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten. | ||
Sir Francis David Sibbald Scott, 4th baronet [UK 1806] | ||
Sir Francis committed suicide in August 1906. The result of the subsequent inquest was reported in the London Telegraph of 14 August 1906:- | ||
In connection with the tragic death of Sir Francis David Sibbald Scott, fourth baronet, of Dunninald, who was found shot at his residence, Waterloo Villa, near Portsmouth, on Saturday, there were some painful revelations at the inquest, which was held yesterday by the South Hampshire county coroner (Mr. E. Goble). | ||
It was stated that the deceased baronet had given way extensively to intemperance, and when under the influence of drink he had threatened to commit suicide. His son, Lieutenant Francis Montagu Sibbald Scott, the successor to the title, informed the coroner, however, that he did not believe his father intended to carry out the threat. He was obliged to have an attendant to look after his father, who was not allowed to use a gun. All cartridges in the house were locked up. | ||
Lilian Marshall Brown, a certificated nurse, had been nursing Sir Francis on and off for five years. She described how he "gave her the slip" on Saturday, and afterwards admitted having gone to an hotel, whence he returned in half an hour. Sir Francis was having his luncheon, and witness had left him to get some more soup when the report of the gun was heard. Asked if deceased had ever threatened suicide, witness replied, "When he has been under the influence of drink he has talked of committing suicide, but said that when he is sober he would not have the pluck to do it." Latterly deceased's drinking bouts had been much more frequent - about every fortnight - and he had not got over the last one properly. Witness found the cartridge produced in deceased's despatch-box, which was open. This the deceased kept locked, as it contained private papers, and he wore the key on his watch-chain. In the box there was a mall bottle of gin. | ||
William Garland, of Eastney, who had also been in attendance upon Sir Francis, stated that when he entered deceased's service on the 7th inst Sir Francis had a very bad attack, and was inclined to be very violent. Witness tried to keep drink from him. | ||
Dr. T. Baker described the finding of the body. The muzzle of the gun had evidently been placed under the right eye and discharged. The wound was self-inflicted. | ||
The jury returned a verdict of suicide during a fit of temporary insanity. | ||
Sir Guy Thomas Saunders Sebright, 12th baronet | ||
Sir Guy was the victim in a conspiracy to blackmail him, commonly known as a "badger game". The following article appeared in the London Daily Mail on 28 October 1930:- | ||
A plot by a man and his wife to catch a 74-years-old baronet in a compromising position in the flat which he provided for the woman was described in the Divorce Court yesterday. | ||
An application, said to be without precedent, was made in a suit in which Mr. Henry Gladwin Grayson, an estate agent of Marlborough-place, St.John's Wood, N.W., obtained a decree nisi with costs and £500 damages on November 15 last on the ground of adultery between his wife and Sir Guy Sebright. | ||
The case was not defended, but later the King's Proctor intervened, with the result that the decree was rescinded. The questions of the payment out to Sir Guy of the damages and the King's Proctor's costs arose. | ||
The matter was postponed until yesterday, when Mr. F.L. Hodson, for Sir Guy Sebright, asked for the dismissal of the petition and for the payment out of court to Sir Guy of the £500 damages. Mr. W.N. Stable, for the King's Proctor, contended that this was a case where the King's Proctor ought to be paid his costs as a condition of Sir Guy recovering the £500. The wife had been the mistress for some time of the co-respondent, who did not know apparently that Mrs. Grayson was a married woman. A flat was provided by the co-respondent for the wife, where the husband also resided, and the husband, when it was suspected that the co-respondent would call, would conveniently disappear. | ||
Apparently, said Mr. Stable, the generosity of Sir Guy had its limits, but these two people, thinking they could get more money out of him, staged a surprise visit when the wife would be caught flagrante delicto with Sir Guy. Then the husband filed a divorce petition, claiming £3,000 damages, but only recovered £500. | ||
Mr. Justice Bateson: It looks as if they succeeded in blackmailing the co-respondent and now the co-respondent wants the damages. Mr. Stable: I am told that the petitioner and his wife are people of no substance, and the question is whether the costs of the King's Proctor's intervention should fall on the taxpayer or on the co-respondent. | ||
Mr. Justice Bateson said as he understood the case husband and wife put their heads together to catch Sir Guy in a compromising position so that the husband, by divorcing his wife, could get damages against Sir Guy, the latter not knowing the woman was married. Sir Guy was no party to the trick which was being played on him by which the husband obtained £500 damages. Neither was Sir Guy a party to the King's Proctor's intervention. | ||
In the circumstances it did not seem right that Sir Guy should pay those costs. The £500 damages would be paid out to Sir Guy's solicitor and the petition dismissed, with costs against both husband and wife. | ||
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