The Downing Baronetcy was a title in the Baronetage of England and Ireland. It was created on 1 July 1663 for the Irish soldier, statesman and diplomat Sir George Downing, after whom

Downing Street Downing Street is a street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Situated off Whitehall, it is long, and a few minutes' walk ...

in London is named. The third baronet left his estate to create

Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the olde ...

. The third and fourth Baronets represented

Dunwich Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast. In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was t ...

in Parliament. The title became extinct on the latter's death in 1764.

Downing baronets, of East Hatley (1663)

Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet ( – 1684) was a statesman, soldier, diplomat and spymaster and preacher, whose allegiances changed significantly during his career, giving his support to Oliver Cromwell and (later, after the Restoration) ...

(–1684) *

Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet ( – June 1711) was a British civil servant. He was the son and heir of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, for whom Downing Street is named. His father worked as Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1660 unt ...

(–1711) *

Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet (baptised 24 October 1685 – 10 June 1749) was a British landowner and inititially Tory, but later Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1749. Through a donation in his will, he was t ...

(1685–1749) *

Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, 4th Baronet ( – 6 February 1764) was an English baronet and politician. He was the grandson of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, namesake of Downing Street; and cousin and heir of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet, whos ...

(–1764)

Arms

The arms of the Downing baronets—''Barry of eights, argent and vert, over all a gryphon rampant or''—were adopted by Downing College.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Downing Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1663 establishments in England