Leeds baronets

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Arms of Leeds: Argent, a fess gules between three eagles displayed sable a bordure wavy of the second, here with an inescutcheon of a baronet, a Red Hand of Ulster; crest: A Staff raguly fessways vert thereon a cock gules wings expanded combed wattled beaked and legged or the whole debruised by a bendlet sinister ermine; motto: Vigilate (Watch ye!) Leeds Escutcheon.png
Arms of Leeds: Argent, a fess gules between three eagles displayed sable a bordure wavy of the second, here with an inescutcheon of a baronet, a Red Hand of Ulster; crest: A Staff raguly fessways vert thereon a cock gules wings expanded combed wattled beaked and legged or the whole debruised by a bendlet sinister ermine; motto: Vigilate (Watch ye!)

The Leeds Baronetcy, of Croxton Park in the County of Cambridge, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created on 31 December 1812 for George Leeds. He was an equerry to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. The Croxton Park estate in Cambridgeshire had been in the Leeds family since circa 1568. As of 2011 the presumed ninth and present Baronet, a resident of Canada, has not successfully proven his succession and is not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.

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Leeds baronets, of Croxton Park (1812)

The presumed heir apparent to the baronetcy is Michael John Hildyard Leeds (born 1975), only son of the 9th Baronet.

Coat of arms of Leeds baronets
Leeds Escutcheon.png
Crest
A Staff raguly fessways Vert thereon a Cock Gules wings expanded combed wattled beaked and legged Or the whole debruised by a Bendlet Sinister Ermine
Escutcheon
Argent a Fess Gules between three Eagles displayed Sable a Bordure wavy of the second
Motto
Vigilate (Watch ye!) [4]

Notes

  1. "Current United Kingdom Baronetcies I – P". Archived from the original on 3 January 2014.
  2. "No. 16663". The London Gazette . 31 October 1812. p. 2189.
  3. "Official Roll of the Baronets as of December 31, 2012". The Standing Council of the Baronetage. Archived from the original on 6 March 2015.
  4. "Current United Kingdom Baronetcies I - P". Cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2022.

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