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The Glynne Baronetcy, of Bicester in the
The Glynne Baronetcy, of Bicester in the County of Oxford
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, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 May 1661 for William Glynne, the former Member of Parliament
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for Carnarvon. He was the son of Sir John Glynne, Lord Chief Justice
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during the Commonwealth. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Oxford University
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and Woodstock
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. The sixth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Flintshire
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and Flint
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. The title became extinct on the death in 1874 of Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet. The family estates, including Hawarden Castle in Flintshire
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, had been rescued from bankruptcy by the wealth of Sir John Gladstone, whose son William Ewart Gladstone
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(the Liberal Prime Minister) had married the ninth Baronet's sister Catherine
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; on his death, they passed to Catherine and William's eldest son William Henry Gladstone
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.
Glynne baronets, of Bisseter (1661)
* Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet (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.
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(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 Aix-la-Chapelle.
* Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (1712–1777)
* Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet (12 May 1744 – 1 April 1780). Glynne was educated at Queen's College, Oxford
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and took holy orders, becoming rector
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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 Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England.
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and Christ Church, Oxford. Sir Stephen was an amateur architect and an agriculturalist. In 1806, he married Mary Griffin, daughter of Lord Braybrooke
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. He died at Nice
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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