Milnes baronets

Milnes baronets
Escutcheon of the Milnes baronets of Gauley
Creation date1801[1]
Statusextinct
Extinction date1839[2]
Seat(s)Cockle Hall, Sherwood Forest[1]
MottoSoyez sans reproche[3]
Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet, by Joseph Wright of Derby

The Milnes baronetcy, of Gauley in the County of Leicester, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 21 March 1801 for the colonial governor Robert Milnes.[1] The title became extinct on the death of the invalid second Baronet in 1839, the only surviving son, "after many years in delicate and precarious health" residing at Sydling.[2]

Richard Milnes, uncle of the first Baronet, was the great-great-grandfather of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Debrett, John (1835). Debrett's Baronetage of England: With Alphabetical Lists of Such Baronetcies as Have Merged in the Peerage, Or Have Become Extinct, and Also of the Existing Baronets of Nova Scotia and Ireland. J.G. & F. Rivington. pp. 286–287.
  2. ^ a b "Died". Dorset County Chronicle. 28 March 1839. p. 4.
  3. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1839. p. 717.
  4. ^ Burke, Bernard (1868). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1014.