BARONETAGE
Last updated 23/05/2018 (1 Mar 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.
CONROY of Llanbrynmair, Montgomery
7 Jul 1837	UK	1	John Conroy For further information of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	21 Oct 1786	2 Mar 1854	67
2 Mar 1854		2	Edward Conroy	6 Dec 1809	3 Nov 1869	59
3 Nov 1869 to     15 Dec 1900		3	John Conroy Extinct on his death	16 Aug 1845	15 Dec 1900	55
CONSTABLE of Flamborough, Yorks
29 Jun 1611 to     15 Jun 1655	E	1	William Constable MP for Yorkshire 1626, Scarborough 1628‑1629 and Knaresborough 1641‑1653 Extinct on his death	c 1580	15 Jun 1655
CONSTABLE of Boynton, Yorks
30 Jul 1641	E		See "Strickland-Constable"
CONSTABLE of Everingham, Yorks
20 Jul 1642	E	1	Philip Constable	c 1595	25 Feb 1664
25 Feb 1664		2	Marmaduke Constable	22 Apr 1619	c 1680
c 1680		3	Philip Mark Constable	25 Apr 1651	c 1710
c 1710 to     Jul 1746		4	Marmaduke Constable Extinct on his death	7 Aug 1682	Jul 1746	63
CONSTABLE of Tixall, Staffs
22 May 1815	UK		See "Clifford-Constable"
CONWAY of Bodrythan, Flint
25 Jul 1660	E	1	Henry Conway MP for Flintshire 1661‑1669	22 Feb 1635	4 Jun 1669	34
4 Jun 1669 to     27 Apr 1721		2	John Conway MP for Flintshire 1685‑1687, 1695‑1701, 1705‑1708 and 1713‑1715 and Flint Boroughs 1702, 1708‑1713 and 1715‑1721 Extinct on his death	c 1663	27 Apr 1721
CONYERS of Horden, Durham
14 Jul 1628	E	1	John Conyers		6 Dec 1664
Dec 1664		2	Christopher Conyers	28 Mar 1621	Oct 1693	72
Oct 1693		3	John Conyers	c 1649	14 Sep 1719
14 Sep 1719		4	Baldwin Conyers	c 1681	17 Apr 1731
17 Apr 1731		5	Ralph Conyers	20 Jun 1697	22 Nov 1767	70
22 Nov 1767		6	Blakiston Conyers		Oct 1791
Oct 1791		7	Nicholas Conyers	27 Jul 1729	1796	66
1796		8	George Conyers		c 1800
c 1800 to     15 Apr 1810		9	Thomas Conyers Extinct on his death	12 Sep 1731	15 Apr 1810	78
COOK of Brome Hall, Norfolk
29 Jun 1663	E	1	William Cook	c 1600	1681
1681 to     Jan 1708		2	William Cook MP for Great Yarmouth 1685‑1687 and Norfolk 1689‑1695 and 1698‑1701 Extinct on his death	c 1630	Jan 1708
COOK of Doughty House, Surrey
10 Mar 1886	UK	1	Francis Cook	23 Jan 1817	17 Feb 1901	84
17 Feb 1901		2	Frederick Lucas Cook MP for Kennington 1895‑1906	21 Nov 1844	21 May 1920	75
21 May 1920		3	Herbert Frederick Cook	18 Nov 1868	4 May 1939	70
4 May 1939		4	Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook For further information of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	21 Dec 1907	12 Sep 1978	70
12 Sep 1978		5	Christopher Wymondham Rayner Herbert Cook	24 Mar 1938
COOKE-YARBOROUGH, formerly COOKE of Wheatley, Yorks
10 May 1661	E	1	George Cooke	8 Jul 1628	16 Oct 1683	55
16 Oct 1683		2	Henry Cooke	29 Oct 1633	16 Dec 1689	55
Dec 1689		3	George Cooke MP for Aldborough 1698‑1700	16 May 1662	18 Oct 1732	70
Oct 1732		4	Bryan Cooke MP for East Retford 1711‑1713	17 Dec 1684	25 Oct 1734	49
25 Oct 1734		5	George Cooke	14 Mar 1714	16 Aug 1756	42
16 Aug 1756		6	Bryan Cooke	11 Aug 1717	4 Mar 1766	48
4 Mar 1766		7	George Cooke	c 1745	2 Jun 1823
2 Jun 1823		8	William Bryan Cooke	3 Mar 1782	24 Dec 1851	69
24 Dec 1851		9	William Ridley Charles Cooke	5 Oct 1827	27 Sep 1894	66
27 Sep 1894		10	William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke	21 Jun 1872	11 Jun 1964	91
11 Jun 1964		11	Charles Arthur John Cooke	12 Nov 1905	5 Jul 1978	72
5 Jul 1978		12	David William Perceval Cooke	28 Apr 1935	13 May 2017	82
13 May 2017		13	Anthony Edmund Cooke-Yarborough	6 Aug 1956
COOKE of Dublin
28 Dec 1741 to     9 Feb 1758	I	1	Samuel Cooke MP [I] for Dublin City 1749‑1758 Extinct on his death	after 1690	9 Feb 1758
COOKE of Brighthelmstone, Sussex
1 Mar 1926	UK		See "Kinloch-Cooke"
COOKES of Norgrove, Worcs
24 Dec 1664	E	1	William Cookes	c 1618	c 1672
c 1672 to     8 Jun 1701		2	Thomas Cookes Extinct on his death	c 1649	8 Jun 1701
COOPER of Rockbourne, Hants
4 Jul 1622	E	1	John Cooper MP for Poole 1625 and 1628‑1629		23 Mar 1631
23 Mar 1631		2	Anthony Ashley Cooper He was subsequently created Earl of Shaftesbury in 1672 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	22 Jul 1621	21 Jan 1683	61
COOPER of Dublin
3 Oct 1758 to     8 Aug 1761	I	1	William Cooper Extinct on his death	1689	8 Aug 1761	72
COOPER of Gadebridge, Herts
31 Aug 1821	UK	1	Astley Paston Cooper For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	23 Aug 1768	12 Feb 1841	72
12 Feb 1841		2	Astley Paston Cooper	13 Jan 1798	6 Jan 1866	67
6 Jan 1866		3	Astley Paston Cooper (Paston‑Cooper from 1884)	23 Feb 1824	19 Oct 1904	80
19 Oct 1904		4	Charles Naunton Paston Paston‑Cooper	27 Sep 1867	4 Dec 1941	74
4 Dec 1941		5	Henry Lovick Cooper	2 Apr 1875	25 Aug 1959	84
25 Aug 1959		6	Patrick Graham Astley Cooper	4 Aug 1918	15 Jun 2002	83
15 Jun 2002		7	Alexander Paston Astley Cooper	1 Feb 1943
COOPER of Walcot, Somerset
19 Feb 1828 to     24 Dec 1828	UK	1	John Hutton Cooper MP for Dartmouth 1825‑1828 Extinct on his death	7 Dec 1765	24 Dec 1828	63
COOPER of Woollahra, Australia
26 Jan 1863	UK	1	Sir Daniel Cooper	1 Jul 1821	5 Jun 1902	80
5 Jun 1902		2	Daniel Cooper	15 Nov 1848	13 Jun 1909	60
13 Jun 1909		3	William Charles Cooper	22 Oct 1851	2 Sep 1925	73
2 Sep 1925		4	William George Daniel Cooper	14 Dec 1877	27 Dec 1954	77
27 Dec 1954		5	Charles Eric Daniel Cooper	5 Oct 1906	14 May 1984	77
14 May 1984		6	William Daniel Charles Cooper	5 Mar 1955
COOPER of Hursley, Hants
26 Jul 1905	UK	1	George Alexander Cooper	20 Feb 1856	1 Mar 1940	84
1 Mar 1940 to     5 Jan 1961		2	George James Robertson Cooper Extinct on his death	22 Jul 1890	5 Jan 1961	70
COOPER of Shenstone Court, Staffs
20 Dec 1905	UK	1	Richard Powell Cooper	21 Sep 1847	30 Jul 1913	65
30 Jul 1913		2	Richard Ashmole Cooper MP for Walsall 1910‑1922	11 Aug 1874	5 Mar 1946	71
5 Mar 1946		3	William Herbert Cooper	7 Mar 1901	8 Jun 1970	69
8 Jun 1970		4	Francis Ashmole Cooper	9 Aug 1905	17 Jun 1987	81
17 Jun 1987		5	Richard Powell Cooper	13 Apr 1934	5 Mar 2006	71
5 Mar 2006		6	Richard Adrian Cooper	21 Aug 1960
COOPER of Berrydown Court, Hants
19 Oct 1920 to     12 Feb 1922	UK	1	Sir Edward Ernest Cooper Extinct on his death	5 Feb 1848	12 Feb 1922	74
COOPER of Singleton, Sussex
1 Jul 1941 to     18 Dec 1941	UK	1	Francis D'Arcy Cooper Extinct on his death	Nov 1882	18 Dec 1941	59
COOTE of Castle Cuffe, Queen's Co.
