The Morshead Baronetcy, of

Trenant Park Trenant Park is a Grade II listed country house in the civil parish of Duloe, Cornwall, Duloe in east Cornwall, England, UK. It is surrounded by a large park and woodland. It is sited on a tongue of land between the East and West Looe rivers. The ...

in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the

Baronetage of Great Britain 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) King James I ...

. It was created on 22 January 1784 for John Morshead,

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for

Callington Callington ( kw, Kelliwik) is a civil parish and town in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom about north of Saltash and south of Launceston. Callington parish had a population of 4,783 in 2001, according to the 2001 census. This had inc ...

and

Bodmin Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor. The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordere ...

and

Lord Warden of the Stannaries The Lord Warden of the Stannaries (from la, stannum for Tin, Sn) used to exercise judicial and military functions in Cornwall, England, and is still the official who, upon the commission of the monarch or Duke of Cornwall for the time being, h ...

. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1905.

Morshead baronets, of Trenant Park (1784)

Sir John Morshead, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1747–1813) *Sir Frederick Treise Morshead, 2nd Baronet (1783–1828) *Sir Warwick Charles Morshead, 3rd Baronet (1824–1905)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morshead Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain