thumbnail, 150px, Sir Robert Filmer, ancestor of the Filmer baronets The Filmer Baronetcy, of East Sutton in the County of

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, was a title in the

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. It was created on 26 December 1674 for Robert Filmer, of East Sutton Place,

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, Kent. He was the grandson of Sir Edward Filmer, of Little Charleton,

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in 1616, who married Elizabeth Argall of East Sutton and purchased the estate there from her brother. His son Sir Robert Filmer, father of the first Baronet, was a supporter of the Crown during the

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. The baronetcy was created for his son, also Robert Filmer, after the

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of Charles II in his honour. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Kent in 1689. The fourth Baronet was

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for

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. The eighth Baronet was member of parliament for

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. The ninth Baronet represented West Kent and Mid Kent in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1916.

Filmer baronets, of East Sutton (1674)

* Sir Robert Filmer, 1st Baronet (1622–1676) * Sir Robert Filmer, 2nd Baronet (1648–1720) * Sir Edward Filmer, 3rd Baronet (1683–1755) *

Sir John Filmer, 4th Baronet Sir John Filmer, 4th Baronet (1716–1797), of East Sutton, Kent was a Member of Parliament for Steyning Steyning ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur ...

(1716–1797) * Sir Beversham Filmer, 5th Baronet (1719–1805) * Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet (1727–1834) * Sir John Filmer, 7th Baronet (1760–1834) *

Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (14 June 1809 – 8 January 1857) was an English Conservative Party politician. Life He was the son of Edmund Filmer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet, and his wife Emelia Skene, daughter of George ...

(1809–1857) *

Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (11 July 1835 – 17 December 1886) was an England, English Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. He was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons at the 1859 United ...

(1835–1886) * Sir Robert Marcus Filmer, 10th Baronet (1878–1916)

Arms

References

* ''The Baronetage of England'',

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(1820) p439. Google Books * {{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012 Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1674 establishments in England