The Hoskyns Baronetcy, of Harewood

Harewood Park

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 in the County of Hereford, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 18 December 1676 for Bennet Hoskyns

Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 1st Baronet

Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1659.Hoskyns was the son of Mr Serjeant Hoskyns and his wife Benedicta Moyle, daughter of Robert Moyle of Buckwell, Kent...

, Member of Parliament

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 for Wendover

Wendover (UK Parliament constituency)

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, Hereford

Hereford (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Herefordshire

Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

The county constituency of Herefordshire, in the West Midlands of England bordering on Wales, was abolished when the county was divided for parliamentary purposes in 1885...

. He was the son of the poet, lawyer and politician John Hoskins

John Hoskins (poet)

Serjeant John Hoskins was an English poet, scholar of Greek, and politician.-Life:He was the son of John and Margery Hoskins born in Mownton-upon-Wye, Llanwarne, Herefordshire. His father, impressed by his memory and mental abilities, arranged for him to be taught Greek at the age of ten. He...

. The second Baronet was one of the founders of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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 and served as its President from 1682 to 1683. The fourth Baronet fought under the Duke of Marlborough

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

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 in the War of the Spanish Succession

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 and also represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons

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. The twelfth Baronet was Lord Bishop of Southwell

Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham

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 from 1904 to 1925.

Four other members of the family may also be mentioned. Peyton Hoskyns, fifth son of the ninth Baronet, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. Sir John Hoskyns

John Hoskyns

Sir John Leigh Austin Hungerford Hoskyns is best known as a Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher while head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from May 1979 and April 1982...

, grandson of the Venerable Benedict George Hoskyns, sixth son of the ninth Baronet, was Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1979 to 1982. The Right Reverend Anthony Leigh Egerton Hoskyns-Abrahall

Anthony Leigh Egerton Hoskyns-Abrahall

Anthony Leigh Egerton Hoskyns-Abrahall was the Anglican Bishop of Lancaster from 1955 until 1975.Hoskyns-Abrahall was educated at Britannia Royal Naval College and Westcott House, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1931 and was a curate at St Mary’s Portsea before becoming a chaplain at Shrewsbury School...

 (1903-1982), great-grandson of Reverend John Hoskyns-Abrahall, grandson of Reverend John Hoskyns-Abrahall (who assumed the additional surname of Abrahall), youngest son of the second Baronet, was Suffragan

Suffragan bishop

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 Bishop of Lancaster

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. Sir (Theo) Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall (1896-1975), grandson of Theophilus Bennet Hoskyns-Abrahall, second son of Reverend John Hoskyns Abrahall, grandson of the aforementioned Reverend John Hoskyns-Abrahall, youngest son of the second Baronet, was Deputy-Governor of Nigeria

Nigeria

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.

Hoskyns Baronets, of Harewood (1676)

• Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 1st Baronet
  Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 1st Baronet
  Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1659.Hoskyns was the son of Mr Serjeant Hoskyns and his wife Benedicta Moyle, daughter of Robert Moyle of Buckwell, Kent...
  
   (1609-1680)
• Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet was an English baronet.He was one of the founders of the Royal Society and served as its President from 1682 to 1683. Between 1685 and 1687 he also represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons.-References:*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David . Debrett's Peerage and...
  
   (1634-1705)
• Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 3rd Baronet (1675-1711)
• Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 4th Baronet (c. 1677-1767)
• Sir Chandos Hoskyns, 5th Baronet (1720-1773)
• Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 6th Baronet (c. 1753-1802)
• Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7th Baronet (1776-1862)
• Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 8th Baronet (1804-1877)
• Sir John Leigh Hoskyns, 9th Baronet (1817-1911)
• Sir Chandos Hoskyns, 10th Baronet (1848-1914)
• Sir Leigh Hoskyns, 11th Baronet (1850-1923)
• Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 12th Baronet (1851-1925)
• Sir Edwyn Clement Hoskyns, 13th Baronet (1884-1937)
• Sir Chandos Wren Hoskyns, 14th Baronet (1923-1945)
• Sir John Chevallier Hoskyns, 15th Baronet (1926-1956)
• Sir Benedict Leigh Hoskyns, 16th Baronet (1928-2010)
• Sir Edwyn Wren Hoskyns, 17th Baronet
  Sir Edwyn Wren Hoskyns, 17th Baronet
  Sir Edwyn Wren Hoskyns is a British paediatrician and researcher into childhood diseases, notably tuberculosis, and from 2 June 2010 the 17th Hoskyns Baronet of Harewood in the County of Hereford in the Baronetage of England....
  
   (b. 1956)
  • The heir is son of the 17th Bt, Robin Chevallier Hoskyns, b. 5 July 1989.