2 Apr 1621	I	1	Charles Coote		7 May 1642
7 May 1642		2	Charles Coote, later [1660] 1st Earl of Mountrath	c 1610	18 Dec 1661
18 Dec 1661		3	Charles Coote, 2nd Earl of Mountrath	c 1630	30 Aug 1672
30 Aug 1672		4	Charles Coote, 3rd Earl of Mountrath	c 1635	29 May 1709
29 May 1709		5	Charles Coote, 4th Earl of Mountrath	c 1680	14 Sep 1715	73
14 Sep 1715		6	Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath	4 Jan 1684	27 Mar 1720	36
27 Mar 1720		7	Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath	6 Jun 1689	27 Aug 1744	55
27 Aug 1744		8	Charles Henry Coote, 7th Earl of Mountrath	c 1725	1 Mar 1802
1 Mar 1802		9	Charles Henry Coote MP for Queens County 1821‑1847 and 1852‑1859	2 Jan 1794	8 Oct 1864	70
8 Oct 1864		10	Charles Henry Coote For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	Sep 1815	15 Nov 1895	80
15 Nov 1895		11	Algernon Coote	29 Sep 1817	21 Nov 1899	82
21 Nov 1899		12	Algernon Charles Plumptre Coote Lord Lieutenant Queens County 1900‑1920	14 Dec 1847	22 Oct 1920	72
22 Oct 1920		13	Ralph Algernon Coote	22 Sep 1874	2 Jul 1941	66
2 Jul 1941		14	John Ralph Coote	10 Jan 1905	23 Jan 1978	73
23 Jan 1978		15	Christopher John Coote	22 Sep 1928	29 Nov 2016	88
29 Nov 2016		16	Nicholas Patrick Coote	28 Jul 1953
COOTE of Donnybrooke, Dublin
18 May 1774	I	1	Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont For details of the special remainder included in this creation, see the note at the foot of this page	12 Apr 1738	20 Oct 1800	62
20 Oct 1800		2	Charles Coote	1765	25 May 1857	91
25 May 1857		3	Charles Coote	1798	5 Nov 1861	63
5 Nov 1861 to     1 Feb 1920		4	Charles Algernon Coote Extinct on his death	1847	1 Feb 1920	72
COPE of Hanwell, Oxon
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Anthony Cope MP for Banbury 1571‑1584 and 1586‑1601, and Oxfordshire 1604‑1611 and 1614	19 Mar 1550	23 Jul 1615	65
Jul 1615		2	William Cope MP for Banbury 1604‑1611, 1614, 1621‑1622 and 1625, and Oxfordshire 1624‑1625	c 1577	2 Aug 1637
2 Aug 1637		3	John Cope	28 Aug 1608	25 Oct 1638	50
Oct 1638		4	Anthony Cope MP for Banbury 1660 and Oxfordshire 1661‑1675	16 Nov 1632	11 Jun 1675	42
11 Jun 1675		5	John Cope MP for Oxfordshire 1679‑1681 and 1689‑1690, and Banbury 1699‑1700	19 Nov 1634	11 Jan 1721	86
11 Jan 1721		6	John Cope MP for Plympton Erle 1705‑1708, Tavistock 1708‑1727, Hampshire 1727‑1734 and Lymington 1734‑1741	1 Dec 1673	8 Dec 1749	76
8 Dec 1749		7	Monoux Cope MP for Banbury 1722‑1727 and Newport (IOW) 1741‑1747	c 1696	29 Jun 1763
29 Jun 1763		8	John Mordaunt Cope	c 1731	7 Mar 1779
7 Mar 1779		9	Richard Cope		6 Nov 1806
6 Nov 1806		10	Denzil Cope	18 Jun 1766	30 Dec 1812	46
30 Dec 1812		11	John Cope	22 Jul 1768	18 Nov 1851	83
18 Nov 1851		12	William Henry Cope	27 Feb 1811	7 Jan 1892	80
7 Jan 1892		13	Anthony Cope	9 Mar 1842	3 Nov 1932	90
3 Nov 1932		14	Denzil Cope	18 Sep 1873	3 Jun 1940	66
3 Jun 1940		15	Anthony Mohun Leckonby Cope For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	15 Jul 1927	13 May 1966	38
13 May 1966 to     7 Nov 1972		16	Mordaunt Leckonby Cope Extinct on his death	12 Feb 1878	7 Nov 1972	94
COPE of Brewern, Oxon
1 Mar 1714	GB	1	Jonathan Cope MP for Banbury 1713‑1722	c 1692	28 Mar 1765
28 Mar 1765		2	Charles Cope	c 1743	14 Jun 1781
14 Jun 1781		3	Charles Cope	c 1770	25 Dec 1781
25 Dec 1781 to     30 Dec 1821		4	Jonathan Cope Extinct on his death	c 1758	30 Dec 1821
COPE of Osbaston Hall, Leics
6 Feb 1918	UK	1	Thomas Cope	22 Aug 1840	17 Oct 1924	84
17 Oct 1924 to     23 Aug 1966		2	Thomas George Cope Extinct on his death	10 Feb 1884	23 Aug 1966	82
COPE of St Mellons, Monmouth
28 Jun 1928	UK	1	William Cope He was subsequently created Baron Cope in 1945 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1946	18 Aug 1870	15 Jul 1946	75
COPLEY of Sprotborough, Yorks
17 Jun 1661	E	1	Godfrey Copley	21 Feb 1623	17 Feb 1678	55
17 Feb 1678 to     9 Apr 1709		2	Godfrey Copley MP for Aldborough 1679‑1685 and Thirsk 1695‑1709 Extinct on his death	c 1653	9 Apr 1709
COPLEY of Sprotborough, Yorks
28 Aug 1778	GB	1	Joseph Copley		11 Apr 1781
11 Apr 1781		2	Lionel Copley MP for Tregony 1796‑1802 For information on this baronet's death, see the note at the foot of this page	c 1767	4 Mar 1806
4 Mar 1806		3	Joseph Copley	c 1769	21 May 1838
21 May 1838 to     4 Jan 1883		4	Joseph William Copley Extinct on his death	27 Jul 1804	4 Jan 1883	78
CORBET of Sprowston, Norfolk
4 Jul 1623	E	1	John Corbet MP for Norfolk 1624‑1625 and Yarmouth 1625 and 1626	c 1591	19 Jan 1628
19 Jan 1628		2	John Corbet		by 1649
by 1649 to     1661		3	Thomas Corbet Extinct on his death		1661
CORBET of Stoke, Salop
19 Sep 1627	E	1	John Corbet MP for Shropshire 1640‑1648	20 May 1594	Jul 1662	68
Jul 1662		2	John Corbet	c 1620	24 Feb 1665
Feb 1665		3	John Corbet	c 1645	1695
1695		4	Robert Corbet MP for Shropshire 1705‑1710 and 1715‑1722	c 1670	3 Oct 1740
3 Oct 1740		5	William Corbet MP for Montgomery 1727‑1741 and Ludlow 1741‑1748	1702	15 Sep 1748	46
15 Sep 1748 to     7 May 1750		6	Henry Corbet Extinct on his death		7 May 1750
CORBET of Moreton Corbet, Salop
29 Jan 1642	E	1	Vincent Corbet MP for Shropshire 1640	13 Jun 1617	28 Dec 1656	39
28 Dec 1656		2	Vincent Corbet MP for Shropshire 1679‑1680	c 1642	4 Feb 1681
4 Feb 1681 to     6 Aug 1688		3	Vincent Corbet Extinct on his death	22 May 1670	6 Aug 1688	18
CORBET of Leighton, Montgomery
20 Jun 1642	E	1	Edward Corbett		c 1655
c 1655		2	Richard Corbett MP for Shrewsbury 1677‑1681	2 Sep 1640	1 Aug 1683	42
1 Aug 1683		3	Uvedale Corbett	c 1668	15 Oct 1701
