The first of the Lade Baronetcies, of Warbleton

Warbleton

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 in the County of Sussex

Sussex

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, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 11 March 1731 for John Lade (sometimes spelled "Ladd"), a prosperous Southwark

Southwark

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 brewer

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 and MP

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 for Southwark

Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)

Southwark was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Southwark district of South London. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament from 1295 to 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

. By the terms of the patent

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, the childless first baronet's niece's third son succeeded as second baronet, and changed his surname from Whithorne to Lade, but died without issue, when the baronetcy became extinct.

However, the first baronet left his fortune to another great-nephew, John Inskip, an MP

Member of Parliament

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 for Camelford

Camelford (UK Parliament constituency)

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, who also took the name of Lade, and who was created a baronet, also of Warbleton, in 1758. He, unfortunately, died the next year following the amputation of his leg after a fall from a horse. His wife Mary, the sister of Henry Thrale

Henry Thrale

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, was pregnant at the time of his death and bore a posthumous son who succeeded to the baronetcy. This Sir John Lade

John Lade

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 was cited by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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 as an example of a young man whose personal gifts were not equal to his fortune–—Johnson's intimacy with the Thrales giving him an opportunity to know the young baronet. On the death without issue of the second baronet of the second creation, 10 February 1838, the second baronetcy also became extinct.

Lade Baronets, of Warbleton (1731)

• Sir John Lade, 1st Baronet (1662–1740)
• Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet (1721–1747)

Lade Baronets, of Warbleton (1758)

• Sir John Lade, 1st Baronet (c. 1731–1759)
• Sir John Lade, 2nd Baronet (1759–1838)