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The Flower Baronetcy, of Lobb in the County of Oxford and of Woodford in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 1 December 1809 for Charles Flower, Lord Mayor of London from 1808 to 1809. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1850.

Flower baronets, of Lobb and Woodford (1809)

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References

  1. "No. 16311". The London Gazette . 4 November 1809. p. 1721.
  2. 1 2 Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn. p. 404.
  3. Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1880. p. 168.
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Flower baronets
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