BARONETAGE
Last updated 22/10/2018 (6 Feb 2024)
Date	Type	Order	Name	Born	Died	Age
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.
BROWNLOW of Belton, Lincs
26 Jul 1641 to     23 Nov 1679	E	1	John Brownlow Extinct on his death	c 1594	23 Nov 1679
BROWNLOW of Humby, Lincs
27 Jul 1641	E	1	William Brownlow MP for Lincolnshire 1653	c 1595	1666
1666		2	Richard Brownlow		30 Aug 1668
30 Aug 1668		3	John Brownlow MP for Grantham 1689‑1697	26 Jun 1659	16 Jul 1697	38
16 Jul 1697		4	William Brownlow MP for Peterborough 1689‑1698 and Bishops Castle 1698‑1700	5 Nov 1665	6 Mar 1701	35
6 Mar 1701		5	John Brownlow He was subsequently created Viscount Tyrconnel in 1718 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1754	16 Nov 1690	27 Feb 1754	63
BROWNRIGG of London
9 Mar 1816	UK	1	Robert Brownrigg	8 Feb 1758	27 May 1833	75
27 May 1833		2	Robert William Colebrooke Brownrigg	29 Jul 1817	6 Aug 1882	65
6 Aug 1882		3	Henry Moore Brownrigg	17 Oct 1819	28 Jan 1900	80
28 Jan 1900		4	Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg	25 Jul 1867	14 Feb 1939	71
14 Feb 1939		5	Nicholas Gawen Brownrigg	22 Dec 1932	28 Sep 2018	85
28 Sep 2018		6	Michael Gawan Brownrigg	11 Oct 1961
BRUCE of Stenhouse, Clackmannan
26 Jun 1629	NS	1	William Bruce		Feb 1630
Feb 1630		2	William Bruce	19 Aug 1621	c 1660
c 1660		3	William Bruce		Mar 1682
Mar 1682		4	William Bruce		Mar 1721
Mar 1721		5	Robert Bruce		c 1760
c 1760		6	Michael Bruce		1 Nov 1795
1 Nov 1795		7	William Bruce		17 Nov 1827
17 Nov 1827		8	Michael Bruce	31 Mar 1798	14 Dec 1862	64
14 Dec 1862		9	William Cuningham Bruce	20 Sep 1825	29 May 1906	80
29 May 1906		10	William Waller Bruce	27 Sep 1856	23 Mar 1912	55
23 Mar 1912		11	Michael William Selby Bruce	27 Mar 1894	26 May 1957	63
26 May 1957		12	(Francis) Michael Ian Bruce	3 Apr 1926	28 Feb 2021	94
28 Feb 2021		13	Michael Ian Richard Bruce	10 Dec 1950
BRUCE of Balcaskie, Scotland
21 Oct 1668	NS	1	William Bruce		1 Jan 1710
1 Jan 1710 to     19 Mar 1710		2	John Bruce Extinct on his death		19 Mar 1710
BRUCE of Dublin
23 Dec 1812 to     19 Mar 1841	UK	1	Stewart Bruce MP [I] for Lisburn 1798‑1800 Extinct on his death	c 1764	19 Mar 1841
BRUCE-CLIFTON of Downhill, co. Londonderry
29 Jun 1804	UK	1	Henry Hervey Aston Bruce		1822
1822		2	James Robertson Bruce	4 Sep 1788	22 Apr 1836	47
22 Apr 1836		3	Henry Hervey Bruce MP for Coleraine 1862‑1874 and 1880‑1885; Lord Lieutenant Londonderry 1877‑1907; PC [I] 1889	22 Sep 1820	8 Dec 1907	87
8 Dec 1907		4	Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce	5 Oct 1843	8 May 1919	75
8 May 1919		5	Hervey Ronald Bruce For further information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	9 Dec 1872	18 May 1924	51
18 May 1924		6	Hervey John William Bruce	29 Jun 1919	20 Jun 1971	51
20 Jun 1971		7	Hervey James Hugh Bruce (Bruce‑Clifton from 1997)	3 Sep 1952	7 Feb 2010	57
7 Feb 2010		8	Hervey Hamish Peter Bruce‑Clifton	20 Nov 1986
BRUCE-GARDNER of Frilford, Berks
12 Feb 1945	UK	1	Charles Bruce-Gardner	6 Nov 1887	1 Oct 1960	72
1 Oct 1960		2	Douglas Bruce Bruce-Gardner	27 Jan 1917	25 Nov 1997	80
25 Nov 1997		3	Robert Henry Bruce-Gardner	10 Jun 1943	6 Sep 2017	74
6 Sep 2017		4	Edmund Thomas Peter Bruce-Gardner	28 Jan 1982
BRUCE-HOPE of Craighall, Fife
19 Feb 1628	NS		See "Hope"
BRUDENELL of Deene, Northants
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Thomas Brudenell He was subsequently created Baron Brudenell of Stonton in 1628 with which title the baronetcy then merged. Currently the baronetcy remains merged with the Marquessate of Ailesbury		16 Sep 1663
BRUNNER of Druids Cross, Lancs and Winnington Old Hall, Cheshire
27 Jul 1895	UK	1	John Tomlinson Brunner MP for Northwich 1885‑1886 and 1887‑1909; PC 1906	8 Feb 1842	1 Jul 1919	77
1 Jul 1919		2	John Fowler Leece Brunner MP for Leigh 1906‑1910, Northwich 1910‑1918 and Southport 1923‑1924	24 May 1865	16 Jan 1929	63
16 Jan 1929		3	Felix John Morgan Brunner	13 Oct 1897	2 Nov 1982	85
2 Nov 1982		4	John Henry Kilian Brunner	1 Jun 1927	18 Nov 2015	88
18 Nov 2015		5	Nicholas Felix Minturn Brunner	16 Jan 1960
BRUNTON of Stratford Place, London
17 Jul 1908	UK	1	Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton	14 Mar 1844	16 Sep 1916	72
16 Sep 1916		2	James Stopford Lauder Brunton	11 Oct 1884	25 Jul 1943	58
25 Jul 1943		3	Edward Francis Lauder Brunton	10 Nov 1916	1 Jan 2007	90
1 Jan 2007		4	James Lauder Brunton	24 Sep 1947
BRYDGES of Wilton, Hereford
17 May 1627	E	1	Giles Brydges MP for Tewkesbury 1621‑1622 and Herefordshire 1625‑1629	c 1573	12 Sep 1637
12 Sep 1637		2	John Brydges	1623	21 Feb 1652
21 Feb 1652		3	James Brydges He subsequently succeeded to the Barony of Chandos in 1676 with which title the baronetcy then merged. It later merged with the Dukedom of Chandos until its extinction in 1789	Sep 1642	16 Oct 1714	72
