# Apreece baronets

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thumb|Escutcheon of the Apreece baronets of Washingley
The '''Apreece baronetcy''', of [Washingley](/source/Washingley) in the [County of Huntingdon](/source/County_of_Huntingdon), was a title in the [Baronetage of Great Britain](/source/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](/source/Huntingdonshire_Militia) coastal defence force in 1779, during the [American Revolutionary War](/source/American_Revolutionary_War), defending [Alnwick](/source/Alnwick) from an attack by the flotilla led by [John Paul Jones](/source/John_Paul_Jones) in the [USS ''Bonhomme Richard''](/source/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(1765)) 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](/source/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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| years= 12 July 1782
| after= [Vane baronets](/source/Vane_baronets)
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Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain

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