List of extant baronetcies

of Long Melford (1667) with the badge of a Baronet of England 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 ==Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706)==

of the Agnew baronets (1629) with riband and Badge of a Baronet of Nova Scotia. 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. 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.{{cite journal|first1=John A.|last1=Cooper|first2=J. Gordan|last2=Mowat|title=Canada and Edinburgh Castle|journal=The Canadian Magazine|volume=25|number=5|date=September 1905|publisher= Ontario Publishing Company, Limited|location=Toronto, Canada|page=480|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aj4PAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Nova+Scotia%22+%22Edinburgh+Castle%22&pg=PA480 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 ==Baronetage of Ireland (1619–1800)==

This is a list of extant baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland. They were first created in 1619, and were replaced by the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1801, after the Acts of Union 1800 came into force. The baronetcies are listed in order of precedence (i.e. date order). ==Baronetage of Great Britain (1707–1800)==

The below is a list of all extant baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain, which replaced the Baronetages of Nova Scotia and of England in 1707. In 1801 it was succeeded by the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. These baronetcies are listed in order of precedence, which is established by the date of the creation. For a complete list of baronetcies see List of baronetcies. ==Baronetage of the United Kingdom (1801–present)==

of the Agnew baronets (1895) with the badge of a Baronet of the United Kingdom. The Baronetage of the United Kingdom started with the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, replacing the Baronetage of Great Britain. (For a complete list of baronetcies, see List of Baronetcies – which includes extinct baronetcies.) The baronetcies are listed below in order of precedence (date order). (For ease in editing, the table has been divided into 25-year periods.) The last baronet to be created was Sir Denis Thatcher in 1990. 1801 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 ==See also==