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baronet

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A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

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since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart. Source: Internet

Act II At Ruddigore Castle, Robin (now Sir Ruthven) tries to come to grips with being a bad baronet, a task at which he proves to be spectacularly lacking. Source: Internet

A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (Baronet Books, October 1978) is an early example of an American graphic novel, combining thematically linked short stories into a single square-bound volume. Source: Internet

British pirates engaging the Mughal Emperor's Ship Ganj-i-Sawai Letter from Aurangzeb to Sir William Norris, 1st Baronet A depiction of Every, with the Fancy engaging the Mughal Emperor's Ship Ganj-i-Sawai in the background. Source: Internet

A surgeon who is also a professor is usually known as "Professor" and, similarly, a surgeon who has been ennobled, knighted, created a baronet or appointed a dame uses the corresponding title (Lord, Sir, Dame). Source: Internet

For his efforts he was knighted in 1848, then made a baronet in 1864. Source: Internet

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