The Beit Baronetcy, of Tewin Water, in the parish of Tewin, in the

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, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 October 1924 for the financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur Sir Otto Beit, KCMG. With the death of his son, the second Baronet, a

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for St Pancras South East the

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became extinct.

Beit baronets, of Tewin Water (1924)

* Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet (1865–1930) * Sir Alfred Lane Beit, 2nd Baronet (1903–1994)

References

*{{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012 Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom