(1) 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 .

(2) He was now an author of world renown, a baronet , the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders.

(3) He was created baronet in 1903, baron in 1905, and viscount in 1917.

(4) His father was an English baronet who served at the court of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; his mother was the twenty-one-year-old only daughter of the Duke of Dalberg.

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

(6) Having previously declined a knighthood, Heaton was made a baronet in 1912.

(7) In 1608 he was knighted, and was created a baronet in 1611, two years before his death.

(8) Her father, Sir Hugh Bell, was an industrialist baronet filled with the ideals of high Victorian liberalism, devotion to empire, and profit-these were not, to his mind, incompatible aims.

(9) William did not assume his grandfather's title, which had lapsed on his death, but he did inherit the residue of the baronet 's extensive property, and his mercantile and shipbuilding businesses at Kittery.

(10) For she had her heart set on a baronet at least.

(11) Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester, used to u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510excuse himself for his much swearing by saying he swore as a baronet , and not as a bishopu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb!

(12) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510The calico-printer and the cotton-master becomes, within two generations, the baronet and the big-wigu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.

(13) There are knights and baronets among them, men with prosperity and substantial income.

(14) In the palace Deuterium Boy was welcomed by scores of clerks and baronets , and was presented to the scarlet-masked king Hurturbrise himself.

(15) Even in Britain, u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510the workshop of the worldu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, the deference paid to landowners ensured that as late as the 1880s there were still 170 MPs who were the sons of peers or baronets .

(16) Peerages could be bought and impoverished baronets survive on the dubious value of their once good name.

(17) Looking round my rooms one day and noting the amount of royal prints and portraits he said, u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510I don't approve of hereditary institutionsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and then somewhat impishly he added u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510except for baronets .u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(18) The family business prospered, however: in the year before the Civil War broke out, a cash-strapped Charles I created 128 baronets .

(19) Theoretically the number of baronets and knights can be established at different periods, but this is not the case with the third and fourth categories of gentry, esquires and gentlemen.

(20) But the principal enemies of peace and justice in the world today are not hare-coursing baronets , but rapacious multinational corporations and their political emissaries.