15 Oct 1701 to     25 Sep 1774		4	Richard Corbett MP for Shrewsbury 1723‑1727 and 1734‑1754 On his death the baronetcy probably became extinct	21 May 1696	25 Sep 1774	78
CORBET of Stoke-upon-Tern and of Adderley, Salop
27 Jun 1786 to     31 Mar 1823	GB	1	Corbet Corbet Extinct on his death	6 Feb 1752	31 Mar 1823	71
CORBET of Moreton Corbet, Salop and of Linsdale, Bucks
3 Oct 1808	UK	1	Andrew Corbet	17 Dec 1766	6 Jun 1835	68
6 Jun 1835		2	Andrew Vincent Corbet	15 Jun 1800	13 Sep 1855	55
13 Sep 1855		3	Vincent Rowland Corbet	11 Aug 1821	22 May 1891	69
22 May 1891		4	Walter Orlando Corbet	11 Jul 1856	21 Dec 1910	54
21 Dec 1910		5	Roland James Corbet	19 Aug 1892	15 Apr 1915	22
15 Apr 1915		6	Gerald Vincent Corbet	29 Oct 1868	4 Mar 1955	86
4 Mar 1955 to     20 Mar 1996		7	John Vincent Corbet Extinct on his death	27 Feb 1911	20 Mar 1996	85
CORBETT of Everley, Wilts
15 Aug 1821	UK		See "Astley-Corbett"
CORDELL of Long Melford, Suffolk
22 Jun 1660	E	1	Robert Cordell MP for Sudbury 1662‑1679	c 1616	3 Jan 1680
Jan 1680		2	John Cordell MP for Sudbury 1685‑1687 and Suffolk 1689‑1690	10 Nov 1646	9 Sep 1690	43
Sep 1690 to     8 May 1704		3	John Cordell MP for Sudbury 1701 Extinct on his death	11 Nov 1677	8 May 1704	26
CORNEWALL of London
9 Aug 1764	GB	1	George Amyand MP for Barnstaple 1754‑1766	26 Sep 1720	16 Aug 1766	45
16 Aug 1766		2	George Amyand (Cornewall from 1771) MP for Herefordshire 1774‑1796 and 1802‑1807	8 Nov 1748	26 Sep 1819	70
26 Sep 1819		3	George Cornewall	16 Jan 1774	27 Dec 1835	61
27 Dec 1835		4	Velters Cornewall	20 Feb 1824	14 Oct 1868	44
14 Oct 1868		5	George Henry Cornewall	13 Aug 1833	25 Sep 1908	75
25 Sep 1908		6	Geoffrey Cornewall	7 May 1869	21 Jan 1951	81
21 Jan 1951 to     18 May 1962		7	William Francis Cornewall Extinct on his death	16 Nov 1871	18 May 1962	90
CORNISH of Sharnbrook, Berks
1 Feb 1766 to     30 Oct 1770	GB	1	Samuel Cornish MP for New Shoreham 1765‑1770 Extinct on his death	c 1715	30 Oct 1770
CORNWALL of Holcombe Burnell, Devon
22 Jun 1918	UK	1	Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall MP for Bethnal Green North East 1906‑1922; PC 1921	30 Jun 1863	27 Feb 1953	89
27 Feb 1953 to     29 Aug 1962		2	Reginald Edwin Cornwall Extinct on his death	31 May 1887	29 Aug 1962	75
CORNWALLIS of Brome, Suffolk
4 May 1627	E	1	Frederick Cornwallis He was subsequently created Baron Cornwallis in 1661 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1852	14 Mar 1611	7 Jan 1662	50
CORRIGAN of Cappagh and Innescorig, co. Dublin and Merrion Square, City of Dublin
5 Feb 1866	UK	1	Dominick John Corrigan MP for Dublin 1870‑1874	2 Dec 1802	1 Feb 1880	77
1 Feb 1880 to     23 Oct 1883		2	John Joseph Corrigan Extinct on his death	28 Dec 1859	23 Oct 1883	23
CORRY of Dunraven, co.Antrim
15 Sep 1885	UK	1	James Porter Corry MP for Belfast 1874‑1885 and Armagh Mid 1886‑1891	8 Sep 1826	28 Nov 1891	65
28 Nov 1891		2	William Corry	20 Mar 1859	9 Jun 1926	67
9 Jun 1926		3	James Perowne Ivo Myles Corry	10 Jun 1892	17 Feb 1987	94
17 Feb 1987		4	William James Corry	1 Aug 1924	9 May 2000	75
9 May 2000		5	James Michael Corry	3 Oct 1946
CORY of Llantarnam Abbey, Monmouth
27 Nov 1907 to     3 Feb 1941	UK	1	Clifford John Cory MP for St Ives 1906‑1922 and 1923‑1924 Extinct on his death	10 Apr 1859	3 Feb 1941	81
CORY of Coryton, Glamorgan
13 May 1919	UK	1	(James) Herbert Cory MP for Cardiff 1915‑1918 and Cardiff South 1918‑1923	7 Feb 1857	7 Feb 1933	76
7 Feb 1933		2	Herbert George Donald Cory	31 Dec 1879	7 May 1935	55
7 May 1935		3	Vyvyan Donald Cory	2 Nov 1906	17 Mar 1941	34
17 Mar 1941		4	Clinton James Donald Cory	1 Mar 1909	28 Aug 1991	82
28 Aug 1991		5	(Clinton Charles) Donald Cory	13 Sep 1937	11 Oct 2022	85
11 Oct 2022		5	James Maurice Perkins Cory	10 May 1966
CORY-WRIGHT of Caen Wood Towers, London, and Hornsey, Middlesex
28 Aug 1903	UK	1	Cory Francis Cory-Wright	11 Aug 1838	30 May 1909	70
30 May 1909		2	Arthur Cory Cory-Wright	18 Nov 1869	21 Apr 1951	81
21 Apr 1951		3	Geoffrey Cory-Wright	26 Aug 1892	23 Mar 1969	76
23 Mar 1969		4	Richard Michael Cory-Wright	17 Jan 1944
CORYTON of Newton, Cornwall
27 Feb 1662	E	1	John Coryton MP for Callington 1660‑1661 and 1679, Cornwall 1661‑1679 and Launceston 1679‑1680	29 Jul 1621	23 Aug 1680	59
Aug 1680		2	John Coryton MP for Newport 1679‑1681 and Callington 1685‑1690	21 Jan 1648	30 Jul 1690	42
Jul 1690		3	William Coryton MP for Bossiney 1679, Newport 1679‑1681, Callington 1681, 1685‑1687, 1695‑1701 and 1703‑1712, and Mitchell 1689	24 May 1650	6 Dec 1711	61
6 Dec 1711 to     22 May 1739		4	John Coryton MP for Callington 1713‑1722 and 1727‑1734 Extinct on his death	3 Feb 1690	22 May 1739	49
COSIN-GERARD of Fiskerton, Lincs
17 Nov 1666	E		See "Gerard"
COTTER of Rockforest, co. Cork
11 Aug 1763	I	1	James Cotter MP [I] for Askeaton 1761‑1768	1714	9 Jun 1770	55
9 Jun 1770		2	James Laurence Cotter MP [I] for Taghmon 1771‑1776, Mallow 1783‑1790 and Castlemartyr 1790‑1800	1748	9 Feb 1829	80
9 Feb 1829		3	James Laurence Cotter MP for Mallow 1812‑1818	c 1787	31 Dec 1834
31 Dec 1834		4	James Laurence Cotter For information on his son, Ludlow Cotter, see the note at the foot of this page	4 Apr 1828	10 Oct 1902	74
10 Oct 1902		5	James Laurence Cotter	11 Jul 1887	22 Aug 1924	37
22 Aug 1924		6	Delaval James Alfred Cotter	29 Apr 1911	2 Apr 2001	89
2 Apr 2001		7	Patrick Laurence Delaval Cotter	21 Nov 1941	11 Jan 2023	81
11 Jan 2023		8	Julius Laurence George Cotter	4 Jan 1968
COTTERELL of Garnons, Hereford
2 Nov 1805	UK	1	John Geers Cotterell MP for Herefordshire 1802‑1803 and 1806‑1831	21 Sep 1757	26 Jan 1845	87
26 Jan 1845		2	John Henry Cotterell	20 Aug 1830	17 Feb 1847	16
