Anson baronets

Anson baronets
Coat of arms of the Anson baronets of Birch Hall
Creation date	1831[1]
Status	extant[2]
Seat(s)	Birch Hall
Motto	Nil desperandum, Never despair[3]
Arms	Argent three Bendlets engrailed Gules in the sinister canton a Crescent of the second
Crest	Out of a Ducal Coronet Or a Spear erect proper

The Anson baronetcy, of Birch Hall in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom^[4] held by a branch of the Anson family.

The baronetcy was created on 30 September 1831 for William Anson. He was the third son of George Anson; his elder brothers were Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, and General Sir George Anson. Sir William was the uncle of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield, and Major-General George Anson and the great-nephew of George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (see Earl of Lichfield, 1831 creation, for more information on the Anson family). His grandson, the third Baronet, was a lawyer and Liberal Unionist politician. He never married and was succeeded by his nephew, the fourth Baronet. He was the only son of Frederick Arthur Anson, third son of the second Baronet. The fourth baronet drowned in the Thames on an outing of The Coterie in July 1914, after he jumped into the river encouraged by Lady Diana Manners. He had not married and on his death the title passed to his first cousin, the fifth Baronet, the eldest son of Rear-Admiral Algernon Horatio Anson (1854–1913), fourth and youngest son of the second Baronet. He was killed in action in the First World War. He was unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Baronet. His elder son, the seventh baronet, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy. As of 2021 the title is held by the latter's son, the eighth Baronet, who succeeded in 2018.