Synge baronets

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Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Azure three millstones Proper 2nd & 3rd Argent an eagle displayed with two heads Sable beaked and legged Gules.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or an eagle's claw Proper.
Motto: Coelestia Canimus Synge Achievement.png
Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Azure three millstones Proper 2nd & 3rd Argent an eagle displayed with two heads Sable beaked and legged Gules.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or an eagle's claw Proper.
Motto: Coelestia Canimus

The Synge Baronetcy, of Kiltrough in the County of Meath, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created on 12 August 1801 for Robert Synge. The third Baronet served as High Sheriff of County Cork in 1844. The family surname is pronounced "Sing". As of 28 February 2014 the present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 2011. [3]

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Samuel Synge, brother of the first Baronet, succeeded his great-uncle in the Hutchinson Baronetcy, of Castlesallagh in 1813 according to a special remainder in the letters patent. See this title for more information on this branch of the family.

Synge baronets, of Kiltrough (1801)

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Notes

  1. Burke's Peerage. 1959.
  2. "No. 15382". The London Gazette . 4 July 1801. p. 754.
  3. "Official Roll of the Baronetage » the Standing Council of the Baronetage -". Archived from the original on 6 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 604.
  5. 1 2 Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. p. 1466.
  6. "Synge, Sir Francis Robert Millington" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Synge, Sir Robert Millington" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. "Synge, Sir Robert Carson" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. "Vancouver Sun Obituaries on Legacy.com". Vancouver Sun.
  10. "Synge, Sir Allen James Edward" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Synge baronets
of Kiltrough

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