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 Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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and fought in the Second Boer War, where he was severely wounded at the Relief of Ladysmith, 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.

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 (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 ''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 ...

(1878–1902) *

Sir Morgan George Crofton, 6th 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 ...

(1879–1958) * Sir Patrick Simon Crofton, 7th Baronet (1936–1987) *

Sir (Hugh) Denis Crofton, 8th 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 ...

(1937–2016) *

Sir Edward Morgan Crofton, 9th 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 ...

(b.1945) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Henry Morgan Crofton (born 1979).

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{{s-end Crofton family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy) Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom