The Cunliffe-Owen Baronetcy, of Bray in the

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, is a title in the

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. It was created on 2 February 1920 for the industrialist

Hugo Cunliffe-Owen Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet (16 August 1870 – 14 December 1947) was an English industrialist. Childhood Cunliffe-Owen was born in Kensington, London, the younger son of Philip Cunliffe-Owen, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, director of the S ...

. He was chairman and president of the

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. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, father of the first Baronet, was Director of the

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(now the Victoria and Albert Museum) from 1874 to 1893.

Cunliffe-Owen baronets, of Bray (1920)

* Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet (1870–1947) *Sir Dudley Herbert Cunliffe-Owen, 2nd Baronet (1923–1983), married Juliana Eveline, a daughter of

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, later divorced. *Sir Hugo Dudley Cunliffe-Owen, 3rd Baronet (born 1966) There is no heir to the baronetcy.

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 Cunliffe-Owen