The Staples Baronetcy, of Lissan in the County of Tyrone and Faughanvale in the County of Londonderry, was a title in the

Baronetage of Ireland Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...

. It was created on 18 July 1628 for Thomas Staples, who later served as High Sheriff of

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. The long-serving MP

John Staples The Rt Hon. John Staples, M.P. (1 March 1736 – 22 December 1820), was an Irish Member of Parliament from 1765 to 1802. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Newtown Limavady from 1765 to 1768, for Clogher from 1768 to 1776, for Bal ...

was grandson of the fourth Baronet, brother-in-law of the seventh Baronet, father of the ninth Baronet and great great-grandfather of the author

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. The lines of the

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, and Barons Ponsonby and Clermont can be traced back to his daughters. The ninth Baronet was a prominent lawyer. Thomas Staples, younger brother of the tenth Baronet, was a Major-General in the

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. The twelfth Baronet, Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples was a well-known artist, good friend of

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and member of the

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set. Following the death of the seventeenth Baronet in November 2013, the title become extinct. The family seat was Lissan House, near

Cookstown Cookstown (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth-largest town in the county and had a population of 12,546 in the 2021 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster ...

Staples baronets, of Lissan (1628)

Sir Thomas Staples, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part o ...

(died 1653) * Sir Baptist Staples, 2nd Baronet (1630-1672) * Sir Alexander Staples, 3rd Baronet (died 1673) *

Sir Robert Staples, 4th Baronet The Staples Baronetcy, of Lissan in the County of Tyrone and Faughanvale in the County of Londonderry, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 18 July 1628 for Thomas Staples, who later served as High Sheriff of County Tyron ...

(died 1714) * Sir John Staples, 5th Baronet (1684–1730) * Sir Alexander Staples, 6th Baronet (1693–1741) * Sir Robert Staples, 7th Baronet (1740–1816) * Sir Robert Staples, 8th Baronet (1772–1832) *

Sir Thomas Staples, 9th Baronet Sir Thomas Staples, 9th Baronet (31 July 1775 – 14 May 1865) was an Anglo-Irish politician and lawyer. He was the last surviving person to have been a member of the Irish House of Commons, albeit only having been in the House for a short time. S ...

(1775–1865) * Sir Nathaniel Alexander Staples, 10th Baronet (1817–1899) * Sir John Molesworth Staples, 11th Baronet (1848–1933) * Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 12th Baronet (1853–1943) *

Sir Robert George Alexander Staples, 13th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part o ...

(1894–1970) *

Sir John Richard Staples, 14th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part o ...

(1906–1989) * Sir Thomas Staples, 15th Baronet (1905–1997) * Sir Gerald James Arland Staples, 16th Baronet (1909–1999) * Sir Richard Molesworth Staples, 17th and last Baronet (1914–2013)

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *{{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012, S, 3

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History of the Staples family
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland 1628 establishments in Ireland

Staples baronets, of Lissan (1628)

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