The Standing Council of the Baronetage is a United Kingdom organisation which deals with the affairs of

baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14t ...

s. It was first established in January 1898 as the Honourable Society of the Baronetage. In July 1903 it was reconstituted as a permanent organisation under the name of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Its roles include publishing the

Official Roll of the Baronetage The Official Roll of the Baronetage is an official list of baronets kept by the Lord Chancellor; an abridged version is published online by the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Any person who wishes to claim succession to a baronetcy must produ ...

, providing advice to those wishing to prove their succession to a baronetage, to provide an environment for social interaction between members of the society and to make contributions to charitable good causes. Membership of the organisation is restricted to baronets and their

heirs apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...

. In order to be recognised by the society as a baronet an individual's name must be entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage.

External links

* http://www.baronetage.org - Official website of the Standing Council of the Baronetage * {{cite book , last=Pixley , first=Francis William , author-link= Francis W. Pixley , title=A history of the baronetage , url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbaronet00pixluoft , access-date=2008-09-26 , publisher=Duckworth and Company , location=London , quote= dedicated to Sir Charles H Stuart Rich, fourth Baronet of Shirley, F.S.A., founder of the Honourable Society of the Baronetage. *