BRYDGES of Boultibrook, Hereford
9 Oct 1807	UK		See "Jones-Brydges"
BRYDGES of Denton Court, Kent
27 May 1815	UK	1	Samuel Egerton Brydges MP for Maidstone 1812‑1818	30 Nov 1762	8 Sep 1837	74
8 Sep 1837 to     15 Feb 1858		2	John William Egerton Brydges Extinct on his death	8 Nov 1792	15 Feb 1858	65
BUCHAN-HEPBURN of Smeaton Hepburn, Haddington
6 May 1815	UK	1	George Buchan-Hepburn		26 Jun 1819
26 Jun 1819		2	John Buchan-Hepburn	17 Jun 1776	8 Oct 1833	57
8 Oct 1833		3	Thomas Buchan-Hepburn MP for Haddingtonshire 1838‑1847	30 Sep 1804	17 Dec 1893	89
17 Dec 1893		4	Archibald Buchan-Hepburn	12 Mar 1852	17 May 1929	77
17 May 1929		5	John Karslake Thomas Buchan‑Hepburn	20 Mar 1894	8 Feb 1961	66
8 Feb 1961		6	Ninian Buchan Archibald John Buchan‑Hepburn	8 Oct 1922	22 Feb 1992	69
22 Feb 1992		7	John Alistair Trant Kidd Buchan‑Hepburn	27 Jun 1931	1 Feb 2022	90
1 Feb 2022		8	John James Christopher Thomas Buchan-Hepburn	1 Dec 1992
BUCHANAN of Burgh St Peters, Norfolk
21 Nov 1775	GB		See "Leith-Buchanan"
BUCHANAN of Dunburgh, Stirling
14 Dec 1878	UK	1	Sir Andrew Buchanan PC 1863	7 May 1807	12 Nov 1882	75
12 Nov 1882		2	James Buchanan	7 Aug 1840	16 Oct 1901	61
16 Oct 1901		3	Eric Alexander Buchanan	19 Aug 1848	29 Jul 1928	79
29 Jul 1928		4	Charles James Buchanan	16 Apr 1899	25 May 1984	85
25 May 1984		5	Andrew George Buchanan Lord Lieutenant Nottingham 1991-	21 Jul 1937
BUCHANAN of Lavington, Sussex
6 Feb 1920	UK	1	James Buchanan He was subsequently created Baron Woolavington in 1922 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1935	16 Aug 1849	9 Aug 1935	85
BUCHANAN-JARDINE of Castle Milk, Dumfries
20 Jul 1885	UK	1	Robert Jardine MP for Ashburton 1865‑1868, Dumfries Burghs 1868‑1874 and Dumfriesshire 1880‑1892	24 May 1825	17 Feb 1905	79
17 Feb 1905		2	Robert William Buchanan Jardine	21 Jan 1868	30 Jan 1927	59
30 Jan 1927		3	John William Buchanan-Jardine	7 Mar 1900	5 Nov 1969	69
5 Nov 1969		4	Andrew Rupert John Buchanan‑Jardine	2 Feb 1923	24 Aug 2010	87
24 Aug 2010		5	John Christopher Rupert Buchanan‑Jardine	20 Mar 1952
BUCK of Hamby Grange, Lincs
22 Dec 1660	E	1	John Buck		c 1669
c 1669		2	William Buck	c 1655	15 Aug 1717
15 Aug 1717		3	Charles Buck	c 1692	20 Jun 1729
20 Jun 1729 to     7 Jun 1782		4	Charles Louis Buck Extinct on his death	31 Jan 1722	7 Jun 1782	60
BUCKLEY of Mawddwy, Merioneth
11 Dec 1868	UK	1	Edmund Buckley MP for Newcastle uner Lyme 1865‑1878	16 Apr 1834	21 Mar 1910	75
21 Mar 1910 to     20 Jan 1919		2	Edmund Buckley Extinct on his death	7 May 1861	20 Jan 1919	57
BUCKWORTH-HERNE-SOAME of Sheen, Surrey
1 Apr 1697	E	1	John Buckworth	18 Oct 1662	12 Jun 1709	46
12 Jun 1709		2	John Buckworth MP for Weobly 1734‑1741	5 Apr 1700	31 Dec 1758	58
3 Jan 1759		3	Everard Buckworth	23 Apr 1704	2 Feb 1779	74
2 Feb 1779		4	John Buckworth	8 Jul 1726	10 Jun 1801	74
10 Jun 1801		5	Everard Buckworth-Herne	12 Nov 1732	15 Jul 1814	81
15 Jul 1814		6	Buckworth Buckworth-Herne-Soame	17 Apr 1762	21 Jan 1822	59
21 Jan 1822		7	Peter Buckworth-Herne-Soame	24 Apr 1793	25 Feb 1860	66
25 Feb 1860		8	John Buckworth-Herne-Soame	21 Jun 1794	4 Feb 1888	93
4 Feb 1888		9	Charles Buckworth-Herne-Soame	29 May 1830	25 Mar 1906	75
25 Mar 1906		10	Charles Buckworth-Herne-Soame	18 Sep 1864	25 Aug 1931	67
25 Aug 1931		11	Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	26 Sep 1894	20 Apr 1977	82
20 Apr 1977		12	Charles John Buckworth-Herne-Soame	28 May 1932	28 Jul 2013	81
28 Jul 2013		13	Richard John Buckworth-Herne-Soame	17 Aug 1970
BULKELEY of Penrhyn, Carnarvon
17 Jun 1661	E		See "Williams-Bulkeley"
BULKELEY of Dunlaven, Wicklow
9 Dec 1672	I	1	Richard Bulkeley	7 Sep 1634	17 Mar 1685	50
17 Mar 1685 to     7 Apr 1710		2	Richard Bulkeley MP [I] for Fethard (Wexford) 1692‑1693, 1695‑1699 and 1703‑1710 Extinct on his death	17 Aug 1660	7 Apr 1710	49
BULL of Hammersmith, London
25 Nov 1922	UK	1	William James Bull MP for Hammersmith 1900‑1918 and Hammersmith South 1918‑1929; PC 1918 For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of MPs for Hammersmith	29 Sep 1863	23 Jan 1931	67
23 Jan 1931		2	Stephen John Bull	11 Oct 1904	9 Mar 1942	37
9 Mar 1942		3	George Bull	19 Jun 1906	9 Sep 1986	80
9 Sep 1986		4	Simeon George Bull	1 Aug 1934	7 Apr 2019	84
7 Apr 2019		5	Stephen Louis Bull	5 Apr 1966
BULLER of Lupton House, Devon
13 Jan 1790	GB	1	See "Yarde-Buller"
BULLER of Trenant Park, Cornwall
3 Oct 1808 to     15 Apr 1824	UK	1	Edward Buller MP for East Looe 1802‑1820 Extinct on his death	24 Dec 1764	15 Apr 1824	59
BULLER of Dilhorne, Staffs
20 Jan 1866	UK		See "Manningham-Buller"
BULLOCK of Crosby, Lancs
26 Jan 1954 to     20 Jun 1966	UK	1	Harold Malcolm Bullock MP for Waterloo 1923‑1950 and Crosby 1950‑1953 Extinct on his death	10 Jul 1890	20 Jun 1966	75
BULLOUGH of Kinloch Castle, Oban
21 Jan 1916 to     26 Jul 1939	UK	1	Sir George Bullough Extinct on his death	28 Feb 1870	26 Jul 1939	69
BUNBURY of Stanney Hall, Cheshire
29 Jun 1681	E	1	Thomas Bunbury		22 Aug 1682
22 Aug 1682		2	Henry Bunbury	c 1657	20 Dec 1687
20 Dec 1687		3	Henry Bunbury MP for Chester 1701‑1727	29 Nov 1676	12 Feb 1733	56
12 Feb 1733		4	Charles Bunbury MP for Chester 1733‑1742	9 Feb 1708	10 Apr 1742	34
10 Apr 1742		5	William Bunbury	c 1710	11 Jun 1764
11 Jun 1764		6	Thomas Charles Bunbury MP for Suffolk 1761‑1784 and 1790‑1812	May 1740	31 Mar 1821	80
31 Mar 1821		7	Henry Edward Bunbury MP for Suffolk 1830‑1832	4 May 1778	13 Apr 1860	81
13 Apr 1860		8	Charles James Fox Bunbury	4 Feb 1809	18 Jun 1886	77
18 Jun 1886		9	Edward Herbert Bunbury MP for Bury St. Edmunds 1847‑1852	8 Jul 1811	5 Mar 1895	83
5 Mar 1895		10	Henry Charles John Bunbury	9 Jan 1855	18 Dec 1930	75
18 Dec 1930		11	Charles Henry Napier Bunbury	19 Jan 1886	24 Jun 1963	77
24 Jun 1963		12	John William Napier Bunbury	3 Jul 1915	28 Aug 1985	70
28 Aug 1985		13	Michael William Bunbury	29 Dec 1946
BUNBURY of Aughre, Tyrone
30 Aug 1787	I		See "Richardson-Bunbury"
BUNCE of Otterden, Kent
May 1660	E	1	James Bunce	c 1600	13 Dec 1670
13 Dec 1670		2	John Bunce	24 Jan 1630	1683	53
1683		3	John Bunce	c 1659	1687
1687		4	James Bunce		c 1710
c 1710		5	John Bunce		c 1720
c 1720 to     15 Aug 1741		6	James Bunce On his death the baronetcy became either extinct or dormant		15 Aug 1741
BURBIDGE of Littleton Park, Middlesex
25 Jan 1916	UK	1	Richard Burbidge	Mar 1847	31 May 1917	70
31 May 1917		2	Richard Woodman Burbidge	7 Dec 1872	3 Jun 1945	72
3 Jun 1945		3	Richard Grant Woodman Burbidge	23 Jun 1897	2 Feb 1966	68
2 Feb 1966		4	John Richard Woodman Burbidge	5 Oct 1930	31 May 1974	43
31 May 1974		5	Herbert Dudley Burbridge	13 Nov 1904	31 Mar 2001	96
31 Mar 2001		6	Peter Dudley Burbidge	20 Jun 1942	18 Dec 2019	77
18 Dec 2019		7	John Peter Burbidge	19 Feb 1975
BURDETT of Bramcote, Warwicks
25 Feb 1619	E	1	Thomas Burdett	3 Aug 1585	c 1647
c 1647		2	Francis Burdett	10 Sep 1608	30 Dec 1696	88
30 Dec 1696		3	Robert Burdett MP for Warwickshire 1679‑1681 and Lichfield 1689‑1698	11 Jan 1640	18 Jan 1716	76
28 May 1716		4	Robert Burdett MP for Tamworth 1748‑1768	28 May 1716	13 Feb 1797	80
13 Feb 1797		5	Francis Burdett MP for Boroughbridge 1796‑1802, Middlesex 1802‑1804 and 1805‑1806, Westminster 1807‑1837 and Wiltshire North 1837‑1844	25 Jan 1770	23 Jan 1844	73
23 Jan 1844		6	Robert Burdett	26 Apr 1796	7 Jun 1880	84
7 Jun 1880		7	Francis Burdett	23 Mar 1813	31 May 1892	79
31 May 1892 to     13 Apr 1951		8	Francis Burdett On his death the baronetcy became dormant	5 Jul 1869	13 Apr 1951	81
BURDETT of Burthwaite, Yorks
25 Jul 1665	E	1	Francis Burdett	29 Sep 1642	c 1719
c 1719		2	Francis Burdett	2 Aug 1675	11 Sep 1747	72
11 Sep 1747		3	Hugh Burdett	18 Nov 1715	8 Sep 1760	44
8 Sep 1760		4	Charles Burdett	22 May 1728	19 Jul 1803	75
19 Jul 1803		5	Charles Wyndham Burdett	19 Jul 1771	Dec 1839	68
Dec 1839		6	Charles Wentworth Burdett	26 Sep 1806	25 Aug 1848	41
25 Aug 1848		7	Charles Wentworth Burdett For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	4 Nov 1835	22 May 1892	56
22 May 1892		8	Charles Grant Burdett	1875	20 Nov 1918	43
20 Nov 1918		9	Charles Coventry Burdett	1902	2 Jun 1940	37
2 Jun 1940		10	Henry Aylmer Burdett	28 Nov 1881	23 Aug 1943	61
23 Aug 1943		11	Savile Aylmer Burdett	24 Sep 1931	5 Jul 2017	85
5 Jul 2017		12	Crispin Peter Burdett	8 Feb 1967
BURDETT of Dunmore, Carlow
11 Jul 1723	I		See "Weldon"
BURDON-SANDERSON of Banbury Road
10 Aug 1899 to     23 Nov 1905	UK	1	John Scott Burdon-Sanderson Extinct on his death	21 Dec 1828	23 Nov 1905	76
BURGES of East Ham, Essex
4 May 1793	GB		See "Smith-Burges"
BURGES of Burghfield, Berks
21 Oct 1795	GB		see "Lamb"
BURGOYNE of Sutton, Beds
15 Jul 1641	E	1	John Burgoyne MP for Warwickshire 1645‑1648	29 Jan 1591	9 Oct 1657	66
9 Oct 1657		2	Roger Burgoyne MP for Bedfordshire 1640 and 1641‑1648, and Warwickshire 1656‑1658	10 Mar 1618	16 Sep 1677	59
16 Sep 1677		3	John Burgoyne	c 1651	9 Apr 1709
9 Apr 1709		4	Roger Burgoyne		1716
1716		5	John Burgoyne	c 1705	1716
1716		6	Roger Burgoyne MP for Bedfordshire 1735‑1747	23 Apr 1710	31 Dec 1780	70
31 Dec 1780		7	John Burgoyne	21 Sep 1739	23 Sep 1785	46
23 Sep 1785		8	Montagu Roger Burgoyne For further information about this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	2 May 1773	11 Nov 1817	44
11 Nov 1817		9	John Montagu Burgoyne	17 Oct 1796	17 Mar 1858	61
17 Mar 1858 to     19 Mar 1921		10	John Montagu Burgoyne Extinct on his death	23 Oct 1832	19 Mar 1921	88
BURGOYNE of the Army
18 Apr 1856 to     7 Oct 1871	UK	1	Sir John Fox Burgoyne Field Marshal 1868 Extinct on his death	24 Jul 1782	7 Oct 1871	89
BURKE of Glinsk, Galway
2 Aug 1628	I	1	Ulick Burke	c 1594	c 1660
c 1660		2	Edmund Burke		c 1686
c 1686		3	Ulick Burke		1708
1708		4	John Burke		c 1722
c 1722		5	Festus Burke		c 1730
c 1730		6	Theobald Burke		c 1740
c 1740		7	Henry Burke		15 Mar 1748
15 Mar 1748		8	Ulick Burke		11 Apr 1759
11 Apr 1759		9	Henry John Burke		Apr 1814
Apr 1814		10	John Ignatius Burke	19 Mar 1784	1845	61
1845		11	Joseph Burke	31 Jan 1786	30 Oct 1865	79
30 Oct 1865		12	John Lionel Burke	26 Nov 1818	21 Jul 1884	65
21 Jul 1884 to     4 Apr 1909		13	Theobald Hubert Burke Extinct on his death	25 Mar 1833	4 Apr 1909	76
BURKE of Marble Hill, co. Galway
5 Dec 1797	I	1	Thomas Burke		1813
1813		2	John Burke MP for co. Galway 1830‑1832	c 1782	14 Sep 1847
14 Sep 1847		3	Thomas John Burke MP for co. Galway 1847‑1865	7 Jun 1813	9 Dec 1875	62
9 Dec 1875		4	John Charles Burke	7 Feb 1858	16 Aug 1880	22
16 Aug 1880		5	Henry George Burke	30 Dec 1859	20 Jan 1910	50
20 Jan 1910		6	Thomas Mallachy Burke	8 Jan 1864	19 Dec 1913	49
19 Dec 1913		7	Gerald Howe Burke	17 Nov 1893	30 Dec 1954	61
30 Dec 1954		8	Thomas Stanley Burke	20 Jul 1916	2 Apr 1989	72
2 Apr 1989		9	James Stanley Gilbert Burke	1 Jul 1956
BURNABY of Broughton Hall, Oxon
31 Oct 1767	GB	1	William Burnaby	c 1710	c 1777
c 1777		2	William Chaloner Burnaby	1746	19 Feb 1794	47
19 Feb 1794		3	William Crisp Hood Burnaby	c 1788	1 Aug 1853
1 Aug 1853		4	William Edward Burnaby	Jul 1824	19 Aug 1881	57
19 Aug 1881 to     1914?		5	Henry Burnaby Extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	1829	1914?
BURNE-JONES of Rottingdean, Sussex
4 May 1894	UK	1	Edward Coley Burne Burne‑Jones	28 Aug 1833	17 Jun 1898	64
17 Jun 1898 to     21 Jun 1926		2	Philip Burne-Jones Extinct on his death	2 Oct 1861	21 Jun 1926	64
BURNETT of Leys, Kincardine
21 Apr 1626	NS	1	Thomas Burnett		1653
1653		2	Alexander Burnett		by May 1663
by May 1663		3	Thomas Burnett MP for Scotland 1707‑1708	after 1656	Jan 1714
Jan 1714		4	Alexander Burnett		1758
1758		5	Robert Burnett		1759
1759		6	Thomas Burnett		May 1783
May 1783		7	Robert Burnett	20 Dec 1755	5 Jan 1837	81
5 Jan 1837		8	Thomas Burnett Lord Lieutenant Kincardine 1847‑1849	22 Aug 1778	16 Feb 1849	70
16 Feb 1849		9	Alexander Burnett	1789	20 Mar 1856	66
20 Mar 1856		10	James Horn Burnett Lord Lieutenant Kincardine 1863‑1876	22 Jun 1801	17 Sep 1876	75
17 Sep 1876		11	Robert Burnett	28 Aug 1833	15 Jan 1894	60
15 Jan 1894		12	Thomas Burnett Lord Lieutenant Kincardine 1920‑1926	27 Nov 1840	25 Jan 1926	85
25 Jan 1926		13	James Lauderdale Gilbert Burnett	1 Apr 1880	13 Aug 1953	73
13 Aug 1953 to     9 May 1959		14	Alexander Edwin Burnett On his death the baronetcy became dormant	26 Apr 1881	9 May 1959	78
BURNETT of Selborne House, Surrey
17 Oct 1913	UK	1	Sir David Burnett	22 Aug 1851	7 Jul 1930	78
7 Jul 1930		2	Leslie Trew Burnett	22 Sep 1884	17 Jul 1955	70
17 Jul 1955		3	David Humphery Burnett	27 Jan 1918	19 May 2002	84
19 May 2002		4	Charles David Burnett	18 May 1951
BURNEY of Preston Candover, Hants
27 Jan 1921	UK	1	Sir Cecil Burney Admiral of the Fleet 1920	15 May 1858	5 Jun 1929	71
5 Jun 1929		2	Charles Dennistoun Burney MP for Uxbridge 1922‑1929	28 Dec 1888	11 Nov 1968	79
11 Nov 1968		3	Cecil Denniston Burney	8 Jan 1923	19 Apr 2002	79
19 Apr 2002		4	Nigel Dennistoun Burney	6 Sep 1959
BURNS of Wemyss Bay, Renfrew
24 Jun 1889	UK	1	George Burns	10 Dec 1795	2 Jun 1890	94
2 Jun 1890		2	John Burns He was subsequently created Baron Inverclyde in 1897 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1957	24 Jun 1829	12 Feb 1901	71
BURRARD of Walhampton, Hants
3 Apr 1769	GB	1	Harry Burrard MP for Lymington 1741‑1778	1707	12 Apr 1791	83
12 Apr 1791		2	Harry Burrard (Burrard-Neale from 1795) MP for Lymington 1790‑1802, 1806‑1807, 1812‑1823 and 1832‑1835	16 Sep 1765	7 Feb 1840	74
7 Feb 1840		3	George Burrard	6 Apr 1769	17 May 1856	87
17 May 1856		4	George Burrard MP for Lymington 1828‑1832 For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	13 Oct 1805	7 Sep 1870	64
7 Sep 1870		5	Harry Burrard	13 Oct 1818	15 Apr 1871	52
15 Apr 1871		6	Harry Paul Burrard	5 Sep 1846	19 Dec 1933	87
19 Dec 1933		7	Sidney Gerald Burrard	12 Aug 1860	16 Mar 1943	82
16 Mar 1943 to     22 Feb 1965		8	Gerald Burrard Extinct on his death	17 Jan 1888	22 Feb 1965	77
BURRARD of Lymington, Hants
12 Nov 1807	UK	1	Harry Burrard	1 Jun 1755	18 Oct 1813	58
18 Oct 1813 to     12 Jul 1870		2	Charles Burrard Extinct on his death	2 Mar 1793	12 Jul 1870	77
BURRELL of Knipp, Sussex
15 Jul 1766	GB	1	Merrick Burrell MP for Great Marlow 1747‑1754, Grampound 1754‑1768, Haslemere 1774‑1780 and Great Bedwyn 1780‑1784	3 Apr 1699	6 Apr 1787	88
6 Apr 1787		2	Peter Burrell He was subsequently created Baron Gwydyr in 1796 with which title the baronetcy then merged until the extinction of both titles in 1915	16 Jun 1754	29 Jun 1820	66
BURRELL of Valentine House, Essex
31 May 1774	GB	1	Charles Raymond	22 Apr 1713	24 Aug 1788	75
24 Aug 1788		2	William Burrell MP for Haslemere 1768‑1774	10 Oct 1732	20 Jan 1796	63
20 Jan 1796		3	Charles Merrik Burrell MP for New Shoreham 1806‑1862	24 May 1774	4 Jan 1862	87
4 Jan 1862		4	Percy Burrell MP for New Shoreham 1862‑1876	10 Feb 1812	19 Jul 1876	64
19 Jul 1876		5	Walter Wyndham Burrell MP for New Shoreham 1876‑1885	26 Oct 1814	24 Jan 1886	71
24 Jan 1886		6	Charles Raymond Burrell	29 Mar 1848	6 Sep 1899	51
6 Sep 1899		7	Merrik Raymond Burrell	14 May 1877	22 Dec 1957	80
22 Dec 1957		8	Walter Raymond Burrell	11 Dec 1903	4 May 1985	81
4 May 1985		9	John Raymond Burrell	20 Feb 1934	29 May 2008	74
29 May 2008		10	Charles Raymond Burrell	27 Aug 1962
BURROUGHS of Castle Bagshaw, Wicklow
1 Dec 1804 to     1 Jun 1829	UK	1	William Burroughs MP for Enniskillen 1802‑1806, Colchester 1817‑1818 and Taunton 1818‑1819 Extinct on his death	c 1753	1 Jun 1829
BURROWS of Cavendish Square, Middlesex and Springfield, Isle of Wight
19 Mar 1874	UK	1	George Burrows	28 Nov 1801	12 Dec 1887	86
12 Dec 1887		2	Frederick Abernethy Burrows	30 Dec 1846	9 Nov 1904	57
9 Nov 1904 to     4 Aug 1917		3	Ernest Pennington Burrows Extinct on his death	11 Jul 1851	4 Aug 1917	66
BURTON of Stockerston, Leics
22 Jul 1622	E	1	Thomas Burton	c 1580	4 Sep 1655
Sep 1655		2	Thomas Burton	by 1618	3 Apr 1659
3 Apr 1659		3	Thomas Burton	4 Jul 1657	14 Nov 1705	48
Nov 1705 to     c 1750		4	Charles Burton Presumably extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	by 1688	c 1750
BURTON of the City of Dublin
2 Oct 1758	I	1	Sir Charles Burton MP [I] for Dublin City 1749‑1760	1702	6 Jun 1775	72
6 Jun 1775		2	Charles Burton		Apr 1812
Apr 1812		3	Charles Burton	17 May 1779	6 Jan 1830	50
6 Jan 1830		4	Charles Burton		17 May 1842
