Mount Baronets
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The Mount Baronets are a family with a baronet
Baronet
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cy in the United Kingdom
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.

The baronetcy was settled on William Mount
Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet
Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency...

 on 21 June 1921 and is still extant.

Wasing
Wasing
Wasing is a small village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.It is situated in the West Berkshire district, near to the Berkshire-Hampshire border approximately south east of Newbury, its post town. Other places located close by include Aldermaston and Brimpton...

, Berkshire
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, is the family seat.

Mount Baronets, of Wasing (1921)

  • Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet
    Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet
    Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency...

     (1866–1930)

  • Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet TD
    Territorial Decoration
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     DL
    Deputy Lieutenant
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     (28 December 1904–22 June 1993). Mount was a Territorial Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire
    High Sheriff of Berkshire
    The High Sheriff of Berkshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Saxon times. The word Sheriff evolved from 'shire-reeve'....

    , a Deputy Lieutenant
    Deputy Lieutenant
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     of the same county and grandfather to David Cameron
    David Cameron
    David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....

    . He was the eldest son of Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, and Hilda Lucy Adelaide, daughter of Malcolm Low and wife Lady Ida Matilda Alice Fielding of the Earls of Denbigh, and a third cousin of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
    George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
    George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon was an English aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.-Biography:...

    , and was educated at Eton
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     and New College, Oxford
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    . On 17 October 1929 he married Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn, daughter of Owen John Llewellyn of Moulsford
    Moulsford
    Moulsford is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to the county of Oxfordshire, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire....

    , Berkshire
    Berkshire
    Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

     (now Oxfordshire
    Oxfordshire
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    ). He inherited the baronet
    Baronet
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    cy on 8 December 1930 on the death of his father. He was commissioned into the 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry
    Yeomanry
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    ) Brigade, Royal Artillery
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     (Territorial Army) as second lieutenant
    Second Lieutenant
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     in 1924 and was promoted lieutenant
    Lieutenant
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     in 1926, captain
    Captain (OF-2)
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     in 1937, and major in 1938. He transferred to the Reconnaissance Corps
    Reconnaissance Corps
    The Reconnaissance Corps or simply Recce Corps was a short-lived elite corps of the British Army whose units provided the mobile spearhead of infantry divisions from the Far East to Europe during the Second World War. It was formed from Infantry Brigade Reconnaissance Groups on 14 January 1941...

     on its formation in September 1941 and ended the Second World War as a lieutenant-colonel. Mount was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 1946, and High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1947. Mount was the grandfather of David Cameron
    David Cameron
    David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....

    , the current Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
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     Prime Minister
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    . He died at the age of 88.

  • Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet
    Ferdinand Mount
    Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet , usually known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer and novelist, columnist for The Sunday Times and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician...

    (b. 1939)
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