(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.
Knighthood
Definition:
(n.) The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.
(n.) The whole body of knights.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(3) Tony Abbott has tried to stem the tide of discontent within his own party ranks, defending his decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip and saying the government is “strong and effective” under his leadership.
(4) The announcement that Crosby was being stripped of the knighthood was made in the London Gazette just as the commission's members were locked in negotiations about the conclusions of their final report, which is expected to run to 600 pages.
(5) Last month the House of Commons voted unanimously to strip Green of his knighthood , which was awarded a decade ago for services to retail.
(6) That helped cement the power of the money men in Westminster, with Sir Fred Goodwin's knighthood being just the most egregious example of government believing the mystique the financial sector wove around itself.
(7) David Cameron said: "I welcome the forfeiture committee's decision on Fred Goodwin's knighthood.
(8) "As a result of my meeting today you ought to understand that David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George's knighthood ... At a headline of $30m+ you will allow the MoD to internally save face."
(9) I feel that Philip Green has a moral duty to make good the pension scheme and if he doesn’t, while I can’t speak for the committee as a whole, I personally would recommend he should lose his knighthood.” Field said he had not pre-judged the inquiry.
(10) Parker, who holidayed with Cameron in South Africa in 2008, is given a knighthood for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy.
(11) But on Thursday, Frank Field , chair of the work and pensions committee that is set to begin its inquiry into BHS on Monday, told the Financial Times that he would recommend stripping Green of his knighthood if the retail tycoon did not put up funds to pay off the £571m pension fund deficit.
(12) Abbott had reintroduced knighthoods in a shock announcement in March 2014.
(13) He might even have been tempted to hand his job back to Tony Abbott – and you can bet a knighthood would help to get Trump back onside.
(14) There are no winners in this story, there are only degrees of loserdom – the RBS board wasn't paying attention (yet they still have their knighthoods) and the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority were practising their "light touch" (it is business-speak for "swing").
(15) Earlier this year Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin, heavily criticised over the bank's near collapse in 2008, was stripped of his knighthood.
(16) And you wonder why he’s been such a popular and successful leader?” A poll on ABC opinion website the Drum asks: “Do you approve of Prince Philip being awarded an Australian knighthood?”.
(17) MPs voted in favour of stripping Green of his knighthood.
(18) He sent a hastily drafted email that 3M later alleged implied that the government would raise questions about a knighthood awarded to 3M's British chief executive.
(19) And so today, having talked to him last night, I want to announce that Her Majesty the Queen, has awarded an honorary knighthood for Sir Edward Kennedy.
(20) Action from the government is needed in banking reform, not simply empty rhetoric on knighthoods or shareholder activism."