17 May 1842 to     2 Oct 1902		5	Charles William Cuffe Burton Extinct on his death	13 Jan 1823	2 Oct 1902	79
BURTON-CHADWICK of Bidston, Cheshire
3 Jul 1935	UK	1	Sir Robert Burton Chadwick (Burton‑Chadwick from 1936) MP for Barrow in Furness 1918‑1922 and Wallasey 1922‑1931	20 Jun 1869	21 May 1951	81
21 May 1951		2	Robert Burton-Chadwick	22 Jun 1911	28 Aug 1983	72
28 Aug 1983		3	Joshua Kenneth Burton-Chadwick	1 Feb 1954
BUSWELL of Clipston, Northants
7 Jul 1660 to     6 Mar 1668	E	1	George Buswell Extinct on his death	c 1625	6 Mar 1668
BUSWELL of Clipston, Northants
5 Mar 1714 to     by 1741	GB	1	Eusebius Buswell Extinct on his death	1681	by 1741
BUTCHER of Danesfort, Kerry
28 Jun 1918	UK	1	John George Butcher He was subsequently created Baron Danesfort in 1924 with which title the baronetcy then merged until the extinction of both titles in 1935	15 Nov 1853	30 Jun 1935	81
BUTCHER of Holland, Lincs
22 Jul 1960 to     11 May 1966	UK	1	Sir Herbert Walter Butcher MP for Holland with Boston 1937‑1966 Extinct on his death	12 Jun 1901	11 May 1966	64
BUTLER of Cloughgrenan, co. Carlow
16 Aug 1628	I	1	Thomas Butler		c 1640
c 1640		2	Edmund Butler		c 1650
c 1650		3	Thomas Butler MP [I] for Carlow County 1692‑1693, 1695‑1699 and 1703‑1704	by 1649	c Feb 1704
c Feb 1703		4	Pierce Butler MP [I] for Carlow County 1703‑1714; PC [I] 1712	1670	17 Apr 1732	61
17 Apr 1732		5	Richard Butler MP [I] for Carlow County 1730‑1761	1701	25 Nov 1771	70
25 Nov 1771		6	Thomas Butler MP [I] for Carlow County 1761‑1768 and Portarlington 1771‑1772	1735	7 Oct 1772	37
7 Oct 1772		7	Richard Butler MP [I] for Carlow County 1783‑1790 and 1796‑1800; MP for co. Carlow 1801‑1802	14 Jul 1761	16 Jan 1817	55
16 Jan 1817		8	Thomas Butler	23 Oct 1783	9 Nov 1861	78
9 Nov 1861		9	Richard Pierce Butler	4 Mar 1813	21 Nov 1862	49
21 Nov 1862		10	Thomas Pierce Butler	16 Dec 1836	9 Mar 1909	72
9 Mar 1909		11	Richard Pierce Butler	28 Sep 1872	25 Mar 1955	82
25 Mar 1955		12	Thomas Pierce Butler	18 Sep 1910	9 Apr 1994	83
9 Apr 1994		13	Richard Pierce Butler	22 Jul 1940
BUTLER of Polestown, Kilkenny
8 Jul 1645	I	1	Walter Butler		c May 1650
c May 1650		2	Richard Butler		c 1679
c 1679		3	Walter Butler	c 1678	8 Oct 1723
8 Oct 1723 to     c Oct 1762		4	Edmund Butler On his death the baronetcy became either extinct or dormant	c 1708	c Oct 1762
BUTLER of Old Park, Devizes, Wilts
28 Jan 1922	UK	1	Robert Reginald Frederick Butler	19 Jun 1866	19 Nov 1933	67
19 Nov 1933		2	Reginald Thomas Butler	27 Apr 1901	22 Mar 1959	57
22 Mar 1959		3	Reginald Michael Thomas Butler	22 Apr 1928	1 Jul 2012	84
1 Jul 2012		4	Reginald Richard Michael Butler	3 Oct 1953
BUTLER of Edgbaston, Warwicks
29 Jan 1926 to     5 Apr 1939	UK	1	William Waters Butler Extinct on his death	14 Dec 1866	5 Apr 1939	72
BUTLIN of Harley Street, St. Marylebone
28 Jun 1911	UK	1	Henry Trentham Butlin	24 Oct 1845	24 Jan 1912	66
24 Jan 1912 to     16 Sep 1916		2	Henry Guy Trentham Butlin Extinct on his death	7 Jan 1893	16 Sep 1916	23
BUTT of Westminster, London
25 Jul 1929	UK	1	Sir Alfred Butt MP for Balham & Tooting 1922‑1936	20 Mar 1878	8 Dec 1962	84
8 Dec 1962 to     10 Feb 1999		2	Alfred Kenneth Dudley Butt Extinct on his death	7 Jul 1908	10 Feb 1999	90
BUTTON of Alton, Wilts
18 Mar 1622	E	1	William Button MP for Morpeth 1614 and Wiltshire 1628‑1629	c 1584	16 Jan 1655
16 Jan 1655		2	William Button	c 1614	8 Mar 1660
8 Mar 1660		3	Robert Button	1622	c 1679
c 1679 to     29 Nov 1712		4	John Button Extinct on his death		29 Nov 1712
BUXTON of Shadwell Lodge, Norfolk
25 Nov 1800	GB	1	Robert John Buxton MP for Thetford 1790‑1796 and Great Bedwyn 1797‑1806	27 Oct 1753	7 Jun 1839	85
7 Jun 1839		2	John Jacob Buxton MP for Great Bedwyn 1818‑1832	13 Aug 1788	13 Oct 1842	54
13 Oct 1842 to     20 Jan 1888		3	Robert Jacob Buxton MP for Norfolk South 1871‑1885 Extinct on his death	13 Mar 1829	20 Jan 1888	58
BUXTON of Belfield, Dorset
30 Jul 1840	UK	1	Thomas Fowell Buxton MP for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 1818‑1837	1 Apr 1786	19 Feb 1845	58
19 Feb 1845		2	Edward North Buxton MP for Essex South 1847‑1852 and Norfolk East 1857‑1858	16 Sep 1812	11 Jun 1858	45
11 Jun 1858		3	Thomas Fowell Buxton MP for Kings Lynn 1865‑1868; Governor of South Australia 1895‑1899	26 Jan 1837	28 Oct 1915	78
28 Oct 1915		4	Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	8 Apr 1865	31 May 1919	54
31 May 1919		5	Thomas Fowell Buxton	8 Nov 1889	28 Oct 1945	55
28 Oct 1945		6	Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton	18 Aug 1925	14 Nov 1996	71
14 Nov 1996		7	Jocelyn Charles Roden Buxton	8 Aug 1924	25 Apr 2014	89
25 Apr 2014		8	Crispin Charles Gerard Buxton	29 Mar 1958
BUZZARD of Munstead Grange, Surrey
25 Jun 1929	UK	1	Sir Farquhar Buzzard	20 Dec 1871	17 Dec 1945	73
17 Dec 1945		2	Anthony Wass Buzzard	28 Apr 1902	10 Mar 1972	69
10 Mar 1972		3	Anthony Farquhar Buzzard	28 Jun 1935
BYASS of Port Talbot, Glamorgan
30 Jan 1926	UK	1	Sidney Hutchinson Byass	24 Jul 1862	18 Feb 1929	66
18 Feb 1929 to     29 Oct 1976		2	Geoffrey Robert Sidney Byass Extinct on his death	30 Sep 1895	29 Oct 1976	81
BYNG of Southill, Bedford
15 Nov 1715	GB	1	George Byng He was subsequently created Viscount Torrington in 1721 with which title the baronetcy then merged	27 Jan 1663	17 Jan 1733	69
BYRNE of Nether Tabley, Cheshire
17 May 1671	E		See "Leicester"

	Sir Hervey Ronald Bruce, 5th baronet
	At the inquest into the death of Sir Hervey, evidence was given that he was probably dazed by the vivid lightning while he was watching an electrical storm from the Middle Parade in Eastbourne. Temporarily blinded, he stumbled over a seat support, which caused him to pitch over a railing, falling a distance of 15 feet onto the lower Parade, landing on his head. The fall caused a fracture of his skull and laceration of the brain, and he subsequently died in hospital.
	The following report on the inquest appeared in the London Telegraph of 21 May 1924:-
	An inquest was held at Eastbourne yesterday concerning the death, on Sunday evening, of Major Sir Hervey Bruce, Bt., who had been staying for some time at 3, Chatsworth-gardens.
	Evidence of identification was given by the Rev. Francis Courtney Bruce, a relative of the late baronet, who, he said, had served in the Highland Light Infantry and the Irish Guards.
	Ernest Gillespie said he saw Sir Hervey Bruce walking along the lower parade, and afterwards mounting the steps near the pier to the upper promenade. A minute or two later, Sir Hervey passed on to the concrete projection on which garden seats are arranged. He caught hold of a seat as though trying to move it, and, stumbling at the same instant, he pitched over the iron railings on to the brick parade below.
	Raymond Low, an hotel waiter, who was sitting near, deposed that Sir Hervey seemed to trip over the leg of the seat, and, finding himself falling, caught hold of the seat, which he pulled over without, however, saving himself.
	Police-constable Winter said that he found the deceased lying face downwards; he was unconscious and apparently only just alive. The distance of the fall was about thirteen feet, and the railing was 2ft 6in high. There was a storm at the time, and the lightning was very vivid.
	Dr. Kenneth Millward, house surgeon at the Princess Alice Hospital, said that Sir Hervey expired about ten minutes after his admission to that institution. There was fracture of the base of the skull and laceration of the brain. The nose also was broken. Sir Hervey had evidently fallen on to his head.
	The Coroner, in returning a verdict of accidental death, said that the fall was not a great one, but as Sir Hervey Bruce was a big, heavy man the fatal result was not surprising.
	Sir Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame, 11th baronet
	Not all titled people live in stately homes and enjoy massive incomes … the following story which appeared in the Daily Mail on 9 October 1931 illustrates the point:-
	The only surviving male member of a famous old Surrey family, Sir Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame, can claim the distinction of being the only baronet in Great Britain who has been out of work and in receipt of unemployment pay.
	Sir Charles, who is thirty-six years of age, has been living at Sheen Cottage, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, so named after Sheen in Surrey, where the first baronet was born three centuries ago. The present holder succeeded to the title on the death of his father, Sir Charles Buckworth-Herne-Soame, a prominent Midlands solicitor, who was sixty-eight years of age.
	The new baronet signed on at Ironbridge employment exchange the day after succeeding to the title, and received 13s. in out-of-work pay. He walked over a mile in the rain for the purpose of signing on. Apart from his unemployment pay he had nothing more in the way of income than 10s. per week disability pension in respect of war wounds. His father met with an accident some years ago, and had to give up his practice as a solicitor.
	The new baronet has worked as a labourer in various capacities. He has broken stones in a quarry, and has acted as foreman of a gang of navvies on road work. Then his job as general labourer for the Office of Works at the restoration of Buildwas Abbey came to an end. He has been living with Lady Buckworth-Herne-Soame, a pretty brunette, in their six-roomed cottage, Lady Soame doing all the housework, including washing, and digging the garden.
	The new baronet, before he was wounded in the war, was a keen footballer. He is today a champion of ex-Service men's rights and is a member of the committee of the Coalbrookdale branch of the British Legion. It was while interesting himself in the case of an ex-Service man that he met his wife, whose father is another official of the British Legion.
	Coalbrookdale has not regarded him as Sir Charles Buckworth-Herne-Soame, eleventh baronet, but as Charlie, one of themselves, "who has worked up at Buildwas Abbey". I sat with Sir Charles, the unemployed labourer, in the small living room of his cottage (writes a correspondent) and he talked to me about his affairs. His voice drones with the characteristic accent of a Shropshire lad. "The title," he said, "means nothing to me. Indeed, it has been a handicap. I have worked as a labourer, and my pay was a general labourer's wage of 113/4d. an hour. It used to be a shilling an hour until they cut us down by a farthing. We could manage quite well on that amount, for there is only my wife and myself. We have no family, and if we do not have any children the title will become extinct with me.
	"Naturally, I have been glad of the unemployment pay. I have no false pride, for it is all that is coming in from the outside." I asked the new baronet if he would continue holding the title. Sir Charles said: "I can do nothing else, although it is not much use having a title without the necessary money to back it up."
	A further story appeared 27 years later, and little appears to have changed in the intervening period. The Daily Mail of 9 July 1958:-
	Sir Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame was weeding the flower garden at his cottage. "It's true I've dropped my title to become a working man," said the 63-year-old eleventh baronet. So I learned the secret his mates and fellow villagers have kept for 20 years. Everybody calls him Charlie in Coalbrookdale, near Shrewsbury.
	He earns £11 a week, turning a wheel that sprays water on to the coal on a conveyor belt at the Buildwas power station. And the man whose lineage and coat of arms are featured in Shrewsbury Museum has joined the Union of Municipal and General Workers.
	Every day, in a boiler suit, he cycles from Sheen Cottage to work. Shifts: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. He is on holiday this week. At home. "Of course it's true that I work for a living," he said. "Why not? I like being a working man. I like my job. I like my mates."
	The title dates from the early 18th century. The villagers still call Sir Charles's wife Lady Soame. Said Percy Seed, landlord of the Grove Tavern: "I'm glad to say Charlie pops in for a pint of mild most nights. He plays dominoes and darts and we're all his pals. His son Charles plays for the local darts team and his daughter Mary is a steel welder. They're a nice family."
	Twenty-six-year-old Charles John, who will be 12th baronet some day, is a labourer on a building estate and is married to a local girl. "We're proud of the title," he said, "but Dad thinks more of his union card than his family crest."
	Sir Charles Wentworth Burdett, 7th baronet
	After a military career as a lieutenant in the 52nd regiment, and later in the 2nd Staffordshire Militia, Burdett left England in the 1860s and went to New Zealand, where he took part in the 'Maori Wars' of that decade. Some reports state that Sir Charles 'came to grief in England' and was compelled to leave the army.
	After the wars were over, information on Burdett is scarce, but he appears to have eked out a hand to mouth existence by 'stripping bark from trees, cooking for bushmen, and doing odd jobs about squatters' stations.'
	In early November 1888, Sir Charles got himself into trouble and was punished very harshly for what seems to have been an extremely minor offence. According to the New Zealand newspaper, the Marlborough Express of 10 November 1888:-
	Sir Charles Burdett was charged with stealing two roses valued at two pence, the property of the Mayor, Councillors, and burgesses of Auckland. The baronet, who presented a venerable and dilapidated appearance, pleaded "not guilty". The evidence showed that a constable met a person carrying a bunch of roses, and asked where he got them. Sir Charles gave conflicting answers, and was arrested, charged with stealing from Albert Park, from which the flowers had been missed. A search proved that roses had been recently plucked, and the footmarks left in the soil corresponded exactly with the aristocratic boot of the accused. The roses were identified by an expert as being the same variety as those missed from the park. The accused argued that nobody saw him take them. He was found guilty, and sentenced to fourteen days hard labour.
	In a reaction to this sentence a petition was sent to the New Zealand government praying for a remission of the sentence. One newspaper commented that 'thefts of flowers from gardens continue, but the thieves now take the precaution of taking off their boots.' For its part, the government enquired of the justices the reason for the sentence and the justices replied that, Sir Charles being an educated man, they thought it right to make an example of him.
	The newspapers weighed into the debate and were polarised in their attitude. A typical editorial was that of the Marlborough Express of 21 November 1888:-
	Considerable attention has been directed to the case of Sir Thomas [sic] Burdett, of Auckland, who was convicted recently of stealing two roses, and sent to gaol for fourteen days. Some journals took up the case of the baronet very warmly, and a petition was sent to the Colonial Secretary on his behalf. Other journals criticised unfavourably what they chose to term the maudlin pity that was extended to the aristocratic thief. Both sides appear to have taken an extreme view of the case. Sir Charles Burdett, though aged, drunk, a baronet, and anything else that might be pleaded in mitigation of sentence, was a thief. He stole two roses that belonged to somebody else, and he was not forced by hunger to steal, nor did he take a loaf or a joint. He simply stole two roses, and by no process of ingenious reasoning could such an act be construed otherwise than as a theft. That being so, it remained to the Bench to adjudge the proportion of punishment the offence called for. Fourteen days is usually given for the theft of some more useful article than a flower; for the act of picking a flower is hardly such strong evidence of a felonious disposition as the theft of say a knife, or a shilling, or a brooch. On the whole, one should think a 24 hours' term should meet the case. The Auckland Bench erred on the wrong side in reference to the baronet's antecedents, which they took too strongly to accentuate his criminality; the other side err in the opposite direction, in holding that his position and antecedents should palliate his offence and mitigate his sentence. We should say - put antecedents and position aside, and regard the man as a flower-stealer, and then deal with him. That being so, we take exception to the sentence as illogically harsh, and not in keeping with the ordinary course of justice.
	In August 1890, Sir Charles was admitted to the Costley Home for the Aged Poor in Auckland. According to Burke's Peerage, Sir Charles was already dead by that time, since it gives a date of death of March 1890. This date is, however, incorrect, since newspaper reports record that he died in the Costley Home on 22 May 1892.
	He was succeeded by his son, Sir Charles Grant Burnett, whose later occupation was given in various newspapers as a 'gum digger'. In an earlier version of this note I assumed that a 'gum digger' was slang for a dentist, but I subsequently received an email from Mike Leach, a retired New Zealand history teacher, who advised me that a 'gum digger' was a person who searched for lumps of kauri gum, a fossilized resin which was used in the production of varnish. The gum was primarily found in the northern section of the North Island of New Zealand and was a major source of income for the local population, many of whom were migrants from Dalmatia, on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. Because the soil in which the lumps of gum were to be found was often swampy in nature, the diggers wore rubber boots which became known as "gum boots". This name is still used throughout Australia and New Zealand for what are known in England as "Wellingtons". My thanks to Mike for enabling me to correct my egregious error.
	Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, 8th baronet [E 1641]
	In 1817, Sir Montagu Burgoyne was prosecuted by his local churchman under a long disused Act of Elizabeth I which imposed monetary penalties for failure to attend divine worship. He brought his action in a fashion in which he could, if successful, keep a share of any fines levied against Sir Montagu. A close reading of the following report reveals that the plaintiff in this case appears to have been an ignorant and grasping opportunist who was motivated by the chance of monetary gain. I would be surprised if anyone, having read the note below, does not have complete sympathy for Sir Montagu.
	The case was heard before Baron [of the Exchequer Sir Robert] Graham [1744‑1836]. The report of the trial is taken from The Annual Register for 1817, and has been edited, in the interest of reducing its length, by eliminating some extraneous matter:-
	Bedfordshire Lent Assizes - The Rev. Edward Drake Free, Clerk, v. Sir Montague Roger Burgoine
	This was an action of a very novel as well as of a very extraordinary description, and excited a considerable degree of interest throughout the country. Dr. Free, who is Rector of Sutton, appeared in Court, dressed in his canonicals, and was prepared to take part in the conduct of his own cause. The Court throughout was crowded almost to suffocation.
	Mr. Daniels proceeded to open the pleadings: he stated that this was a qui tam action [this is short for "qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur". A qui tam writ is one whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed. The use of this writ in the United Kingdom was largely eliminated by the passing of the Common Informers Act 1951], brought by the Rev. Dr. Free, under the statute of the 23rd of Elizabeth, to recover penalties from the defendant, for neglecting to attend divine worship, in the parish church of Sutton, in this county, or in any other place of public prayers for 19 months, whereby he became liable to pay a fine of £20 per month, amounting in the whole to £380.
	Mr. Jamesson said, it became his duty to detail to the Court and Jury the particulars of this case. The plaintiff was Rector of the parish of Sutton, and the defendant was lord of the manor in which the said parish was situated. The action was brought, as stated by his learned friend, to recover penalties under the statute of Elizabeth, for non-attendance at divine worship at his parish church, thereby, and in consequence of his example, spreading contagion around the country in which he resided. It was his wish to abstain altogether from a statement of the circumstances under which this action had been brought; he should, therefore, confine himself to the simple observation, that the plaintiff, in coming forward as the accuser of the defendant, was solely actuated by a desire to enforce the laws for the observance of religious worship. The statute under which this action was brought was the 23rd of Elizabeth, by the fifth section of which it was enacted, that all persons in England absenting themselves from divine worship, either at their own parish church, or some other place appointed for public prayer, for one month, forfeited a penalty of £20. This penalty was equally divided into three parts, one of which went to the Queen, another to the poor of the parish, and the third to the informer. He should be enabled to prove, in this case, that the defendant had absented himself from his parish church for nineteen months; and having done so, he should be entitled to a verdict for the full amount of the penalties, or in all events for twelve months, which was the period within which the statute required the action to be brought. Witnesses were then called to prove the case.
	Mrs. Margarete Johnstone deposed as follows:- I resided at the parish of Sutton on the 2nd of April, 1815. I attended the church every Sunday from that day to the first Sunday in April, 1816. I know the person of Sir Montague Burgoyne, and during all that period I never saw him come to church. I am quite sure I attended church every Sunday. I sometimes Sir Montague on horseback. In cross-examination, she said she was servant to Dr. Free, and had been so for four years.
	John Northfield, parish-clerk of Sutton, corroborated the testimony of the last witness. He saw Sir Montague come to church in April, 1816. He sometimes saw him coursing during the year 1815. Mr. Jamesson here closed his case.
	Mr. Sergeant Blosset said, if this was the plaintiff's case, his client was entitled to a verdict, as no evidence had been offered of Sir Montague Burgoyne living in the parish of Sutton. Mr. Baron Graham, however, considered this to be a mere oversight, and recalling the witnesses, they proved the fact alluded to. Mr. Sergeant Blosset now addressed the jury on the part of the defendant. He said, that however unwilling he might be to trespass on the Court by any very extended observations on this case, yet he could not help remarking that the assertion made by Dr. Free, that he had stood forward as the champion of the Church of England and of the clergy, was not borne out by the facts. When a reverend gentleman came forward into a Court of Justice in his canonicals, and in the character of an informer, to support a qui tam action, upon a statute which, although unrepealed, had been in disuse for upwards of one hundred and fifty years, he rather apprehended he would not be hailed by those whose interests he professed to represent, as a person likely to reflect much credit upon their sacred character. That such conduct was consistent with the true spirit of the Christian religion, he believed no man of liberal feelings would allow. With regard to the statute on which this action was brought, he was willing to admit that it remained unrepealed; but, at the same time, it was proper to remark, that it originated in causes of a political nature, and was by no means applicable to times like the present. Its operations were meant only to apply to Roman Catholics and Dissenters, at a period when the Church of England might be considered as in danger. The principles of toleration which had since been disseminated, however, and the firm foundation upon which the Church of England had been established, were such, that no man possessing the slightest claims to liberality would venture to put the construction upon the statute which it had received from the reverend plaintiff in this case.
	Without entering on the construction of the statute, he should be enabled to meet the plaintiff in the most conclusive manner: for, in the first instance, he should be enabled to prove, that for several months of that period during which the servant of the reverend plaintiff had so positively sworn that she had regularly attended Sutton church, no divine service had been performed in the church at all: he meant the months of June, July, August, and part of September; during which months the plaintiff had so shamefully neglected his duties that he had received admonition from the bishop of the diocese. He should also prove, that at other periods, the reverend plaintiff was so inattentive to the performance of the religious service of his church, that his parishioners were constantly in a state of uncertainty as to the hour at which service was to commence, or whether it would be performed at all. Independent of this, it was no very pleasant thing for the defendant, when he did go to church, to hear a sermon delivered which, instead of inculcating divine truths, was made the vehicle of personal abuse to himself. With these facts before them, the jury would be able to form a pretty correct judgment of the motives of this action.
	The next ground on which he rested with confidence, on the goodness of his own cause, he derived from the statute of Elizabeth itself; for by the statute of the 1st of Elizabeth, which was embraced by the 23rd, it was enacted, that where the defendant in a qui tam action, such as that now before the Court, could assign a reasonable excuse for absenting himself from public worship, and should afterwards conform to his religious duties, the action should be quashed. On this head of defence he should be enabled to prove that Sir Montague Burgoyne, who was a general in the British service, had returned from Gibraltar in 1814, in a most precarious state of health, and had continued thus afflicted down to the present day, a circumstance which he hoped, in addition to the uncertainty of the performance of church service at Sutton, would be considered a sufficient excuse for his non-attendance.
	With regard to his sentiments on the subject of religion, those would be best proved by the evidence he would adduce to its being his invariable practice to read the church prayers to his family every Sunday, when capable from the state of his health so to do; and if unable himself to perform that duty, to call upon Lady Burgoyne to read for him. He should also prove that prayers were frequently read in his house by the Rev. Dr. Hughes, in his occasional visits to his family.
	There was another ground on which he was still more decidedly entitled to a verdict. This was to be found in the statute of the 1st James II, c.4, whereby it was enacted, that any person offending against the statute of Elizabeth, by a non-attendance of divine worship, became exonerated from all consequences, by conforming to the rules of his church before judgment was obtained, and declaring himself publicly to be a faithful son of the Church of England. This Sir M. Burgoyne had done in the presence of the bishop of the diocese himself, and was there ready again to declare openly in court, his high veneration for, and accordance in, all the principles of the Christian religion.
	Evidence was then called to support the defendant's case. Lawrence Coxall, churchwarden of the parish of Sutton, proved, that Sutton church had been shut up from the 25th of June to 3rd of September. Thomas Brown, the other churchwarden, corroborated the testimony of the last witness, and proved that the church had been farther shut from the 15th of September to the 5th of November, no service having been performed. Dr. M'Garth, a medical gentleman, proved the precarious state of Sir Montague Burgoyne's health from his return from Gibraltar to the present moment, and the danger of his going to church at particular stages of his disorder. Lucy Carrington, nurse in Sir Montague's family, bore testimony to her master or mistress invariably reading prayers to the family on the Sunday when they did not go to church. The Rev. Dr. Hughes occasionally visited Sir Montague's family for weeks together, and always read prayers to the family when they did not go to church.
	Mr. Baron Graham being of opinion that a reasonable excuse for the non-attendance of the defendant at his parish church had been proved, Mr. Sergeant Blosset did not call any more witnesses. Mr. Baron Graham summed up the evidence. His Lordship abstained from making any remark upon the motives by which the plaintiff had been actuated in this action; but at the same time remarked, that no liberal mind could have construed the statute of Elizabeth in the manner in which it had been construed by him. He left it for the Jury to say, whether a reasonable excuse had not been proved for the non-attendance of the defendant at church, and whether, in other respects, the case of the plaintiff had not received a complete answer.
	The Jury without hesitation found the defendant - Not Guilty.
	Sir Henry Burnaby, 5th baronet
	In February 1914, the London Gazette published a Supplement which contained the 'Roll of the Baronets of England, Ireland, Scotland [Nova Scotia], Great Britain and the United Kingdom' which had been prepared in conformity with the Royal Warrant dated 8 February 1910.
	A note appended to the baronetcy of Burnaby of Broughton Hall says "No information can be obtained by the Registrar as to Sir Henry Burnaby. It is not known whether he is alive."
	On 27 January 1915, the following report appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune:-
	Official news has at length been received in England of the death of old Sir Henry Burnaby, at the age of nearly 90, in some remote portion of Spain. For a number of years Sir Henry, fifth holder of a baronetcy created in the middle of the eighteenth century in favour of Admiral Sir William Burnaby of Broughton Hall, Oxfordshire, captain general and governor of Jamaica, and who reinstated in Pensacola the colonists who had been driven thence by the Spaniards, has been regarded as missing.
	He was formerly in the royal navy, but resigned as far back as 1852, on marrying at Madrid Donna Carmen Maria Torrente. He thereupon settled down in Spain, and from that time forth ceased to hold any kind of communication with the land of his birth. He never took the trouble of drawing the small naval pension to which he was entitled, and it was only by mere chance that last fall it was ascertained that he had died a few weeks previously in a small Andalusian townlet, without issue.
	At one point my listings showed a date of death of Sir Henry Burnaby of 18 September 1894, but I can no longer recall the source of this date. On the basis of the note included in the Supplement to the London Gazette, it seems more likely that the date of 1914 inferred in the Chicago Daily Tribune report is closer to the mark, and I have according used this date, subject to a question mark.
	Sir George Burrard, 4th baronet
	Sir George drowned while bathing at Lyme Regis. The following report appeared in the Hampshire Advertiser on 14 September 1870:-
	Sir George, it appears, hired a bathing machine on the Lyme Regis coast, on Wednesday morning, about 9 o'clock. He could swim, and after the machine had been pushed into the water he went about 100 yards sideways from it. There was rather a surf, but the sea was not very rough. The bathing woman lost sight of him and raised an alarm. Four boats put out to rescue him, and she ran for a doctor. His body was found among the breakers in seven feet of water, and brought to shore. Mr. E. Linsell, a visitor at Lyme, stated at the inquest that he saw Sir George floating on his back like a good swimmer. He heard him shout, but not as if in distress. It was also stated that from the time Sir George went out to the recovery of his body was only about fifteen minutes. He was quite dead when recovered. "Accidental death" was the verdict of the jury.
	Sir Charles Burton, 4th baronet [E 1622]
	In The Proceedings of the Old Bailey for 7 September 1722, there is the following entry:-
	Sir Charles Burton, Bart. of St. Gregory, was indicted for privately stealing out of the Shop of Joseph Ward, a Cornelian Seal set in Gold, value 15s on the 12th of July last. It appeared that the prisoner cheapened a Seal at Mr. Ward's Shop, but could not agree upon the price. Mrs. Kirton missing a Seal, and observing a Handkerchief in his Hand, desired him to shake it. which he did, holding one corner of it fast; but she took it from him, and the Seal dropt out. The prisoner in his Defence said, he knew not how the Seal came there, unless she put it there. Some of his Neighbours gave him the Character of a civil Gentleman, come of a good Family in Lincolnshire, but lately, by Misfortunes, reduc'd. Guilty to the value of 4s and 10d.
	Sir Charles was initially sentenced to be transported, but at the next Sessions in October 1722, this judgment was reversed, and the Court ordered that Sir Charles "be privately whipt".
	Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th baronet
	This report of Sir Victor's death appeared in the Launceston [Tasmania] Daily Telegraph on 5 September 1919:-
	The death occurred in England recently, in tragic circumstances, of Sir Victor Buxton, Bart., (a son of the late Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a former Governor of South Australia), who succumbed as the result of a motor accident. He had been attending a presentation of decorations at Chelmsford, and was motoring home to his residence, Wanliss Park, Waltham Abbey. When within a few hundred yards of the Park, something went wrong with the motor. Lady Buxton, who was with her husband, alighted and walked the remaining distance home. Sir Victor drove on through the park with the chauffeur, and near the house attempted to change into another seat. He stumbled, and, losing his balance, fell out. He clung to the door of the car for a moment, but had to release his hold, and fell beneath the car, part of which passed over his left leg, causing a compound fracture. Sir Victor was carried home, and on the following day was removed to hospital, where alarming symptoms developed. His leg was amputated, but after the operation he gradually sank and died. His thoughtfulness was shown, at the inquest, by the following letter, which he wrote to his chauffeur the day after the accident.
	"You helped me well last night, and I am much obliged to you and others who brought me in so carefully. The accident was through no fault of yours. I was changing from one seat to another, and in doing so I lost my balance and fell out. Thanking you - T.F.V. Buxton."
	Frederick George Bellingham, the chauffeur, said he only entered Sir Victor's service on the day of the accident. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, and exonerated the chauffeur.
	Sir Victor was 55 [sic] and the fourth baronet, his mother being a daughter of the first Earl of Gainsborough. Having travelled extensively in Africa, he was an authority on native questions and missions, regarding which he had written notable publications. He was prominently connected with the Royal Geographical and Zoological Societies. In 1905 he was High Sheriff of Essex, and he had been a member of the Essex Territorial Force Association and also Commandant of the 1-2nd Essex Volunteer Regiment. He was a brother of Mr. Noel Buxton [later 1st Baron Noel-Buxton], ex-M.P. for North Norfolk. His heir is Thomas Fowell Buxton, born in 1889.

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