Salusbury Baronets
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There have been two baronetcies created for the Salusbury family
Salusbury Family
The Salusbury family is an Anglo-Welsh family notable for their social prominence, wealth, literary contributions and philanthropy. The family started a bank, Salusbury and Co., which later shut down during the Great Depression.-Rise to prominence:...

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The Baronetcy of Salusbury of Lleweni was created in 1619 for Sir Henry Salusbury in the Baronetage of England. The second Baronet sat in the English House of Commons
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 representing Denbighshire
Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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 in 1640. The fourth Baronet represented Denbigh Boroughs
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Denbigh District of Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Denbigh in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons.The constituency first returned an MP in 1542, to the English Parliament...

 1661-84.

The family also has the distinction of having had William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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 dedicate a major poem, The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Phoenix and the Turtle
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, to the loving relationship that the father of the first baronet had with his wife. Their seat was located at Lleweni Hall
Lleweni Hall
Lleweni Hall was a stately home in Denbighshire, northeast Wales Lleweni Hall (Welsh, Plas Lleweni, sometimes also referred to as Llewenny Palace) was a stately home in Denbighshire, northeast Wales Lleweni Hall (Welsh, Plas Lleweni, sometimes also referred to as Llewenny Palace) was a stately...

 in Tremeirchion
Tremeirchion
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. The last family member connected to the Lleweni baronetcy was Hester Piozzi, who was the daughter of the fourth and last baronet. The estate passed through her marriage to Sir Robert Cotton
Cotton Baronets
There have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Cotton, all in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2008....

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The Baronetcy of Salusbury of Llanwern Monmouthshire
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 was created on 4 May 1795 for Robert Salusbury, Member of Parliament
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 for Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Monmouthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Parliament of England from 1536 until 1707, of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885...

 1792-1796 and Brecon
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Brecon was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election.-Boundaries:...

 1796-1812. It was extinct on the death of the third Baronet.

Salusbury Baronets, of Lleweni (1619)

  • Sir Henry Salusbury , 1st Baronet (d 1632)
  • Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet
    Sir Thomas Salusbury of Lleweni, 2nd Baronet
    Sir Thomas Salusbury, second baronet was a Welsh politician and poet, who fought for Charles I during the English Civil War.-Life:...

     (d 1643)
  • Sir Thomas Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (1634-1658)
  • Sir John Salusbury, 4th Baronet (d 1684)


The baronetcy is legally considered dormant, although it is essentially extinct.

Salusbury of Llanwern (1795)

  • Sir Robert Salusbury, 1st Baronet (1756-1817)
  • Sir Thomas Robert Salusbury, 2nd Baronet (1783-1835)
  • Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (1792-1868) Extinct on his death
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