The Cunliffe Baronetcy, of

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in the County of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 March 1759 for Sir Ellis Cunliffe, a

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. The fourth Baronet was a General in the Bengal Army. The fifth Baronet represented Flint Boroughs and Denbigh Boroughs in the

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. Three other members of the family may also be mentioned. George Gordon Cunliffe (1829-1900), son of Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a

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. His son Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe (1861–1955) was a brigadier-general in the Seaforth Highlanders. Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe, son of Colonel Foster Lionel Brooke, son of the aforementioned Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a captain in the

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Cunliffe baronets, of Liverpool (1759)

* Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Kt., 1st Baronet (1717–1767) * Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet (1719–1778) * Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet (1755–1834) * Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet, Kt., CB (1785–1859) * Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet (1839–1905) * Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, 6th Baronet (1875–1916) * Sir Robert Neville Henry Cunliffe, 7th Baronet (1884–1949) * Sir Cyril Henley Cunliffe, 8th Baronet (1901–1969) * Sir David Ellis Cunliffe, 9th Baronet (born 1957)

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *{{Rayment-bt , date=February 2013

External links

History of the Cunliffe family
Cunliffe 1759 establishments in Great Britain