The Baronet's Badge, Bat or Bt

The Baronet’s Badge Bart or Bt

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A hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

The practice was originated in England during the 14th Century,
and was used by James 1 [1611] to raise funds.

A Baronetcy is the only British honour that is not a Peerage.

Addressed as Sir, the Baronet ranks above all knighthoods except the
Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle and the dormant Order of St Patrick.

Present day Baronets date from 1611 when King James 1 granted
“Letters Patent” to 200 Gentlemen of good birth with an
income of at least 1,000 pounds per year, in return for the
Honour each was required to pay for the upkeep of 30 soldiers
for three years, amounting to 1,095 pounds.

In those days a very large sum.

In 1619 James 1 established the Baronetage of Ireland,
and King Charles, in 1625 created the baronetage of
Scotland and Nova Scotia.

The new Baronets were each required to pay 2000 marks,
or to support six colonial settlers for two years.

Over 100 of these baronetcies, now familiarly known as
Scottish Baronetcies to this day

The Baronetcy descends to the eldest surviving son, born in wedlock
On the death of the current Baronet.

If a period of five years between the death of the existing, listed baronet
and the next claimant occurs the Baronetcy is considered dormant.

The existing baronetcies are listed below.

No Title Creation Other titles
001 Bacon of Redgrave 22 May 1611 now also Bacon baronets of Mildenhall, since 1755
002 Shirley of Staunton 22 May 1611 Earl Ferrers
003 Pelham of Laughton 22 May 1611 Earl of Chichester
004 Hoghton, now de Hoghton of Hoghton Tower 22 May 1611
005 Hobart-Hampden of Intwood 22 May 1611 Earl of Buckinghamshire
006 Gerard of Bryn 22 May 1611 Baron Gerard
007 St John of Lydiard Tregoze 22 May 1611 Viscount Bolingbroke; the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
008 Shelley of Michaelgrove 22 May 1611
009 Musgrave of Hartley Castle 29 June 1611
010 Seymour of Berry Pomeroy 29 June 1611 Duke of Somerset

011 Finch of Eastwell 29 June 1611 Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham
012 Monson of Carleton 29 June 1611 Baron Monson
013 Wodehouse of Wilberhall 29 June 1611 Earl of Kimberley
014 Harington of Ridlington 29 June 1611
015 Brudenell of Deen 29 June 1611 Marquess of Ailesbury
016 Mordaunt of Massingham Parva 29 June 1611
017 Devereux of Castle Bromwich 25 November 1611 Viscount Hereford
018 Dormer of Wing 10 June 1615 Baron Dormer; the baronetcy is shown as "Vacant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
019 Egerton of Oulton 5 April 1617
020 Townshend of Rainham 16 April 1617 Marquess Townshend

021 Lyttelton of Frankley 25 June 1618 Viscount Cobham
022 Hicks, now Hicks Beach of Beverston 21 July 1619 Earl St Aldwyn
023 Berney of Parkhall 5 May 1620
024 Gower of Sittersham 2 June 1620 Duke of Sutherland
025 Philipps of Picton Castle 9 November 1621 Viscount St Davids
026 Wake of Clevedon 5 December 1621
027 Hotham of Scorborough 4 January 1622 Baron Hotham
028 Mansel of Muddlescombe 14 January 1622
029 Grosvenor of Eaton 23 February 1622 Duke of Westminster
030 Gage of Firle Place 26 March 1622 Viscount Gage

031 Cooper of Rockbourne 4 July 1622 Earl of Shaftesbury
032 Hazlerigg of Noseley 21 July 1622 Baron Hazlerigg; the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
033 Skipwith of Prestwould 20 December 1622
034 Sebright of Besford 20 December 1626 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
035 Style of Wateringbury 21 April 1627 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
036 Isham of Lamport 30 May 1627
037 Bagot of Blithfield 31 May 1627 Baron Bagot; the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
037 Stanley of Bickerstaff 26 June 1627 Earl of Derby
038 Bacon of Mildenhall 29 July 1627 now also聽Bacon baronets of Redgrave, since 1755
039 Stonhouse of Radley 7 May 1628 also聽Stonhouse baronets of Radley (1670)
040 Wrey of Trebitch 13 June 1628

041 Trelawny, now Salusbury-Trelawny of Trelawny 1 July 1628
042 Wiseman of Canfield Hall 29 August 1628
043 Nightingale of Newport Pond 1 September 1628
044 Pole of Shute 12 September 1628
045 Wolseley of Wolseley 24 November 1628
046 Grimston of Little Waltham 2 March 1629 Earl of Verulam
047 Graham of Esk 29 March 1629 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
048 Every of Eggington 26 May 1641
049 Cave, now Cave-Browne-Cave of Stanford 30 June 1641
050 Bampfylde of Poltimore 14 July 1641 Baron Poltimore

051 Thynne of Cause Castle 14 July 1641 Marquess of Bath
052 Northcote of Hayne 16 July 1641 Earl of Iddesleigh
053 Strickland, now Strickland-Constable of Boynton 30 July 1641
054 Chichester of Raleigh 4 August 1641
055 Knatchbull of Mersham Hatch 4 August 1641 Earl Mountbatten of Burma
056 Trollope of Casewick 5 February 1642
057 Haggerston, now Constable Maxwell-Scott of Haggerston 15 August 1642
058 Thorold of Marston 24 August 1642 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
059 Wrottesley of Wrottesley 30 August 1642 Baron Wrottesley
060 Liddell of Ravensworth Castle 2 November 1642 Baron Ravensworth; the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*

