What's the difference between baronet and baronetage?

Baronet


Definition:

  • (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
  • (2) Son of a baronet It also plays to the most damaging caricature of Osborne, as the privileged son of a baronet, keener on protecting his wealthy friends than helping ordinary Britons: something he has fought hard to shrug off by introducing his “national living wage”, for example.
  • (3) It would be easy to take a cheap trick and say we would all like to have been born to the daughter of a baronet and gone to Eton, but let us take him at his word.
  • (4) Snobbery these days is not for baronets or the peerage, but it is recognisable instantly in the Bath pump-rooms where a stifling correctness takes one straight to the New Labour elite.
  • (5) When you're 15, Cinderella stories, too, seem hopelessly dated; and to be confronted with Elizabeth, a pantomime Ugly Sister, on the shelf and in drag, waiting for the "baronet-blood", which never came, and Mary, a constant complainer stuck in the shires with a huntin', fishin', shootin' husband, was as undesirable as having to get to know the Cinders who did all the dull jobs and was "only Anne".
  • (6) He is entitled to claim a baronetcy and be known as the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt, 2nd Baronet – dad was governor of New Zealand and, as it happens, a 1924 bronze-winning Olympic athlete in the Chariots of Fire 100m race.
  • (7) Tam Dalyell , also known as Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet, who retired in 2005 after 43 years in parliament, says the abuse of expenses goes back to 1963 and then Conservative chief whip Brigadier Martin Redmayne.
  • (8) On the surface, the old Etonian bicycling Baronet will look like a deeply inappropriate person to restore to an administration seeking to shed the patrician image created by Andrew Mitchell episode.
  • (9) His son, Edward, the 2nd Baronet, became the 1st Baron in 1911.
  • (10) Sir Charles Tennant, a grandson of the bleach inventor, was a Glasgow MP who was the father of Margot, Lady Asquith, and was created 1st Baronet in 1885.
  • (11) After all, he is the future 18th baronet of Ballentaylor.
  • (12) Photograph: Alamy Killerton Distance from junction about 7 miles from either 28 (southbound) or 30 (northbound) Follow signs for Pinhoe and Broadclyst on the B3181 Quintessentially English herbaceous borders, sweeping lawns and gravel paths are part of this vast estate that includes 20 farms and at least 200 cottages, given to the nation by its owner, Labour MP, 15th baronet and CND co-founder Sir Richard Acland, in the 1940s.
  • (13) The landed wealth elite, including men such as George Osborne’s direct ancestors, the Anglo-Irish baronets of Ballentaylor , dominated the House of Lords.

Baronetage


Definition:

  • (n.) State or rank of a baronet.
  • (n.) The collective body of baronets.

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