List of Famous people with last name Baronet

Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet was an English journalist and Liberal Member of Parliament and government minister. Norman was educated privately in France and at Harvard University, where he obtained his B.A. For several years he worked on the editorial staff of the Pall Mall Gazette and later joined the editorial staff of the Daily Chronicle, being appointed Assistant Editor of the latter in 1895. He retired from journalism in 1899. During this time he travelled widely in Canada and the United States and in Russia, Japan, China, Siam, Malaya and Central Asia. Much of the material included in the two volumes mentioned in the description was amassed during these tours. He was knighted in 1906 and made a baronet in 1915.

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet was a British diplomat, ambassador to Thailand and Austria.

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery. He broke with Gladstone over the 1886 Irish Home Rule Bill, but after modifications were made to the bill he re-joined the Liberal Party shortly afterwards. Also a writer and historian, Trevelyan published The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, his maternal uncle, in 1876.

Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1661 and 1687.

Sir Lachlan Maclean, 1st Baronet of Morvern, the 17th Clan Chief of Clan Maclean. Lachlan was granted his Baronet title by Charles I and he became the Clan Chief on the death of his brother in 1626. He fought as a Royalist under James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms at the Battle of Inverlochy, Battle of Auldearn and Battle of Kilsyth. From 1628 to 1633 he sat in the Parliament of Scotland as shire commissioner for Tarbert. From his rule onward, all Maclean clan chiefs are successive Baronets of Movern.

Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet was a British merchant and a Governor of the Bank of England.

Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 1st Baronet was an English food producer and importer and shipowner, and co-founder with his brother William of Vestey Brothers.

Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Baronet, was a British diplomat who was minister or ambassador to several countries. He succeeded his brother, Charles, as Baronet in 1877.

Sir Edward Mervyn Archdale, 1st Baronet, PC (Ire), DL was a Northern Irish politician.

The Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet was an English baronet, the eldest child of Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet and Susannah née Larkins.