{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} thumb|Escutcheon of the Apreece baronets of Washingley The '''Apreece baronetcy''', of Washingley in the County of Huntingdon, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 12 July 1782 for Thomas Apreece.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12301 |date=4 June 1782 |page=1}}</ref> Apreece was recognised for his role as commander of the Huntingdonshire Militia coastal defence force in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, defending Alnwick from an attack by the flotilla led by John Paul Jones in the USS ''Bonhomme Richard'' as he sailed south.<ref name="Cokayne">{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=Complete Baronetage |date=1906 |publisher=W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. |location=Exeter |pages=223-224 |volume=V |url=https://archive.org/details/completebaroneta05coka/page/223/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Jones, John Paul (1747–1792) |first=James C. |last=Bradford |id=15052}}</ref>
The title became extinct on the death of the 2nd Baronet in 1842.<ref name="Cokayne"/>
==Apreece baronets, of Washingley (1782)== *Sir Thomas Hussey Apreece, 1st Baronet (1744–1833)<ref name="Cokayne"/> *Sir Thomas George Apreece, 2nd Baronet (1791–1842)<ref name="Cokayne"/>
==Extended family== Shuckburgh Ashby Apreece (1773–1807), elder son of the 1st Baronet, married in 1799 the future Lady Jane Davy as her first husband.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Sophie |last=Forgan |title=Davy [née Kerr], Jane, Lady Davy (1780–1855) |id=7315}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Apreece}} Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain