County of Oxford
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, was a title in the
Baronetage of England
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Lord Chief Justice
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during the
Commonwealth
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. 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
Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet (22 September 1807 – 17 June 1874) was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture. He was a b ...
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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* Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet (1638–1690)
* Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet (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
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.
* 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
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, becoming rector 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 and
Christ Church, Oxford
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. 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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