Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet (April 1661 – 19 May 1712) was an

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baronet and politician. He was the oldest son of Sir George Fletcher, 2nd Baronet and his first wife Alice Hare, daughter of Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine. In 1700, he succeeded his father as baronet. Fletcher was educated at

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, where he matriculated on 10 June 1678. He entered the

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(MP) for

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in 1689, representing the constituency until the following year. Fletcher converted to Roman Catholicism and lived then as a monk in the English monastery of

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. He died there, unmarried and childless, and was buried in a chapel, he had built for the community at his own expense. With his death the baronetcy became extinct.

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1661 births 1712 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1689–1690 {{17thC-England-MP-stub