Baronet Passage is a strait or channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, between Harbledown (N) and West Cracroft Islands (S)....
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Island to the south and southeast, across Baronet Passage, and Turnour Island to the northwest, across Beware Passage. Aglakumna Indian Reserve No. 4A, aka...
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instrumental in the passage of the 1832 Reform Act. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1851. The third Baronet was a railway entrepreneur...
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Felix Booth (redirect from Sir Felix Booth, 1st Baronet)
Sir Felix Booth, 1st Baronet, FRS (16 July 1780 Clerkenwell – 24 January 1850 Brighton, Sussex) was a wealthy British gin distiller, and promoter of Arctic...
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Samuel Cunard (redirect from Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet Cunard)
Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded...
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Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1st Baronet (c. 1568 – c. 1650) was an English soldier, MP and Cavalier during the English Civil War and a grandson of Sir Edward...
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John Everett Millais (redirect from Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet)
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA (UK: /ˈmɪleɪ/ MIL-ay, US: /mɪˈleɪ/ mil-AY; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator...
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Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes (/ˈrænʌlf ˈfaɪnz/) and sometimes as...
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navigable thoroughfare prior to the passage of the River Lark Act 1698. He was the son of Sir Edward Gage, 1st Baronet of Hengrave and his wife Mary Hervey...
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Stephen de Vere (redirect from Sir Stephen Edward De Vere, 4th Baronet)
Sir Stephen Edward De Vere, 4th Baronet (26 July 1812 – 10 November 1904) was an Anglo-Irish, Whig Party, Member of Parliament for County Limerick, who...
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Joseph Flavelle (redirect from Sir Joseph Flavelle, 1st Baronet)
Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet (February 15, 1858 – March 7, 1939) was a Canadian businessman. Joseph Wesley Flavelle was born on February 15...
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co-heirs, so some such titles are in such a state of abeyance between these. Baronets, while holders of hereditary titles, as such are not peers and not entitled...
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Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet PC (4 September 1843 – 26 January 1911) was an English Liberal and Radical politician. A republican in the early...
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Sacheverell Sitwell (redirect from Sacheverell, 6th Baronet Sitwell)
Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (/sæˈʃɛvərəl/; 15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, particularly on baroque architecture...
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Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet (9 January 1762 – 13 February 1818) was an English physician to the British Royal Family and was the obstetrician to Princess...
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on the south shore of Harbledown Island, near the west entrance to Baronet Passage, 4.10 ha. 50°33′00″N 126°39′00″W / 50.55000°N 126.65000°W / 50.55000;...
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Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, FRSE (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, planter and Tory politician best known for being the...
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Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet, PC (Ire) (10 July 1822 – 13 April 1885) was an Irish lawyer, and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1865–1870...
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS (/stoʊks/; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo...
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Andries Stockenström (redirect from Sir Andries Stockenstrom, 1st Baronet)
Sir Andries Stockenström, 1st Baronet, (6 July 1792 in Cape Town – 16 March 1864 in London) was lieutenant governor of the Eastern Province of the Cape...
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Vyvyan family (section Baronets of Trelowarren)
/ˈvɪviən/ are a prominent Cornish family who were members of Parliament, baronets, and landowners in Penwith and Kerrier since the 15th century. The Vyvyan...
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Marquess of Ely (redirect from Tottenham baronets)
the House of Lords until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999. Lord Ely also succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1786. Lord Ely was succeeded...
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Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet Stanhope, FRSE (1721 – 2 April 1803) was a Scottish advocate, judge, country landowner, agriculturalist and politician...
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Isaac Goldsmid (redirect from Isaac Lyon, 1st Baronet Goldsmid)
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (13 January 1778 – 27 April 1859) was a financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the...
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Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (25 April 1628 – 27 January 1699) was an English diplomat, politician and writer. An important diplomat, he was recalled...
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generally untitled members of the upper classes, however, exceptions include baronets, knights, dames, Scottish feudal barons and lairds. The history of the...
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Fowell Buxton (redirect from Thomas Fowell, 1st Baronet Buxton)
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786 – 19 February 1845), was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist...
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Thomas Lipton (redirect from Thomas Johnstone, Baronet Lipton)
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet KCVO (10 May 1848 – 2 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company...
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William Gull (redirect from William Withey, 1st Baronet Gull)
Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet (31 December 1816 – 29 January 1890) was an English physician. Of modest family origins, he established a lucrative...
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Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS, FSA (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant best known...
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