Boyd baronets of Danson (1775)

Escutcheon of the Boyd baronets of Danson

The Boyd baronetcy, of Danson in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 2 June 1775 for John Boyd.[1] He was a sugar merchant and vice-chairman of the British East India Company; he was also a plantation owner on St Kitts, and built the mansion of Danson Hill near Bexleyheath.[2][3][4]

He was succeeded by his son, the 2nd Baronet. He represented Wareham in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1784.[5] In 1807 he had the Danson Hill estate sold.[6] The title descended from father to son until the death of his great-grandson, the 5th Baronet, in 1857. The 6th Baronet, a cleric, was his uncle; on his death in 1889 the baronetcy became extinct.[2][7]

Boyd baronets, of Danson (1775)

Notes

  1. ↑ "No. 11562". The London Gazette. 16 May 1775. p. 1.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cokayne, George Edward (1906). Complete Baronetage. Vol. V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. p. 275.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. pp. 64–65.
  4. 1 2 "SirJohn Boyd 1st Bart., 1718-1800, Legacies of British Slavery". ucl.ac.uk/lbs.
  5. 1 2 Christie, I. R. "Boyd, John (1750-1815), of Danson Park, Kent, History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  6. ↑ Oddy, Andrew (1992). The Art of the Conservator. Trustees of the British Museum. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7141-2056-0.
  7. 1 2 Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Boyd, Sir Frederick, Bart." . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  8. ↑ "Sir John Boyd 2nd Bart. 27th Oct 1750 - 30th May 1815, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  9. ↑ "Sir John Boyd 3rd Bart. 5th Jun 1786 - 19th Jan 1855, Legacies of British Slavery". ucl.ac.uk/lbs.
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