The Blackwell Baronetcy, of Sprowston in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the

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. The baronetcy was created on 16 July 1718 for Sir Lambert Blackwell, Kt of

Sprowston Sprowston ( or ) is a small suburban town bordering Norwich in Norfolk, England. It is bounded by Heartsease to the east, Mousehold Heath and the suburb of New Sprowston to the south (in Norwich), Old Catton to the west, and by the open farmland ...

Hall near

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. Descended from the Blackwells of Surrey, he was a younger son of John Blackwell of Mortlake. He was

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and

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by whom he was knighted in 1697. He was a director of the

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and

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for Wilton 1708-10. The baronetcy became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Baronet, in 1801.

Blackwell baronets, of Sprowston (1718)

Sir Lambert Blackwell, 1st Baronet Sir Lambert Blackwell, 1st Baronet (died 1727) of Sprowston Hall, Norfolk, was an English diplomat and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. Blackwell was one of the younger of the seventeen children of Captain John ...

(died 1727) * Sir Charles Blackwell, 2nd Baronet (1700–1741) * Sir Lambert Blackwell, 3rd Baronet (1732–1801)

References

* ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland.'' John Burke (1832) p64. Google Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Blackwell Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain