BARONETAGE | |||||||
Last updated 29/03/2018 (8 May 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. | |||||||
FAGGE of Wiston, Sussex | |||||||
11 Dec 1660 | E | 1 | John Fagg MP for Rye 1645‑1653, Sussex 1654‑1659 and 1681, and Steyning 1660‑1701 |
4 Oct 1627 | 18 Jan 1701 | 73 | |
18 Jan 1701 | 2 | Robert Fagg MP for New Shoreham 1679‑1681 and Steyning 1690‑1695 and 1701‑1702 |
c 1649 | 22 Aug 1715 | |||
22 Aug 1715 | 3 | Robert Fagg MP for Steyning 1708‑1710 |
9 Aug 1673 | 22 Jun 1736 | 62 | ||
22 Jun 1736 | 4 | Robert Fagg MP for Steyning 1734‑1740 |
20 Sep 1704 | 14 Sep 1740 | 35 | ||
14 Sep 1740 | 5 | William Fagg | c 1726 | 14 Nov 1791 | |||
14 Nov 1791 | 6 | John Fagg | c 1760 | 23 Sep 1822 | |||
23 Sep 1822 | 7 | John Fagg | 8 Sep 1798 | 16 Apr 1873 | 74 | ||
16 Apr 1873 | 8 | John William Charles Fagge | 10 Oct 1830 | 13 Apr 1909 | 78 | ||
13 Apr 1909 | 9 | John Charles Fagge | 6 Apr 1866 | 17 Jan 1930 | 63 | ||
17 Jan 1930 | 10 | John Harry Lee Fagge For further information on this baronet, see the noteat the foot of this page |
25 Sep 1868 | 18 Mar 1940 | 71 | ||
18 Mar 1940 | 11 | John William Frederick Fagge For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
28 Sep 1910 | 5 Oct 2000 | 90 | ||
5 Oct 2000 | 12 | John Christopher Fagge | 30 Apr 1942 | ||||
FAIRBAIRN of Ardwick, Lancs | |||||||
2 Nov 1869 | UK | 1 | William Fairbairn For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
19 Feb 1789 | 18 Aug 1874 | 85 | |
18 Aug 1874 | 2 | Thomas Fairbairn | 18 Jan 1823 | 12 Aug 1891 | 68 | ||
12 Aug 1891 | 3 | Arthur Henderson Fairbairn For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
11 Apr 1852 | 2 Jun 1915 | 63 | ||
2 Jun 1915 | 4 | Thomas Gordon Fairbairn | 26 May 1854 | 19 Dec 1931 | 77 | ||
19 Dec 1931 | 5 | William Albert Fairbairn | 6 Apr 1902 | 18 Dec 1972 | 70 | ||
18 Dec 1972 | 6 | James Brooke Fairbairn | 10 Dec 1930 | 28 Apr 2017 | 86 | ||
28 Apr 2017 | 7 | Robert William Fairbairn | 10 Apr 1965 | ||||
FAIRFAX of Holmes, Roxburgh | |||||||
14 Mar 1836 | UK | See "Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy" | |||||
FAIRLIE-CUNINGHAME of Robertland, Ayr | |||||||
25 Nov 1630 | NS | 1 | David Cuninghame | c 1665 | |||
c 1665 | 2 | David Cuninghame | c 1671 | ||||
c 1671 | 3 | Alexander Cuninghame | c 1690 | ||||
c 1690 to c 1708 |
4 | David Cuninghame On his death the baronetcy became dormant |
c 1708 | ||||
3 Aug 1778 | 5 | William Cuninghame | 25 Oct 1781 | ||||
25 Oct 1781 | 6 | William Cuninghame-Fairlie | 15 Oct 1811 | ||||
15 Oct 1811 | 7 | William Cuninghame-Fairlie MP for Leominster 1818‑1819 and 1820‑1826 |
c 1777 | 1 Feb 1837 | |||
1 Feb 1837 | 8 | John Cuninghame-Fairlie | 29 Jul 1779 | 28 Feb 1852 | 72 | ||
28 Feb 1852 | 9 | Charles Cuninghame-Fairlie | 22 Sep 1780 | 1 Jun 1859 | 78 | ||
1 Jun 1859 | 10 | Arthur Percy Cuninghame‑Fairlie | 22 Oct 1815 | 21 Sep 1881 | 65 | ||
21 Sep 1881 | 11 | Charles Arthur Fairlie‑Cuninghame For further information on this baronet's death, see the note at the foot of this page |
2 Jan 1846 | 26 Dec 1897 | 51 | ||
26 Dec 1897 | 12 | Alfred Edward Fairlie-Cuninghame | 20 Apr 1852 | 14 Nov 1901 | 49 | ||
14 Nov 1901 | 13 | William Edward Fairlie-Cuninghame | 2 Feb 1856 | 5 May 1929 | 73 | ||
5 May 1929 | 14 | Hussey Burgh Fairlie-Cuninghame For information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
22 Aug 1890 | 7 Feb 1939 | 48 | ||
7 Feb 1939 | 15 | William Alan Fairlie-Cuninghame | 31 Jan 1893 | 1981 | 88 | ||
1981 | 16 | William Henry Fairlie-Cuninghame | 1 Oct 1930 | 1999 | 68 | ||
1999 | 17 | Robert Henry Fairlie-Cuninghame | 19 Jul 1974 | ||||
FALCONER of Glenfarquhar, Kincardine | |||||||
30 Mar 1670 | NS | 1 | Alexander Falconer | c 1700 | |||
c 1700 | 2 | Alexander Falconer He subsequently succeeded to the Barony of Falconer in 1724 with which title the baronetcy then merged until the baronetcy's extinction in 1727 |
17 Mar 1727 | ||||
FALKINER of Anne Mount, Cork | |||||||
24 Aug 1778 | I | 1 | Riggs Falkiner MP [I] for Clonakilty 1768‑1776 and Castlemartyr 1776‑1783 |
c 1712 | 24 Apr 1797 | ||
24 Apr 1797 | 2 | Samuel Falkiner | c 1745 | 22 Dec 1825 | |||
22 Dec 1825 | 3 | Riggs Falkiner | 1789 | 25 Jan 1850 | 60 | ||
25 Jan 1850 | 4 | Charles Leslie Falkiner | 1790 | 7 Feb 1858 | 67 | ||
7 Feb 1858 | 5 | Samuel Edmund Falkiner | 1791 | 30 Dec 1867 | 76 | ||
30 Dec 1867 | 6 | Samuel Edmund Falkiner | 2 Feb 1843 | 12 May 1893 | 50 | ||
12 May 1893 | 7 | Leslie Edmund Percy Riggs Falkiner | 2 Oct 1866 | 17 Jan 1917 | 50 | ||
17 Jan 1917 | 8 | Terence Edmond Patrick Falkiner | 17 Mar 1903 | 19 Feb 1987 | 83 | ||
19 Feb 1987 | 9 | Edmond Charles Falkiner | 24 Jun 1938 | 20 Sep 1997 | 59 | ||
20 Sep 1997 | 10 | Benjamin Simon Patrick Falkiner | 16 Jan 1962 | ||||
FALKINER of Abbotstown, Dublin | |||||||
21 Dec 1812 to 14 Sep 1824 |
UK | 1 | Frederick John Falkiner MP [I] for Athy 1791‑1798 and Dublin County 1798‑1800; MP for co. Dublin 1801‑1807 and Carlow 1812‑1818 Extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
8 Apr 1768 | 14 Sep 1824 | 56 | |
FALLE of Plaisance, Jersey | |||||||
7 Jul 1916 | UK | 1 | Bertram Godfrey Falle He was subsequently created Baron Portsea in 1934 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1948 |
21 Nov 1859 | 1 Nov 1948 | 88 | |
FALSHAW of Edinburgh | |||||||
6 Sep 1876 to 14 Jun 1889 |
UK | 1 | James Falshaw Extinct on his death |
21 Mar 1810 | 14 Jun 1889 | 79 | |
FANSHAWE of Donamore, Ireland | |||||||
2 Sep 1650 | E | 1 | Richard Fanshawe MP for Cambridge University 1661‑1666 |
12 Jun 1608 | 16 Jun 1666 | 58 | |
16 Jun 1666 to 12 Jul 1694 |
2 | Richard Fanshawe Extinct on his death |
6 Aug 1665 | 12 Jul 1694 | 28 | ||
FARMER of Mount Pleasant, Sussex | |||||||
19 Jan 1780 | GB | 1 | George Farmer | c 1762 | 26 May 1814 | ||
26 May 1814 | 2 | George Richard Farmer | 28 Dec 1788 | 1 Jun 1855 | 66 | ||
1 Jun 1855 | 3 | George Farmer | 3 Jun 1829 | 1 Dec 1883 | 54 | ||
1 Dec 1883 | 4 | George Richard Hugh Farmer | 5 Jun 1873 | 1891 | 18 | ||
1891 to 1913 |
5 | Richard Henry Kenrick Farmer Extinct on his death |
11 Aug 1841 | 1913 | 71 | ||
FARNABY of Keppington, Kent | |||||||
21 Jul 1726 | GB | 1 | Charles Farnaby | 31 May 1674 | 26 Apr 1741 | 66 | |
26 Apr 1741 | 2 | Thomas Farnaby | c 1708 | 24 Mar 1760 | |||
24 Mar 1760 | 3 | Charles Farnaby [Farnaby-Radcliffe from 1784] MP for East Grinstead 1765‑1768, Kent 1769‑1774 and Hythe 1774‑1798 |
c 1740 | 20 Oct 1798 | |||
Oct 1798 | 4 | John Farnaby | 4 Apr 1743 | 19 Aug 1802 | 59 | ||
19 Aug 1802 to 29 Aug 1859 |
5 | Charles Francis Farnaby Extinct on his death |
17 Oct 1787 | 29 Aug 1859 | 71 | ||
FARQUHAR of London | |||||||
1 Mar 1796 | GB | 1 | Walter Farquhar | Oct 1738 | 21 Mar 1819 | 80 | |
21 Mar 1819 | 2 | Thomas Harvie Farquhar | 27 Jun 1775 | 12 Jan 1836 | 60 | ||
12 Jan 1836 | 3 | Walter Rockliffe Farquhar | 4 Jun 1810 | 15 Jul 1900 | 90 | ||
15 Jul 1900 | 4 | Henry Thomas Farquhar | 13 Sep 1838 | 15 Jan 1916 | 77 | ||
15 Jan 1916 | 5 | Walter Randolph Fitzroy Farquhar | 31 May 1878 | 15 Oct 1918 | 40 | ||
15 Oct 1918 | 6 | Peter Walter Farquhar | 8 Oct 1904 | 2 Jun 1986 | 81 | ||
2 Jun 1986 | 7 | Michael Fitzroy Henry Farquhar | 29 Jun 1938 | ||||
FARQUHAR of Mauritius | |||||||
21 Aug 1821 | UK | See "Townsend-Farquhar" | |||||
FARQUHAR of Cavendish Square, London | |||||||
25 Oct 1892 | UK | 1 | Horace Brand Farquhar He was subsequently created Baron Farquhar in 1898 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1923 |
18 May 1844 | 30 Aug 1923 | 79 | |
FARRAR of Chicheley Hall, Bucks | |||||||
2 Feb 1911 to 19 May 1915 |
UK | 1 | Sir George Herbert Farrar Extinct on his death |
17 Jun 1859 | 19 May 1915 | 55 | |
FARRER of Abinger, Surrey | |||||||
22 Oct 1883 | UK | 1 | Thomas Henry Farrer He was subsequently created Baron Farrer in 1893 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1964 |
24 Jun 1819 | 11 Oct 1899 | 80 | |
FARRINGTON of Chichester, Sussex | |||||||
17 Dec 1697 to 7 Aug 1719 |
E | 1 | Richard Farrington MP for Chichester 1681, 1698‑1700, 1708‑1713 and 1715‑1719 Extinct on his death |
c 1644 | 7 Aug 1719 | ||
FARRINGTON of Blackheath | |||||||
2 Dec 1818 | UK | 1 | Anthony Farrington | 6 Feb 1742 | 3 Nov 1823 | 81 | |
3 Nov 1823 | 2 | Charles Henry Farrington | 26 Sep 1794 | 26 Mar 1828 | 33 | ||
26 Mar 1828 | 3 | Henry Maturin Farrington | 31 Mar 1778 | 4 Oct 1834 | 56 | ||
4 Oct 1834 | 4 | Henry Anthony Farrington | 7 May 1811 | 19 Sep 1888 | 77 | ||
19 Sep 1888 | 5 | William Hicks Farrington | 26 Jan 1838 | 5 Jan 1901 | 62 | ||
5 Jan 1901 | 6 | Henry Anthony Farrington | 1 Oct 1871 | 6 Sep 1944 | 72 | ||
6 Sep 1944 | 7 | Henry Francis Colden Farrington | 25 Apr 1914 | 11 Mar 2004 | 89 | ||
11 Mar 2004 | 8 | Henry William Farrington | 27 Mar 1951 | ||||
FAUDEL-PHILLIPS of Grosvenor Gardens, London | |||||||
27 Aug 1897 | UK | 1 | George Faudel Faudel-Phillips | 29 Jul 1840 | 28 Dec 1922 | 82 | |
28 Dec 1922 | 2 | Benjamin Samuel Faudel-Phillips | 21 Jul 1871 | 11 Jan 1927 | 55 | ||
11 Jan 1927 to 12 Mar 1941 |
3 | Lionel Lawson Faudel Faudel‑Phillips Extinct on his death |
11 Apr 1877 | 12 Mar 1941 | 63 | ||
FAYRER of Devonshire Street, St. Marylebone | |||||||
11 Feb 1896 | UK | 1 | Sir Joseph Fayrer | 6 Dec 1824 | 21 May 1907 | 82 | |
21 May 1907 | 2 | Joseph Fayrer | 8 Mar 1859 | 13 Apr 1937 | 78 | ||
13 Apr 1937 | 3 | Joseph Herbert Spens Fayrer | 20 Oct 1899 | 23 Jul 1976 | 76 | ||
23 Jul 1976 to 9 Mar 2017 |
4 | John Lang Macpherson Fayrer Extinct on his death |
18 Oct 1944 | 9 Mar 2017 | 72 | ||
FEILDEN of Feniscowles, Lancs | |||||||
21 Jul 1846 | UK | 1 | William Feilden MP for Blackburn 1832‑1847 |
13 Mar 1772 | 21 May 1850 | 78 | |
21 May 1850 | 2 | William Henry Feilden | 15 Nov 1812 | 12 Jan 1879 | 66 | ||
12 Jan 1879 | 3 | William Leyland Feilden | 5 Nov 1835 | 9 May 1912 | 76 | ||
9 May 1912 | 4 | William Henry Feilden | 8 Mar 1866 | 23 Feb 1946 | 79 | ||
23 Feb 1946 | 5 | William Morton Buller Feilden | 20 May 1893 | 22 Jun 1976 | 83 | ||
22 Jun 1976 | 6 | Henry Wemyss Feilden | 1 Dec 1916 | 12 Dec 2010 | 94 | ||
12 Dec 2010 | 7 | Henry Rudyard Feilden | 26 Sep 1951 | ||||
FELLOWS of Carshalton, Surrey | |||||||
20 Jan 1719 to 26 Jul 1724 |
GB | 1 | John Fellows Extinct on his death |
c 1671 | 26 Jul 1724 | ||
FELTON of Playford, Suffolk | |||||||
20 Jul 1620 | E | 1 | Henry Felton | 18 Sep 1624 | |||
18 Sep 1624 | 2 | Henry Felton MP for Suffolk 1656‑1679 |
27 Jul 1619 | 20 Oct 1690 | 71 | ||
Oct 1690 | 3 | Adam Felton MP for Orford 1695‑1697 |
after 1637 | 9 Feb 1697 | |||
9 Feb 1697 | 4 | Thomas Felton MP for Orford 1690‑1700 and Bury St. Edmunds 1701‑1709 |
12 Oct 1649 | 3 Mar 1709 | 59 | ||
3 Mar 1709 to 18 Nov 1719 |
5 | Compton Felton Extinct on his death |
c 1650 | 18 Nov 1719 | |||
FENTON of Mitchelstown, Cork | |||||||
22 Jul 1661 | I | 1 | Maurice Fenton | c 1622 | 1664 | ||
1664 to Mar 1671 |
2 | William Fenton Extinct on his death |
c 1655 | 18 Mar 1671 | |||
FENWICK of Fenwick, Northumberland | |||||||
9 Jun 1628 | E | 1 | John Fenwick MP for Northumberland 1624‑1625, 1625, 1626, 1628‑1629, 1640 and 1642‑1644, and Cockermouth 1640‑1642 |
c 1573 | c 1658 | ||
c 1658 | 2 | William Fenwick MP for Northumberland 1645‑1648, 1654, 1656 and 1659‑1676 |
c 1617 | by Jul 1676 | |||
by Jul 1676 to 27 Jan 1697 |
3 | John Fenwick MP for Northumberland 1677‑1689 Extinct on his death For information on an apparent assumption of this baronetcy during the mid-19th century, see the note at the foot of this page |
c 1644 | 27 Jan 1697 | |||
FERGUSON of Londonderry | |||||||
7 Oct 1801 | UK | 1 | Andrew Ferguson MP [I] for Londonderry City 1798‑1800 For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page |
7 Oct 1761 | 17 Jul 1808 | 46 | |
17 Jul 1808 to 13 Mar 1860 |
2 | Robert Alexander Ferguson MP for Londonderry 1830‑1860; Lord Lieutenant Londonderry 1840‑1860 Extinct on his death |
26 Dec 1796 | 13 Mar 1860 | 63 | ||
FERGUSON of Springhall, Dumfries | |||||||
18 Jul 1906 | UK | See "Johnson-Ferguson" | |||||
FERGUSON-DAVIE of Creedy, Devon | |||||||
9 Jan 1847 | UK | 1 | Henry Robert Ferguson-Davie MP for Haddington Burghs 1847‑1878 |
1797 | 30 Nov 1885 | 88 | |
30 Nov 1885 | 2 | John Davie Ferguson-Davie MP for Barnstaple 1859‑1865 |
27 Oct 1830 | 16 Jun 1907 | 76 | ||
16 Jun 1907 | 3 | William Augustus Ferguson-Davie | 13 Apr 1833 | 18 Jan 1915 | 81 | ||
18 Jan 1915 | 4 | William John Ferguson-Davie | 17 Jun 1863 | 12 Jul 1947 | 84 | ||
12 Jul 1947 | 5 | Arthur Patrick Ferguson-Davie | 17 Mar 1909 | 23 Jan 1988 | 78 | ||
23 Jan 1988 | 6 | Antony Francis Ferguson-Davie | 23 Mar 1952 | 19 May 1997 | 45 | ||
19 May 1997 | 7 | John Ferguson-Davie | 1 May 1906 | 8 Jan 2000 | 93 | ||
8 Jan 2000 | 8 | Michael Ferguson-Davie | 10 Jan 1944 | ||||
FERGUSSON of Kilkerran, Ayr | |||||||
30 Nov 1703 | NS | 1 | John Fergusson | Feb 1729 | |||
Feb 1729 | 2 | James Fergusson MP for Sutherland 1734‑1736 |
c 1687 | 20 Jan 1759 | |||
20 Jan 1759 | 3 | Adam Fergusson MP for Ayrshire 1774‑1780, 1781‑1784 and 1790‑1796, and Edinburgh 1784‑1790 |
7 May 1733 | 25 Sep 1813 | 80 | ||
25 Sep 1813 | 4 | James Fergusson | 20 Oct 1765 | 10 Apr 1838 | 72 | ||
10 Apr 1838 | 5 | Charles Dalrymple Fergusson | 26 Aug 1800 | 18 Mar 1849 | 48 | ||
18 Mar 1849 | 6 | James Fergusson MP for Ayrshire 1854‑1857 and 1859‑1868, and Manchester North East 1885‑1906; Governor of South Australia 1868‑1873, New Zealand 1873‑1874 and Bombay 1880‑1885; Postmaster General 1891‑1892; PC 1868 |
18 Mar 1832 | 14 Jan 1907 | 74 | ||
14 Jan 1907 | 7 | Charles Fergusson Governor General of New Zealand 1924‑1930; Lord Lieutenant Ayrshire 1937‑1950 |
17 Jan 1865 | 20 Feb 1951 | 86 | ||
20 Feb 1951 | 8 | James Fergusson Lord Lieutenant Ayrshire 1969‑1973 |
18 Sep 1904 | 25 Oct 1973 | 69 | ||
25 Oct 1973 | 9 | Charles Fergusson | 10 May 1931 | 30 Mar 2021 | 89 | ||
30 Mar 2021 | 10 | Adam Fergusson | 29 Dec 1962 | ||||
FERGUSSON of Spitalhaugh, Peebles | |||||||
23 Jan 1866 | UK | See "Colyer-Fergusson" | |||||
FERMOR of Easton Neston, Northants | |||||||
6 Sep 1641 | E | 1 | William Fermor MP for Brackley 1661 |
7 Nov 1621 | 14 May 1661 | 39 | |
14 May 1661 | 2 | William Fermor He was subsequently created Baron Leominster in 1692 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1867 |
3 Aug 1648 | 7 Dec 1711 | 63 | ||
FERMOR of Welches, Sussex | |||||||
4 May 1725 | GB | See "Eversfield" | |||||
FERMOR-HESKETH of Rufford, Lancs | |||||||
5 May 1761 | GB | 1 | Thomas Hesketh For details of the special remainder included in this creation, see the note at the foot of this page |
21 Jan 1727 | 4 Mar 1778 | 51 | |
4 Mar 1778 | 2 | Robert Hesketh (Juxon from 1792) | 23 Apr 1728 | 30 Dec 1796 | 68 | ||
30 Dec 1796 | 3 | Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh | 13 Jan 1777 | 27 Jul 1842 | 65 | ||
27 Jul 1842 | 4 | Thomas Henry Hesketh | 11 Feb 1799 | 10 Feb 1843 | 44 | ||
10 Feb 1843 | 5 | Thomas George Hesketh (Fermor‑Hesketh from 8 Nov 1867) MP for Preston 1862‑1872 |
11 Jan 1825 | 20 Aug 1872 | 47 | ||
20 Aug 1872 | 6 | Thomas Henry Fermor-Hesketh | 9 Jan 1847 | 28 May 1876 | 29 | ||
28 May 1876 | 7 | Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh For information on his younger son, see the note at the foot of this page |
9 May 1849 | 19 Apr 1924 | 74 | ||
19 Apr 1924 | 8 | Thomas Fermor-Hesketh He was subsequently created Baron Hesketh in 1935 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
17 Nov 1881 | 20 Jul 1944 | 62 | ||
FERRERS of Skellingthorpe, Lincs | |||||||
19 Dec 1628 | E | 1 | Henry Ferrers | 1663 | |||
1663 to 1675 |
2 | Henry Ferrers Extinct on his death |
c 1630 | 1675 | |||
FETHERSTON of Blakesware, Herts | |||||||
4 Dec 1660 | E | 1 | Heneage Fetherston | c 1628 | 23 Oct 1711 | ||
23 Oct 1711 to 17 Oct 1746 |
2 | Henry Fetherston Extinct on his death |
c 1654 | 17 Oct 1746 | |||
FETHERSTON of Ardagh, Longford | |||||||
4 Aug 1776 | I | 1 | Ralph Fetherston MP [I] for Longford County 1765‑1768 and St. Johnstown (Longford) 1768‑1780 |
by 1731 | 3 Jun 1780 | ||
3 Jun 1780 | 2 | Thomas Fetherston MP [I] for St. Johnstown (Longford) 1783‑1790 and Longford County 1796‑1800; MP for co. Longford 1801‑1819 |
1759 | 19 Jul 1819 | 60 | ||
19 Jul 1819 | 3 | George Ralph Fetherston MP for co. Longford 1819‑1830 |
4 Jun 1784 | 12 Jul 1853 | 69 | ||
12 Jul 1853 | 4 | Thomas Francis Fetherston | 1800 | 28 Aug 1853 | 53 | ||
28 Aug 1853 | 5 | Thomas John Fetherston | 22 Jul 1824 | 21 Sep 1869 | 45 | ||
21 Sep 1869 to 11 Feb 1923 |
6 | George Ralph Fetherston Extinct on his death |
8 Apr 1852 | 11 Feb 1923 | 70 | ||
FETHERSTONHAUGH of Fetherstonhaugh, Northumberland | |||||||
3 Jan 1747 | GB | 1 | Matthew Fetherstonhaugh MP for Morpeth 1755‑1761 and Portsmouth 1761‑1774 |
c 1714 | 18 Mar 1774 | ||
18 Mar 1774 to 24 Oct 1846 |
2 | Henry Fetherstonhaugh MP for Portsmouth 1782‑1796 Extinct on his death |
22 Dec 1754 | 24 Oct 1846 | 91 | ||
FETTES of Comely Bank, Edinburgh | |||||||
13 Jun 1804 to 27 May 1836 |
UK | 1 | William Fettes Extinct on his death |
25 Jun 1750 | 27 May 1836 | 85 | |
FETTIPLACE of Childrey, Berks | |||||||
30 Mar 1661 | E | 1 | John Fettiplace | 26 Sep 1672 | |||
26 Sep 1672 | 2 | Edmund Pettiplace | c 1654 | 1707 | |||
1707 | 3 | Charles Fettiplace | Dec 1713 | ||||
Dec 1713 | 4 | Lorenzo Fettiplace | c 1662 | 4 Sep 1725 | |||
Sep 1725 to 8 Apr 1743 |
5 | George Fettiplace Extinct on his death |
13 Oct 1668 | 8 Apr 1743 | 74 | ||
FFOLKES of Hillington, Norfolk | |||||||
26 May 1774 | GB | 1 | Martin Browne Folkes MP for Kings Lynn 1790‑1821 |
21 May 1749 | 11 Dec 1821 | 72 | |
11 Dec 1821 | 2 | William John Henry Browne ffolkes MP for Norfolk 1830‑1832 and Norfolk West 1832‑1837 |
30 Aug 1786 | 24 Mar 1860 | 73 | ||
24 Mar 1860 | 3 | William Hovell Browne ffolkes MP for Kings Lynn 1880‑1885 |
21 Nov 1847 | 9 May 1912 | 64 | ||
9 May 1912 | 4 | William Everard Browne ffolkes | 15 Feb 1861 | 15 Dec 1930 | 69 | ||
15 Dec 1930 | 5 | Francis Arthur Stanley ffolkes | 8 Dec 1863 | 18 Oct 1938 | 74 | ||
18 Oct 1938 | 6 | Edward John Patrick Boschetti ffolkes | 16 Jan 1899 | 27 Mar 1960 | 61 | ||
27 Mar 1960 | 7 | Robert Francis Alexander ffolkes | 2 Dec 1943 | ||||
FFRENCH of Clogher, co. Galway | |||||||
17 Aug 1779 | I | 1 | Charles French | Jul 1784 | |||
Jul 1784 | 2 | Thomas ffrench He subsequently succeeded to the Barony of ffrench in 1805 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
c 1765 | 9 Dec 1814 | |||
FIENNES of Banbury, Oxon | |||||||
30 Jun 1916 | UK | See "Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes" | |||||
FILMER of East Sutton, Kent | |||||||
26 Dec 1674 | E | 1 | Robert Filmer | 28 Feb 1622 | 22 Mar 1676 | 54 | |
22 Mar 1676 | 2 | Robert Filmer | 16 Oct 1648 | 14 Apr 1720 | 71 | ||
14 Apr 1720 | 3 | Edward Filmer | 30 May 1683 | 10 Feb 1755 | 71 | ||
10 Feb 1755 | 4 | John Filmer MP for Steyning 1767‑1774 |
30 Sep 1716 | 22 Feb 1797 | 80 | ||
22 Feb 1797 | 5 | Beversham Filmer | 21 Apr 1719 | 31 Dec 1805 | 86 | ||
31 Dec 1805 | 6 | Edmund Filmer | 7 May 1727 | 27 Jun 1810 | 83 | ||
27 Jun 1810 | 7 | John Filmer | 19 Mar 1760 | 15 Jul 1834 | 74 | ||
15 Jul 1834 | 8 | Edmund Filmer MP for Kent West 1838‑1857 |
14 Jun 1809 | 8 Jan 1857 | 47 | ||
8 Jan 1857 | 9 | Edmund Filmer MP for Kent West 1859‑1865 and Kent Mid 1880‑1884 |
11 Jul 1835 | 17 Dec 1886 | 51 | ||
17 Dec 1886 to 27 Jan 1916 |
10 | Robert Marcus Filmer Extinct on his death |
25 Feb 1878 | 27 Jan 1916 | 37 | ||
FINCH of Eastwell, Kent | |||||||
29 Jun 1611 | E | 1 | Moyle Finch MP for Weymouth 1576‑1584, Kent 1593 and Winchilsea 1601 |
c 1550 | 18 Dec 1614 | ||
18 Dec 1614 | 2 | Theophilus Finch MP for Great Yarmouth 1614 |
c 1573 | c 1619 | |||
c 1619 | 3 | Thomas Finch He subsequently succeeded to the Earldom of Winchilsea in 1634 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
13 Jun 1578 | 4 Nov 1639 | 61 | ||
FINCH of Raunston, Bucks | |||||||
7 Jun 1660 | E | 1 | Heneage Finch He was subsequently created Earl of Nottingham in 1681 with which title the baronetcy remains merged |
23 Dec 1621 | 18 Dec 1682 | 60 | |
FINDLAY of Aberlour, Banff | |||||||
25 Jun 1925 | UK | 1 | Sir John Ritchie Findlay Lord Lieutenant Banffshire 1928‑1930 |
13 Jan 1866 | 13 Apr 1930 | 64 | |
13 Apr 1930 | 2 | John Edmund Ritchie Findlay MP for Banffshire 1935‑1945 |
14 Jun 1902 | 6 Sep 1962 | 60 | ||
6 Sep 1962 to 28 Jul 1979 |
3 | Roland Lewis Findlay Extinct on his death |
14 Jul 1903 | 28 Jul 1979 | 76 | ||
FINLAY of Epping, Essex | |||||||
31 Dec 1964 | UK | 1 | Graeme Bell Finlay MP for Epping 1951‑1964 |
29 Oct 1917 | 21 Jan 1987 | 69 | |
21 Jan 1987 | 2 | David Ronald James Bell Finlay | 16 Nov 1963 | 17 Apr 2021 | 57 | ||
17 Apr 2021 | 3 | Tristan James Bell Finlay | 5 Apr 2001 | ||||
FIREBRACE of London | |||||||
28 Jul 1698 | E | 1 | Basil Firebrace MP for Chippenham 1690‑1692 |
1652 | 7 May 1724 | 71 | |
7 May 1724 | 2 | Charles Firebrace | 5 Jun 1680 | 2 Aug 1727 | 47 | ||
2 Aug 1727 to 28 Mar 1759 |
3 | Cordell Firebrace MP for Suffolk 1735‑1759 Extinct on his death |
20 Feb 1712 | 28 Mar 1759 | 47 | ||
FIRTH of The Flush, Yorks | |||||||
20 Jul 1909 | UK | 1 | Thomas Freeman Firth | 23 Aug 1825 | 29 Nov 1909 | 84 | |
29 Nov 1909 to 1 Nov 1936 |
2 | Algernon Freeman Firth Extinct on his death |
15 Sep 1856 | 1 Nov 1936 | 80 | ||
FISH of Lissameon, Cavan | |||||||
12 Feb 1622 | I | 1 | John Fish | 9 Mar 1623 | |||
9 Mar 1623 | 2 | Edward Fish | c 1598 | 28 Jul 1658 | |||
Jul 1658 to c 1670 |
3 | Edward Fish Extinct on his death |
c 1628 | c 1670 | |||
FISHER of Packington, Warwicks | |||||||
7 Dec 1622 | E | 1 | Robert Fisher | 29 Nov 1579 | 29 Mar 1647 | 67 | |
29 Mar 1647 | 2 | Clement Fisher MP for Coventry 1661‑1679 |
9 Mar 1613 | 13 Apr 1683 | 70 | ||
13 Apr 1683 | 3 | Clement Fisher | c 1657 | 9 Apr 1729 | |||
9 Apr 1729 to 1739 |
4 | Robert Fisher Extinct or dormant on his death |
1739 | ||||
FISHER of St. Giles, Middlesex | |||||||
19 Jul 1627 | E | 1 | Thomas Fisher | 22 May 1636 | |||
22 May 1636 | 2 | Thomas Fisher | c 1623 | 9 Sep 1670 | |||
Sep 1670 | 3 | Thomas Fisher | c 1643 | 14 Apr 1671 | |||
Apr 1671 to 7 Oct 1707 |
4 | Richard Fisher Extinct on his death |
22 Jan 1629 | 7 Oct 1707 | 78 | ||
FISON of Greenholme, Yorks | |||||||
27 Jul 1905 | UK | 1 | Frederick William Fison MP for Doncaster 1895‑1906 |
4 Dec 1847 | 20 Dec 1927 | 80 | |
20 Dec 1927 | 2 | Francis Geoffrey Fison | 12 Mar 1873 | 19 Jan 1948 | 74 | ||
19 Jan 1948 | 3 | William Guy Fison | 25 Oct 1890 | 6 Dec 1964 | 74 | ||
6 Dec 1964 | 4 | Richard Guy Fison | 9 Jan 1917 | 1 Oct 2008 | 91 | ||
1 Oct 2008 | 5 | Charles William Fison | 6 Feb 1954 | ||||
FITTON of Gawsworth, Cheshire | |||||||
2 Oct 1617 | E | 1 | Edward Fitton | 3 Dec 1572 | 10 May 1619 | 46 | |
10 May 1619 to c Aug 1643 |
2 | Edward Fitton Extinct on his death |
Aug 1603 | c Aug 1643 | |||
FITZGERALD of Clenlish, Limerick | |||||||
8 Feb 1644 | I | 1 | Edmond Fitzgerald | c 1665 | |||
c 1665 to 1691 |
2 | John Fitzgerald He was attainted and the baronetcy forfeited |
11 Jul 1708 | ||||
FITZGERALD of Lisheen, co. Tipperary | |||||||
5 Aug 1801 | UK | See "Judkin-Fitzgerald" | |||||
FITZGERALD of Newmarket on Fergus, co. Clare | |||||||
5 Jan 1822 | UK | 1 | Augustine Fitzgerald For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page |
3 Dec 1834 | |||
3 Dec 1834 | 2 | William Fitzgerald | 30 May 1847 | ||||
30 May 1847 | 3 | Edward Fitzgerald | 1806 | 13 Mar 1865 | 58 | ||
13 Mar 1865 | 4 | Augustine Fitzgerald | 12 Mar 1809 | 31 Jan 1893 | 83 | ||
31 Jan 1893 to 10 May 1908 |
5 | George Cumming Fitzgerald Extinct on his death |
Aug 1823 | 10 May 1908 | 84 | ||
FITZGERALD of Valencia, co. Kerry | |||||||
8 Jul 1880 | UK | 1 | Peter George Fitzgerald | 15 Sep 1808 | 6 Aug 1880 | 71 | |
6 Aug 1880 | 2 | Maurice Fitzgerald | 5 Feb 1844 | 22 Oct 1916 | 72 | ||
22 Oct 1916 | 3 | John Peter Gerald Maurice Fitzgerald | 14 May 1884 | 19 Feb 1957 | 72 | ||
19 Feb 1957 | 4 | Arthur Henry Brinsley Fitzgerald | 6 Jul 1885 | 30 Nov 1967 | 82 | ||
30 Nov 1967 | 5 | George Peter Maurice Fitzgerald | 27 Feb 1917 | 6 Apr 2001 | 84 | ||
6 Apr 2001 | 6 | Adrian James Andrew Denis Fitzgerald | 24 Jun 1940 | ||||
FITZGERALD of Lisquinlan, co. Cork | |||||||
4 Aug 1896 | UK | See "Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald" | |||||
FITZGERALD of Geraldine Place, Cork | |||||||
10 Oct 1903 | UK | 1 | Edward FitzGerald | 24 Nov 1846 | 22 Jun 1927 | 80 | |
22 Jun 1927 | 2 | John Joseph FitzGerald | 20 Feb 1876 | 1957 | 81 | ||
1957 | 3 | Edward Thomas FitzGerald | 7 Mar 1912 | 13 Aug 1988 | 76 | ||
13 Aug 1988 | 4 | Daniel Patrick FitzGerald | 28 Jun 1916 | 9 Aug 2016 | 100 | ||
9 Aug 2016 | 5 | Andrew Peter FitzGerald | Jul 1950 | ||||
FITZHARRIS of Kilfinin, co. Limerick | |||||||
4 Nov 1622 | I | 1 | Edward Fitzharris | 3 Mar 1640 | |||
3 Mar 1640 | 2 | Edward Fitzharris | c 1690 | ||||
c 1690 to c 1704 |
3 | William Fitzharris Extinct on his death |
c 1645 | c 1704 | |||
FITZHERBERT of Tissington, Derby | |||||||
22 Jan 1784 | GB | 1 | William FitzHerbert | 27 May 1748 | 30 Jul 1791 | 43 | |
30 Jul 1791 | 2 | Anthony Perrin FitzHerbert | 21 Jul 1779 | 2 Apr 1798 | 18 | ||
2 Apr 1798 | 3 | Henry FitzHerbert | 4 Aug 1783 | 1 Jun 1858 | 74 | ||
1 Jun 1858 | 4 | William FitzHerbert | 2 Jun 1808 | 12 Oct 1896 | 88 | ||
12 Oct 1896 | 5 | Richard FitzHerbert | 12 Apr 1846 | 4 Jan 1906 | 59 | ||
4 Jan 1906 | 6 | Hugo Meynell FitzHerbert | 3 Jul 1872 | 12 Sep 1934 | 62 | ||
12 Sep 1934 | 7 | William FitzHerbert | 21 Sep 1874 | 8 Oct 1963 | 89 | ||
8 Oct 1963 | 8 | John Richard Frederick FitzHerbert | 15 Sep 1913 | 21 Mar 1989 | 75 | ||
21 Mar 1989 | 9 | Richard Ranulph FitzHerbert | 2 Nov 1963 | ||||
FITZWYGRAM of Walthamstow, Essex | |||||||
30 Oct 1805 | UK | See "Wigram" | |||||
FLANNERY of Wethersfield Manor, Essex | |||||||
13 Dec 1904 | UK | 1 | Sir James Fortescue-Flannery MP for Shipley 1895‑1906 and Maldon 1910‑1922 |
16 Dec 1851 | 5 Oct 1943 | 91 | |
5 Oct 1943 to 19 Apr 1959 |
2 | Harold Fortescue Flannery Extinct on his death |
13 Dec 1883 | 19 Apr 1959 | 75 | ||
FLAVELLE of Toronto, Canada | |||||||
18 Jul 1917 | UK | 1 | Joseph Wesley Flavelle | 15 Feb 1858 | 7 Mar 1939 | 81 | |
7 Mar 1939 | 2 | Joseph Ellsworth Flavelle | 25 May 1892 | 19 Dec 1977 | 85 | ||
19 Dec 1977 to 27 Feb 1985 |
3 | Joseph David Ellsworth Flavelle Extinct on his death |
9 Nov 1921 | 27 Feb 1985 | 63 | ||
FLEETWOOD of Caldwick, Staffs | |||||||
29 Jun 1611 | E | 1 | Richard Fleetwood | 1649 | |||
1649 | 2 | Thomas Fleetwood | c 1609 | c 1670 | |||
c 1670 | 3 | Richard Fleetwood | c 1628 | c 1700 | |||
c 1700 | 4 | Thomas Fleetwood | Dec 1739 | ||||
Dec 1739 | 5 | John Fleetwood | 1741 | ||||
1741 to Dec 1802 |
6 | Thomas Fleetwood Extinct on his death |
1741 | 10 Dec 1802 | 61 | ||
FLEETWOOD of Rossall Hall, Lancs | |||||||
20 Jul 1838 | UK | See "Hesketh-Fleetwood" | |||||
FLEMING of Farme, Glasgow | |||||||
25 Sep 1661 | NS | 1 | Archibald Fleming | Jan 1662 | |||
Jan 1662 | 2 | William Fleming | 2 Jun 1639 | 6 Feb 1707 | 67 | ||
6 Feb 1707 | 3 | Archibald Fleming | 14 Apr 1714 | ||||
14 Apr 1714 | 4 | Archibald Fleming | Aug 1738 | ||||
Aug 1738 | 5 | Gilbert Fleming | c 1740 | ||||
c 1740 | 6 | William Fleming | 28 Dec 1699 | 25 Nov 1746 | 46 | ||
25 Nov 1746 to 17 Apr 1764 |
7 | Collingwood Fleming On his death the baronetcy became either extinct or dormant |
17 Apr 1764 | ||||
FLEMING of Rydal Hall, Westmorland | |||||||
4 Oct 1705 | E | See "Le Fleming" | |||||
FLEMING of Brompton Park, Middlesex | |||||||
22 Apr 1763 to 5 Nov 1763 |
GB | 1 | John Fleming Extinct on his death |
c 1701 | 5 Nov 1763 | ||
FLETCHER of Hutton le Forest, Cumberland | |||||||
19 Feb 1641 | E | 1 | Henry Fletcher | 24 Sep 1645 | |||
24 Sep 1645 | 2 | George Fletcher MP for Cumberland 1661‑1679, 1681‑1685 and 1689‑1700 |
c 1633 | 23 Jul 1700 | |||
23 Jul 1700 to 19 May 1712 |
3 | Henry Fletcher MP for Cockermouth 1689‑1690 |
Apr 1661 | 19 May 1712 | 51 | ||
FLETCHER of Clea, Cumberland | |||||||
20 May 1782 | GB | See "Aubrey-Fletcher" | |||||
FLETCHER of Betley Court, Staffs | |||||||
24 Aug 1798 | GB | See "Boughey" | |||||
FLETCHER of Carrow, co. Cork | |||||||
14 Dec 1812 | UK | 1 | Richard Fletcher | 1768 | 31 Aug 1813 | ||
31 Aug 1813 to 25 Dec 1876 |
2 | Richard John Fletcher Extinct on his death |
3 Feb 1805 | 25 Dec 1876 | 71 | ||
FLETCHER of Bryony Hill, Surrey | |||||||
17 May 1919 to 20 May 1924 |
UK | 1 | John Samuel Fletcher MP for Hampstead 1905‑1918 Extinct on his death |
3 Nov 1841 | 20 May 1924 | 82 | |
Sir John Harry Lee Fagge, 10th baronet | ||
The following article appeared in the Daily Mail of 28 January 1930:- | ||
Pepperell, Massachusetts - When Mr. John Henry Fagge, the occupier of an unpretentious cottage here, heard last week of his elevation to the British baronetage through the death of his brother, Sir John Charles Fagge, at Dover on January 17 last, his first thought was to inform his daughter. | ||
Miss Lucy Harriet Fagge has, since the death of her mother, lived with her grandmother in Boston. Her father sent for her and explained to her just what the change would mean. She was delighted for his sake, but showed a little alarm as to her future in another land. | ||
"I have only been part of the way through the grammar school," she said. "Aren't daughters of titled men supposed to be very wise?" Miss Fagge, it is stated, worked in a factory for month last autumn in order to bring a little aid to her father. | ||
The new baronet said today that it was an advertisement in a London paper that brought him from England to the United States in 1887, when he was 19 years old. The advertisement described Florida as "The Land of Perpetual Flowers". His father paid the passage and gave him £5 pocket-money, but Florida did not come up to his expectations. After working in a citrus grove for 30s a month he decided to move elsewhere. | ||
"I went to Savannah," said Sir John, "and worked as a clerk in the goods department of the Savannah railway. After a brief stay there I continued my travels until I arrived in Boston, where I worked as a stable boy and groom". Later he became a hotel clerk and settled in Pepperell in 1895. He has paid two visits to England. | ||
From The Daily Mail of 22 October 1930:- | ||
The secret marriage of Sir John Fagge, the odd-job man who returned home from America to Dover in March to claim a baronetcy, to Mrs. Murdoch, a wealthy widow, of Boston, United States on October 15 was revealed yesterday. | ||
While Sir John, who is 61, and has been newspaper boy, cowboy, waiter, and shoelace maker in Pepperell, Massachusetts, came to England in March, on finding himself heir to the family title, he met in the liner Mrs. Murdoch, a Staffordshire woman, daughter of Mr. Goss, who founded the Goss China Works, and widow of a wealthy American manufacturer. The friendship then made resulted in the wedding, and last Saturday Sir John and Lady Fagge sailed for America in the liner Scythia to make their home in Boston. | ||
A nephew of Lady Fagge said yesterday: "The wedding took place in St. Michael's Church, Stafford, and was a complete secret. No relatives were present. Sir John and my aunt each have a grown-up daughter. My aunt was very beautiful in her youth and was known as the Belle of Stoke." | ||
Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 11th baronet | ||
The Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury of 10 July 1940 contains the following article headed "Dream Romance":- | ||
A "dream romance" such as many girls have pondered over came true last month for Miss Ivy Frier, a charming 27-year old domestic servant, of Newington, Kent. She was married very simply in the village church at Sittingbourne to Sir John Fagge, a 29-year old farm labourer who unexpectedly inherited a baronetcy from an uncle in America a few weeks before the wedding took place. | ||
Practically the whole of the village turned out. They saw the bride, better known to all as "Ivy", leave her parents' cottage on the arm of her father, a labourer, and later emerge from the church, on the arm of her bridegroom as Lady Fagge, member of a family whose history fills nearly a whole page in Debrett. | ||
She was attended by two sisters and a cousin of the bridegroom as bridesmaids. Twenty of the Faversham A[uxiliary] F[ire] S[ervice], of which the bridegroom is a voluntary member, formed a guard of honour outside the church. They cheered Sir John and Lady Fagge as they dashed into a hired car, which drove them to a reception at the Women's Institute. | ||
John and Ivy, as friends call them, have courted for four years. Two or three nights a week Sir John cycled 15 miles to see his bride, and neither had any idea when they fixed the date a year ago that they would become titled people. | ||
"Ivy has been in domestic service ever leaving school," the bride's mother told the News of the World. She and her husband have a lovely little house, and she has spent her spare time getting it ready since she left her last situation." | ||
Sir William Fairbairn, 1st baronet [UK 1869] | ||
The following information on the life of Sir William Fairbairn appeared in the Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser of 12 September 1891:- | ||
