The Bayntun-Rolt Baronetcy, of

Spye Park Spye Park is a former country estate in Bromham parish in Wiltshire, England. It lies north of Chittoe, about north-west of Bromham village and east of Lacock. The historic house which stood there, near the Roman road from London to Bath, h ...

in the

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, was a title in the

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. It was created on 7 July 1762 for Edward Bayntun-Rolt, for many years

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for

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. He was born Edward Rolt, the grandson of Sir Thomas Rolt and Anne Bayntun, daughter of Henry Bayntun, of Spye Park,

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, Wiltshire. In 1717 he assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Bayntun after inheriting the estates of his great-uncle, John Bayntun. He was succeeded by his only legitimate son, the second Baronet, who sat as Member of Parliament for

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, Herefordshire. He had no surviving male issue and the title became extinct on his death in 1816.

Bayntun-Rolt baronets, of Spye Park (1762)

Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet (1710–1800) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 43 years from 1737 to 1780. His election in 1741 was instrumental in the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's prem ...

(1710–1800) * Sir Andrew Bayntun-Rolt, 2nd Baronet (–1816)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayntun-Rolt Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain