baronet
IPA: bˈɛrʌnʌt
noun
- The bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods, accompanied by the titular prefix "Sir" (for men) or "Dame" (for women) which is used in conjunction with the holder's Christian name. It is inheritable, usually by the eldest son, although a few baronetcies can also pass through the female line.
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Examples of "baronet" in Sentences
- The third Baronet was a Brigadier in the Army.
- The fourth Baronet was a Brigadier in the Army.
- Also Baronets are the sixth rung of the Nobiles Majores.
- The name baronet is a diminutive of the peerage title baron.
- He was the posthumous son of the seventh Baronet of the 1625 creation.
- The fifth Baronet represented Flint and Denbigh in the House of Commons.
- On the death of the seventh Baronet in 1743 the baronetcy became dormant.
- The baronetcy became dormant in 1786 on the death of the seventh Baronet.
- The second Baronet represented Flint and Flintshire in the House of Commons.
- Dabbler found a source saying he was the 6th baronet and duly moved the page.
- The baronet was a good deal disconcerted by his intimation, saying, that he must be a Goth and
- We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural.
- There are also reasons for connecting the portrait with one of a certain English baronet named Sheffield, who was likewise in
- They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for. "
- He puts the rudest remarks Sir Percival can make on his effeminate tastes and amusements quietly away from him in that manner — always calling the baronet by his
- “I have seen Sir Richard in a devil of a passion, but never with me — no, no! Trust Sir Richard for not riding the high horse with me — a baronet is a baronet, but a bard is a bard; and that Sir Richard knows.”
- LYNMERE, at tea-time, returned from his ride, with a fixed plan of frightening or disgusting the baronet from the alliance; with Eugenia, herself, he imagined the attempt would be vain, for he did not conceive it possible any woman who had eyes could be induced to reject him.
- The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind.
- Twenty minutes later I’d heard a detailed, if rushed, explanation of everything from the meaning of writs patent to the coup enacted by Margaret Thatcher when she managed to secure the title of baronet for her husband, thus ensuring a hereditary aristocratic status for her descendants prime ministers are traditionally granted life peerages, which are not hereditary.