Milnes baronets

{{Short description|Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox hereditary title | name = Milnes baronets | image = 220px | image_size = 220px | alt = | caption = Escutcheon of the Milnes baronets of Gauley | creation_date = 1801<ref name="Debrett">{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=Debrett's Baronetage of England: With Alphabetical Lists of Such Baronetcies as Have Merged in the Peerage, Or Have Become Extinct, and Also of the Existing Baronets of Nova Scotia and Ireland |date=1835 |publisher=J.G. & F. Rivington |pages=286–287 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DUcRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA286 |language=en}}</ref> | status = extinct | extinction_date = 1839<ref name="Dorset"/> | family_seat = Cockle Hall, Sherwood Forest<ref name="Debrett"/> | former_seat = | motto = ''Soyez sans reproche''<ref name="Burke">{{cite book |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1839 |publisher=Henry Colburn |page=717 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_U8AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA717 |language=en}}</ref> }} [[File:George Romney - Sir Robert Shore Milnes.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet by George Romney]] The '''Milnes baronetcy''', of Gauley in the County of Leicester, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 21 March 1801 for the colonial governor Robert Milnes.<ref name="Debrett"/> The title became extinct on the death of the invalid second Baronet in 1839, the only surviving son, "after many years in delicate and precarious health" residing at Sydling.<ref name="Dorset">{{cite news |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000408/18390328/048/0004 |work=Dorset County Chronicle |date=28 March 1839|page=4}}</ref>

Richard Milnes, uncle of the first Baronet, was the great-great-grandfather of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1868 |publisher=Harrison |page=1014 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uuuQYRKxh-IC&pg=PA1014 |language=en}}</ref>

==Milnes baronets, of Gauley (1801)== *Sir Robert Shore Milnes, 1st Baronet (1747–1837)<ref name="Debrett"/><ref name="Burke"/> *Sir John Bentinck Milnes, 2nd Baronet (1786–1839)<ref name="Burke"/><ref>{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |date=1838 |publisher=A. Dodd and A. Smith |page=207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xA42AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207 |language=en}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-reg|uk-bt}} {{succession box | title= 20px<br />Milnes baronets<br /> ''of Gauley'' | before= Vavasour baronets | years= 21 March 1801 | after= Inglis baronets }} {{s-end}}

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