The Oxenden Baronetcy, of Dene in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 6 May 1678 for Sir Henry Oxenden, previously

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and

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. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Sandwich and Kent. His younger brother, the third Baronet, was Deputy Governor of Bombay. The fourth Baronet was the son of

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, Master of

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, who was the third son of the 1st Baronet. He was Member of Parliament for Sandwich for over thirty years. The sixth Baronet inherited the Kentish estate of the

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which became the family seat. The title became extinct on the death of the tenth Baronet in 1924.

Oxenden baronets, of Dene (1678)

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Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Baronet (1614–1686) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1660. Oxenden was the eldest son of Sir James Oxenden of Deane and his wife Margaret Nevinson, daughter of ...

(1614–1686) *

Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet (4 April 1641 – 29 September 1708), of Dene, Kent was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1679 and 1702. Oxenden was the son of Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Baronet and his second wife Eli ...

(1641–1708) * Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet (1645–1709) * Sir Henry Oxenden, 4th Baronet (1690–1720) *

Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet (26 October 1694 – 20 January 1775) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1754. Early life Oxenden was the son of George Oxenden LLD master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and h ...

(1694–1775) * Sir Henry Oxenden, 6th Baronet (1721–1803) * Sir Henry Oxenden, 7th Baronet (1756–1838) * Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, 8th Baronet (1795–1889) * Sir Henry Montagu Oxenden, 9th Baronet (1826–1895) * Sir Percy Dixwell Nowell Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet (1833–1924)

References

* ''Debrett's Baronetage of England'' 7th Edition (1839) pp. 140–1 Google Books. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxenden Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England