The Durrant Baronetcy, of Scottow in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. [1] It was created on 22 January 1784 for Thomas Durrant, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1784.
The Durrant Baronetcy, of Scottow in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. [1] It was created on 22 January 1784 for Thomas Durrant, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1784.
The heir apparent is the current holder's eldest son, Alexander Llewelyn Estridge Durrant (b. 1990).
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Marquess of Anglesey is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, a hero of the Battle of Waterloo, second in command to the Duke of Wellington. The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex, in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784), Baron Paget, de Beaudesert, in the Peerage of England (1553). He is also an Irish Baronet, of Plas Newydd in the County of Anglesey and of Mount Bagenall in the County of Louth.
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