For his efforts Robert John Buxton received a baronetcy in November 1800. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The baronetcy was a recent one, and not unconnected with trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
Later he administered the affairs of the Duke of Kent, whose trustee he was, and his baronetcy was the first bestowed by Queen Victoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference
"As good as got the baronetcy," says he still thinking. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
Sir David Graaff was awarded the baronetcy for services to. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A baronetcy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
He will probably succeed to a baronetcy -- though this is not. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
The 51-year-old inherited the baronetcy from his late father. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
England to lay claim to the baronetcy and estates of Tichborne. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
He was heir to a baronetcy and to the estates that went with it. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
William succeeded, though -- his way, and was rewarded with a baronetcy. From Wordnik.com. [Amid Strife, Endless Love] Reference
And she, fortunately, married a baronet, and there was a Burke's baronetcy. From Wordnik.com. [Maverick's Progress: An Autobiography] Reference
The property would then go to collaterals, and the baronetcy must become extinct. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
The attainment of the baronetcy appears to have stimulated him to still greater exertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
SIR FIGARO LAURIE was condoling with Hobler on the loss of the baronetcy by the late Lord Mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841] Reference
I am desirous to be informed of the date and particulars of the above baronetcy having been created. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850] Reference
Delmé was barely fifteen when he was called to the baronetcy and to the possession of the Delmé estates. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
He was a Tory and a staunch follower of the younger Pitt, who rewarded his services with a baronetcy in 1800. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Edinburgh, whom George IV. honored with a baronetcy, -- a splendid recompense for his great literary industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Twice, in 1885 and 1894, the artist refused, for private reasons, the baronetcy that other artists had accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Watts (1817-1904)] Reference
"I had not realized that there was such a blemish on the Hayes's baronetcy," Sir Edwin said, clearly distressed. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
When she died a nobleman took him up; and his father, having unexpectedly succeeded to the baronetcy and estates of. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Fieldsend's old father had lately died, and the Major himself had succeeded to the baronetcy and had left the army. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
He refused a baronetcy, but at length in 1883 accepted a peerage and became Lord Tennyson, the first baron of his name. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
She had other ideas, -- ideas of ease, respectability, baronetcy; and her disappointment was greater than she could bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
It was a sadness with him that he had neither son nor any male relative: he was resigned to the baronetcy dying with him. From Wordnik.com. [To The Hilt]
Sir Mark, who inherited his late father's hereditary baronetcy in 2003, left Harrow public school in 1971 with just three. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Only British citizens awarded a knighthood or baronetcy could be addressed as "Sir", and their wives take the title "Lady". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He was for many years a director of the East India Company, and chairman in 1792-1793, receiving a baronetcy for his services. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
He left a son, Robert, who succeeded to the baronetcy, and five daughters, the youngest of whom became the celebrated Baroness. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He died, and I succeeded to the baronetcy and estates; but I was already tired of life -- wretched in the midst of my splendour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
He himself had the short-cut shape that went with the businessman personality: with the baronetcy and membership of the Jockey Club. From Wordnik.com. [To The Hilt]
Fowler's knighthood was upgraded to a baronetcy, and both Baker and head contractor William Arrol received knighthoods of their own. From Wordnik.com. [March 4, 1890: Bridge Tech Takes a Great Leap Forth] Reference
Stultz, is defunct too, after achieving for himself a baronetcy as the prize of his peerless scissors, and founding a hospital here in. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Peabody some public mark of her sense of his munificence; and she would gladly have conferred upon him either a baronetcy or the Grand. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
The offer of a baronetcy or the G.C.B. from Mr. Disraeli in 1874 pleased him for the moment, but he resolutely refused external honours. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
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