“In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it.”

“Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons.”

“Back in 1904, immigrant water baron William Mulholland arrived here with Frederick Eaton, the retired L.A. mayor and water hound.”

“But was I the only one to be amused by the new laird's reasoning behind his decision to buy the Braemar barony and the Lordship of Kildrummy?”

“As baronies survived after 1747, it is still possible to buy laird status with an estate which is a barony.”

“John supported his claim to the barony of Trowbridge, which he received in 1213 when the king disseized Henry de Bohun.”

“The chapeau is barely mentioned by Scottish heraldic writers, before Learney ascribed the chapeau to the baronage.”

“The point is the baronage was not united against King John, and of the knightage only a small percentage was in revolt.”

“Conrad had the support of the local baronage still, but the newcomers saw him as inexplicably hostile.”

“Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.”

“The foundation of his career was his marriage to the granddaughter of the master of Loudoun, a baroness in her own right.”

“The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king.”

“A few Italians are hereditary knights bachelor, forming a kind of Italian baronetage.”

“The best genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the Peerage and baronetage.”

“For Precedency due to Baronets and their wives a baronetage should be consulted.”

“In 1608 he was knighted, and was created a baronet in 1611, two years before his death.”

“While I was at university, my bitterest regret was not having been born the son of a duke, or at the very least a baronet.”

“It all started with the first baronet, who was Lord President of the Council and a most distinguished judge.”

“Offered a knighthood, Barrie mysteriously turned it down, only to accept a baronetcy later.”

“He succeeded to the baronetcy of the Binns in 1973, but does not use his title.”

“On his father's death in 1869 he inherited the baronetcy and the proprietorship of the Athenaeum and Notes and Queries.”

“His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.”

“He directed the call to arms not to kings and emperors, but to counts and barons and even to cities.”

“The barons mobilized every man they could and put six hundred knights into the field.”

“He was usually named first among the Anglo-French barons, and his friendship with David I was surely close.”