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baronet

British order of chivalry below the rank of baron, but above that of knight, created in 1611 by James I to finance the settlement of Ulster. It is a hereditary honour, although women cannot succeed to a baronetcy. A baronet does not have a seat in the House of Lords but is entitled to the style Sir before his name. The sale of baronetcies was made illegal in 1937.



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Close by the name of Sir Pitt Crawley, Baronet (the subject of the present memoir), are written that of his brother, the Reverend Bute Crawley (the great Commoner was in disgrace when the reverend gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
There was not a baronet from A to Z whom her feelings could have so willingly acknowledged as an equal.
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Sir Leicester Dedlock is only a baronet, but there is no mightier baronet than he.
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