{{short description|Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} thumb|Escutcheon of the Freake baronets of Cromwell House and Fulwell Park The '''Freake baronetcy''', of Cromwell House in the Parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, and Fulwell Park in the Parish of Twickenham, both in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 May 1882 for the architect, builder and philanthropist Charles Freake.<ref name="Burke">{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|edition=99th|year=1949|publisher=Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing|location=London|pages=793–794}}</ref>
The 3rd Baronet was a polo player, and also served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1939.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laffaye |first1=Horace A. |title=The Polo Encyclopedia, 2d ed. |date=24 March 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9577-1 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noT2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="WW3">{{Who's Who|title=Freake, Sir Frederick Charles Maitland|id=U225612}}</ref> The title became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet in 1951.<ref name="WW4">{{Who's Who|title=Freake, Sir Charles Arland Maitland|id=U237430}}</ref>
==Freake baronets, of Cromwell House and Fulwell Park (1882)== *Sir Charles James Freake, 1st Baronet (1814–1884)<ref name="Burke"/> *Sir Thomas George Freake, 2nd Baronet (1848–1920), Mayor of Dartmouth, Devon.<ref name="Burke"/><ref>{{acad|id=FRK867TG|name=Freake, Thomas [George]}}</ref><ref>{{Who's Who|title=Freake, Sir Thomas George|id=U196631}}</ref> *Sir Frederick Charles Maitland Freake, 3rd Baronet (1876–1950)<ref name="Burke"/><ref>{{acad|id=FRK894FM|name=Freake, Frederick [Charles] Maitland}}</ref><ref name="WW3"/> *Sir Charles Arland Maitland Freake, 4th Baronet (1904–1951), left no heir.<ref name="WW4"/>
==Extended family== * The only daughter Sheila Winifred Freake (1933–2004) of the 4th Baronet married in 1957 John David O'Brien (1928–1980), son of David Edmond O'Brien, later 6th Baronet.<ref name="Burke"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|edition=99th|year=1949|publisher=Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing|location=London|page=1522}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |date=2000 |publisher=Debrett's Peerage |location=London |isbn=033354577X |page=B404}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |date=2011 |publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited |isbn=978-1-870520-73-7 |page=756 |language=en}}</ref>
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