The Meysey-Thompson Baronetcy, of Kirby Hall in the County of York, was a title in the

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. It was created on 26 March 1874 for

Harry Meysey-Thompson Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet (1809–1874) was Liberal Member of Parliament for Whitby between 1859 and 1865. Thompson was well known as an agriculturalist who helped found the Yorkshire Agricultural Society in 1837, becoming i ...

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for

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. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He was a Liberal, and later

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politician. On 26 December 1905 he was created Baron Knaresborough, of Kirby Hall (near

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) in the County of York, in the

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. The barony became extinct on his death in 1929 while the baronetcy survived. The presumed fourth Baronet never successfully proved his succession and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. When he died in 2002 the baronetcy became extinct as well.

Meysey-Thompson baronets, of Kirby Hall (1874)

* Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet (1809–1874) * Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, 2nd Baronet (1845–1929) (created Baron Knaresborough in 1905)

Barons Knaresborough (1905)

* Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baron Knaresborough (1845–1929)

Meysey-Thompson baronets, of Kirby Hall (1874; Reverted)

*Sir Algar de Clifford Charles Meysey-Thompson, 3rd Baronet (1885–1967) *(Humphrey) Simon Meysey-Thompson, presumed 4th Baronet (1935–2002)

References

Sources

* *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *{{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012 Meysey-Thompson