The Tapps, later Tapps-Gervis, later Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick Baronetcy, of Hinton Admiral in the County of

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, is a title in the

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. It was created on 28 July 1791 for the landowner and developer George Tapps. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for

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and

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. He assumed in 1835 the additional surname of Gervis. The third Baronet was high sheriff of

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in 1878. He assumed in 1876 by Royal licence the additional surname of

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according to the will of Owen Fuller Meyrick, a relative on his mother's side, from whom he inherited the

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estate on the Isle of

. The fourth Baronet was high sheriff of

in 1900. The fifth Baronet was high sheriff of Anglesey in 1939. The family seats are

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, Anglesey, Hinton Admiral, near

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, Hampshire. The Tapps Coat of Arms: Azure on a fess or between three rhinoceroses argent three escallops gules.

Tapps, later Tapps-Gervis, later Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick baronets (of Hinton Admiral 1791)

* Sir George Ivison Tapps, 1st Baronet (1753–1835) * Sir George William Tapps-Gervis, 2nd Baronet (1795–1842) * Sir George Eliott Meyrick Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 3rd Baronet (1827–1896) * Sir George Augustus Eliott Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 4th Baronet (1855–1928) * Sir George Llewelyn Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 5th Baronet (1885–1960) * Sir George David Eliott Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 6th Baronet (1915–1988) * Sir George Christopher Cadfael Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 7th Baronet (1941–2019) He married 1968, Jean Louise Montagu Douglas Scott (born 1943), niece of HRH

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* Sir George William Owen Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 8th Baronet (born 1970) The

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is the present holder's son George Augustus Heilyn Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick (born 2011).

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