Webster baronets

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There have been two Webster baronetcies.

Webster baronets, of Copthall, in the County of Essex (1703)

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Escutcheon of the Webster baronets of Copthall

Created on 21 May 1703 in the Baronetage of England. [1]

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Extinct on the death of the 8th Baronet

Webster baronets, of Alverstone, Isle of Wight (1900)

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Escutcheon of the Webster baronets of Alverstone

Created on 25 January 1900 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Baronet of Winterfold, in the parish of Cranleigh, in the county of Surrey, and of Alverstone, in the parish of Brading, in the Isle of Wight and county of Southampton [2]

The 1st Baronet was subsequently created Baron Alverstone in 1900 with which title the baronetcy then merged until their extinction on the death of the 1st Baronet in 1915.

Sources

  1. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1904), Complete Baronetage volume 4 (1665–1707), 4, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, retrieved 5 June 2019
  2. "No. 27157". The London Gazette . 26 January 1900. p. 512.

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