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Pechell baronets | |
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Creation date | 1797 [1] |
Status | extinct |
Extinction date | 1984 [2] |
Motto | Vix ea nostra voco, I scarcely call these things our own [1] |
The Pechell, later Brooke-Pechell, later Pechell Baronetcy, of Paglesham in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
The Pechell’s were a noble Huguenot family from Montauban in the Languedoc province of France, and in the late 17th century after severe persecution Samuel Pechell (b.1644) was arrested and his family fled their home for Geneva. After Samuel’s later epic escape from French captivity in the Caribbean that was aided by the British, he joined his family at Owenstown in County Kildare and received a pension from King William III. The family later moved to England and on 21 November 1705, a petition was made to Queen Anne’s parliament for the naturalisation of Samuel’s son, Jacob Pechell, which was granted.
Jacob’s son, Paul Pechell (1724–1800), joined the army and had a notable military career initially with the 1st Royal Dragoons. He served in Spain and was wounded in action in Flanders at the Battle of Lafeldt in 1747, with him later retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. On 1 March 1797 King George III made him 1st Baronet Pechell of Pagglesham, and from this point on the family had a long tradition of distinguished military service in both the Army and Royal Navy as well as in parliament. [3]
The second baronet, whose mother was the only daughter and heir of Thomas Brooke of Paglesham, Essex, took by royal licence the additional surname of Brooke. The first and second baronets were army officers, the third and fourth rose to flag rank in the Royal Navy, and the second through fourth baronets were also Member of Parliament.
The seventh Baronet was a qualified doctor and surgeon and served as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Army Medical Department, then from 1898 on its formation with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During the Great War he served at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and previously saw service in the 1885-87 Burma campaign as a Surgeon with the Upper Burma Field Force.
The eighth baronet was educated at Malvern College and served as a Major with the Essex Regiment during and after the Great War. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in 1915 for holding his trench with a handful of men against an overwhelming German attack, despite the enemy's use of gas. His younger bother was George Douglas Brooke-Pechell, who was killed on 21 December 1916 on a training flight at Filton Aerodrome in Gloucestershire, while attached to 66 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps as a Lieutenant. His sister was Gladys May Mabel Brooke-Pechell, who following her marriage to Professor Bonamy Dobrée took the name Valentine Dobrée. She was part of the influential Bloomsbury Group in the 1920’s and became famous in her own right as a poet, painter and writer.
The eighth and ninth Baronets used the surname Pechell only. On the death of the ninth Baronet on 29 January 1984 the baronetcy became extinct.
The Wigram Baronetcy, of Walthamstow House in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 October 1805 for Robert Wigram, a successful shipbuilding merchant and politician, representing Fowey and Wexford Borough in the House of Commons. The second Baronet also represented Wexford Borough in Parliament. He assumed in 1832 by Royal licence the surname of Fitzwygram. The fourth Baronet was a Lieutenant-General in the army and sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for South Hampshire and Fareham.
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The Barrett-Lennard Baronetcy, of Belhus in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 June 1801 for Thomas Barrett-Lennard, subsequently Member of Parliament for Essex South. He was the illegitimate son and testamentary heir of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baronet, the son of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, Member of Parliament for Maldon. His son, the third Baronet, was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. This line of the family failed on the death in 1977 of his son, the fifth Baronet, who died without male issue. The late Baronet was succeeded by his third cousin once removed, the sixth Baronet. He was the son of Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard, Chief Justice of Jamaica, son of Captain Thomas George Barrett-Lennard, son of the first marriage of George Barrett-Lennard, son of John Barrett-Lennard, second son of the first Baronet. The sixth Baronet was a Catholic clergyman. As of 2014 the title is held by his second cousin, the seventh Baronet, who succeeded in 2007. He is the grandson of Trenchard Barrett-Lennard, son of the aforementioned George Lennard-Barrett by his second marriage. As of 31 December 2013 the present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered vacant since 2007.
The de Capell-Brooke Baronetcy, of Oakley in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 June 1803 for Richard de Capell-Brooke, a bencher of the Inner Temple and for 30 years a Colonel of the Northamptonshire Militia. Born Richard Supple, he was the son of Richard Supple, of Ahadoe, who in the 1750s married Mary, daughter of Arthur Brooke, of Great Oakley, Northamptonshire. In 1797 he inherited the Great Oakley estate from his great-uncle, Wheeler Brooke, and assumed at that time by sign manual and in obedience to the testamentary injunction of his great-uncle the surname Brooke as well as the original surname of his family, de Capell. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baronet, who was a noted travel writer and Fellow of the Royal Society. The fifth Baronet was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1899, a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire and a justice of the peace and also unsuccessfully stood three times for the parliamentary seat of East Northamptonshire. On 4 July 1939 he was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Brooke of Oakley, of Oakley in the County of Northampton. The barony became extinct on his death in 1944 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by Sir Edward de Capell-Brooke, the fifth Baronet. The baronetcy became extinct on the latter's death in 1968.
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The Couper Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 June 1841 for George Couper. He was a colonel in the Army and fought in the Peninsular War, served as Military Secretary to the Governor Generals of Canada, Sir James Kempt and Lord Durham, and was Comptroller of the Household and Equerry to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The second Baronet was an administrator in India and served as Governor of the North-West Provinces between 1877 and 1882. Another member of the family to gain distinction was James Kempt Couper, second son of the first Baronet. He was a general in the Army.
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Sir Paul Pechell, 1st Baronet, army officer, was a descendant of minor Huguenot nobility of Languedoc. His grandfather had been ejected from France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and ultimately settled in Ireland, where Pechell was born.
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The Milman Baronetcy, of Levaton-in-Woodland in the County of Devon, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 28 November 1800 for Francis Milman, Physician-in-Ordinary to King George III and President of the Royal College of Physicians. The seventh Baronet was a brigadier-general in the British Army.
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