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, is a title in the

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. It was created on 19 June 1900 for James Timmins Chance, a grandson of William Chance, one of the Chance brothers who started the family business in 1771. He became head of Chance Brothers and Company. He was

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in 1868. He was succeeded by his eldest son. The second Baronet,

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in 1911, died childless and was succeeded by his nephew who was the son of George Ferguson Chance, (

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in 1910), second son of the first Baronet. , the title is held by his grandson, the fifth Baronet, who succeeded his father in 2017.

Chance baronets, of Grand Avenue (1900)

*Sir

James Timmins Chance Sir James Timmins Chance, 1st Baronet (22 March 1814 – 6 January 1902''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Chance, James Timmins, first baronet'', by Charles Welch) was an English industrialist, philanthropist, director of the London a ...

, 1st Baronet (22 March 1814 – 6 January 1902) *Sir William Chance, 2nd Baronet (1853–1935) *Sir Roger James Ferguson Chance, 3rd Baronet (1893–1987) *Sir (George) Jeremy ffolliott Chance, 4th Baronet (1926–2017) *(John) Sebastian Chance, 5th Baronet (born 1954) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Thomas Hugh Jeremy Chance (born 1983).

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