baroness

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The Playters baronets were a Suffolk line, first established by James I in 1623, according to historians.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2019

Waller-Bridge grew up in an upper-middle-class family with baronets on both sides.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2018

The BUF itself had around 40,000 members in 1934 and a number of wealthy and influential supporters, including press magnate Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail, and an array of dukes, marquesses, and baronets.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2017

To celebrate "The Twelfth" last week, brokers, brewers, baronets and belted Earls set off with some sixteen pieces of luggage each to join fashionable grouseparties on Scotch moors.

From Time Magazine Archive

She'll not have you, if you were twenty baronets, and twenty majors of Dragoons into the bargain.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)