baronetcy
Americannoun
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baronetcies
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noun
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When Sir Thomas, a bachelor, died in 1869 the land and his baronetcy passed on to his brother Sir John Maryon Wilson.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2021
Denis, Thatcher's husband of more than 50 years, to whom she had awarded a baronetcy in her resignation honours, died in 2003.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2013
She lives with her unpleasant older sister and her father, a vain, unintelligent man, vulgarly proud of his well-preserved good looks and his baronetcy.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
It was founded by one of the community’s most aristocratic families, one that still boasts a Raj-era baronetcy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2012
It offered him a baronetcy, but his simple tastes lay not at all in the direction of such honours, and he refused it.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson
Each New Year's Day, on advice of the Emperor's various Premiers, His Majesty rewards subjects of their choosing with peerages, baronetcies, knighthoods, stars, assorted ribbons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Arthur Detling is a crusty old Tory, holder of "one of the most ancient baronetcies in the land."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among ten baronetcies bestowed last week the only one of note went to famed Motors Tycoon William R. Morris, "England's Ford," maker of the staunch little Morris-Cowley and Morris-Oxford.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, Elizabeth bestowed her first titles of the reign, including four peerages, five baronetcies, 60 knighthoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
King James sold two hundred baronetcies of the United Kingdom, for one thousand pounds each; and Mr. Owen offers an unlimited number of presidentships in his incipient Utopia on the same advantageous terms.
From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall
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