John Glynne (1602-1666), by follower of Sir Peter Lely

The Glynne Baronetcy, of Bicester in the

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, was a title in the

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. It was created on 20 May 1661 for William Glynne, the former

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for Carnarvon. He was the son of

Sir John Glynne Sir John Glynne KS (1602 – 15 November 1666) was a Welsh lawyer of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, under Oliver Cromwell. He sat in the House of Commons at various times bet ...

, Lord Chief Justice during the

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. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for

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and

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. The sixth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Flintshire and

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. The title became extinct on the death in 1874 of

Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet (22 September 1807 – 17 June 1874) was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture. He was a ...

. The family estates, including Hawarden Castle in Flintshire, had been rescued from bankruptcy by the wealth of Sir John Gladstone, whose son

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(the Liberal Prime Minister) had married the ninth Baronet's sister Catherine; on his death, they passed to Catherine and William's eldest son

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Glynne baronets, of Bisseter (1661)

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(1638–1690) *

Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet (17 May 1663 – 3 September 1721) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. The elder son of Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet (whom he succeeded in 1690), he was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was a Gentleman o ...

(1663–1721) * Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet (7 February 1665 – 29 April 1729). Glynne married Sophia Evelyn (his sister-in-law), by whom he had three sons, the 4th, 5th, and 6th Baronets. * Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet ( – September 1729) *Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (c. 1710 – August 1730). Glynne died unmarried at

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. *

Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (1713 – 1 July 1777) was a Welsh politician and landowner. Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in ...

(1712–1777) * Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet (12 May 1744 – 1 April 1780). Glynne was educated at

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and took holy orders, becoming

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of Hawarden. He married Mary Bennett in 1779, and died of a ruptured blood vessel while hunting the next year. *Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 8th Baronet (May 1780 – 5 March 1815). Glynne was the posthumous son of the 7th Baronet. He was educated at

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and

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. Sir Stephen was an amateur architect and an agriculturalist. In 1806, he married Mary Griffin, daughter of

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. He died at

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in 1815 and was succeeded by his son Stephen. * Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet (1807–1874)

References

* * * , at Leigh Rayment's Peerage pages {{DEFAULTSORT:Glynne Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England People from Hawarden