There is no name more honoured in the realms of industrial science than that of Sir William Fairbairn, the intimate friend of George Stephenson, the famous railway engineer, and the inventor of the iron tubular bridge which spans the Menai Straits, and is justly regarded as one of the great mechanical wonders of modern times. Sir William and his brother, Sir Peter Fairbairn, of Leeds, were each, at the time of death, at the head of large industrial establishments, representing a capital of many thousand pounds, and affording employment to considerable numbers of skilled mechanics; yet when they made their start in life they possessed no advantages which are not enjoyed by an ordinary artisan in Australia. Their parents were in extremely poor circumstances, and when William Fairbairn, at the age of 14, succeeded in obtaining work as a mason's labourer, his scanty earnings proved a welcome addition to the family funds. But the assistance was short-lived. When only a few days at this toilsome employment, William suffered a dire misfortune. By the clumsy management of a companion in carrying a handbarrow, a heavy stone fell on his leg, inflicting a deep wound, and throwing him out of work for nearly three months. During this period the family were brought to the verge of starvation: but at the last moment William's father obtained charge of a small farm belonging to a colliery. He was enabled to secure William employment as a coal-cart driver, in which position he remained for some time, when he was bound apprentice to the colliery engineer, starting with 5s a week as wages. Here he employed his leisure time in the acquisition of useful knowledge, especially arithmetics, mensuration, mathematics, and trigonometry, devoting his spare pence to the purchase of the necessary text books. His attention and abilities attracted the notice of his employers, and at last, as a kind of promotion, he was removed from the workshop to take charge of the colliery steam-engine and pumps. | ||
While thus engaged, William made the acquaintance of George Stephenson, who had the charge of an engine at Willington Ballast Hill, only a mile or two from where young Fairbairn was employed. Stephenson, who had recently married, was somewhat pinched in the means of livelihood, and to enable him to earn a few extra shillings, William frequently took charge of the engine, while George took a turn at heaving ballast out of the colliery vessels. At the close of his apprenticeship William, who was now 22, went to London to obtain employment under [George] Rennie [1791‑1866], who was then engaged in the work of building Waterloo Bridge, but the Millwrights' Trade Society, which assumed the right of determining who should be employed, would not allow work to be given to a non-unionist. William Fairbairn was, in consequence, reduced to severe privations, but his spirit was in nowise daunted. Becoming acquainted with other non-unionists, they formed themselves into an association of "free and independent labourers", and by their assistance he obtained employment at a ropery, where he remained for about two years. William was next found at Dublin, where he was employed for some time in the construction of nail-making machinery, after which he went to Manchester, where he obtained work which enabled him, in the course of two years, to save £20, on the strength of which he married the daughter of a Morpeth farmer. With the responsibilities of married life came the necessity for increased industrial exertion, and in due course William found himself entering into partnership with a mechanic named Lillie as a millwright. The two men had very little money, but plenty of brains, and when they saw their chances they were not slow in utilising them. Undertaking some works in connection with the cotton manufacturing industry, they performed their share of the contracts so satisfactorily that they were entrusted with the works of a new cotton-mill for Mr. Kennedy, partner in the firm of McConnel and Kennedy, then the largest cotton-spinners in the United Kingdom. Their success brought further contracts, and at the end of five years the two young men found themselves possessed of plant and tools valued at over £2000. Large and commodious premises were erected, and contracts for gigantic works were undertaken in England, Scotland, and Switzerland. | ||
"Fairbairn," says Dr. Chambers, "lived at a time when the world was startled with the marvels of steam traction on railways, and he fancied that a similar means of propulsion could be adopted on canals. In this, after several costly experiments, he found himself mistaken, and the drainage of money was so great as to lead to a dissolution of his partnership with Mr. Lillie. Now, he rested entirely on his own energies and resources, but, strong in self-reliance, he had no fear of the result. He turned his attention to a new branch of engineering, that of iron-shipbuilding. For a time he had two establishments, one in London, the other in Manchester, and collectively employed two thousand hands. | ||
"In 1835 he began his famous investigations into the strength of iron, as regards girders, beams, pillars, and so forth, his experiments being of much scientific and mechanical importance, and influencing very largely the work of railway construction, leading to iron bridges being more largely used in place of those of stone or brick. Indeed, it may be said of William Fairbairn that his researches aided largely in the development of the railway system, by indicating the manner in which iron could be most efficiently and economically introduced into the work of construction. About the same time, owing to a strike of boilermakers at Manchester, he invented the method of riveting the plates of boilers by machinery, which at once superseded hand-labour. No longer were people assailed with the din of a hundred hammers riveting together iron plates; the machine of Fairbairn's invention substituted a rapid, noiseless, and comparatively cheap method of construction." | ||
There is no need to continue the history of William Fairbairn. His business steadily increased, as did that of his brother at Leeds, and at last, having become wealthy, famous, and powerful, they both had their merits and services formally recognised by the Queen bestowing upon each the rank of baronet, an honour little dreamt of by them when earning their bread by the sweat of their brows, and having to be content with a few shillings a week. [The statement that both men were created baronets is incorrect - while William was created a baronet, his brother Peter was merely knighted.] | ||
Dr. Chambers, who was personally acquainted with the two Fairbairns says: "From both brothers we learned a variety of details relevant to their respective professional pursuits, and on all occasions were struck with the strong practical common sense and tact which had guided them through life. From the humblest possible circumstances, each in his own way had attained distinction by the exercise of sound judgment and persevering industry connected with the manufacture of machinery. The lesson which their lives afforded was this: That success in life is less generally due to genius than to indomitable diligence along with integrity of character." | ||
Sir Arthur Henderson Fairbairn, 3rd baronet | ||
Sir Arthur, who was known as the "deaf and dumb baronet", did not allow his afflictions to adversely impact upon his life. The following appreciation of his good works appeared in The Washington Post of 29 May 1904:- | ||
At the recent entertainment at the St. Saviour's Social Club, all of whose members are deaf mutes, the central figure was Sir Arthur Fairbairn, the "deaf and dumb baronet", as he is widely known all over England. Possessed of an abundant fortune, a keen and cultivated intelligence, and rare artistic tastes, Sir Arthur would hardly have been deemed a selfish man had he devoted his means to getting all the enjoyment possible out of an existence in which he is doomed to play a silent part. But his own sore affliction has only stimulated him to devote his time and means to ameliorating the lot of those who similarly stricken, and have in addition the burden of poverty to contend with. And that this work has brought him happiness in far greater measure than would have come to him had he simply used his wealth to minister to his own pleasures no one who notes his bright, animated countenance, his sparkling eye, and, above all, his cheery smile, can doubt. In his philanthropic labor he is ably seconded by his sister, Miss Constance Fairbairn, who is also deaf and dumb. | ||
To enumerate all the associations for promoting the welfare of the deaf with which Sir Arthur is connected would require a long catalogue. The various offices he fills in them are no sinecures. They entail a vast amount of correspondence and much travelling. Any invention, idea, or suggestion which promises increased educational facilities or other advantages for those who dwell in silence receives his prompt attention and support, if good for anything. | ||
Although he cannot talk, there are few men in England who "address" more public meetings in various parts of the country, his audiences being, like himself, mutes. With his fingers he can "speak" as rapidly, and, judging by the effect on adepts in sign language, quite as eloquently and persuasively as many who have a wide reputation for oratory. No important meeting of the deaf is deemed complete without a "speech" from the baronet. | ||
His home in Brighton reveals his many sided culture. Beautiful pictures hang on the walls. The library is well stocked with books. Many rare works of art and historic mementoes adorn the various apartments. Travel is one of his passions. He has been all over Europe and has visited the principal cities in the United States. His collections of bric-a-brac are largely the result of these peregrinations. Some of the objects were discovered in the slums of Paris, Christiana [i.e. Oslo] or New York. A lock of the great Napoleon's hair, finely framed, accompanied by three autograph documents attesting its genuineness, was bought by Sir Arthur in a mean, little back street in Paris for 6 louis. It stands near to an exquisite vase, a gift from Emperor William the First, who in his old age humiliated the descendants of the man who wore that hair. This superb vase, with its artful Cupids upholding a female form, was the Kaiser's present to Sir Arthur's father who was chairman of the great Manchester exhibition of 1862. Another large vase was the gift of the third Napoleon, as well as an exquisite tea service, each piece marked with the imperial cipher and crown. | ||
Sir Arthur is now fifty-two years old. He enjoys vigorous health, which may be attributed to the fact that despite the great amount of hard work he does, he finds time to indulge his tastes as a sportsman with the rod and gun. Cycling is another form of recreation of which he is very fond. | ||
Sir Charles Arthur Fairlie-Cuninghame, 11th baronet | ||
Sir Charles committed suicide in December 1897. The following report of the subsequent inquest appeared in the London Daily News of 15 January 1898:- | ||
With reference to the death of Sir Charles Fairlie-Cuninghame which was announced some days ago, it appears that Sir Charles committed suicide at a London hotel. The inquest was held a few days later at St. Martin's Town Hall, by Mr. Troutbeck, the Westminster enquirer. That gentleman was seen yesterday afternoon by a representative of the London Press Agency who states that the evidence given at the enquiry was to the following effect. | ||
Mr Alfred Edward Fairlie-Cuninghame, of Dawlish, Devonshire, identified the body as that of his brother, who he last saw alive about a year ago. He had no idea where the deceased had been living since then. He was parted from his wife. | ||
Emily Mary Peacock, chambermaid at the Hotel Victoria, stated that the deceased baronet had resided at the hotel for a week prior to his death. In the evening of December 26th, at about seven o'clock she heard a noise proceeding from his room. The noise was like the slamming of a door. She heard a second noise shortly after the first and a third noise a few seconds later. Becoming suspicious she went to the door and called out, but receiving no answer she entered the room and found that the inner door was locked. She opened it with her master key, and in the room saw Sir Charles huddled up in a corner. There was a wound in his head. | ||
Mr. Arthur Guest, manager of the hotel, deposed that the deceased baronet had frequently stayed there. Nothing peculiar had been noticed about him. At about 6.30 on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 26th, witness saw him in the smoking-room, and he then seemed to be all right. He was informed of the noises heard in Sir Charles's room, and of his being found in the corner as described. He went into the room himself, and found the deceased with a wound in his head. | ||
Dr. G.E. Haslip, of Northumberland-avenue, said he was called to Hotel Victoria to the deceased. When he arrived Sir Charles was dead. He had a wound in his head, and there was blood about. The deceased was sitting in front of the looking-glass when he shot himself. Death was due to a bullet wound. The bullet had flattened against the opposite side of the skull to which it had entered. To all appearances the wound had been self-inflicted. There appeared to have been two shots fired. One bullet was found in the head, and another had in all probability been fired up the chimney to test the weapon. | ||
A letter, identified by Mr. Alfred Edward Fairlie-Cuninghame [as] being in the deceased's hand‑writing, was produced. It expressed regret to the hotel authorities for any annoyance and inconvenience he was about to cause them, and requested that his relatives and Lady Cuninghame might be communicated with. It also gave directions for the handing over of certain of his personal effects; further, that his body should not be taken to a public mortuary. | ||
The jury returned a verdict of suicide, adding that there was no evidence to show the state of the deceased's mind at the time. | ||
Sir Hussey Burgh Fairlie-Cuninghame, 14th baronet [NS 1630] | ||
Sir Hussey died following a tractor accident in 1939. The following report appeared in the Glen Innes Examiner of 9 February 1939:- | ||
Manilla [in northern New South Wales] and district was shocked yesterday afternoon to hear of the tragic death of Sir Hussey Fairlie-Cuninghame, farmer and grazier of Keepit. Only a few days ago he returned from a visit to Sydney. He was working a tractor hauling pine logs to a sawing plant. Some of these logs were across a gully and Sir Hussey took the tractor up the gully in order to go up the bank at a shallow point. On a stump near where the accident occurred are definite marks of the tractor having struck it. Whether this was the cause of the accident is not known but a few yards farther on the tractor either slid or turned too sharply, lost its balance, and turned over. A man named Gus Wheeler was working about 200 yards away and saw the tractor turn over. He hurried to the scene and without difficulty extracted Sir Hussey from the machine. Deceased had been thrown clear except that his foot had been held by a handle on the tractor. He was alive when removed but died shortly afterwards. The whole of his right side was terribly crushed and this was the cause of death. There were slight marks on the head but these were not of a serious nature. It is not sure what caused the crushing injuries, but it is apparent that after this happened deceased was freed from the weight of the machine. Tamworth ambulance and Dr. Raysen were immediately called to the scene of the accident, and the body was conveyed to Manilla morgue. An inquest will be held. | ||
Sir Hussey Burgh Fairlie-Cuninghame was the 14th baronet of Robertland, Ayrshire, and succeeded his father, the late Sir William Fairlie-Cuninghame, Bart of Windemere, Young, New South Wales, in 1929. The family descended from the Hon. William Cuninghame, second son of the first Earl of Glencairn and the baronetcy dates from November 25, 1603. The late Sir Hussey was born at Mansfield, Victoria, and was in his 49th year. He served in the Great War as a gunner and later as a lieutenant in the A.I.F. from 1916 to 1919. | ||
Sir Frederick John Falkiner, 1st baronet | ||
Falconer sat in the Irish House of Commons for Athy between 1791 and 1797 and co. Dublin between 1798 and 1800. After the Union, he represented co. Dublin from 1801 to 1807, and Carlow from 1812‑1818. After he left parliament in 1818, he moved firstly to Paris and then to Naples, where he lived in a state of abject poverty. | ||
A letter published in the Morning Chronicle of 8 October 1824 states:- | ||
Sir Frederick Falconer, an Irish gentleman, who has been resident here for several years, put a period to his existence in a melancholy manner on Tuesday last, the 14th instant. Ever since his arrival here, in 1819, he has been labouring under great pecuniary embarrassments; he had been repeatedly arrested for debts, and as frequently almost immediately liberated by the kindness and generosity of the English residents with whom he was acquainted. A rapid succession of these circumstances, and his own unpardonable imprudence, at length tired even the warmest-hearted and the best intentioned of his friends, who, one by one, had refused to lend him any further assistance. Last week he was on the point of being carried to prison for the trifling sum of fifty-six ducats, and was relieved by a Neapolitan Nobleman, to whom he was already deeply indebted. On Tuesday morning, the Huissiers and the Juge de Paix surprised him in bed, at his lodgings at the Riviera de Chiaja, and presented him with a fresh writ for a debt of six hundred ducats. He requested them to wait while he dressed; they retired into another room accordingly, and after waiting more than a quarter of an hour they re-entered his chamber, and found him in bed with the sheet, stained with blood, drawn over his head; they removed it, and found him dead! His throat was dreadfully mangled; he had repeated the stroke three times; the razor with which he had committed the deed lay beside him. The judicial authorities, at the instance of Mr. Hamilton, our Minister, were put under arrest on account of some irregularities, inconsistent with the treaty with this country, which they had committed in the arrest; they were, however, admitted to bail after a day's confinement. The wife of the unfortunate man, Lady Falconer, who is connected with some of the first families of Ireland, has had the most humane attentions paid to her. The body was deposited yesterday evening in a garden, near the Orto Botanico, the only spot in Naples allotted to the burial of Protestants. This melancholy catastrophe has excited a deep interest in the societies of this city, among which Sir Frederick and his Lady had long mixed in an intimate manner. | ||
The apparent assumption of the Fenwick baronetcy in the mid-19th century | ||
During the middle years of the 19th century, the baronetcy of Fenwick appears to have been wrongfully assumed, if any credence can be placed in the following report which appeared in The Belfast News-Letter of 21 February 1861. The report appears to have been reprinted from the Chicago Democrat. The story would make a good plot for a melodrama. | ||
In the year 1837 or 38, Sir John N. Fenwick, of Fenwick Hall, England, a wealthy nobleman, married Clara Seymour, the daughter of a poor clergyman, who lived on the Cumberland Hills, at whose house Sir John had been detained for some weeks by an accident received while upon a hunting excursion. The father of Clara died a short time before her marriage, and she brought to her husband no dower but her beauty and her love. The wedded pair made the tour of the Continent, and soon after their return to England Lady Fenwick presented her lord with a son and heir, who was named John North Fenwick, and who became the heir-presumptive to his father's title and wealth. | ||
Sir John had no other relatives save two sisters, who resided with him, and who, while pretending to approve of the match he had made and to love and esteem his beautiful young wife, were in reality scheming against her and determined upon ruining her. But their machinations produced no effect, save to occasionally render Sir John morose and cold towards his wife, until the boy had reached the age of seventeen years. | ||
Then suddenly, one day, these two sisters, in the presence of Sir John and Lady Clara, accused the latter of the most horrible crimes, and declared that she had herself confessed that her son was the fruit of an illicit amour between herself and a certain French Count, to whom Sir John had introduced her at Venice during the honeymoon. Stunned by these terrible and unexpected accusations, Lady Clara swooned; and her husband, completely carried away by passion, and convinced that the story told him by his sisters was true, ordered her and the boy to be expelled from the hall, and immediately hurried to the sea-board and embarked for the Continent. | ||
The shock had rendered the unhappy wife and mother insane; and in this condition her sisters-in-law caused her to be removed from the hall and conveyed to a neighbouring village, where she remained for some time, on the very brink of the grave. Her only friend, during this sad period, was a certain Captain Edward O'Neil, of the Enniskillen Dragoons, at that time quartered near Fenwick Hall, and who had seen Lady Clara often enough to love her. He nursed her through her illness, and when her health and reason had returned, besought her to accompany him to his home in Ireland, and share it with him. | ||
For a long while she resisted his appeals, but finally, ascertaining that her husband had taken steps to obtain a divorce from her, and that Captain O'Neil was her only friend, she consented. They went to Galway, Ireland, where they were married privately, and took up their residence. | ||
Her son, in the meantime, manifested a desire to travel, and his mother furnished him with £1,000, which she obtained by the sale of her jewels, and placed him on board the steamer Adriatic, with instructions to sail to New York, and from thence to Texas, to visit a cousin of hers named Somerville, who resided there as a wealthy planter. Without any misfortune, our youth arrived at his cousin's ranch, situated on the frontier of Texas, where he was cordially received, and made welcome. | ||
His cousin had a daughter named Estelle, of about his own age, and very handsome, with whom he fell in love, and in whose society he passed six months. But on one fatal night the ranch was attacked by a party of Comanche Indians, his cousin and Estelle were murdered, and he carried off into captivity. He remained a captive for three months, when, seizing a favourable opportunity and a tomahawk, he killed the Indian with whom he was, and made his escape to Brownsville, Texas. Here he met three Texas drovers, who were about to start with an immense drove of cattle to Carlinville, Manoupin County, Illinois. Rendered destitute by being deprived of everything by the marauders, he gladly accepted their offer and went. | ||
Arriving at Carlinville, he determined to return to England, and boldly pronounce his rights. Accordingly, he took the cars for the East. While travelling on the New York and Erie Railroad he fell in with a noble-hearted farmer, named Preston F. Sappington, of Point Isabel, Clinton County, who induced him to return with him to Clinton, for the purpose of studying law with Mr. L. Weldon. | ||
Our hero, however, disliked the profession, and was employed in the office of the Clinton Herald by Mr. Sackett, and lately by Mr. Stransbury. While here during the October term of the Circuit Court, he stated his case to Hon. Abraham Lincoln, who immediately wrote to the British Consul at Chicago. Two days afterwards the British Consul, Hon. Mr. Wilkins, arrived in Clinton. After listening to Fenwick's story, and having a consultation with Messrs. Lincoln and Stransbury, he took him to Chicago and employed him in his office. | ||
Meantime the Consul wrote to England, making inquiries in regard to Sir John Fenwick, but could only hear that he was travelling on the Continent, but could not ascertain the precise spot. The Prince of Wales while travelling in this country [in 1860], it will be recollected, stopped in Chicago. Here the Consul introduced Fenwick to the Prince, who became convinced of the truth of his statement. He accompanied the Prince on his tour through the United States, and went with him to England. | ||
On arriving in England, Fenwick proceeded immediately to his ancestral hall, where he was informed by the servants that one of his aunts, who had caused him and his mother so much trouble and unhappiness, was now on her death-bed, attended by her brother, Sir John Fenwick. He entered the chamber of death. The ghostly visage of the dying woman became still ghastlier when she beheld the boy whom she and her sister had so deeply wronged. | ||
She immediately confessed the tale they had invented to blast the reputation of Lady Clara, and ruin his and her innocent son, was without foundation - that Clara was a good and true wife until he drove her away and spurned her. Lord [sic] Fenwick folded his long-lost son to his heart and shed tears of joy over him. The woman died in a few minutes after making the confession. Her sister is at present the inmate of the convent, and strives to atone for her black-hearted treachery by fasting, penitence, and prayer. | ||
The health of Lady Clara greatly failed after the departure of her son for America, and Captain O'Neil took her to the South of France in the hope of restoring it. But she soon died, and not long afterwards the captain was killed in a duel. By a will he bequeathed his property, which was of great value, to his wife's son, John N. Fenwick. The young man is now in Fenwick Hall. | ||
The following is a portion of a letter sent by him to a friend in Clinton … "So you may imagine my feelings at present. To those persons in Clinton who doubted my statements, and ridiculed me, I have no unkind feelings. I entertain toward the people of Clinton a lively feeling of gratitude for their many kindnesses and favors. To Robert Lewis, Esq., I desire you to return my most sincere thanks. Tell him I still have the boots he presented me, which together with the gold pen from Charles Dennett, I shall keep in remembrance of them, and my once humble condition in life. My best respects to my ever good friend, Mr. Stransbury, to whom I send in your package a breastpin. My love to Mrs. C---- and the children. I have many times, since I left your roof, thought of them, and longed to see them ̴ The package I send to you I hope will entirely clear you of debt, and make you independent in life. Tell Al. Blackford I will send him a splendid Manton fowling-piece by the next steamer. He has my likeness, which I would be glad to have left with Miss Julia C---- | ||
----Yours, as ever, | ||
JOHN NORTH FENWICK, Bart. | ||
A postscript appeared at the foot of the story which stated that "we have carefully searched Dod's Peerage, but cannot find that such a person as "John North Fenwick, Bart.," exists. We, therefore, presume that the writer of the letter is an adventurer." | ||
Sir Andrew Ferguson, 1st baronet | ||
Ferguson sat in the Irish House of Commons for Londonderry City between 1798 and 1800. Having voted for the Union in 1800, Ferguson was rewarded with a baronetcy shortly afterwards. | ||
The following report of Ferguson's death appeared in the Aberdeen Journal of 3 August 1808:- | ||
A Gentleman in Belfast has received a letter from a friend, dated Londonderry, 18th July which says - "As Sir Andrew Ferguson, Bart., and his son Harvey, were returning home about 12 last night in a gig, they came to a bridge [at Moville, co. Donegal], which the servant knowing to be very much broken, called to his master to stop a moment till he would lead the horse along it. Before the servant, however, had got hold of the reins, Sir Andrew whipped the horse, and in a moment the whole were precipitated over the bridge! Sir Andrew was killed on the spot, but his son did not receive the smallest injury." | ||
The special remainder to the baronetcy of Hesketh (later Fermor‑Hesketh) created in 1761 | ||
From the London Gazette of 9 May 1761 (issue 10103, page 1):- | ||
The King has been pleased to grant unto Thomas Hesketh, of Rufford, in the County of Lancaster Esq; and his lawful Issue Male, the Dignity of a Baronet of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and in Default of such Issue, to his Brother Robert Hesketh, of Rufford in the said County, Esq; and his lawful Issue Male. | ||
Frederick Fermor-Hesketh (24 Sep 1883 - on or after 29 Oct 1910), younger son of Sir Thomas George Fermor‑Hesketh, 7th baronet | ||
Frederick disappeared in October 1910 and was never positively seen again, despite a number of reports that he had been located in Montana and Wyoming. | ||
The following [edited] report appeared in the Adelaide Mail of 18 May 1912:- | ||
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, second son of Sir Thomas and Lady Fermor‑Hesketh, who was given up for dead, appears to be solved. Mr. Hesketh, who was a lieutenant in the 9th Lancers, was last seen at Kingstown Pier, Ireland, on October 30, 1910, dressed in a rough serge suit, and without any baggage. His intention was to go to America to amass a fortune. A communication received in New York from Dr. B.F. Woodard, of Gillette, Wyoming, asked whether any was known of a missing Englishman, answering to the following description:- A man about 30 years of age, black curly hair, slightly grey, blue eyes, 6ft tall, name Frederick or Hespeth, of military bearing, highly cultured. | ||
The description exactly fits the officer for whom the Scotland Yard and New York police were asked to search 18 months ago. It appears that Dr. Woodard, while in Tromberg, Montana, two days ago, accidentally met a man who seemed somewhat strange in manner. He talked about having been born in Europe, but said that his mother came from New York or San Francisco. He claimed to have been in South America, but was unable to understand the language, and returned to the United States. The stranger declared that his mother's father, Sr. [Senator] Sharon, of San Francisco, had made a fortune in America, and he thought he could do the same. [William Sharon (1821‑1885) was Senator for Nevada 1875‑1881 and made a fortune from the Comstock silver lode in Virginia City, Nevada]. He had a soldierly bearing, polished manner, and quick actions. Dr. Woodard says he found that the man was stranded, so he gave him three dollars for a night's lodging, and secured him a position on the Sullivan sheep ranch, about 90 miles south-west of Clearmont, Wyoming. | ||
Mr. Frederick Fermor-Hesketh is the second son of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, seventh baronet of Easton Neston, Towcester. He was formerly a lieutenant in the 9th Lancers, and at the time of his disappearance was home on leave, his regiment then being stationed in South Africa. Mr. Hesketh was staying with his mother at Chedshurst Manor, Kineton, when Lady Fermor-Hesketh had rented for the shooting season. On October 29, 1910, he was motoring back from Easton Neston, when he met his mother outside Banbury. He stopped and spoke to her in a perfectly natural manner, informing her that he would not return until rather later, as he had to leave a dog at a veterinary surgeon's at Banbury. That was the last time Lady Hesketh saw her son. Enquiries made subsequently showed that he had left the car in Banbury and travelled to London. A brown leather bag, a rug, and some other articles were found on the steamer which reached Kingstown from Holyhead on October 30. | ||
The steward of the steamer was positive that he saw Mr. Hesketh land, but after that all trace of him was lost. He was in good health, and, so far as was known, had no reason for concealing his whereabouts. It was accordingly presumed that he was suffering from loss of memory, and a thorough search for him was instituted. | ||
However, no trace of Frederick Fermor-Hesketh was ever found. His name was removed from the Army List in February 1911 due to his absence without leave. | ||
Eventually, in October 1925, leave was granted by the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice to presume Frederick's death, as reported in The Times on 20 October:- | ||
'In the Estate of Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, presumed deceased - This was a petition for leave to depose to the death of Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, the younger son of Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, Bt., of Easton Neston, Towcester. | ||
Mr. Noel Middleton said that Frederick Fermor-Hesketh disappeared on October 29, 1910. He was then a lieutenant in the 9th Lancers and was aged 27 years. He had returned to England on leave from South Africa at the beginning of September, 1910, and was living with his mother at Chedshurst Manor, Kineton, in Warwickshire. On October 29 he was motoring from Easton Neston and he met Lady Fermor-Hesketh, who was in her car, outside Banbury. He stopped and spoke to her. He said that he would be late as he had to leave a dog with a veterinary surgeon at Banbury, adding - "I will follow you in a few minutes." He was not seen again by his mother. Inquiries showed that he had put his car into a garage and taken the 5.15 p.m. train to London. Some personal baggage belonging to him was found in the steamship Leinster, which arrived at Kingstown in Ireland at 6 a.m. on October 30, 1910. But from that all trace of the missing man was lost. He was in his usual health and unembarrassed by any financial or domestic trouble, and no reason could be assigned for his disappearance. | ||
The President - It seems probable that he fell overboard from the boat. Mr. Middleton - Yes. | ||
His Lordship gave leave to the applicant, Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh (his brother), to swear that the presumed deceased died on or since October 29, 1910. | ||
The special remainder to the baronetcy of Fitzgerald created in 1822 | ||
From the Edinburgh Gazette of 21 December 1821 (issue 2972, page 295):- | ||
The King 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 Augustine Fitzgerald of Newmarket on Fergus, in the county of Clare, Esq. Major-General in the army, and the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten; with remainder, in default of issue-male, to his brother, William Fitzgerald, Esq. and the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten. | ||
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