In 1644 he was found guilty of treason and beheaded, with the baronetcy forfeited.

" Hayek had hoped to receive a baronetcy, and after he was awarded the CH he sent a letter to his friends requesting that he be called the English version of Friedrich ( Frederick ) from now on.

Treves was honoured with a baronetcy ( which Edward had arranged before the operation ) and appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream.

1540 – 1624 ), was a Member of Parliament for the county of Suffolk His title of Baronette became extinct when the last son to hold the title didn't produce a son English baronetcy.

In 1719, he bought Battle Abbey from Sir Henry Whistler, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd baronet ( died 1779, leaving a widow, but no children ; whereupon he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother ).

* Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, 11th Btss ( 1906-2011 ) was recognised by Lyon Court in 2005 as 11th holder of the baronetcy ( formerly Stirling-Maxwell ) under the 1707 remainder and succeeded her father in 1956.

He was succeeded in the business and in the baronetcy by his son Sir Edward Cunard, 2nd baronet.

He was granted a baronetcy in 1885, the first artist to be honoured with a hereditary title.

The possible reason for this unusual layout is that, while the Brownlows possessed great wealth, their title was only a baronetcy, and their fortune was barely a century old.

On his death in 1883 this line of the family also failed and he was succeeded by his fourth cousin Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 3rd Baronet, of Stanwell, who became the ninth Earl ( for earlier history of the baronetcy, see below ).

By a very extensive charter in The Great Seal of Scotland, confirmed at Whitehall, London, on 4 December 1660, Charles Maitland and his heirs male by his marriage were bound to " take the name of Lauder and bear the Arms of Lauder of Haltoun ", which was done in accordance with the charter by John Maitland, Charles 2nd son, who received a baronetcy of Nova Scotia as Sir John Lauder.

He inherited his father's baronetcy and estate in Northamptonshire in 1833 which under the terms of his inheritance should have led to him relinquishing Glyndebourne, but as a lunatic he was unable to do so.

Sir Moyle Finch was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Theophilus, the second Baronet.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son George ( born 1777 ).

Upon his father's death, he inherited his father's baronetcy and was now Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper.

He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1846, and in 1866 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Halifax, of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of the County of York.

In tribute to his distinguished career, Professor Colles was awarded a baronetcy in 1839, which he refused.

Harris, who was promoted to Marshal of the RAF by the Labour Government in 1946, was persuaded to accept a baronetcy when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1953.

His son, Jonathon Porritt, is resident in England and is entitled to register his claim to his father's baronetcy ( but not to his peerage, since it was a life peerage ).

He was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony of Rockingham by his first cousin once removed, Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton, who became the sixth Baron.

In 1660 a later John Clerke was made the first Clerke Baronet, of Hitcham, but made Shabbington the main seat of his baronetcy.

Burke ’ s family was connected with that of Sir Ulick Burke of Glinsk, County Galway, on whom Charles II conferred a baronetcy in 1628.

On 4 December, he succeeded to the baronetcy, which had been conferred on his grandfather, but passed to Martin upon the death of his cousin, Sir Henry, the 3rd Baronet.

Since 1965 only one new baronetcy has been created, that ( on 7 Dec 1990 ), for the husband of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ( now Baroness Thatcher ), Sir Denis Thatcher.

The eldest son of a baronet who is born in wedlock succeeds to the baronetcy upon his father's death, but he will not be officially recognised until his name is on the Roll.

Lord Wemyss had no male issue and on his death in 1679 the baronetcy became extinct.

He had no sons and on his death in 1952 the baronetcy became extinct.

Thomas Osborne, the future Lord Treasurer, succeeded to the baronetcy and estates in Yorkshire on his father Edward's death in 1647, and, after unsuccessfully courting his cousin Dorothy Osborne, married Lady Bridget, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, in 1651.

As of 30 June 2006, the present holder of the barony has not successfully proven his succession to the baronetcy and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.

He had never married and the baronetcy became extinct on his death ( in London ).

On the death of his father on 4 October 1944, 26-year-old Keith inherited the baronetcy.

The baronetcy became extinct on his death in August 1839, aged 81.

The baronetcy became dormant in 1786 on the death of the seventh Baronet.

He effectively sacrificed his political career in 1784 to challenge the ballot of Charles James Fox, and was rewarded with a baronetcy ; from then on he did not speak in the House of Commons, despite remaining an MP.

In 1741, on the death of his cousin Hugh Primrose, 3rd Viscount Primrose, he succeeded as fifth Baronet, of Carrington ( see the Viscount of Primrose, which title became extinct on the death of the third Viscount, for earlier history of the baronetcy ).

The baronetcy and barony, which only could be passed on to male heirs, were inherited by the late Earl's younger brother, the fourth Baron ( see the Baron Strathspey for later history of these titles ).

Graham died at Netherby, Cumberland, on 25 October 1861, aged 69, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Frederick.

He never married and on his death in 1950 the baronetcy became extinct.

Sir Rowland St John, fourth son of the third Baron ( see below for more information on the baronetcy ).

The baronetcy was passed on to Sir Henry William Stafford Jerningham, 11th Baronet ( on whose death in 1935 the title became extinct ; see Jerningham Baronets ).

However, on his death in 1962 the viscountcy became extinct while he was succeeded in the baronetcy and lordship by his third cousin, the thirteenth Lord.

As of 13 June 2007, the last holder of the earldom ( Thomas Perceval, the 12th earl ) has not successfully proven his succession to the baronetcy and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.

Lord Chichester had no sons and on his death in 1653 the baronetcy became extinct.