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  Baronet
The rank of a baronet is between that of a baron and that of a knight.
Baronets were granted the Arms of Ulster as a canton or inescutcheon in armorial bearings, argent a sinister hand couped at the wrist and erect gules, known as the Badge of Ulster.
Baronets of Scotland or Nova Scotia were granted the Arms of Nova Scotia in their armorial bearings and the right to wear about the neck the badge of Nova Scotia, suspended by an orange-tawny ribbon.
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 Baronet
A baronet is the holder of a title of honor (a baronetcy) invented by King James I in 1611 to raise funds.
A baronet is entitled to be knighted, and to have his eldest son knighted when the latter reaches the age of maturity.
Baronet is not a peerage title and does not disqualify the holder from standing for election to the British House of Commons.
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 Robert Peel Biography,info
Peel was born in the Lancashire town of Bury to the industrialist and Member of Parliament Sir Robert Peel.
Peel was a member of the committee which controlled the House of Commons Library, and on 16 April 1850 was responsible for passing the motion that controlled its scope and collection policy for the rest of the century.
Peel was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill in London on 29 June 1850, the horse stumbled on top of him and he died three days later on July 2 at the age of 62.
www.parsnava.com /biography/sdmc_Sir_Robert_Peel   (2333 words)

  
 Baronet - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a title, similar to a knighthood except that it is hereditary, known as a baronetcy.
Note that the title of baronet should not be confused with a baron.
Baronets use the title "Sir" before their name (baronetesses use "Dame"), but whereas all other knighthoods apply to an individual only, a baronetcy is hereditary.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Baronetcy   (773 words)

  
 Baronet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Baronetage of Scotland or Nova Scotia was erected on 28 May 1625, for the establishment of the plantation of Nova Scotia.
Like knights, baronets use the title "Sir" before their name (baronetesses in their own right use "Dame", wives of baronets use "Lady"), but whereas knighthoods apply to an individual only, a baronetcy is hereditary.
The badge to be suspended from an orange-tawny riband with a narrow edge of dark blue on both sides, the total breadth to be 1 and three-quarter inches, and the breadth of each to be a quarter inch.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Baronet   (1230 words)

  
 peels
The Peel Society in Tamworth are supporters of The Tamworth Heritage Trust and in fact, Nigel Morris of The Peel Society is a member of the Trust Committee.
Peel now wrote to Wellington saying that "though emancipation was a great danger, civil strife was a greater danger".
Peel was informed that three million poor people in Ireland who had previously lived on potatoes would require cheap imported corn.
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 Baronet
A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a title of honor (a baronetcy) created by King James I in 1611 to raise funds.
Baronets use the title "Sir" before their name, just as other knights do.
The eldest son of a baronet who is born in wedlock is also entitled to accede to the baronetcy upon the death of the current baronet, and to use the title "Sir".
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 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Robert Peel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peel was selected as Prime Minister, though he was in Italy at the time, so Wellington acted as a caretaker for the three weeks in November and December it took Peel to return.
Blake points out that if Peel was convinced that total repeal was necessary to stave of the famine, he should have enacted a bill that brought about immediate temporary repeal, not permanent repeal over a three year period of gradual tapering of duties.
Peel was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill in London on 29 June 1850, and died three days later on July 2 at the age of 62.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
Born in Bury, Lancashire to an industrialist and British Member of Parliament also named Robert Peel, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, the younger Peel entered politics at the young age of 21 as MP for the Irish rotten borough of Cashel City, Tipperary.
Peel felt compelled to resign his seat at Oxford, as what had made him attractive to that constituency in the first place was his opposition to it (in 1815 he had, in fact, challenged to a duel the man most associated with emancipation, Daniel O'Connell).
Peel was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill in London on June 29, 1850, and died three days later at the age of 62.
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 Sir Robert Peel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Family: Peel was the eldest son and the third of 11 children.
Sir Robert Peel, the Second Baronet, was born in 1788 into the world of Joshua Reynolds, of stage-coaches and highwaymen, and died in 1850 in the age of Darwin, of Punch, railway excursions, trade unions and income-tax.
The title transferred to a younger branch of the family and the present Earl Peel is the third Earl, fourth Viscount and eighth Baronet.
www.thepeelsociety.fsworld.co.uk /robert_peel.html   (422 words)

  
 nl Baronet A baronet traditional abbreviation Bart modern abbreviation Bt...
nl:Baronet A "baronet" (traditional abbreviation "Bart", modern abbreviation "Bt") is the holder of a species of knighthood knighthood known as a "baronetcy".
However, beginning in the reign of George IV George IV these rights have been gradually revoked, on the grounds that sovereigns should not be bound by acts made by their predecessors.
"Baronet" is not a peerage title and does not disqualify the holder from standing for election to the British House of Commons British House of Commons.
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 Baronet : Baronetcy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Baronet isn't a peerage title and doesn't disqualify the holder from standing for election to the British House of Commons.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
They were married now, but they were still the observed of gaped at by the vulgar, bowed to with broad smiles by Burgess, who had attained to a husband in somewhat more regular.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Baronets were hereditary (Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Peel, for example) but a Baronetcy was not a title of nobility.
Peers of England, and Peers of the United Kingdom (post 1801) sat in the House of Lords in Victoria's reign, together with elected representatives from the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland.
Thus Lord Stanley was enobled in 1844 (as Peel's government needed debating strength in the Lords) and sat there as Baron Stanley until succeeding his father as Earl of Derby in 1851.
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 Peel - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Peel
Peel Castle was the seat of the rulers of the Norse kingdom of Mann and the Isles in the 11th century.
Within the castle walls are the ruins of an 11th-century church and round tower, a Viking palace, and a 13th-century cathedral.
Now the only thing they drank was "horse's neck"--a long, soft, cool drink with an apple peel or an orange peel floating in it.
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 Trials - Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
Sir Robert Peels secretary, Edward Drummond, was shot by McNaghten rules in 1843.
Peel to determine the winner of a bet (the Gaming Act was passed in the following year) as to whether the Epsom Derby winner Running Rein was a four-year-old or a three-year-old.
Running Rein could not be produced, and as a result Cockburn lost the case, while his strenuous advocacy of his clients cause had led him into making, in his opening speech, strictures on Lord George Bentincks conduct in the case which should have been held back.
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 Baron Brabourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
His nephew, the fourth Baronet (who had succeeded his father, a younger brother of the second Baronet), sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester, Kent and Lostwithiel.
His son, the eighth Baronet, sat for Kent in the House of Commons.
www.tocatch.info /en/Baron_Brabourne.htm   (542 words)

  
 Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry
A baronet of England or Ireland bears a sinister hand couped gules on an inescutcheon or a canton.
The badge of a baronet is, sinister, a hand gules ("a bloody hand") in a field argent.
Unlike a baronet, however, the dignity is not hereditary.
www.pictavia.org /library/heraldrydictionary.html   (18611 words)

  
 Peel Baronets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can discuss the issue on the talk page.
This biography of a baronet is a stub.
This page was last modified 15:10, 18 October 2006.
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Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy which has so nobly exalted the necessities of genteel life.
Sometimes, indeed, she had reflected that Dodo would perhaps not make a husband happy who had not her way of looking at things; and stifled in the depths of her heart was the feeling that her sister was too religious for family comfort.
She was perfectly unconstrained and without irritation towards him now, and he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess.
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 Robert Peel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Home Secretary, he introduced a number of important reforms of British criminal law: most memorably establishing the Metropolitan Police Force (Metropolitan Police Act 1829).
As realisation dawned, however, he hoped that ending the Corn Laws would free up more food for the Irish.
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
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 Memory lane. Ship Canal from Dublin to Galway.
Peel's Opinions on Irish Distress and Government Interference in 1817 - Ditto in 1826 - Ship Canal from Dublin to Galway - Efforts to advance that Project- Letter from Mr.
Peel's postscript, I may as well here give a brief sketch, although it is probable that all such projects have received their quietus from the success of railroads: at least they must await some new turn in the rapidly changing art of locomotion.
To a requisition calling a public meeting to consider the advantages of the project, a large number of names were immediately signed, including those of dukes, marquises, earls, lords, baronets, and members of parliament, of all parties and opinions.
www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/Cloncurry/cloncurry12.htm   (5669 words)

  
 Baronet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Thomas de la More, describing the Battle of Barrenberg 1321 mentioned that Baronets took part, along with barons and knights.
It is not known if these early creations were hereditary but all seem to have died out.
However, since 1999 hereditary peerages do not either, so the distinction has become largely historical.
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 FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Unexpected fruit of the family tree
I've got masses of cousins, the product of successive inter-related families who had lots of children, but it was hard to work out how they fitted together.
However, thanks to the fact that my great great great grandfather, Thomas Fowell ­Buxton, was made a baronet in 1840, their names are to be found in the snobs' reference book, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.
The last of that name lived in the US and had financial difficulties before he died in 1996.
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 Chartism
Perhaps it was in vain to expect, whatever might be the state of the country, much attention from her Majesty's Government.
Their time was so absorbed, so monopolized in trying to make Peers, and promising to make Baronets, that but little time could now be given by them to such a subject as this; but probably in the recess, when cabinet councils would be held more frequently, they would give it some consideration.
He believed that if they did not, and that if they treated it as a mere temporary ebullition, which was rather the result of a plethoric vein than of any other cause, they would be grievously mistaken; for the seeds were sown, which would grow up to the trouble and dishonour of the realm.
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 Personal recollections of Lord Cloncurry
Peel's Opinions on Irish Distress and Government Interference in 1817-Ditto in 1826- Ship Canal from Dublin to Galway -Efforts to advance that Project-Letter from Mr.
Peel's postscript, I may as well here give a brief sketch, although it is probable that all such pro-jects have received their quietus from the success of railroads: at least they must await some new turn in the rapidly changing art of locomotion.
To a requisition calling a public meeting to consider the advantages of the project, a large number of names were immediately signed, including those of dukes, marquises, earls, lords, baronets, and members of par-liament, of all parties and opinions.
www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/irish/recollections/chapter12.html   (5909 words)

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