There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Crofton, two in the

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and two in the

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. As of 2014 three creations are extant. The Crofton Baronetcy, of The Mote in

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, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 1 July 1661 for Edward Crofton, as a reward for his record of loyalty to King Charles II during the

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. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Lanesborough, and served as High Sheriff of Roscommon and

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. He was succeeded in the title by his son Edward, the second Baronet, who sat in the

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as member first for

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, and subsequently for

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, and was a member of the

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in 1713–14. He was a prominent opponent of King

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, and was

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by the

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of 1689, but recovered his estates the following year. His eldest son, the third baronet, also represented Roscommon in the House of Commons. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1780. The Crofton Baronetcy, of The Mote in the County of Roscommon, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 12 June 1758 for Marcus Lowther-Crofton. He was the husband of Catherine, daughter of the third Baronet of the 1661 creation and had earlier assumed the surname of Crofton. For more information on this creation, see the Baron Crofton. The Crofton Baronetcy, of Mohill in the County of Leitrim, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 August 1801 for

Morgan Crofton Morgan Crofton (1826, Dublin, Ireland – 1915, Brighton, England) was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the field of geometric probability theory. He also worked with James Joseph Sylvester and contributed an article on probability to ...

. The sixth Baronet was a

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in the

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and fought in the

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, where he was severely wounded at the

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, and in the two world wars. His diaries from the First World War are published as ''Massacre of the Innocents: The Crofton Diaries, Ypres 1914–1915'' (2004). Another member of the family, James Crofton, grandson of Morgan Crofton, third son of the first Baronet, was a

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in the Army. The Crofton Baronetcy, of Longford House in the County of Sligo, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 18 August 1838 for James Crofton. He was descended from Thomas Crofton, uncle of the first Baronet of the 1661 creation.

Crofton baronets, of The Mote (1661)

Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet (1624–1675) was an Anglo-Irish Royalist politician. Family Crofton was the son of George Crofton of Ballymurray, County Roscommon and Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of Sir Francis Berkeley and Catherine Loftus, an ...

(1624–1675) *

Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet (11 October 1748 – 30 September 1797) was an Irish politician. Crofton was the son of Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet and his wife, Catherine (née Crofton) and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death o ...

(c. 1662–1729) * Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet (1687–1739) *

Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet (12 April 1713 – 26 March 1745) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Family Crofton was the son of Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet and Mary Nixon. He represented Roscommon County in the Irish House of Commons between ...

(1713–1745) *

Sir Oliver Crofton, 5th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1710–1780)

Crofton baronets, of The Mote (1758)

*see the Baron Crofton

Crofton baronets, of Mohill (1801)

Sir Morgan Crofton, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1733–1802) *

Sir Hugh Crofton, 2nd Baronet Sir Hugh Crofton, 2nd Baronet (17 July 1763 – 6 January 1834) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Crofton was the son of Sir Morgan Crofton, 1st Baronet and Jeanne d'Abzac. Between 1786 and 1790 he sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of ...

(1763–1834) *

Sir Morgan George Crofton, 3rd Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1788–1867) * Sir Morgan George Crofton, 4th Baronet (1850–1900) * Sir Hugh Denis Crofton, 5th Baronet (1878–1902) * Sir Morgan George Crofton, 6th Baronet (1879–1958) * Sir Patrick Simon Crofton, 7th Baronet (1936–1987) * Sir (Hugh) Denis Crofton, 8th Baronet (1937–2016) * Sir Edward Morgan Crofton, 9th Baronet (b.1945) The

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is the present holder's son Henry Morgan Crofton (born 1979).

Crofton baronets, of Longford House (1838)

Sir James Crofton, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1776–1849) * Sir Malby Crofton, 2nd Baronet (1797–1872) * Sir Malby Crofton, 3rd Baronet (1857–1926) * Sir (Malby Richard) Henry Crofton, 4th Baronet (1881–1962) * Sir Malby Sturges Crofton, 5th Baronet (1923–2002) * Sir Henry Edward Melville Crofton, 6th Baronet (1931–2003) * Sir Julian Malby Crofton, 7th Baronet (1958–2018) * Sir William Robert Malby Crofton, 8th Baronet (born 1996) Sir Julian Malby Crofton also has two other children, Harriet Crofton and Edward James Crofton (b. 29 October 1998).

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *{{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012

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