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  • "Your Baronetcy is a thundering sight better than any of these mushroom peerages.

    A Maker of History 1906

  • Viceroy of India -- and the Baronetcy which is to be your life crown is lost for ever. "

    A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

  • As an introductory offer, the Virtual Peerages are being offered at a 25% discount for one week only, meaning that a Virtual Baronetcy can be bought for as little as £7.50.

    Buy your own peerage 2006

  • Our speaker has been a Magistrate of London for twenty-three years; he first became an Alderman of London in 1951, an Aldermanic Sheriff in 1958, receiving his Knighthood in this same year, and in November, 1962, he became Lord Mayor of London receiving at the conclusion of his year of office a Baronetcy.

    The Lord Mayor of London 1966

  • In 1821, his zeal for the public interest was rewarded by his receiving the honour of a Baronetcy.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • Baronetcy; and he showed Francis how and why this title must sooner or later come to George Neville and the heirs of his body.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

  • She had never been prepossessed in his favour, but as her uncle's kinsman, and being heir to the Baronetcy, her deportment to him had ever been polite and affable, but subsequently his attentions became so marked that they aroused her to a sense of his real meaning.

    Vellenaux A Novel

  • The remembrance of the old Baronetcy were on the ensanguined plain, -- of the matchless loyalty of a father and five valiant sons in the cause of the Royal

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • Sir Jasper had thus acted without the knowledge of his lawyer, the man with whom he had consulted on every other matter since his succession to the Baronetcy, consequently that gentleman was in ignorance of any such will being in existence.

    Vellenaux A Novel

  • As the cousin and only male relative of Sir Jasper Coleman, he was heir to the Baronetcy but not to the property.

    Vellenaux A Novel

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