John Gardner Nutting, Vanity Fair, 1910-05-19

The Nutting Baronetcy, of St Helens in Booterstown in the County of Dublin, is a title in the

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. It was created on 12 January 1903 for John Nutting. He was Chairman of the firm E and J Burke Ltd and a

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, Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff for

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. In 1930,

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, Master of the

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, recruited Sir Harold Nutting, second Baronet, "newly rich from bottling Guinness", as joint Master, and quipped "We don't want your personality, we want your purse!"

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has estimated that during the following ten years Nutting spent about £15,000 a year on the Quorn.Pamela Horn, ''Country House Society: the Private Lives of England's Upper Class after the First World War''
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politician and served under

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and

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as Joint

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and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. the title is held by his son, the fourth Baronet, who succeeded in 1999.

Nutting baronets, of St Helens (1903)

* Sir John Gardiner Nutting, 1st Baronet (1852–1918) * Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, 2nd Baronet (1882–1972) * Sir (Harold) Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet (1920–1999) * Sir John Grenfell Nutting, 4th Baronet, QC (born 1942) The heir apparent is the present holder's only son James Edward Sebastian Nutting (born 1977).

Arms

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. {{Reflist Nutting