17 Feb 1847		3	Geers Henry Cotterell MP for Herefordshire 1857‑1859	22 Aug 1834	17 Mar 1900	65
17 Mar 1900		4	John Richard Geers Cotterell Lord Lieutenant Hereford 1904‑1933	13 Jul 1866	13 Nov 1937	71
13 Nov 1937		5	Richard Charles Geers Cotterell Lord Lieutenant Hereford 1945‑1957	1 Jun 1907	5 Dec 1978	71
5 Dec 1978		6	John Henry Geers Cotterell	8 May 1935	4 Dec 2017	82
4 Dec 2017		7	Henry Richard Geers Cotterell	22 Aug 1961
COTTINGTON of Hanworth, Middlesex
16 Feb 1623	E	1	Francis Cottington He was subsequently created Baron Cottington in 1631 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1652	c 1579	19 Jun 1652
COTTON of Connington, Hants
29 Jun 1611	E	1	Robert Cotton MP for Newtown 1601, Huntingdonshire 1604‑1611, Old Sarum 1624‑1625, Thetford 1625 and Castle Rising 1628‑1629	22 Jan 1571	6 May 1631	60
6 May 1631		2	Thomas Cotton MP for Great Marlow 1624‑1625, St. Germans 1628‑1629 and Huntingdonshire 1640	1594	13 May 1662	67
13 May 1662		3	John Cotton MP for Huntingdon 1661‑1679 and Huntingdonshire 1685‑1687	9 Mar 1621	14 Sep 1702	81
14 Sep 1702		4	John Cotton MP for Huntingdon 1705‑1706 and Huntingdonshire 1710‑1713	c 1680	5 Feb 1731
5 Feb 1731		5	Robert Cotton	c 1669	12 Jul 1749
12 Jul 1749 to     27 Mar 1752		6	John Cotton Extinct on his death		27 Mar 1752
COTTON of Landwade, Cambs
14 Jul 1641	E	1	John Cotton	Sep 1615	25 Mar 1689	73
25 Mar 1689		2	John Cotton MP for Cambridge 1689‑1695, 1696‑1702 and 1705‑1708	c 1648	15 Jan 1713
15 Jan 1713		3	John Hynde Cotton MP for Cambridge 1708‑1722 and 1727‑1741, Cambridgeshire 1722‑1727 and Marlborough 1741‑1752	7 Apr 1686	4 Feb 1752	65
4 Feb 1752		4	John Hynde Cotton MP for St. Germans 1741‑1747, Marlborough 1752‑1761 and Cambridgeshire 1764‑1780	c 1717	23 Jan 1795
23 Jan 1795		5	Charles Cotton	c 1758	24 Feb 1812
24 Feb 1812 to     25 Jan 1863		6	St. Vincent Cotton Extinct on his death	6 Oct 1801	25 Jan 1863	61
COTTON of Combermere, Cheshire
29 Mar 1677	E	1	Robert Cotton MP for Cheshire 1679‑1681 and 1689‑1702	c 1635	18 Dec 1712
18 Dec 1712		2	Thomas Cotton	c 1672	12 Jun 1715
12 Jun 1715		3	Robert Salusbury Cotton MP for Cheshire 1727‑1734 and Lostwithiel 1741‑1747; Lord Lieutenant Denbigh 1733‑1748	2 Jan 1695	27 Aug 1748	53
27 Aug 1748		4	Lynch Salusbury Cotton MP for Denbighshire 1749‑1774	c 1705	14 Aug 1775
14 Aug 1775		5	Robert Salusbury Cotton MP for Cheshire 1780‑1796	c 1739	24 Aug 1809
24 Aug 1809		6	Stapleton Cotton He was subsequently created Baron Combermere in 1814 and Viscount Combermere in 1827 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	14 Nov 1773	21 Feb 1865	91
COTTON of Thornton Hall, Bucks
29 Sep 1809	UK		See "Sheppard"
COTTS of Coldharbour Wood, Sussex
15 Jun 1921	UK	1	See "Mitchell Cotts"
COUPER of the Army
23 Jun 1841	UK	1	George Couper	1788	28 Feb 1861	72
28 Feb 1861		2	George Ebenezer Wilson Couper Governor of North-Western Provinces 1877‑1882	29 Apr 1824	5 Mar 1908	83
5 Mar 1908		3	Ramsay George Henry Couper	1 Nov 1855	20 Mar 1949	93
20 Mar 1949		4	Guy Couper	12 Mar 1889	30 Nov 1973	84
30 Nov 1973		5	George Robert Cecil Couper	15 Oct 1898	26 May 1975	76
26 May 1975		6	Robert Nicholas Oliver Couper	9 Oct 1945	9 May 2002	56
9 May 2002		7	James George Couper	27 Oct 1977
COURTAULD of Bocking, Essex
5 Jul 1939 to     18 May 1940	UK	1	William Julien Courtauld Extinct on his death	Jun 1870	18 May 1940	69
COURTEN of Aldington, Worcs
18 May 1622 to     1624	E	1	Peter Courten Extinct on his death	c 1598	1624
COURTENAY of Newcastle, co. Limerick
20 Dec 1621	I	1	George Courtenay	c 1583	5 Mar 1644
5 Mar 1644		2	William Courtenay	1616	4 Feb 1652
4 Feb 1652		3	Francis Courtenay	1617	20 Mar 1660	42
20 Mar 1660 to     c 1700		4	William Courtenay Extinct on his death	c 1659	c 1700
COURTENAY of Powderham Castle, Devon
Feb 1644	E	1	William Courtenay, de jure 5th Earl of Devon MP for Ashburton 1660 and Devon 1679‑1685	7 Sep 1628	1 Aug 1702	73
1 Aug 1702		2	William Courtenay MP for Devon 1701‑1710 and 1712‑1735; Lord Lieutenant Devon 1714‑1716	11 Mar 1676	6 Oct 1735	59
6 Oct 1735		3	William Courtenay He was subsequently created Viscount Courtenay in 1762 with which title the baronetcy then merged. At present the baronetcy remains merged with the Earldom of Devon	11 Feb 1710	16 May 1762	52
COURTHOPE of Whiligh, Sussex
30 Jun 1925	UK	1	George Lloyd Courthope He was subsequently created Baron Courthope in 1945 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1955	12 Jun 1877	2 Sep 1955	78
COVERT of Slaugham, Sussex
2 Jul 1660 to     11 Mar 1679	E	1	John Covert MP for Horsham 1661‑1679 Extinct on his death	6 Jun 1620	11 Mar 1679	58
COWAN
9 Nov 1837 to     22 Oct 1842	UK	1	John Cowan Extinct on his death	1774	22 Oct 1842	68
COWAN of Beeslack, Midlothian
12 May 1894 to     26 Oct 1900	UK	1	John Cowan Extinct on his death	1814	26 Oct 1900	86
COWAN of the Baltic
28 Jan 1921 to     14 Feb 1956	UK	1	Sir Walter Henry Cowan Extinct on his death	11 Jun 1871	14 Feb 1956	84
COWELL-STEPNEY of Llanelly, Carmarthen
22 Sep 1871	UK	1	John Stepney Cowell‑Stepney MP for Carmarthen 1868‑1874	28 Feb 1791	15 May 1877	86
15 May 1877 to     2 Jul 1909		2	Emile Algernon Arthur Keppell Cowell‑Stepney MP for Carmarthen 1876‑1878 and 1886‑1892 Extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	26 Dec 1834	2 Jul 1909	74
COWPER of Ratlingcourt, Kent
4 Mar 1642	E	1	William Cowper	7 Mar 1582	20 Dec 1664	82
20 Dec 1664		2	William Cowper MP for Hertford 1679‑1681 and 1689‑1700	14 Dec 1639	26 Nov 1706	66
26 Nov 1706		3	William Cowper He was subsequently created Baron Cowper in Dec 1706 and Earl Cowper in 1718 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1905	24 Jun 1665	10 Oct 1723	58

	Sir John Conroy, 1st baronet
	Conroy was an Irish army officer who was appointed as private secretary and later Comptroller of the Household of the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria. Perhaps due to Conroy's influence, the relationship between the Duchess's household and King William IV soon soured. The Duchess offended the King by restricting his access to his young niece and by appropriating rooms in Kensington Palace that William had reserved for himself.
	Conroy had high hopes for the Duchess and himself; he foresaw that Victoria might succeed to the throne before she was of age, thus necessitating a regency headed by her mother, the Duchess, with Conroy being, literally, the power behind the throne. But William IV lived long enough to enable Victoria to reach her majority. The Duchess attempted to pressure the young Queen into signing a paper declaring Conroy her personal secretary, but she refused and dismissed Conroy from the Royal Household. She could not, however, dismiss him from the Queen Mother's Household. As a consolation, she granted him a baronetcy, although it is reported that Conroy felt that he deserved an least an earldom. He had previously been knighted in August 1827.
	His relationship with the Duchess of Kent was the subject of much speculation. Queen Victoria was reported to have discovered her mother and Conroy engaged in a situation which led her to believe that the two were more than mistress and servant. There were even rumours that Conroy was Victoria's father, but given that the Duchess and Conroy had never met until after Victoria's conception, these rumours can be dismissed.
	Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th baronet [UK 1886]
	To the best of my knowledge, Sir Francis was the most-married baronet in history. His marital saga began in February 1928 when, aged 20, he married Molly Violet Mappin. They divorced in 1930. In February 1933, he married his second wife, Dorothea Alice Bennett, but they divorced in 1935. His third wife, whom he married in June 1937, was Joan Loraine Case. This marriage ended in divorce in 1942. His fourth marriage, in October 1942, to Barbara Frances Lang, also ended in divorce in 1947, the same year in which he took his fifth wife, Juliet Berry Perkins. Once again this marriage ended in divorce in 1951. Sir Francis did not remain single for long, since he was married for the sixth time, in August 1951. His bride was Jane Audrey Nott, but divorce was also to be the eventual outcome in 1956. Sir Francis's seventh, and final, wife was Bridget Brenda Pollard, whom he married in December 1956. This time, the marriage lasted for over 20 years, only coming to an end when Sir Francis died in September 1978.
	In summary, seven marriages and six divorces. The only children of the numerous marriages were the 5th and present baronet, whose mother was Sir Francis's third wife, and a daughter by his sixth wife.
	On the occasion of his seventh marriage, the Daily Mail's gossip columnist was in attendance and reported [gushed?] in his column published on 4 December 1956:-
	Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, fourth baronet, who has grey hair, a ginger moustache, and a fortune, also has a limitless faith in the future.
	"This one," he told me yesterday, as he sipped his champagne from an antique glass, "is going to last. I have had my final divorce." For yesterday Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook - in the register office of St. Helier on the isle of Jersey - took unto himself his seventh wife, his six other marriages having been dissolved by law.
	Sir Francis, who wore a chalk-stripe suit, a blue and silver tie, and a red carnation, did not falter when he said "I will". After all, he had had plenty of practice.
	And after the ceremony, when their large hired limousine was caught in a traffic jam in one of the narrow streets of St. Helier, the seventh Lady Cook waved gracefully to passers-by.
	The seventh Lady Cook wore a navy-blue two piece costume - and a mink coat. She is 29. Before her marriage she was Mrs. Bridget Pollard. She has been divorced only once. And as I, too, sipped champagne from an antique glass, I said to the seventh Lady Cook: "How do you intend to prevent this marriage going on the rocks?" The seventh Lady Cook looked at me evenly. "To tell you," she said, "would be unfair to all the others."
	On Sir Francis's death, the following obituary appeared in The Times on 15 September 1978:-
	Sir Francis Cook, fourth baronet, who died on September 12 at the age of 70, was the son of Sir Herbert Cook, for many years chairman of Cook and Co. (St.Paul's) Ltd., manufacturers and warehousemen, but perhaps better known, particularly in the world of art, as the owner of the magnificent Cook collection at Doughty House, Richmond, [and] as an organizer and lender to exhibitions of old masters. Sir Herbert Cook, who died in 1939, was not to any great extent himself a collector but what he inherited from his grandfather, Sir Francis Cook, first baronet, was generally agreed to be one of the finest collections of old master paintings in England. Among its treasures were "The Three Marys at the Sepulchre" by Van Eyck, "The Adoration of the Magi" by Fra Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt's portrait of his son Titus and some splendid Spanish works.
	Sir Francis Cook, who has just died, thus had a rich inheritance; he also showed family taste for art and was a generous lender of works from the family collection but over the years many of the several hundred paintings which it comprised were dispersed, the family trust retaining a nucleus. In March 1965 at Christie's the portrait of Titus by Rembrandt was sold for 760,000 guineas to the Norton Simon Foundation. The picture was one of five paintings which together fetched £1,052,000, then a record for a one-day sale in Britain. The other paintings to be sold included a Velasquez, a conversation piece by Hogarth, and an early Turner landscape.
	Sir Francis Cook was born on December 21, 1907, and educated at Bradfield College, and privately. He painted and had exhibited at the Royal Academy, the R.B.A. [Royal Society of British Artists] and the London Portrait Society; and his work is represented at several British art galleries. He was interested in picture restoration and in music.
	He was seven times married and is succeeded by his son, Mr Christopher Cook.
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Cooper created in 1821
	From the London Gazette of 28 July 1821 (issue 17730, page 1555):-
	His Majesty has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to … Astley Paston Cooper, of Gadesbridge, in the county of Hertford, Esq. Surgeon to His Majesty's Person, with remainder, in default of male issue, to his nephew, Astley Paston Cooper, Esq. and his heirs male.
	Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st baronet
	Sir Astley Cooper was one of the leading lights of the medical profession during the first half of the 19th century. The following biography is taken from the Australian monthly magazine Parade in its issue for February 1971:-
	In the 1830s when the elderly and ailing Sir Astley Cooper was sent for by a new patient, he invariably ordered his valet to go on ahead and count the stairs leading to the invalid's bedroom. If Cooper considered the climb too arduous he brusquely demanded that the patient be carried downstairs before agreeing to attend him. Even then the doctor refused to be hurried. Before leaving home he had to be freshly shaved, his hair dressed and his clothing inspected to ensure that it was immaculate. One personal servant attended him in the sick room. Another, if necessary, took over the kitchen and instructed the cook how to prepare the invalid's diet. Kings, prime ministers and dukes down to the humblest individual sought his advice - Cooper made not the slightest distinction between them.
	Few doctors would have dared to treat their patients in such a high-handed manner, but Sir Astley Cooper, baronet and royal physician, was unique. For 30 years in the early 19th century he dominated the British medical profession as the most brilliant, most sought-after and by far the wealthiest physician of his age. The firebrand young doctor who once loudly rejoiced in the French Revolution eventually boasted an income of £20,000 a year - a figure unheard of in his field for a half a century to come. However, Astley Cooper was much more than merely a fashionable physician who often could look down on a queue of coroneted carriages lined up outside his door. His treatment of heart and chest diseases, his lectures on anatomy and his daring operating techniques set standards unsurpassed for generations after his death.
	The son of a parson and scion of an old landowning family, Astley Paston Cooper was born at Brooke Hall near Norwich on August 23, 1768. His destiny was decided on the day when an uncle, a well-known London doctor, took him to witness an operation at Guys Hospital and the boy was fascinated by the spectacle. On his 18th birthday he entered Guys as apprentice to his uncle, but soon transferred to St. Thomas's to study under Henry Cline [1750‑1827], the most famous surgeon of the time. Impressed by Cooper's precocious skill, Cline took him into his own household, allowed him to assist at operations and predicted that "the boy would soon teach the master".
	In 1789, before he was 21, Cooper was demonstrator in anatomy at St. Thomas's. Two years later Cline appointed him joint lecturer with himself in surgery at the hospital. Cline's influence, however, was not confined to medicine, for the surgeon's house was a meeting place for some of the extreme radical politicians, journalists and artists of the day. The circle hailed with jubilation the fall of the Bastille and the outbreak of the French Revolution and young Dr. Cooper became one of their most ardent spokesmen.
	When he married he insisted on demonstrating his republican enthusiasm by carrying his reluctant bride off to France for their honeymoon. The couple arrived in Paris in the late summer of 1792 just as the terror was reaching its height. King Louis and Marie Antoinette were prisoners. Hundreds of aristocrats had been butchered as the mob swept through the gaols and every day the tumbrels rattled over the cobbled roads to the guillotine. Unmoved by these horrors, Cooper attended meetings of the revolutionary Convention, applauded Robespierre's harangues and wrote back to Britain that henceforth, he was the dedicated enemy of kings and tyrants. Disillusion soon followed when he was mistaken for a French aristocrat and threatened with arrest. He fled as hastily as possible back to London.
	When Cooper was appointed surgeon at Guys Hospital a few years later he was only too glad to make a solemn declaration that he had abandoned forever his principles of atheism and republicanism. Thereafter, Cooper kept his political beliefs discreetly to himself and the 'apostles of liberty' who met in Henry Cline's house knew him no more.
	By 1800 Cooper was not only the most renowned surgeon at Guys but his private practice was increasing so fast that his working day extended from before dawn to after midnight. Often he rose at 4 am to deliver his lectures while the shivering, sleepy-eyed students held candles to illuminate the naked corpse laid out for dissection. The 'resurrection men' who plied the grisly trade of digging up freshly buried bodies to sell to the doctors found him one of their most profitable customers. And his rising wealth enabled him to pick and choose among the countless "specimens" surreptitiously carted by night to the door of his dissecting room at Guys.
	Once, giving evidence before a parliamentary enquiry into the traffic of body-snatching, Cooper blandly declared: "There is no dead person, no matter what his station in life might have been, whom I could not obtain if I were disposed to dissect him." The only effect of the law forbidding the trade, said Cooper, was that it enhanced the price and made it difficult for poorer doctors to get all the corpses they needed. The thought that not even the remains of statesmen, nobility and gentry were safe from ending up in a sack destined for Cooper's dissecting table filled the committee with horror. Cooper's revealing frankness was bitterly assailed by the diehards of the College of Surgeons, but it made no difference to the clamour for his services from the public.
	By the time he had reached his 40s the stripling radical had developed into a tall, burly, commanding figure with a ruddy face and an insatiable appetite for work. His dress and manners were described as "splendid as any lord's", but beneath the courtesy was a domineering will-power before which his grandest patients stood in awe. The fees he charged were staggering by the standards of the time, though Cooper always asserted that he carefully regulated them according to what the patient could pay. Once, when he was called to the bedside of a notoriously rich and miserly West Indian planter, he bluntly demanded 1000 guineas before even examining the patient. The invalid wailed that he could not possibly afford such a sum. Then, as Cooper turned on his heel to go, he scribbled his signature on a note for the full amount, rolled it in his night-cap and flung it at the doctor's head.
	Eventually Astley Cooper's earnings were reputed to be at least £20,000 a year, by far the greatest fortune ever reaped by a medical practitioner up to his time. And his private practice was only one part of his work - the part that Cooper himself regarded as the least important of his duties. Long before dawn he was busy at the dissecting table. "I believe I have lost a day if I lay my head on the pillow at night without having cut something up that day," he once declared. The early morning was devoted to poorer patients who began gathering at his door at daybreak and were never turned away, no matter how humble or ragged. Then Cooper hurried to the hospital to operate and lecture until the afternoon before returning for consultations and visits to the rich and fashionable that usually lasted until midnight.
