# Kent baronets

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{{Short description|1782 Great Britain Parliament Status}}
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thumb|Escutcheon of the Kent baronets of Fornham
The '''Kent baronetcy''', of [Fornham](/source/Fornham_St_Genevieve) in the [County of Suffolk](/source/County_of_Suffolk), was a title in the [Baronetage of Great Britain](/source/Baronetage_of_Great_Britain). It was created on 16 August 1782 for [Charles Kent](/source/Sir_Charles_Kent%2C_1st_Baronet), later [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Thetford](/source/Thetford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).<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](/source/Sheriff_of_London) in 1742, and his wife Sarah Kent; he changed his surname to Kent on inheriting from his maternal grandfather [Samuel Kent](/source/Samuel_Kent_(MP)).<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](/source/Sir_Charles_Kent%2C_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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| title= 20px<br />Kent baronets<br /> ''of Fornham''
| before= [Vane baronets](/source/Vane_baronets)
| years= 16 August 1782
| after= [Geary baronets](/source/Geary_baronets)
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Category:Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain

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