The Salt baronetcy, of Standon and Weeping Cross in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 August 1899 for the banker and politician Thomas Salt. He was Member of Parliament for Stafford for four periods between 1859 and 1892.
Salt baronets, of Standon and Weeping Cross (1899) Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (1830–1904) Sir Thomas Anderdon Salt, 2nd Baronet (1863–1940), High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1909. Sir Thomas Henry Salt, 3rd Baronet (1905–1965) Sir (Thomas) Michael John Salt, 4th Baronet (born 1946)
The heir presumptive is Anthony William David Salt (born 1950), brother of the 4th Baronet.
Extended family William Salt (1808–1863), banker and genealogist, was the third son of John Stevenson Salt, grandfather of the 1st Baronet. Harold Francis Salt (1879–1971), seventh son of the 1st Baronet, was a major general in the Royal Artillery. James Frederick Thomas George Salt (1940–2009), son of George Stevenson Salt RN, second son of the 2nd Baronet, was a rear admiral in the Royal Navy.
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