Burnaby baronets

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Burnaby baronets
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Escutcheon of the Burnaby Baronets of Broughton Hall
Creation date1767 [1]
Statusextinct [2]
MottoPro rege, For the king [3]

The Burnaby Baronetcy, of Broughton Hall in the County of Oxford, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 31 October 1767 for Vice-Admiral Sir William Burnaby, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1756. He was the son of John Burnaby, Ambassador to Sweden.

The title is extinct. The fifth and last Baronet is believed to have died in Spain.

Burnaby baronets, of Broughton Hall (1767)

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 90.
  2. 1 2 Britain, Great (1915). The London Gazette. Tho. Newcomb. p. 1116.
  3. Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1884. p. 79.
  4. "The Lost Baronet". Westminster Gazette. 27 February 1914. p. 4.