Stokes baronets

Escutcheon of the Stokes baronets of Lensfield Cottage

The Stokes baronetcy, of Lensfield Cottage in the Parish of Saint Paul in the Town of Cambridge, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 July 1889 for the Irish mathematician and physicist George Stokes.[1]

The title became extinct on the death of the 2nd Baronet in 1916.[2]

Stokes baronets, of Lensfield Cottage (1889)

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. pp. 1436–1437.
  2. ↑ Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, with the Knightage, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dean & Son, Ltd. 1931. p. 733.