Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain.
To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary to prove a claim of succession. When this has been done, the name is entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. Persons who have not proven their claims may not be officially styled as baronets. This was ordained by Royal Warrant in February 1910. A baronetcy is considered vacant if the previous holder has died within the previous five years and if no one has proven their succession, and is considered dormant if no one has proven their succession in more than five years after the death of the previous incumbent.
All extant baronetcies, including vacant baronetcies, are listed below in order of precedence (i.e. date). All other baronetcies, including those which are extinct, dormant or forfeit, are on a separate list of baronetcies. The list is current as of April 2026, when it was last updated. The baronetcy lists include any peerage titles which are held by the baronet.
Baronetage of England (1611–1705)
King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, to fund the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d. per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer.
The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the Baronetage of Great Britain.
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
NoTitleCreationOther titles and notes1Bacon of Redgrave22 May 1611Now also Bacon baronets of Mildenhall, since 17552Shirley of Staunton22 May 1611Earl Ferrers3Pelham of Laughton22 May 1611Earl of Chichester4Hoghton, now de Hoghton of Hoghton Tower22 May 16115Hobart-Hampden of Intwood22 May 1611Earl of Buckinghamshire6Gerard of Bryn22 May 1611Baron Gerard8Shelley of Michelgrove22 May 16119Musgrave of Hartley Castle29 June 161110Seymour of Berry Pomeroy29 June 1611Duke of Somerset11Finch of Eastwell29 June 1611Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham12Monson of Carlton29 June 1611Baron Monson13Wodehouse of Wodehouse29 June 1611Earl of Kimberley14Harington of Ridlington29 June 161115Brudenell of Deen29 June 1611Marquess of Ailesbury16Mordaunt of Massingham Parva29 June 1611Present baronet does not use the title.17Devereux of Castle Bromwich25 November 1611Viscount Hereford18Dormer of Wing10 June 1615Baron Dormer19Egerton, formerly Grey-Egerton, of Egerton5 April 161720Townshend of Rainham16 April 1617Marquess Townshend21Lyttelton of Frankley25 June 1618Viscount Cobham22Hicks, now Hicks Beach of Beverston21 July 1619Earl St Aldwyn23Berney of Parkhall5 May 162024Gower of Stittenham2 June 1620Duke of Sutherland25Philipps of Picton Castle9 November 1621Viscount St Davids26Wake of Clevedon5 December 162127Hotham of Scorborough4 January 1622Baron Hotham28Mansel of Muddlescombe14 January 162229Grosvenor of Eaton23 February 1622Duke of Westminster30Gage of Firle Place26 March 1622Viscount Gage31Cooper of Rockbourne4 July 1622Earl of Shaftesbury32Hazlerigg of Noseley21 July 1622Baron Hazlerigg33Skipwith of Prestwould20 December 162236Isham of Lamport30 May 162738Stanley of Bickerstaff26 June 1627Earl of Derby39Bacon of Mildenhall29 July 1627Now also Bacon baronets of Redgrave, since 175540Stonhouse of Radley7 May 1628Also Stonhouse baronets of Radley (1670)41Wrey of Trebitch13 June 162842Trelawny, now Salusbury-Trelawny of Trelawny1 July 162843Wiseman of Canfield Hall29 August 162844Nightingale of Newport Pond1 September 162845Pole of Shute12 September 162846Wolseley of Wolseley24 November 162847Grimston of Little Waltham2 March 1629Earl of Verulam49Every of Eggington26 May 164150Cave, now Cave-Browne-Cave of Stanford30 June 164151Bampfylde of Poltimore14 July 1641Baron Poltimore53Northcote of Hayne16 July 1641Earl of Iddesleigh54Strickland, now Strickland-Constable of Boynton30 July 164155Chichester of Raleigh4 August 164156Knatchbull of Mersham Hatch4 August 1641Earl Mountbatten of Burma57Trollope of Casewick5 February 164258Haggerston, now Constable Maxwell-Scott of Haggerston15 August 164260Wrottesley of Wrottesley30 August 1642Baron Wrottesley62Waldegrave of Hever Castle1 August 1643Earl Waldegrave64CourtenayFebruary 1644Earl of Devon66Acland of Columb John21 January 1678precedence of 24 June 164467Boreel of Amsterdam21 March 164568Bridgeman of Great Lever3 December 1660Earl of Bradford69Palmer of Carlton7 June 166070Langham of Cottesbrooke7 June 166071Finch of Raunston7 June 1660Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham72Robinson of London22 June 166073Astley of Hill Morton25 June 1660Baron Hastings74Bowyer of Denham Court22 June 1660Baron Denham; vacant since 2021.75Stanley of Alderley25 June 1660Baron Stanley of Alderley76Shuckburgh of Shuckburgh25 June 166078St John of Woodford28 June 1660Baron St John of Bletso79Clerke of Hitcham29 December 166080Boothby of Broadlow Ashe13 July 166081Honywood of Evington19 July 166082Smithson, now Percy of Stanwick1660Duke of Northumberland83Wheler of the City of Westminster11 August 166084Rous of Henham17 August 1660Earl of Stradbroke85Onslow of West Clandon1674Earl of Onslow87Frankland of Thirkelby24 December 1660Baron Zouche88Legard of Ganton29 December 166089Bedingfeld, now Paston-Bedingfeld of Oxburgh2 January 166190Broughton of Broughton10 March 166191Cayley of Brompton26 April 166192Cooke of Wheatley10 May 166193Ashburnham of Bromham15 May 166194Jenkinson of Walcot and Hawkesbury18 May 166195Williams-Bulkeley of Penrhyn17 June 166196Carew of Haccombe2 August 166197Bowyer-Smyth of Hill Hall28 November 166199Osborn of Chicksands11 February 1662No heir.100Graham of Norton Conyers17 November 1662101Tancred, now Lawson-Tancred of Boroughbridge17 November 1662102Brooke of Norton12 December 1662103D'Oyly of Shottisham29 July 1663No heir.104Marsham of Cuckston16 August 1663Earl of Romney105Biddulph of Westcombe2 November 1664106Shaw, now Best-Shaw of Eltham15 March 1665107Jocelyn of Hyde Hall8 June 1665Earl of Roden108Burdett of Burthwaite25 July 1665109Hanham of Wimborne24 May 1667No heir.110Mostyn of Talacre28 April 1670111Stonhouse of Radley5 May 1670also Stonehouse baronets of Radley (1628)112Croft of Croft Castle18 November 1671113Eden of West Auckland13 November 1672also Baronet Eden of Maryland114Blackett of Newcastle12 December 1673115Hoskyns of Harewood18 December 1676116Hart Dyke of Horeham3 March 1677117Cotton of Combermere29 March 1677Viscount Combermere118Willoughby of Wollaton7 April 1677Baron Middleton119Cust of Stamford29 September 1677Baron Brownlow; vacant since 2021.120Bowyer, now Goring of Highden18 May 1678122Bunbury of Stanney Hall29 June 1681123Parker, now Hyde-Parker of Melford Hall1 July 1681Vacant since 2022.124Dashwood of Kirtlington16 September 1684125Blois of Grundisburgh15 April 1686126Williams-Wynn of Gray's Inn6 July 1688127Molesworth, now Molesworth-St Aubyn of Pencarrow19 July 1689128Ramsden of Byrom30 November 1689129Leighton of Wattlesborough2 March 1693No heir.130Colt of St James's-in-the-Fields2 March 1694No heir.131Thomas of Wenvoe24 December 1694No heir.133Chetwode of Oakley6 April 1700Baron Chetwode134Irby of Boston13 April 1704Baron Boston135Fleming of Rydal Hall4 October 1705136Miller of Chichester29 October 1705
Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706)
The Baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of settling the plantation of that province (now a province of Canada). King James VI of Scotland (who was also James I of England) announced his intention to create 100 baronets, each of whom was required to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2,000 merks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1,000 merks to Sir William Alexander, to whom the province had been granted by charter in 1621.Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "BARONET" § 2
James died before this scheme could be implemented, but it was carried out by his son Charles I, who created the first Scottish baronet on 28 May 1625, covenanting in the creation charter that the baronets of Scotland or of Nova Scotia should never exceed 150, that their heirs apparent should be knighted on coming of age (21), and that no one should receive the honour who had not fulfilled the conditions, viz, paid 3,000 merks (£166, 13s. 4d.) towards the plantation of the colony.
Four years later (17 November 1629) the King wrote to the contractors for baronets, recognising that they had advanced large sums to Sir William Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants. On the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended on an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of Scotland and the motto Fax mentis honestae gloria (Glory is the torch that leads on the honourable mind). As the required number, however, had not been assembled by 1633, Charles then further announced that English and Irish gentlemen might also receive the honour, and in 1634 they began to do so. Yet even so, Charles was only able to create, in total, a few more than 120 baronets. In 1638 the creation ceased to carry with it the grant of lands in Nova Scotia, and on the union with England (1707) the Scottish creations ceased, English and Scotsmen alike receiving thenceforth Baronetcies of Great Britain.
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia