The Goulding Baronetcy, of Millicent in Clane in the County of Kildare and Roebuck Hill in Dundrum in the County of Dublin, is 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 1904 for the businessman

William Goulding William Goulding (15 November 1817 – 8 December 1884) was an Irish Conservative Party politician from Cork. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1876 to 1880. At the general election in February 1874, he was stood unsuccessfully as a cand ...

, a prominent

freemason Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...

who was director several railway companies in Ireland, and son of

(1817–1884), the last Conservative MP for Cork City. He accompanied the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin John Gregg and Bishop of Cashel Robert Miller "to see Michael Collins in May 1922, following the murders of thirteen Protestants in the Bandon valley, to ask whether the Protestant minority should stay on. Collins 'assured them that the government would maintain civil and religious liberty'."citing The third Baronet was a successful cricketer and the husband of

Valerie Goulding Valerie Hamilton, Hon. Lady Goulding (12 September 1918 – 28 July 2003) was an Irish campaigner for disabled people, and senator who set up the Central Remedial Clinic in 1951 alongside Kathleen O'Rourke which is now the largest organisation ...

. As of 2007 the presumed fourth Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant. The family surname is pronounced "Goolding".

Goulding baronets, of Millicent and Roebuck Hill (1904)

* Sir William Joshua Goulding, 1st Baronet (1856–1925) *Sir William Lingard Amphlett Goulding, 2nd Baronet (1883–1935) * Sir (William) Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet (1909–1982) *(William) Lingard Walter Goulding, presumed 4th Baronet (born 1940)

Goulding Baronet of Wargrave Hall (1915)

* Sir Edward Alfred Goulding, 1st and last Baronet (1862–1936) - Made Baron Wargrave, 1922.

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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 Goulding Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom