Flannery baronets, of Wethersfield Manor (1904)
- Sir James Fortescue-Flannery, 1st Baronet (1851–1943)
- Sir Harold Fortescue Flannery, 2nd Baronet (1883–1959)
The Flannery Baronetcy, of Wethersfield Manor in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 December 1904 for the engineer, naval architect and politician Sir James Fortescue Flannery. [1] The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1959.
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