baronetcy
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Baronetcy is an honorable but mongrel rank half way between knighthood and peerage which entitles its proud possessor to be called "Sir," and to add to the name the abbreviation "Bart."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Illustrirtes Kon-Lex. says he was offered a Baronetcy in 1875.
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
The Baronetcy of Sir Francis Bernard now stands in the name of Morland.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
Succeeded in 1744 to the Baronetcy of Tullibole.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
Sir John Bernard, on the death of his father, succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1779.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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