The Blois Baronetcy, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1686 for Charles Blois. He represented

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and

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in the

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. The seventh Baronet was a Major in the 1st Dragoons and fought at the

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in 1815. Evelyn Macleod, Baroness Macleod of Borve (''née'' Blois), was the granddaughter of the eighth baronet, who had six sons and six daughters. Judge Inigo Bing is the grandson of the ninth baronet.

Blois baronets, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall (1686)

Memorial to John Ralph Blois, Holy Trinity Blythburgh

Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (14 September 1657 – 9 April 1738), of Grundisburgh, Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the House of Commons of Great ...

(1657–1738) **

William Blois William Blois, or Deye, was one of the two MPs for Ipswich in the English parliaments from 1661 to 1670 and Suffolk in 1654 and 1656. References {{17thC-England-MP-stub Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher depa ...

(1691–1734) * Sir Charles Blois, 2nd Baronet (1733–1760) * Sir Charles Blois, 3rd Baronet (1692–1761) * Sir Ralph Blois, 4th Baronet (1706–1762) * Sir John Blois, 5th Baronet (1740–1810) * Sir Charles Blois, 6th Baronet (1766–1850) * Sir Charles Blois, 7th Baronet (1794–1855) ** Commander John Ralph Blois (1795–1853) * Sir John Ralph Blois, 8th Baronet (1830–1888) * Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten Blois, 9th Baronet (1866–1950) * Sir Gervase Ralph Edmund Blois, 10th Baronet (1901–1968) * Sir Charles Nicholas Gervase Blois, 11th Baronet (born 1939) The

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to the baronetcy is Andrew Charles David Blois (born 1971).

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Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...

1686 establishments in England