List of Famous people with last name Baronet
Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet was an Anglo-Irish politician.
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations and to physical optics, with notable works on polarization and fluorescence. As a mathematician, he popularised "Stokes' theorem" in vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. Stokes, along with Felix Hoppe-Seyler, first demonstrated the oxygen transport function of hemoglobin and showed color changes produced by aeration of hemoglobin solutions.
Sir Edward Harry Dutton Colt, 8th Baronet
Sir Robert Austen, 3rd Baronet
Sir Robert Austen, 3rd Baronet, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1699 to 1701.
Sir Thomas Jones, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, 1st Baronet of Stanley Hall, Shropshire, was a British politician.
Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet
Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was also a Conservative Party politician.
George Cornewall Lewis
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet, was a British statesman and man of letters. He is best known for preserving neutrality in 1862 when the British cabinet debated intervention in the American Civil War.
Sir Thomas Winnington, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, 4th Baronet was an English Whig and Liberal politician.
Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet
Sir George Lowthian Trevelyan, 4th Baronet was a British educational pioneer and a founding father of the New Age movement. In 1942, after listening to a lecture by Dr Walter Stein, a student of Rudolf Steiner, he transitioned from being agnostic to a new age spiritual thinker, and even studied anthroposophy in the coming years. He first became a History teacher at Gordonstoun School, pioneering radical education methods. After World War II, in 1948, he became the Warden at Attingham Park, a pioneering adult education college in Shropshire, from where he retired in 1971 to found the Wrekin Trust, an educational charity. He was subsequently associated with the Soil Association, the Findhorn Foundation, the Teilhard de Chardin Society and the Essene Network. In the last 15 years of his life he was the focus of many lecture tours and meetings. He also wrote numerous books, including A Vision of the Aquarian Age (1977), Operation Redemption (1981), Summons to a High Crusade (1985) and finally Exploration into God (1991). He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1982 for "educating the adult spirit to a new non-materialistic vision of human nature."
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet was an English politician and baronet.