Baronets

Companion, advisor, muse and artistic sidekick, it would have been her presence that irreparably compromised the harmony between the four baronets of music.

Baronets are not peers of the Realm, and have never been entitled to sit in the House of Lords, therefore like knights they remain commoners in the view of the British legal system.

Family Tree navbox Notes See also * Buchanan-Jardine baronets - branch of Jardine family from William's brother David Jardine.

It was once customary for Lord Mayors to be appointed knights upon taking office and baronets upon retirement, unless they already held such a title.

Many years previously, she had been betrothed to "a god-like youth" who turned out to be Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the bad baronets of Ruddigore.

Wives of knights and baronets are officially styled Lady Smith, although customarily no courtesy title is automatically reciprocated to male consorts.