Ffolkes Baronets
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The ffolkes Baronetcy, of Hillington in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 May 1774 for Martin ffolkes, later Member of Parliament
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 for King's Lynn
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. The second Baronet represented Norfolk
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 and Norfolk West in the House of Commons
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 while the third Baronet represented King's Lynn. The fifth Baronet was Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Edward VII
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 and George V
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 and Chaplain to Edward VIII
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 and George VI
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.

The family surname is pronounced "Foakes".

ffolkes Baronets, of Hillington (1774)

  • Sir Martin ffolkes, 1st Baronet (1749-1821)
  • Sir William John Henry Browne ffolkes, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William ffolkes, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William John Henry Browne ffolkes, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1830 to 1837....

     (1786-1860)
  • Sir William Hovell Browne ffolkes, 3rd Baronet
    Sir William ffolkes, 3rd Baronet
    Sir William Hovell Browne ffolkes, 3rd Baronet was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885....

     (1847-1912) whose only daughter married John Dawnay, 9th Viscount Downe
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     (1872-1931), and had issue. The third baronet was therefore succeeded by his cousin
  • Sir William Everard Browne ffolkes, 4th Baronet (1861-1930) who was succeeded by his next surviving brother
  • Sir Francis Arthur Stanley ffolkes, 5th Baronet (1863-1938) a chaplain to King George V
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    , who was succeeded by his son
  • Sir (Edward John) Patrick Boschetti ffolkes, 6th Baronet (1899-1960)
  • Sir Robert Francis Alexander ffolkes, 7th Baronet (b. 1943)
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