061 Waldegrave of Hever Castle 1 August 1643 Earl Waldegrave
062 Acton of Aldenham 17 January 1644 Baron Acton; the baronetcy is shown as "Vacant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
063 Courtenay February 1644 Earl of Devon
064 Acland of Columb John 21 January 1678 precedence of 24 June 1644; the baronetcy is shown as "Vacant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
065 Vyvyan of Trelowarren 12 February 1645 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
066 Boreel of Amsterdam 21 March 1645 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
067 Bridgeman of Great Lever 3 December 1660 Earl of Bradford
068 Palmer of Carlton 7 June 1660
069 Langham of Cottesbrooke 7 June 1660
070 Finch of Raunston 7 June 1660 Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham

071 Robinson of London 22 June 1660
072 Astley of Hill Morton 25 June 1660 Baron Hastings; the baronetcy is shown as "Vacant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
073 Bowyer of Denham Court 22 June 1660 Baron Denham
074 Stanley of Alderley 25 June 1660 Baron Stanley of Alderley
075 Shuckburgh of Shuckburgh 25 June 1660
076 Stuart of Hartley Mauduit 27 June 1660 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
077 St John of Woodford 28 June 1660 Baron St John of Bletso
078 Clerke of Hitcham 29 December 1660
079 Boothby of Broadlow Ashe 13 July 1660
080 Honywood of Evington 19 July 1660

081 Smithson, now Percy of Stanwick 1660 Duke of Northumberland
082 Wheler of the City of Westminster 11 August 1660
083 Rous of Henham 17 August 1660 Earl of Stradbroke
084 Onslow of West Clandon 1674 Earl of Onslow
085 Fagge of Wiston 11 December 1660 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
086 Frankland of Thirkelby 24 December 1660 Baron Zouche
087 Legard of Ganton 29 December 1660
088 Bedingfeld, now Paston-Bedingfeld of Oxburgh 2 January 1661
089 Reade of Barton 4 March 1661 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
090 Broughton of Broughton 10 March 1661 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*

091 Cayley of Brompton 26 April 1661
092 Cooke of Wheatley 10 May 1661
093 Ashburnham of Bromham 15 May 1661
094 Jenkinson of Walcot and Hawkesbury 18 May 1661
096 Williams-Bulkeley of Penrhyn 17 June 1661
097 Carew of Haccombe 2 August 1661
098 Bowyer-Smyth of Hill Hall 28 November 1661
099 Trevelyan of Nettlecombe 24 January 1662 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
100 Osborn of Chicksands 11 February 1662

101 Graham of Norton Conyers 17 November 1662
102 Tancred, now Lawson-Tancred of Boroughbridge 17 November 1662
103 D'Oyly of Shottisham 29 July 1663
104 Marsham of Cuckston 16 August 1663 Earl of Romney
105 Biddulph of Westcombe 2 November 1664
106 Shaw, now Best-Shaw of Eltham 15 March 1665
107 Jocelyn of Hyde Hall 8 June 1665 Earl of Roden
108 Burdett of Burthwaite 25 July 1665
109 Hanham of Wimborne 24 May 1667
110 Mostyn of Talacre 28 April 1670

111 Stonhouse of Radley 5 May 1670 also聽Stonehouse baronets of Radley (1628)
112 Croft of Croft Castle 18 November 1671
113 Eden of West Auckland 13 November 1672 Baron Eden of Winton聽(Life Peerage聽of the incumbent)
also聽Baronet Eden of Maryland
114 Blackett of Newcastle 12 December 1673
115 Hoskyns of Harewood 18 December 1676
116 Hart Dyke of Horeham 3 March 1677
117 Cotton of Combermere 29 March 1677 Viscount Combermere
118 Willoughby of Wollaton 7 April 1677 Baron Middleton
119 Cust of Stamford 29 September 1677 Baron Brownlow
120 Dyer of Tottenham 6 July 1678

121 Bowyer, now Goring of Highden 18 May 1678
122 Parkyns of Bunney Park 18 May 1681 the baronetcy is shown as "Dormant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
123 Bunbury of Stanney Hall 29 June 1681
124 Parker, now Hyde-Parker of Melford Hall 1 July 1681
125 Dashwood of Kirtlington 16 September 1684
126 Blois of Grundisburgh 15 April 1686
127 Williams-Wynn of Gray's Inn 6 July 1688
128 Molesworth, now Molesworth-St Aubyn of Pencarrow 19 July 1689
129 Ramsden of Byrom 30 November 1689
130 Leighton of Wattlesborough 2 March 1693

131 Colt of St James's-in-the-Fields 2 March 1694
132 Thomas of Wenvoe 24 December 1694
133 Buckworth, now Buckworth-Herne-Soame of Sheen 1 April 1697 the baronetcy is shown as "Vacant" on the Official Roll of the Baronetage*
134 Chetwode of Oakley 6 April 1700 Baron Chetwode
135 Irby of Boston 13 April 1704 Baron Boston
136 Fleming of Rydal Hall 4 October 1705
137 Miller of Chichester 29 October 1705

• as of 17 July 2016 [heirs are known to exist]

As this happened before NZ was found and populated by the British the chances of a
NZ Baronet is remote

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