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The Colclough Baronetcy, of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, was created 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) James I of E ...
on 21 July 1628 for Adam Colclough,
High Sheriff of Wexford The High Sheriff of Wexford was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Wexford, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Wexford County Sheriff ...
in 1630. The family seat was
Tintern Abbey (County Wexford) __NOTOC__ Tintern Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland. The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in c.1200 by William Marshal, Earl of Pemb ...
and its lands, which were granted in 1575 to Anthony Colclough from Staffordshire, an officer in Henry VIII's army, after the dissolution of the monasteries. After the death of the third baronet, the estate passed to the Leigh-Colclough (formerly Leigh) family.


Colclough baronets of Tintern Abbey (1628)

* Sir Adam Colclough, 1st Baronet (–1637) *
Sir Caesar Colclough, 2nd Baronet Sir Caesar Colclough, 2nd baronet (1623–1684), of Greenham, Thatcham, Berkshire and Tintern Abbey (County Wexford), Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Member of Parliament, Member (MP) of the Parliament ...
(1624–1684) * Sir Caesar Colclough, 3rd Baronet (c. 1650–1687). Baronetcy extinct on his death.


References

* Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland {{Ireland-baron-stub