• Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of Manderston, Berwickshire (25 March 1809 – 10 October 1887) was a British Vice-Consul at Saint Petersburg in 1842–54...
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  • 1795 as Lord Glenlee William Henry Miller (book collector) (1789–1848), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet (1809–1887), British...
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    1994). Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet (1717–1789) Sir William Miller, 2nd Baronet (1755–1846) Thomas Miller (died 1827) Sir William Miller, 3rd Baronet (1815–1861)...
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    following a successful Heritage Lottery Funding bid. Sir James Miller's father, Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet (1809–1887), had, with his father James, made...
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  • Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet of Chichester (c. 1635–1705), of North Street, Chichester, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the...
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  • first Baronet and the father of the third Baronet, sat as Member of Parliament for Darwen from 1943 to 1951. Sir George William Prescott, 1st Baronet (1748–1801)...
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    from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of London, the founder of the family banking business, Hoare's Bank. His parents were Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet (1735–1787)...
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    Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet, GCB (9 February 1748 – 31 August 1817) was an English officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Seven...
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  • Sir John Riggs-Miller, 1st Baronet (c. 1744 – 28 May 1798) was an Anglo-Irish politician who championed reform of the customary system of weights and measures...
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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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    famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell. John Clerk was son of Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Henderson of Elvington...
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  • The Reverend Sir William Lionel Darell, 4th Baronet JP (5 February 1817 – 1 June 1883), was an English clergyman who served as rector of Fretherne. Darell...
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    Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways...
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    world's "first practical steamboat". Dundas was the only son of Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet, the "Nabob of the North" and Margaret Bruce (1716-1802). Following...
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    horses in training, Miller won 161 races, worth £114,005. Miller was the eldest surviving son of Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, by Mary Anne, daughter...
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    Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very...
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  • Sir John Macnamara Hayes, 1st Baronet (c. 1750 – 19 July 1809) was a military physician who served as physician-extraordinary to the George, Prince of...
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  • Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet (25 September 1742 – 30 October 1803) was an English politician and East India Company official. Darell was born on 25 September...
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  • Sir Alexander MacRobert, 1st Baronet (21 May 1854 – 22 June 1922) was a self-made millionaire from Aberdeen, Scotland. He came from a working-class background...
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    century. Sir John Macartney, 1st Baronet (died 1812) Sir William Isaac Macartney, 2nd Baronet (1780–1867) Sir John Macartney, 3rd Baronet (1832–1911) Sir William...
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    Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (28 April 1805 – 31 January 1876) was an English industrialist, railway entrepreneur and Liberal politician who sat in...
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  • Sir Alexander Craufurd, 1st Baronet (c. 1729 – 15 December 1797), of Kilbirney, was a Scottish baronet. Craufurd was born in c. 1729 at Kilwinning, Scotland...
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    Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet FRS (1712 – 19 January 1759) of Wickham Hall near Maldon, Essex, and Overstone, Northamptonshire was an English politician...
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    Sir James Cotter, 1st Baronet of Rockforest (1714 – 9 June 1770) was an Irish politician and baronet. Cotter was born into the Norse-Gaelic Cotter family...
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    Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet (22 October 1712 – 21 September 1781) was a Scottish merchant and politician. He was the son of Thomas Dundas and Bethia...
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    Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth, from which Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet (1768–1834) claimed descent. Sir Michael, like so many of his name, was an...
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    Commodore Sir William James, 1st Baronet (5 September 1721 – 16 December 1783) was a Welsh naval officer and politician who sat in the British House of...
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    Sir William Watson Rutherford, 1st Baronet (1853 – 3 December 1927) was a Conservative party politician in the United Kingdom who was Member of Parliament...
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    for England. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Roy, Ian (2004). "Grenville, Sir Richard, baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University...
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  • Great Seal Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever, and Judith Kynaston, and older brother of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley...
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