The Fuller-Eliott-Drake Baronetcy, of Nutwell Court,

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, or Monachorum, Sherford, and

Yarcombe Yarcombe is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England, situated in the East Devon administrative district on the A30 road near the towns of Honiton and Chard. It is sited in the steep rolling meadows and ancient woods of the Y ...

in the County of

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, was a title in the

Baronetage of the United Kingdom 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) James I of E ...

. It was created on 22 August 1821 for the soldier

Thomas Fuller-Eliott-Drake Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 1st Baronet (1785–1870) was a British Army officer. The Fuller-Eliott-Drake Baronetcy, of Nutwell Court, Devon, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 August 1821 for Thomas Fuller-Eli ...

, with remainder in default of male issue of his own to his next two younger brothers, William Stephen Fuller and Rose Henry Fuller, and their male issue. Born Thomas Fuller, he was a grandson of

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, (25 December 1717 – 6 July 1790) was a British Army officer who served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction during the Seven Years' War when he fought in Ge ...

, and grand-nephew of the last Drake Baronet of Buckland, and adopted the additional surnames of Eliott and Drake upon his inheritance of

and Nutwell Court from the second Lord Heathfield in 1813. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Baronet, a son of the younger of his two brothers, who had also adopted the additional surnames. The title became extinct upon his death without a male heir in 1916. The second Baronet's only child married the third

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, who also adopted the Eliott and Drake surnames.

Fuller-Eliott-Drake baronets, of Nutwell Court and Yarcombe (1821)

* Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 1st Baronet (1785–1870) *Sir Francis George Augustus Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 2nd Baronet (1837–1916)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller-Eliott-Drake Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronetcies created with special remainders

Fuller-Eliott-Drake baronets, of Nutwell Court and Yarcombe (1821)

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