Wilmot (surname)

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Wilmot is a surname, and may refer to:

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet</span> British politician and colonial administrator (1783–1847)

Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet was a politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire and then as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wilmot, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and two in the Baronetage of Great Britain. One creation is extant as of 2008.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eardley-Wilmot baronets</span> Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

The Eardley-Wilmot Baronetcy, of Berkswell Hall in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 August 1821 for the politician and colonial administrator John Eardley-Wilmot. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1843 to 1846. Eardley-Wilmot was the son of John Wilmot, barrister-at-law and one of the Masters-in-Chancery, who in 1812 had assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Eardley as the great-grandson of Elizabeth, sole heiress of Edward Eardley, of Eardley, Staffordshire, and the grandson of John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771. The second baronet was a judge and also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Warwickshire South. Another member of the family to gain distinction was Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot, second son of the first baronet. He was a major general in the army.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Eardley Wilmot</span>

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