{{Short description|1782 Great Britain Parliament Status}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} thumb|Escutcheon of the Kent baronets of Fornham The '''Kent baronetcy''', of Fornham in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 16 August 1782 for Charles Kent, later Member of Parliament for Thetford.<ref name="HoP">{{cite web |last1=Brooke |first1=John |title=Kent, Sir Charles, 1st Bt. (?1743-1811), of Fornham St. Genevieve, Suff., History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/kent-sir-charles-1743-1811 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref> He was the son of the London merchant Sir Charles Egleton, Sheriff of London in 1742, and his wife Sarah Kent; he changed his surname to Kent on inheriting from his maternal grandfather Samuel Kent.<ref name="Cokayne">{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=Complete Baronetage |date=1906 |publisher=W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. |location=Exeter |page=225 |volume=V |url=https://archive.org/details/completebaroneta05coka/page/225/mode/1up}}</ref>
The title became extinct on the death of the 3rd Baronet in 1848.<ref name="Cokayne"/>
==Kent baronets, of Fornham (1782)== *Sir Charles Kent, 1st Baronet ({{circa|1744}}–1811)<ref name="HoP"/><ref name="Cokayne"/> *Sir Charles Egleton Kent, 2nd Baronet (1784–1834)<ref name="Cokayne"/> *Sir Charles William Egleton Kent, 3rd Baronet (1819–1848)<ref name="Cokayne"/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-reg|gb-bt}} {{succession box | title= 20px<br />Kent baronets<br /> ''of Fornham'' | before= Vane baronets | years= 16 August 1782 | after= Geary baronets }} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kent}} Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain