The Cropley Baronetcy, of Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the

Baronetage of England 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) King James I ...

. It was created on 7 May 1661 for John Cropley. The second Baronet sat as

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for

Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about above sea level on a ...

. The title became extinct on his death in 1713.

Cropley baronets, of Clerkenwell (1661)

Sir John Cropley, 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 p ...

(died 1676) *

Sir John Cropley, 2nd Baronet Sir John Cropley, 2nd Baronet (15 July 1663 – 22 October 1713), of Red Lion Square, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1710. Early life Cropley was baptised at St. James Clerkenwe ...

(1663–1713)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cropley Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1661 establishments in England