The Tapps, later Tapps-Gervis, later Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick Baronetcy, of Hinton Admiral in the County of

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, is a title in the

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. It was created on 28 July 1791 for the landowner and developer George Tapps. The second Baronet sat as

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for

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and

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. He assumed in 1835 the additional surname of Gervis. The third Baronet was high sheriff of

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in 1878. He assumed in 1876 by Royal licence the additional surname of Meyrick according to the will of Owen Fuller Meyrick, a relative on his mother's side, from whom he inherited the

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estate on the Isle of

. The fourth Baronet was high sheriff of

in 1900. The fifth Baronet was high sheriff of Anglesey in 1939. The family seats are

Hinton Admiral Hinton Admiral is the estate and ancestral home of the Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick family and located in the settlement of Hinton, near Bransgore in Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I Listed building. The walled gardens to the north of the house and ...

, near

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, Hampshire, and

Bodorgan Hall Bodorgan Hall is a country house and estate located in the hamlet of Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales, situated near the Irish Sea in the southwestern part of the island. The hall is the seat of the Meyricks, and is the largest estate on Anglesey. The ha ...

, Anglesey. The Tapps Coat of Arms: Azure on a fess or between three rhinoceroses argent three escallops gules.

Tapps, later Tapps-Gervis, later Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick baronets, of Hinton Admiral 1791)

* Sir George Ivison Tapps, 1st Baronet (1753–1835) * Sir George William Tapps-Gervis, 2nd Baronet (1795–1842) * Sir George Eliott Meyrick Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 3rd Baronet (1827–1896) * Sir George Augustus Eliott Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 4th Baronet (1855–1928) * Sir George Llewelyn Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 5th Baronet (1885–1960) * Sir George David Eliott Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 6th Baronet (1915–1988) * Sir George Christopher Cadfael Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 7th Baronet (1941–2019) married 1968, Jean Louise Montagu Douglas Scott (born 1943), niece of HRH

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* Sir George William Owen Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 8th Baronet (born 1970) The

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is the present holder's son George Augustus Heilyn Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick (born 2011)

References

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