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Jaffray baronets

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The Jaffray Baronetcy, of Skilts in the Parish of Studley in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 October 1892 for the journalist and newspaper proprietor John Jaffray.[2] He was the co-founder of the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail.

The 2nd Baronet was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1906. The 4th Baronet, Sir William Edmund Jaffray, was a Colonel in the Warwickshire Yeomanry and a deputy lieutenant of Warwickshire.[3]

The 5th and present Baronet succeeded to the title as an infant on his father's death.[4] He was educated at Eton and in 1981 married Cynthia Ross Corrington, a daughter of John Corrington III, of Montreal. They have three sons and a daughter and are divorced. The heir to the baronetcy is Nicholas Gordon Alexander Jaffray, born 1982.[5]

Jaffray baronets, of Skilts (1892)

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  • Sir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet (1818–1901)[3]
  • Sir William Jaffray, 2nd Baronet (1852–1914), married Alice Mary Galloway[3]
  • Sir John Henry Jaffray, 3rd Baronet (1893–1916), son of the 2nd Baronet[3]
  • Colonel Sir William Edmund Jaffray, 4th Baronet (29 July 1895 – 24 October 1953), younger son of the 2nd Baronet[3][4]
  • Sir William Otho Jaffray, 5th Baronet (born 1 November 1951), son of the 4th Baronet[4]

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Nicholas Gordon Alexander Jaffray (born 1982).[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Current United Kingdom Baronetcies I–P". Archived from the original on 3 January 2014.
  2. ^ "No. 26334". The London Gazette. 14 October 1892. p. 5735.
  3. ^ a b c d e Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. pp. 1081–1082.
  4. ^ a b c d Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London: Debrett's Peerage. 2000. p. B563. ISBN 033354577X.
  5. ^ Charles Mosley, ed. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 2 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), p. 2,077