The Harnage Baronetcy, of Belswardyne in the County of Shropshire, was a title in the

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. It was created on 28 July 1821 for George Harnage, a captain in the

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. Born George Blackman, he was the son of John Lucie Blackman, a

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merchant and the member of an old London and West Indies family, and his wife Mary, who after his death married Admiral

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. Mary was the daughter of Sir Henry Harnage, of Belswardyne,

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...

. In 1821, on his elevation to the

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, George Blackman assumed the surname of Harnage in lieu of his patronymic so that he could inherit the ancestral Harnage home, Belleswardine House in Shropshire. The Harnages were an old Shropshire family and had been settled at Belswardyne since 1542. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1888.

Harnage baronets, of Belswardyne (1821)

* George Harnage, 1st Baronet (1767–1836) *Sir George Harnage, 2nd Baronet (1792–1866) *Sir Henry George Harnage, 3rd Baronet (1827–1888)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harnage West Indies merchants Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom