Lovett baronets

The Lovett Baronetcy, of Liscombe House in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 23 October 1781 for Jonathan Lovett of Liscombe in the parish of Soulbury, Buckinghamshire. He was subsequently offered a peerage but declined, on the grounds that his only son had died. Lovett married Sarah Darby (daughter of Jonathan Darby of Leap Castle), but died in 1812 without surviving male issue, his son Robert Turville Jonathan Lovett having pre-deceseased him in 1807, and thus the title became extinct.

Arms of Lovett: Argent, three wolves passant in pale sable
Portrait of Sir Robert Lovett (d.1643), Knight, of Liscombe, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1608,[1] by a follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck[2]

A new patent of the baronetcy was gazetted in 1808, with remainder to the first Baronet's daughters and their male issue. However, it is unclear whether this creation passed the Great Seal.[3]

Ancestry

Sir Robert Lovett (d.1643), Knight, of Liscombe, Buckinghamshire,[4] Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1608,[5] was the father of Anne Lovett, second wife of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (1590-1636) of Tawstock Court, Devon.[6] Various monuments to the Lovett family survive in St Peter's Church, Tawstock. Arms of Lovett: Argent, three wolves passant in pale sable.

Lovett Baronets, of Liscombe House (1781)
  • Sir Jonathan Lovett, 1st Baronet (c. 1730–1812)

References
  1. Burke, John, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ...
  2. Sold 31 July 2011 by Christie's, South Kensington, Sale no. 7087, lot 194, Price realised GBP 2,375.
  3. "No. 16178". The London Gazette. 3 September 1808. p. 1195.
  4. The Lovett family was later connected with Corffe in the parish of Tawstock. Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet (1655-1730) (whose mural monument survives in Tawstock Church) married Penelope Lovett, heiress of Corffe in the parish of Tawstock, daughter and heiress of Edward Lovett (1627-1702) by his wife Joane Hearle (1642-1709), daughter & heiress of James Hearle of Corffe, Tawstock.
  5. Burke, John, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ...
  6. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.107

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