Houstoun-Boswall baronets

The Houstoun, later Houstoun-Boswall Baronetcy, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

The title was created on 19 July 1836 for General Sir William Houstoun, GCB.[1] The second Baronet was a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. In 1847 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Boswall on his marriage to Euphemia, daughter of Thomas Boswall.[2] The sixth Baronet, whose father Colonel Thomas Alford Houston-Boswall-Preston had assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Preston in 1886,[3] discontinued the use of the surname Preston in 1953. The family surname is pronounced "Hooston-Boswall".

  1. ^ "No. 19395". The London Gazette. 28 June 1936. p. 1177.
  2. ^ "No. 20705". The London Gazette. 19 February 1947. p. 702.
  3. ^ "No. 25627". The London Gazette. 21 September 1886. pp. 4625–4626.