	In 1804 he published at his own expense a monumental volume on the treatment of hernias - losing 1000 guineas in the venture because he insisted on including hundreds of costly illustrative plates. However, the money meant little to him and this and other treatises in succeeding years spread his reputation through every medical centre in Europe. Though many colleagues envied his wealth and sneered at his passion for fine clothes, they were united in admiration for his astonishing surgical skill.
	In Cooper's day there were no anaesthetics or antiseptics. It was taken for granted that probably one-third of the patients would die on the table from shock or from gangrene and blood-poisoning afterwards. One of the secrets of success was speed, and Cooper operated with a boldness and rapidity that no other surgeon in London dared to attempt. His outstanding achievements were in operations on the heart and chest, especially in tying off the aortic artery in cases of aneurism - previously regarded as condemning the sufferer to almost certain death.
	Among Cooper's host of eminent patients was Lord Liverpool, who became Prime Minister in 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. One day late in 1820, shortly after George IV had succeeded to the throne, Liverpool summoned the doctor and asked him if he would undertake an operation on His Majesty. Not being one of the royal surgeons and wary of affronting his colleagues, Cooper hesitated until Liverpool told him that the King insisted on seeking his advice. The problem was a small, infected cyst on top of the royal head. The surgeons were well aware of the danger of operating so close to the brain and were only too glad to step aside in Cooper's favour. The operation was a complete success and King George was spared to enjoy another 10 years of woman-chasing, guzzling and drinking before he joined his ancestors.
	His preserver became Sir Astley Cooper, baronet and royal physician, and the following decade saw him at the pinnacle of his fame and fortune. Moving to a mansion near St. James's Park, he at last gave up his arduous hospital lectures to concentrate on private practice and perfecting his operating techniques. He bought an estate in Hertfordshire intending to spend his spare time in rural seclusion but soon his restless mind turned it also into an extension of his medical work. He began buying cheap, broken-down cattle and horses in London's Smithfield market and experimented in rejuvenating them before trying the methods on his human patients.
	By the 1830s, however, years of over-work and lack of sleep were taking their toll in recurrent heart attacks and bouts of complete exhaustion. When friends urged him to retire he retorted angrily: "A man who is not too old to study is not too old to be a physician." He refused resolutely to give up his enormous practice, only making the concession that he would not climb more than 20 stairs "to see the grandest man in the kingdom". Sir Astley Cooper was still in harness when he died on February 12, 1841. At his own desire he was buried beneath the chapel of Guys Hospital, the institution that had been the scene of many of his historic feats of surgery.
	Sir Charles Henry Coote, 10th baronet [I 1621]
	Sir Charles' temper appears to have gotten the better of him in February 1867, when he appeared in the police courts, as shown in the following report which appeared in the Glasgow Herald of 1 March 1867:-
	Sir Charles Coote, Bart., of Connaught Place, Bayswater, and Ada Eliza Glover, of Norfolk Square, were brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow Street, yesterday, under the following circumstances: - Mr. Richardson, the station-master at the South-Eastern Railway Terminus, Charing Cross, stated that a little before six on the previous evening his attention was called to the female prisoner, who had already been several times put out of the station, and persisted in coming back. She was the worse for liquor. He told her he could not allow her to remain, and asked her where she wanted to go, and if he could do anything for her.
	At first she would give no reply, but at last she said she was waiting for a friend. At this point the male defendant came into the station, and she ran up to him, threw her arms around his neck, and told him that witness had insulted her. The male prisoner asked him what he meant by insulting the lady. Witness replied that he had not done so. The prisoner called him a liar and a scoundrel, and added - "Do you know who I am? I am Sir Charles Coote. Who are you?" Witness said he was the station-master, and if the defendant would come into witness's office he would give him every explanation. He refused to do so, and again accused him of insulting the lady, and swore at him. Witness again denied having insulted the lady, upon which Sir Charles struck him on the chest. Witness then gave him in charge to Inspector Parker.
	Mr. Parker, Inspector of the South-Eastern Railway Police, stated that his attention was first called to the female prisoner, about an hour previously. She was then the worse for liquor, and was disputing with a cabman who had brought her to the station. He was demanding payment of his fare, and also for two windows which she had broken. She gave the cabman a sovereign, which he was unwilling to take, doubting whether it was a good one. Witness told him it was an Australian sovereign, for which they would give him change at the Banking Office. The cabman went for the change, and witness wanted to see him give it to the prisoner, deducting what he was entitled to. She went away, but returned in about 10 minutes. Witness advised her to go away quietly, and offered to call a cab. She then hailed a hansom cab, and proceeded to throw her umbrella into it, missing the first time, but succeeding on a second attempt. She did not get into the cab, but walked up and down the street in a very unbecoming manner, staggering and throwing her dress about. The cabman was driving off when witness stopped him, took the umbrella out of the cab, and deposited it in the cloak room, as she was incapable of taking care of it. She then went away in another cab with a woman dressed as a widow, and in about 10 minutes she returned, when witness called the attention of the station-master to her.
	Mr. Parker then went on to corroborate Mr. Richardson's evidence, and added that as he was removing Sir Charles from the platform the woman struck him several times. He put them both into a cab to remove them to the police station, and she again struck him from within the cab. It appears that the woman who got into the cab with the female defendant was recognised as a thief by the policeman on duty in the Strand, who hinted to her that he should watch her, suspecting that she meant to rob the lady. Upon this she got out of the cab. The lady's purse was afterwards found in the cab by a gentleman, an M.P., who hired it to go down to the House, and who called at the King Street Station and left the purse there. It was subsequently returned to the prisoner.
	Sir Charles Coote admitted the assault, but he said he was provoked to it, believing that the lady had been insulted. He did not think she was intoxicated, though she might have been a little excited. She was a very sober woman. In fact, he had never seen her the worse for liquor during the six years that [they] had lived together in Paris. He had agreed to take her over to Folkestone, and not having a Bradshaw [a book of railway timetables] they could not tell the hour at which the train started. She thought it was four o'clock, and arriving at that time had to wait till six. During the interval, no doubt, she had some refreshment, including some sherry, which perhaps did not agree with her, as she was not accustomed to it, being only in the habit of drinking light French wines. All this would not have happened if they had known the correct time; and he must say it showed the danger of a lady going anywhere alone in London. She might have waited two hours at any station in Paris without the least chance of being insulted.
	There were several other witnesses, but Sir Thomas Henry thought it unnecessary to call them, being satisfied with the evidence of Mr. Richardson and Inspector Parker. It was quite clear that the female prisoner was drunk, and that the station-master had acted with great forbearance towards her. He thought Sir Charles had acted in a rash and hasty manner, and had come to the conclusion that the woman had been insulted without sufficient grounds. At all events, he was not justified in using such offensive language. He must pay £5 for the assault, and £2 for the abusive language; and the female must pay £5 for the assault; or three weeks' imprisonment each. The fines of course were paid.
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Coote created in 1774
	From the London Gazette of 26 April 1774 (issue 11452, page 1):-
	The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain unto Charles Coote, Earl of Bellamont of the Kingdom of Ireland, and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, and in Default of such Issue to Charles Coote, of Donybrook in the County of Dublin. Esq; and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten.
	Sir Anthony Mohun Leckonby Cope, 15th baronet [E 1611]
	From The Guardian of 14 May 1966:-
	Sir Anthony Cope, of Doulting Manor, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, was killed yesterday when he fell from a train at Longsight, Manchester.
