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Steele Baronets
The Steele, later Steele-Graves, later Steele Baronetcy, of Hampstead (near Dublin), was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James .... It was created on 12 February 1768 for Richard Steele. The fourth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Graves in 1862. However, the fifth Baronet not being a descendant of the fourth used the surname Steele only. The title became either extinct or dormant on his death in 1876. Steele, later Steele-Graves, later Steele baronets, of Hampstead (1768) * Sir Richard Steele, 1st Baronet(1701–1785) *Sir Parker Steele, 2nd Baronet (–1787) *Sir Richard Steele, 3rd Baronet (1775–1850) *Sir John Maxwell Steele-Graves, 4th Baronet (1812–1872) *Sir Frederick Ferdinand Armstead Steele, 5th Baronet (1787–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronetage Of Ireland
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of England, King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of Pound sterling, £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union 1707, Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the #Baronetage of Nova Scotia (1625–1706), Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the #Baronetage of Great Britain, Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Steele, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Steele, 1st Baronet of Hampstead, Co.Dublin, was an MP in the Parliament of Ireland, for Mullingar, in Co. Westmeath, serving from 1765 until 1776. He was the second son of Robert Steele of Summercove, Co. Cork (believed a descendant of Richard Steele of Sandbach; grandson of Laurence Steele - Clerk to the Irish House of Commons of Rathbride Co. Kildare, (the brother of William Steele MP, Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1656) and kinsman of Sir Richard Steele the essayist). He was made the 1st Baronet Steele of Hampstead, Co Dublin. in 1768. He married 13 February 1731 Dorothea daughter of Francis Armstead, he married secondly Margaret daughter of Robert Smith of Gibleston, Scotland. He had had four sons and three daughters. Richard Steele had settled in North Co. Dublin, at Hampstead, Glasnevin, buying the estate from Charles Davys in 1775, He lived in Dominick Street and later (1755) built 11 Parnell Square, 1770 LLD Dublin University. On his death, on 20 February 1785, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
