Lees baronets of Blackrock (1804)

Lees baronets of Blackrock
CrestA dexter hand couped above the wrist and erect Proper grasping a crescent Or.
ShieldAzure a fess chequy Argent and Sable between six cross-crosslets fitchée three in the chief and three in the nombril points Or and three billets two in the honour and one in the base points of the second.
MottoExegi; An Honest Man’s The Noblest Work of God.[1]

The Lees Baronetcy, of Blackrock in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 June 1804 for the soldier and politician John Lees.[2]

Lees baronets, of Blackrock (1804)

  • Sir John Lees, 1st Baronet (1737–1811)[3]
  • Sir Harcourt Lees, 2nd Baronet (1776–1852)[3]
  • Sir John Lees, 3rd Baronet (1816–1892)[3]
  • Sir Harcourt James Lees, 4th Baronet (1840–1917)[4]
  • Sir Arthur Henry James Lees, 5th Baronet (1863–1949)[5]
  • Sir Jean Marie Ivor Lees, 6th Baronet (1875–1957)[6]
  • Sir Charles Archibald Edward Ivor Lees, 7th Baronet (1902–1963)[7]
  • Sir Thomas Harcourt Ivor Lees, 8th Baronet (born 1941)[8]

The heir presumptive is the present holder's cousin Trevor John Cathcart d'Olier-Lees (born 1961).[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.
  2. ^ "No. 15712". The London Gazette. 19 June 1804. pp. 764–765.
  3. ^ a b c Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. pp. 379–380.
  4. ^ "Lees, Sir Harcourt James". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "Lees, Sir Arthur Henry James". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Lees, Sir Jean (Marie Ivor)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ "Lees, Sir Charles Archibald Edward Ivor". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ a b "Lees, Sir Thomas Harcourt Ivor". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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Lees baronets
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