	The train, an express from Plymouth, was picking up speed near Slade Lane Junction after leaving Stockport when Sir Anthony's companion saw him falling through a corridor door. The friend was unable to reach him in time.
	Sir Anthony, who was educated at Oxford, succeeded to the title in 1940. He served in the Rifle Brigade, and was married in 1956 to the daughter of a surgeon.
	From The Guardian of 10 June 1966:-
	Sir Anthony Cope, aged 38, of Doulting Manor, Shepton Mallet, committed suicide while his mind was disturbed, a Manchester inquest jury decided yesterday.
	Sir Anthony, a mental patient, was being transferred from a Bath hospital to Manchester when he fell from the train.
	Sir Lionel Copley, 2nd baronet
	Sir Lionel met with a particularly grisly death in March 1806. According to the Caledonian Mercury of 13 March 1806, "The melancholy event which occasioned the death of this gentleman has not been correctly stated. He had ascended a library ladder, from which he fell, and broke his leg in so deplorable a manner, that the bone stuck deeply in the floor. A fever ensued, and terminated in the death of the unfortunate gentleman."
	Sir Ludlow Cotter, son of Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4th baronet
	Ludlow Cotter was the last person who was allowed to enjoy a privilege which had been granted to all baronetcies created before 1827.
	When the Baronetage was first created in 1611, members of the order were granted a number of privileges, one of which was the right of knighthood for the eldest sons of baronets. The wording of the Letters Patent is as follows:-
	And further of Our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, We do hereby declare and express our true intent and meaning to have been, and do hereby promise and grant for Us, our heirs and successors, to and with such Gentlemen as now be, or at any time hereafter shall be Baronets; That so soon as they or any of them shall attain the age of one-and-twenty years. And likewise so soon as the eldest son and apparent heir male of the bodies of them, or any of them, shall during the life of their Father or Grandfather attain to the age of one-and-twenty years; and that the said baronets, or the said eldest sons or apparent heirs males, shall be presented to Us by the Lord Chamberlain of our household, or Vice-Chamberlain for the time being, or in their absence by any other officer attending upon the person of Us, our heirs or successors to be made Knights that they and every of them shall from time to time be made Knights by Us, our heirs and successors accordingly.
	As a result of the above, the Patent (i.e. the document which creates a baronetcy) of every non-Scottish baronet created between 1611 and 1827 included a clause which ratified the privilege that the eldest son of a baronet was entitled to apply to be knighted as soon as he came of age. For a discussion on the situation as regards Scottish baronets, see the note under the baronetcy of Broun of Colstoun.
	This privilege was withdrawn by an Ordinance dated 19 December 1827. After describing the promise made in the original Letters Patent in relation to the right to knighthood, the Ordinance states that " … our heirs and successors Do revoke determine and make void the said promise and grant in the said last mentioned Letters Patent contained with respect to all Letters Patent for the creation of Baronets to be made and granted after these presents. And that the said Letters Patent shall be made hereafter without such clause as hereinbefore mentioned without prejudice nevertheless to any Letters Patents heretofore granted or to the rights and privileges now by Law belonging to any Baronet and his heirs male."
	In other words, the right to knighthood was removed from all future creations of baronetcies, but the right was retained for all existing baronetcies at that time. Even so, the privilege was very rarely claimed between the period 1827 to 1874, but, when it was claimed, the privilege appears to have been allowed as a matter of course.
	Two such knighthoods were granted during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Firstly, on 21 February 1865, George Clendining O'Donnell, son of Sir Richard Annesley O'Donnell, 4th baronet, was knighted by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Sir George succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1878, and died in 1889, when the baronetcy became extinct. The last occasion when such a knighthood was granted occurred on 12 December 1874, when Ludlow Cotter, eldest son of Sir James Laurence Cotter, was knighted at Windsor, shortly after his 21st birthday. He died in the lifetime of his father on 23 November 1882, aged only 29.
	No successful applications have been made since 1874. When, in May 1895, Claude Champion de Crespigny, eldest son of Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 4th baronet, claimed the honour of knighthood soon after reaching the age of 21, his application was rejected. I have no information other than the application was considered to be 'not valid', but it seems to me that there was no reason for the claim not being valid - the baronetcy, having been created in 1805, pre-dated the 1827 revocation of the privilege. Even the authorities at the College of Arms had previously disagreed with the rejection of such applications; as quoted in A History of the Baronetage by Francis Pixley (Duckworth & Co, London 1900), Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms 1820‑1853, said, "I am surprised to hear such a doubt stated by the Law Officers of the Crown, as that the Sovereign has not a right to bind his successors to confer the honour of Knighthood on the Eldest Sons of Baronets; for it was part and parcel of the Constitution at the foundation of the Order, and consequently part of its essence, and therefore inseparable from it."
	Claude Champion de Crespigny, whose application had been rejected, was found dead in the morning of 18 May 1910, a revolver in his hand. He was 36.
	Sir Emile Algernon Arthur Keppell Cowell‑Stepney, 2nd baronet
	Cowell-Stepney was always known by his christian name of Arthur. He was a keen amateur coleopterist, a hobby which indirectly led to his death from heatstroke in Yuma, Arizona, in July 1909, during a journey to study the local beetles.
	The following edited report appeared in the Los Angeles Times on 3 July 1909:-
	Sir Arthur Cowell Stepney, an English baronet with large estates and a scientist of distinction, was found dead today in the train conductors' room of the Southern Pacific station [in Yuma, Arizona]. Among his papers was found a deposit slip for $13,000 in a Los Angeles bank.
	Until a search of the dead man's belongings had been made his identity was a mystery, as he had registered at the hotel as Mr. W.C. Stepney of Seattle. His presence here is a mystery.
	The address of a firm of London solicitors, evidently his representatives, was found amongst his papers and they have been cabled for instructions.
	Stepney had ordered a carriage for a drive, but when it came [he] could not be found about the hotel, and only an extended search revealed his resting place in the station. Life was extinct when a physician, who had been hastily summoned, reached him.
	Gold and notes to the amount of several hundred dollars were found upon the dead man, and receipts and bank books among his effects showed him to be a person of large means. He carried a quantity of baggage and had apparently recently landed from a sea voyage.
	Sir Arthur Cowell Stepney was the only instance of a wealthy English baronet publicly renouncing, and adjuring, so to speak, an inherited honor of this kind, although many other titled Englishmen have dropped the prefixes to their names on coming to America.
	The divorce suit of Stepney's wife, which was heard in London in May, 1903, was one of the strangest ever recorded in the English courts. The charge was desertion.
	The marriage took place in 1875. There were during the first few months certain eccentricities on the part of the respondent to which Lady Cowell did not pay much attention. On the birth of their daughter, in September, 1876, he showed the greatest delight. On October 6, 1876, he left his home and had never since lived with his wife.
	Certain allegations, which Cowell Stepney made at the time against his wife, were investigated, and were found to be baseless. They were the result of mental delusion, for which he was treated by Sir William Gull and Dr. Maudsley, which resulted in his being sent abroad with a doctor in 1877. In 1882 husband and wife met, and he showed then, as at all times, great affection for his daughter.
	In 1890 he fell under the strange delusion that certain pictures of an impure kind were being made of his daughter, and he wrote to Lady Stepney to the effect that such portraiture would be damaging to the future welfare of their child. Lady Stepney said that the charges were the result of a mental delusion, and said she had never allowed anything to which Sir Arthur might object to be brought before the court of chancery with regard to the custody of the child.

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