Fayrer baronets

Fayrer baronets
Escutcheon of the Fayrer baronets of Devonshire Street
Creation date1896
Statusextinct
Extinction date2017
MottoNe Tentes Aut Perfice (All or nothing) [1]
ArmsArgent on a bend inverted Sable between in chief an Eastern crown Gules and in base the staff of Æsculapius Proper enfiled with a like crown three horse-shoes Or
CrestIn front of a sword erect Proper pommel and hilt Gold a horse-shoe Or between two wings Gules.

The Fayrer baronetcy, of Devonshire Street in St Marylebone in the County of London, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 February 1896 for the physician Joseph Fayrer.[2] The baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet in 2017. The family surname was pronounced "Fairer".

Fayrer baronets, of Devonshire Street (1896)

  • Sir Joseph Fayrer, 1st Baronet (1824–1907)[3]
  • Sir Joseph Fayrer, 2nd Baronet (1859–1937)[3]
  • Sir Joseph Herbert Spens Fayrer, 3rd Baronet (1899–1976)[3][4]
  • Sir John Lang Macpherson Fayrer, 4th Baronet (18 October 1944 – 9 March 2017)[4][5]

The baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1959.
  2. ↑ "No. 26709". The London Gazette. 14 February 1896. p. 858.
  3. 1 2 3 Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. p. 748.
  4. 1 2 Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London: Debrett's Peerage. 2000. p. B379. ISBN 033354577X.
  5. ↑ Sloan, John (2023). Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect. Oxford University Press. p. 229 note 13. ISBN 978-0-19-286687-5.
  6. ↑ Morris, Susan, ed. (20 April 2020). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. eBook Partnership. p. 1918. ISBN 978-1-9997670-5-1.