The Filmer Baronetcy, of East Sutton in the County of Kent

Kent

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, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 26 December 1674 for Robert Filmer, of East Sutton Place, East Sutton

East Sutton

East Sutton is a parish approximately 6 miles south-east of Maidstone in Kent, England. East Sutton is small in number of dwellings but relatively large in area: the parish has a women's prison, a council estate of 16 houses and the church of St Peter and Saint Paul.HMP East Sutton Park is a prison...

, Kent. He was the grandson of Sir Edward Filmer, of Little Charleton, High Sheriff of Kent

High Sheriff of Kent

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 in 1616, who married Elizabeth Argarll of East Sutton and purchased the estate there from her brother. His son Sir Robert Filmer

Robert Filmer

thumbnail|150px|right|Robert Filmer Sir Robert Filmer was an English political theorist who defended the divine right of kings...

, father of the first Baronet, was a supporter of the Crown during the English Civil War

English Civil War

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. The baronetcy was created for his son, also Robert Filmer, after the Restoration

English Restoration

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 of Charles II

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 in his honour.

The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Kent in 1689. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Steyning

Steyning (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The eighth Baronet was member of Parliament for West Kent. The ninth Baronet represented West Kent and Mid Kent in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1916.

Filmer Baronets, of East Sutton (1674)

• Sir Robert Filmer, 1st Baronet (1622–1676)
• Sir Robert Filmer, 2nd Baronet (1648–1720)
• Sir Edward Filmer, 3rd Baronet (1683–1755)
• Sir John Filmer, 4th Baronet (1716–1797)
• Sir Beversham Filmer, 5th Baronet (1719–1805)
• Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet (1727–1834)
• Sir John Firlmer, 7th Baronet (1760–1834)
• Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet
  Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet
  Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet was an English Conservative Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in March 1838 as a Member of Parliament for West Kent, having unsuccessfully contested the same constituency at the 1837 general election. He held the seat until...
  
   (1809–1857)
• Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet
  Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet
  Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet was an English Conservative Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1859 general election as a Member of Parliament for West Kent...
  
  (1835–1886)
• Sir Robert Marcus Filmer, 10th Baronet (1878–1916)