baronetcy

• “The baronetcy was a recent one, and not unconnected with trade.”

  The Shuttle

• “Lastingham, and might therefore be readily excused if he considered himself a person of some importance in a country where a baronetcy is the highest hereditary dignity, and where many of the existing”

  A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel

• “Later he administered the affairs of the Duke of Kent, whose trustee he was, and his baronetcy was the first bestowed by Queen Victoria.”

  The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays

• “There's one trust deposit yet to be divided between the Government and this sly old Indo-Scotch-man, and I fancy the empty honor of the baronetcy is a quid pro quo. ”

  A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story

• “Orthodox art history tends to see Effie as a malign influence, eagerly propelling her docile husband down the path to mass acceptance, marchionesses' daughters and giving the public what it wanted—a long, craven process of "selling out" symbolized by the baronetcy that came his way in 1885.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Far From Model Marriage

• “In the same year (1826), however, the death of Shelley's son by Harriet made little Percy a person of consequence as heir to the baronetcy, and her position improved.”

  Biography in the DNB

• “The more Seabright gains in the public sphere (election to Parliament, a baronetcy, an offer of high office), the more he loses in his household.”

  Joanna Baillie’s Ecotopian Comedies

• “It was a sadness with him that he had neither son nor any male relative: he was resigned to the baronetcy dying with him.”

  Fictionaut: They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff

• “He takes his baronetcy and his membership of the Jockey Club very seriously ... he could not bear having his whole life collapse in failure. ”

  Fictionaut: They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff

• “He himself had the short-cut shape that went with the businessman personality: with the baronetcy and membership of the Jockey Club.”

  Fictionaut: They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff

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