(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.
Baronetcy
Definition:
(n.) The rank or patent of a baronet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Eton-educated Young inherited his baronetcy after his father died when Young was just 18.
(2) He was born with, if not a silver spoon, then at least a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, being a scion on his father's side of the Kennedy earldom which used to own Culzean Castle in Scotland, and on his mother's side of a Scottish baronetcy.
(3) The architect of our current austerity is, as Ganesh puts it, "conspicuously privileged": heir to the Anglo-Irish baronetcy of Ballintaylor and Ballylemon, created by Charles I in 1629; holder of a 15% stake in the upmarket wallpaper family firm Osborne & Little, a company worth – press estimates vary – between £15m and more than £30m; and son-in-law of the Tory peer, Lord Howell.
(4) 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.
(5) He is a child of privilege, heir to a 17th-century baronetcy and to the Osborne & Little wallpaper fortune made by his father.
(6) Telling people into August would look like desperation, so it was a gamble, but it was better earlier on to say it’s not going to happen.” Osborne, who freely admits that he has little personal feel for Scotland because the baronetcy he will one day inherit originates from the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, felt reasonably relaxed.
(7) The title is a consequence of the bestowal on his father Denis, in Mrs Thatcher's own resignation honours as prime minister, of an unusual hereditary baronetcy.
(8) Arbuthnot, a descendant of James V of Scotland and heir presumptive to a baronetcy, is described in The Almanac of British Politics as an "austere, desiccated man with a voice likened to that of a speaking clock".