Crofton Baronets of Mohill (1801)

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The Crofton Baronetcy, of Mohill in the County of Leitrim, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 August 1801 for Morgan Crofton. The sixth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd Life Guards and fought in the Second Boer War, where he was severely wounded at the Relief of Ladysmith, and in the two world wars. His diaries from the First World War are published as Massacre of the Innocents: The Crofton Diaries, Ypres 1914–1915 (2004). Another member of the family, James Crofton, grandson of Morgan Crofton, third son of the first Baronet, was a Lieutenant-General in the Army.

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Crofton baronets, of Mohill (1801)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Henry Morgan Crofton (born 1979). [8]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 155.
  2. "Crofton, Sir Morgan George" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. "Crofton, Sir Hugh Denis" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. "Crofton, Sir Morgan George" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. "Sitters: Sir Morgan George Crofton, 6th Bt., of Mohill (1879–1958);". Lafayette Negative Archive.
  6. "Crofton, Sir Patrick Simon" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Crofton, (Sir) Hugh Denis" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. 1 2 "Crofton, Major Sir Edward Morgan" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. "Official Roll of the Baronetage (as of 31 January 2017)". Archived from the original on 6 March 2015.
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