The Troubridge Baronetcy, of Plymouth, is a title in the

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. It was created on 30 November 1799 for Captain Thomas Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the

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, who later became an

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. The second baronet was also a Royal Navy admiral and sat as

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for

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. The third baronet fought with distinction in the

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, in which he was severely wounded. The family surname is pronounced "Troobridge".

Troubridge baronets, of Plymouth (1799)

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(1758–1807) * Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, 2nd Baronet (1787–1852) * Sir Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge, 3rd Baronet (1815–1862) *Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet (13 September 1860 – 5 December 1938). Troubridge married

Laura Gurney Laura Troubridge, Lady Troubridge, (née Gurney; 1867 – 8 July 1946) was a British novelist and etiquette writer. She wrote almost 60 novels and many short stories. Life Lady Troubridge (nee Gurney) was born in 1867 in London, England. She ...

in 1893, and had one son, the fifth Baronet, and two daughters. *Sir (Thomas) St Vincent Wallace Troubridge, 5th Baronet (15 November 1895 – 16 December 1963). Troubridge married Pamela Clough in 1939, but had no issue. *Sir Peter Troubridge, 6th Baronet (6 June 1927 – 27 September 1988). Troubridge was the eldest son of Admiral Sir

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(1895–1949), and succeeded his cousin in the baronetcy in 1963. He married the Hon. Venetia Daphne Weeks, daughter of

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, in 1954, and had issue one son, the seventh Baronet, and two daughters. *Sir Thomas Troubridge, 7th Baronet (born 1955), educated at

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and

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(

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), former Partner at

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and now serves on the board of

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. Troubridge has been married since 1984 to the Hon. Rosemary Douglas-Pennant (born 1957), younger daughter of

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, and has issue. The heir to the baronetcy is his elder son Edward Peter Troubridge (born 10 August 1989)

Other members of the family

Edward Norwich Troubridge, second son of the second baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy. Laura, Lady Troubridge, wife of the fourth baronet, was a writer for

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and author of ''The Book of Etiquette'' (1926). Admiral Sir

Ernest Troubridge Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, (15 July 1862 – 28 January 1926) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the First World War. Troubridge was born into a family with substantial military connections, with several of his ...

(1862–1926), was a younger son of the third baronet and grandfather of the sixth. At the outbreak of the First World War he was second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet, but his career was blighted by the ''Goeben'' affair. His estranged wife Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge was most famous as the partner of the author Radclyffe Hall. Thomas Troubridge, a banker who was the first husband of

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, was a younger brother of the sixth baronet.

Footnotes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *{{Unreliable source?, failed=y , date=February 2013